programming world
If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright?
www.wired.com
Oracle's Larry Ellison says APIs can copyrighted – and that raises questions across the computer industry. Photo: Oracle What does an API look like? Sometimes, says Brian Pagano, it looks like this: /users. Or this: /products. Brian Pagano is a software architect at Apigee, an outfit that does nothing but...
How One Hacker Quit the Programming Life for Bluer Skies
www.wired.com
Frank Duff quit the programming life — and became a bike messenger. Photo: Frank Duff Some people believe that everyone should be a programmer. But Frank Duff is living proof this notion should be taken with a large grain of salt. In 2003, Duff quit his job as a software...
This mailing list lets you know if you suck at coding
thenextweb.com
Are you awful at coding? Or do you have the chops to make certain Harvard drop-outs wish they never learned PHP in the first place? Regardless of your specialty and preferences in programming world, be it PHP, Ruby, C, C++, Python or anything else, one mailing list has been created...
Etsy Wants to Give Female Programmers $5,000 to Attend Hacker School
techcrunch.com
Etsy, the popular marketplace for all things handmade, just announced that it will not just be hosting the 2012 session of Hacker School at its headquarters in New York, but that it will also offer ten $5,000 grants to women who would like to attend this year’s session but don’t...
The Meta-Story: How Wired Published Its GitHub Story on GitHub
www.wired.com
Wired took a trip with Octocat this week, publishing on GitHub. Image: GitHub Earlier this week, Wired published a story about GitHub, the “version control” site that’s taking the internet by storm. But it was more than just a story. It was an experiment in version control. In addition to...
Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them off
www.guardian.co.uk
How do we encourage girls to get into coding? Catch 'em earlyFor three years we have run a big coding event across the UK called Young Rewired State . We invite people aged 18 and under to get together at a variety of centres local to them, and build something...
MVC for Noobs
net.tutsplus.com
Model-View-Controller (MVC) is probably one of the most quoted patterns in the web programming world in recent years. Anyone currently working in anything related to web application development will have heard or read the acronym hundreds of times. Today, we’ll clarify what MVC means, and why it has become so...
Designing The “World Of Programming” Infographic
www.smashingmagazine.com
Information graphics (or infographics) are used to display information in ways that are more creative than plain old text. These days, they surround us in the media, published works, road signs and manuals. Lately, the Internet has been flooded with infographics on various topics, ranging from science and technology...
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Just a test of the new info bar. What do you think?