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Why is that? My daughters play with barbie dolls and I love that they also have an interest in software development.

I haven't looked too deeply into Rust yet, but was able to understand this coming from Elixir. Pattern matching makes for a beautiful solution. This is a similar solution in Elixir…

The first line of the documentation says that it uses a "HAPI-REST API". https://github.com/jheising/HAPI

I disagree that a high vit + end build is bulletproof. I'm absolutely certain that most anybody could destroy that build easily in PvP. One of the great things about the build syst…

With Clojure being available for the jvm, the clr through ClojureCLR and javascript through ClojureScript I don't believe that this will be much of an issue.

I have been using node.js for my day-to-day engineering for the past year. It certainly takes a couple of weeks to get a good feel for solving problems without being able to use no…

In the setup described here (it has changed a bit in the 6 months since this article was written) Varnish was being used primarily for caching and sending needed requests to the si…

This is very similar to the arguments in the game dev community defining whether one has ascended from hobbyist to indie status. It's nothing more than an infantile attempt to stro…

Hacking on a GitHub client for Palm's webOS. http://robmerrell.github.com/gitopotamus/

Reminds me of this post from 37signals a while back. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1561-why-you-shouldnt-copy-us... The definate danger of simply copying an idea is not knowing th…

I find "reality checks" to be a great benefit of having a co-founder. The best of us spend time pursuing ideas and tangents for our startups that really don't matter. A co-founder …

Making online customer support easy with Candlelight -- http://www.candlelightapp.com I've been working on it nights and weekends. Great respite from some of the less than pleasant…

What a great question. I'm particularly interested in the marketing and customer gathering methods of startups who have gone the bootstrap route instead of receiving investor money…

No, php's implementation of anonymous functions is not efficient. When create_function is called it stores that created function globally which doesn't allow garbage collection. Ma…