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Allen Coin04/01/13
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Links You Don't Want to Miss - April 1

Today: Debugging with the kitchen oven, Apple's new game controller, Web designers vs. Web developers, and a CSS April Fool's Prank you can play on your coworkers!

Mitch Pronschinske04/01/13
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ZeroMQ: Supercharged Sockets

Rick is a developer at GitHub, a self-diagnosed REST nerd, bleeding edge DB enthusiast, with an active OSS profile. Here he will show you how to get the most out of the lightweight ZeroMQ message broker.

Johanna Rothman04/01/13
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Telecommuting, Hoteling, and Managing Product Development

There are two sides of this conversation about telecommuting: the employee side and the management side. I hope you stick around for both sides. You can yell at me at the end.

Mitch Pronschinske03/29/13
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Cloudbursing with Amazon EC2 and SQS

Learn how this can actually work with Amazon EC2 and SQS. The implementation is based on Ruby on Rails and Resque/Redis, but the concepts are broadly applicable.

Eric Gregory03/29/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/29)

Today: Too many programmers think they know more about statistics than they do (which is to say, anything), Nintendo introduces a web framework, and a Chrome project member eyes asm.js.

Mitch Pronschinske03/28/13
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Webinar: Using SMTP with Amazon Simple Email Service

Learn how Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) just got simpler with Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) support. Amazon SES is AWS's highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers.

Mitch Pronschinske03/28/13
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Getting Productive with the AWS SDK for Ruby

Learn best practices for using the AWS SDK for Ruby, including configuration, logging, debugging, consuming high and low level interfaces, collections, memoization, Rails integrations, AWS::Record and more.

Mitch Pronschinske03/26/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/27)

News about Google's Go and Ruby. Plus, the hoops that job candidates have to jump through and Erlang the Movie II: The Sequel.

Anders Abel03/26/13
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How We Achieved the Best Code Quality in My Career

My recently finished project produced the best code quality in my career so far. The key success factors were a clear architecture, insane compiler warning levels and last but not least code reviews.

Allen Coin03/26/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/26)

Today: The computer science of JavaScript, The White House shares its web API standards, Digg wants to replace Google Reader, and Conway's Law of Starship Captains.

David Shaw03/25/13
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You Can Be Comfortable And Productive At The Same Time!

An office might not seem like an unhealthy working environment when compared to factories and car garages. Working in an office demands sitting for long periods of time working in front of a computer which means comfort and right posture is of the utmost importance.