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10 Hard-Earned Lessons Of A Lifetime In IT

Steven A. Lowe | InfoWorld | September 3, 2013

Hotshot young techies take heed: Here are 10 things I wish I knew before starting my career in IT Read More »

15 Workplace Barriers To Better Code

Peter Wayner | InfoWorld | June 24, 2013

Meetings, know-nothing managers, productivity metrics -- here's what's standing between you and the next generation of great software Read More »

Can You Help Me, Dr Geek?

Lis Evenstad | eHealth Insider | December 6, 2012

The first Digital Doctors Conference in London covered the basics of programming. Lis Evenstad found delegates enthusiastic about everything from learning HTML to generating ideas for apps. Read More »

Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" Continues to Impact the Open Source Movement

Nineteen years ago this week, at an annual meeting of Linux-Kongress in Bavaria, an American programmer named Eric Raymond delivered the first version of a working paper he called "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." According to Raymond, the exploratory and largely speculative account of some curious new programming practices contained "no really fundamental discovery." But it brought the house down. "The fact that it was received with rapt attention and thunderous applause by an audience in which there were very few native speakers of English seemed to confirm that I was onto something," Raymond wrote a year later, as his treatise blossomed into a book...

Robot Turtles Is A Board Game Designed By A Googler To Teach Kids Core Coding Principles

Natasha Lomas | TechCrunch | September 4, 2013

There are plenty of online resources aimed at teaching kids coding but here’s an offline take that uses old school gamification to get kids engaged and learning programming principles while they’re having some good old-fashioned family fun (as board game makers used to put it, in the 1980s)... Read More »

Seeking EHR Construction, Not Deconstruction

Joseph Conn | Modern Healthcare | October 31, 2011

Health information technology pioneer Tom Munnecke has been thinking a lot these days about a plan by the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department to update the department's VistA electronic health-record system. Read More »