Monthly Archives: March 2009

Who Cares If Software Is Free (As In Speech)?

Posted by wade on March 24, 2009 View Comments

Going around a lot of the social bookmarking sites like Digg and Slashdot lately has been an article by Richard Stallman, in which he waxes on and on about the current state of javascript applications across the web. Stallman’s primary thesis is that there should be some sort of standard for javascript that requires javascript [...]

How Twitter can start to turn a profit

Posted by wade on March 5, 2009 View Comments

Twitter is huge these days. It seems like every other week you hear about another venture capital firm pumping a few million dollars into the service, and as of this writing, Wikipedia reports that around $55 million of venture capital is currently invested. With every one of these stories, you also hear the story about [...]

Why Everyone Should Learn C++ First

Posted by wade on March 1, 2009 View Comments

About two weeks ago, an article from a blog I read fairly regularly made its way on to the Digg frontpage. It was the opinions of an experienced software developer about what programming languages someone who is just getting started in software development should learn. Many comments on this post questioned the omission of c/c++ [...]

Power Shift 2009

Posted by wade on March 1, 2009 View Comments

So I’ve spent this weekend at Power Shift 2009 at the DC Convention center. If you don’t know, this is a conference where 12,000 young people have come to promote and lobby for new legislation designed to move us to a greener society. I have spent this weekend as part of the conference’s new media [...]