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MIT trend in teaching CS toward more practical classes - like this one in building an Android application.
1 FaverShareViewed: 18 TimesRecommended on-line Pylons training resource.
Quoted: Welcome to the Pylons Book website where you can read all the chapters of the recently published Definitive Guide to Pylons, an open source book written by James Gardner and published by Apress.
The book covers the Pylons 0.9.7 release and is available for free to read here online.
2 FaversShareViewed: 14 TimesQ&A site for programming questions - StackOverflow has really taken off from the beginning of 2009. It's now Alex 1,570, which is extremely high for such a niche site (of course, the intended audience is all using the Alexa toolbar!).
They have an extensive user karma/reputation system to try to control spam.
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesAwsome: "Corporate coding sucks, and if there's no vice to counteract it, you'll be dead of an aneurysm by age forty. They'll find you on the toilet, pants down, your copy of Design Patterns unceremoniously splayed open on the floor."
1 FaverShareViewed: 5 Times1 FaverShareViewed: 23 TimesQuoted: 今回のサンプルではGoogleがGoogle Calendar Data APIで提供してくれている日本の祝日のデータを取得することにします。
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Fun reading from The Boston Globe website.
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