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Oblong is Hiring

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They are specifically looking for a senior programming team lead, an application programmer, a javascript / html stud or studette, and a QA lead, but if you are excellent at what you do on the software development side, I’m sure they’d love to talk to you.

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From Punch Cards to Implants

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It’s not lost on me that the name of the show appears to be “end scorpion” so either someone in Hollywood is being too cute for their own good or they are clueless about HTML. The first program I wrote was in 1977 in APL on an IBM mainframe (probably a S/360) in the basement of a Frito-Lay data center in downtown Dallas.

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Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers

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In the continuation of the Learning to Program series with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola from Everlater , I asked them a few questions about which web sites, books, and blogs they consumed at the beginning of their journey when they knew nothing about programming. Tags: Programming everlater. What have you read lately?

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Finding a Partner Was Key For Us

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I know it’s been a few weeks since my last Nate and Natty / Everlater post on learning to program. Natty and I spent a huge chunk of our time figuring out a great workflow that would allow us to program more effectively, and we think it’s paid huge dividends over the lifespan of Everlater.

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What Was Day 1 Like?

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To start off the Learning to Program series with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola from Everlater , I asked them the simple question “What Was Day 1 Like?” Worse, we would have to learn the basics of speech in becoming functional at the command line, databases, and editing programs. Tags: Programming everlater.

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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

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When I first started program, it was 1979. When I started programming on an IBM PC in 1983, I did exactly the same thing. When I started investing in companies that were building Web apps in 1994, it was once again all HTML / source code and examples everywhere.