Software Development's Annual Salary Survey is out: San Francisco Bay Area programmers report the highest averages @ \$100K for staff, and \$119K for management, Twin Cities come it at the low end for metro areas with \$83K staff and \$92K management. National mean is \$77K staff and \$96K management (implying a …
more ...Many people have asked us for a single-user SourceGear Vault license at a very-low-cost....The Single User Edition of Vault is now available at a cost of \$49....Why would anyone want to use source control on a team of one?....It's an undo mechanism....It's a historical archive....It's …
more ...As Borland Software Corp. celebrates its 20th year this week at its BorCon conference, developers and managers around the industry are recalling the company's legacy and impact on the software business. via [eWEEK Technology News]
more ...I installed the PDC Longhorn again today into VMWare. Much better experience: used "XP Pro" as the OS for VMWare. I could install VMTools directly (all drivers gave a "Haven't passed certification" warnings, which I ignored). Gave the VM 512MB RAM and 4GB drive; performance seems pretty darn okay on …
more ...Just wasted 1.5 hours installing longhorn on vmware as an "other Os... "-that's a mistake because you can't install vmware tools & therefore are restricted to 640 x480x 4 graphics! longhorn does not look nearly as impressive in VGA!
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more ...P#: A Prolog For .NET Implemented as a Prolog to C# translator.
more ...William Gibson wants lies exposed in telltale colors. Now that would be a good demo of P2P and Avalon!
more ...Speaking of awesome demos, here's an interactive "Powers of 10" slideshow that's great. via Polynomia
more ...Oh, my favorite demo of the whole show was one I got on a bus ride! Steven Burns showed me the Longhorn Shell, which advances the "pipes and filters" pattern of UNIX by piping not text streams, but object streams! So, for instance, you can grab all the currently running …
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