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What a ride it’s been! I’ve hunted down a virtual reality professorin the UK, visited a French billionaire’s free programming school in Paris, discussed ethical engineering in the bowels of a former East German radio company, met the developers of the GraalVM polyglot compiler in Zurich, and watched GE engineers tinker with digital twinsin Detroit.
I’m in this amazing story about how women named Alexa feel about the Amazon Echo device (also called Alexa) by WaPo journalist Alexa Ard!
Downtown Los Angeles is the sunny backdrop for my third KubeCon. True to form, the attendees are diverse, collaborative, emotionally intelligent, and in unrelenting demand. The scale of systems running on open source projects emerging from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation—starting with Kubernetes—is massive. There are talks about everything from career burnout to creating serverless systems that optimize machine learning workloads so you spend less on GPU instances.
The latest Oracle Developer newsletter (edited by yours truly), shares high performance computing's role in COVID-19 drug discovery (h/t @BanksLouie), plus a ton of new releases for #cloudnative developers including @graemerocher's Micronaut 2.1 !
Here's my latest for SD Times. April 26, 2013 — (Page 1 of 4) Who knew that when Brendan Eich knuckled down in 1995 for 10 days to create the programming language that would be eventually known as JavaScript, it would be going strong nearly 20 years later? ECMAScript, the official standard behind the open-source JavaScript, …
In the battle to promote videos, YouTube users are increasingly buying views to increase their view counts. Unfortunately, these bots and gamer clicks don’t translate into real fans. At the other extreme, if you want to get your video into rotation on MTV or VH1, you’ll need to pay a video plugger significant cheddar. You’ll …
I remember covering SalesForce back in 1999, when it launched. No company more thoroughly papered my desk with press kits. It's impressive to see how much this company has grown. This week's DreamForce conference in San Francisco's Moscone Center boasts 90,000 attendees, according to SalesForce. I can believe it. Time was, software demos were pretty …
"How much will the Visual Studio 2012 launch raise the GDP?" That's the question I asked — referring to a headline speculating that fourth-quarter iPhone sales could raise the GDP by half a percentage point — of Satya Nadella, president of the Servers and Tools Business for Microsoft. "Ask J.P. Morgan to do the math," …
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That scene in the movie Minority Report doesn't seem so far-fetched any more, does it? You know, the one where Tom Cruise walks into a store, his retinas are automatically scanned and a wall display starts selling directly to him. A question asked of the panel at the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 launch in Seattle …
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Today's businesses are fighting for eyeballs -- and the competition is beating them to a panoply of devices. Microsoft is pitching its Visual Studio 2012 development environment as the best way for businesses to re-engage those wandering eyes. At the release event morning keynote (also globally live-streamed) in Seattle, Soma Somasagar kicked off the day …
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