February 27, 2012 
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The combination of low startup costs and investor aversion means there are all kinds of opportunities lying around for a developer to run a profitable small business, provided he or she remembers to charge money
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February 27, 2012 0 Comments
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February 25, 2012 0 Comments
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February 23, 2012 0 Comments
Then another bot piled on, and then one based in the UK. They started competing with each other on price. Pretty soon they were offering my book below the retail price, and trying to make up the difference on “shipping and handling”. I was getting a bit worried.
The punchline is that Amazon itself is a bot that does price-matching. Soon after the marketplace bot’s race to the bottom, it decided to put my book on sale! 28% off. I can’t wait to find out what that does to my margin. (Update: nothing, it turns out. Amazon is eating the entire discount. This is a pleasant surprise.)
(Full Story: How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy on Amazon)
February 23, 2012 0 Comments
A new report from the Coverity Scan project today indicates that a great many people do know what to look for, and open source software is at least on par if not better than proprietary software with respect to software defects. The Coverity Scan project evaluated selected open source projects and a number of anonymous proprietary codebases to identify “hard-to-spot, yet potentially crash-causing defects.” The results reinforce Linus’ Law.
According to Coverity, within the software industry as a whole a defect density of 1.0 is the average. As you can see from Coverity’s findings, the Linux 2.6 kernel, PHP 5.3, and PostgreSQL 9.1 all have signficantly smaller defect densities.
(Full Story: With Many Eyeballs, All Bugs Are Shallow | open source)
February 22, 2012 0 Comments
# Flexibility
# Accountability/Responsibility
# Entrepreneurial Spirit
# Innovative Outlook
# Drive
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February 22, 2012 0 Comments
Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data — and only two are considered crimes. “Do we blindly trust any future government? Because any right we give away, we give away for good.”
As computer access expands, Mikko Hypponen asks: What’s the next killer virus, and will the world be able to cope with it?
(Full Story: Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack – TED)
February 22, 2012 0 Comments
PubNub is a cloud-hosted data network for building real-time web and mobile applications at scale.
(Full Story: PubNub: Push Real-time Data to Mobile, Tablet, Web)
February 22, 2012 0 Comments
A Zucchini feature file consists of sections bound to contexts of different application screens. Every screen you proceed to needs to be backed up by a CoffeeScript class describing all UI elements you want Zucchini to interact with as well as custom actions you feel like performing on that screen.
(Full Story: Zucchini – an iOS testing framework)
February 22, 2012 0 Comments
Chef wins but by only a narrow margin.
The Criteria
Community Strength
Leadership
Corporate Adoption
Technical Merits
Hands-on Experience
(Full Story: devopsanywhere: Puppet vs. Chef, Fight!)
