Community development

Meteor made a big splash this week. Check out their screencast if you haven’t already. For “real-time” web applications it really seems to simplify things a whole lot. The team behind it seems plenty experienced and they are building a business on Meteor by going with the GPL/commercial dual-license approach made popular...

Essays on viral marketing, freemium, and social gaming

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Carin Meier is a veteran of the Clojure Conj scene having attended both installments and a true asset to both the Ruby and Clojure communities. As a visible member of the Clojure community she's a contributing member of the team responsible for the delightful 4Clojure Clojure practice problems website. I had the privilege...

Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in...

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The "backend-as-a-service" segment of the mobile development community is evolving. Several startups got into the game early and helped define the market, such as StackMob, Parse and Kinvey. ...

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. "The Public, West Bromwich - Welcome to The Public Entrance Free" / ell brown / CC BY We are pleased to post for public comment the first discussion draft of version 4.0. This draft is the product of an...

The past decade has proven that teaching to the test doesn't work. Here's a look at what does.

A distributed build system for the open source community.

The big idea behind Parse is that developers shouldn't have to manage a server in order to write mobile applications. Of course, we can't dream up every application that people want to write. An important part of our philosophy is to listen closely to developers to figure out what we need to build, so that every application...

The Perl Foundation is proud to announce that the craigslist Charitable Fund is supporting the Perl community with a generous donation of $100,000 toward Perl5 maintenance and for general use by the Perl Foundation.

DockYard.com - Pair programming at distance

Dave is the CEO/founder of Avado, a Patient Portal & Relationship Management system. Avado was founded on the premise that it will be virtually impossible to succeed in the new healthcare reimbursement models without recognizing that for 3/4 of healthcare spend (chronic disease), it’s the individual who controls decisions...

I wrote a README the other day for a project that I’m hoping other developers will look at and learn from, and as I was writing it, I realized …

Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in...

HTML5 is the ubiquitous platform for the web. Web developers can use the same set of technologies they know and love to build rich web applications that will also work across mobile devices. And now, it is also possible to access all native device capabilities directly in HTML5, enabling a kind of WebApps not possible so...

MacRuby In Action, a new book that teaches Ruby developers how to code OS X applications in Ruby, was released this week through Manning Publications. Jerry Cheung, a senior engineer at Intridea authored the book alongside Brendan Lim and Jeremy McAnally.

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Today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration released code.nasa.gov into "early alpha." So if you're a coder and an open source geek with a yen for the icy cold of outer space... dig. The site "will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal...