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Kent Sharkey wrote: Are we running out of 50 year-old developers?
Being one myself (OK, 51), what we're running out of is the recognition that 50 year old developers actually have some usable knowledge and wisdom. The sage developer community is being replaced with knee-jerk programmers applying quick-and-dirty refactoring and agile methodologies which, in projects I've seen, throw out design, planning, heck, actual thinking, replacing those "ancient" techniques with video-game-like immediate green-light gratification. 
Marc
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Your developers would be at least 70, not 50!
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..and to think I'm complaining about companies that do not upgrade their VB6 code, here comes a list of old COBOL and FORTRAN code. Who manages these kinds of companies?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Meh. Every generation thinks they are the "be all and end all". Every generation is wrong... 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Google Drive has grown to attract more than 190 million users, for work and play, to date. Now the cloud service is taking a new turn to draw in more businesses. Google sees Microsoft's 1TB, and raises them (unlimited?!)
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Eclipse Luna includes official support for Java 8 in the Java development tools, Plug-in Development Tools, Object Teams, Eclipse Communication Framework, Maven integration, Xtext, Xtend, Web Tools Platform, and Memory Analyzer. One week ago I found another preview update for Android Studio[^]
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woohoo
I had to Google how to open an existing project in the IDE. And then what really shocked me was how many other people have asked that question, completely befuddled by the UI, where, under the Projects menu, "Open Project" is grayed out. Like, WTF, duuude. Not to mention the complaints about how obfuscated the IDE is, only to have people respond with "it's been like that since it's inception." The take-away from that: don't let programmers design UI's, even for other programmers.
The only reason I'm looking at Eclipse is for cross-platform development work for the Beaglebone Black, but I will have to say, there's a $500 package that integrates with Visual Studio, and it's probably well worth the money.
Marc
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I was waiting for this release since last month because Android studio still on preview release stage(Though many people use that for development).
Marc Clifton wrote: but I will have to say, there's a $500 package that integrates with Visual
Studio, and it's probably well worth the money.
Xamarin?
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The Open XML SDK has been released as an open-source project through the MS Open Tech hub! Full source code is available under the Apache 2.0 license, in a repository on Github, and the project will be under the stewardship of the growing .NET Foundation. Not new, but good news if you need to open Office documents (or to port to somewhere else)
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Police cannot generally search cellphones without a warrant when they are arresting someone, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision Wednesday that weighs heavily in favor of Fourth Amendment and privacy rights. Sure, US only, but I think this is pretty big
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It only takes 15 minutes to get a warrant anyway. They can just email the judge.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. The best graphics tool gets better (and better multithreading)
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Project Valhalla would examine improvements like value types and generic specialization for inclusion in future Java upgrades. Valhalla?! Someone should have looked into the implications of that name
It's where warriors go when they die, if you're too lazy to Google it.
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New ART runtime offers "2x performance boost" across all apps. What the 'L'? Where's my dessert branding?
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Earlier this morning, Microsoft executive vice president and general counsel Brad Smith made the case against pervasive government surveillance, arguing that reform is needed of this nation’s security apparatus. That's Google's job (and Bing's)
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The Eclipse Orion project team is set to release version 6.0 this month, bringing improvements to the language tooling support for JavaScript development. A web-based editor supporting JavaScript? That's crazy talk.
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A company that topped the list of obvious casualties in the post-PC era has thrived due to surprising changes to the way it does things. Most especially, how it works with developers. "Nana korobi ya oki"
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Eight times - is that a reference to Windows 8? MS needs to stand up at least one more time.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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hehe. Not intentional no, then it would be "Stand up XP times", or however many NT Workstation was (5.2 times?)
TTFN - Kent
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Password sync, now on IE11 on Microsoft's newest operating systems, makes moving among PCs, phones, and tablets easier. It's also handy for Microsoft to keep customers in its ecosystem. Just like everyone else then
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Wow!  It's simply "awesome" ... I never knew a web client could do that!
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Well, none that MS made any way. A bit late to the parky I think!
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And I actually think it's a bad idea. I mean the sorta person who keeps using IE when so many much more advanced alternatives are available - would probably save their banking passwords in there!
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New research into the reasons for software compilation errors at Google helps to reveal ways to improve developer productivity. "Building castles in the sky"
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Builds fail because the tools the developer has available (or chooses) to use suck.
For example, in Ruby (granted, where there is no concept of a build) the app fails because the IDE can't do type checking (duh, it's a duck-typed language), so you have to write unit and integration tests or just run it to discover you are calling a method that doesn't exist. RubyMine helps a lot with that by inspecting the code and spell checking (a very very poor man's way of doing Intellisense, if you ask me, but amazingly enough, it does help).
Almost 65% of all Java build errors were classified as dependency-related, such as cases where the compiler couldn’t find a symbol (the most common one, 43% of all build errors), a package didn’t exist or Google-specific dependency check failed.
Like I said. Dependency checks should be something discoverable by the IDE.
It was also found that syntax errors occurred more frequently when building C++ code than Java.
This is f***ing insane to me. Syntax errors??? The IDE should red-flag those instantly.
And this gets me to my point -- the Visual Studio IDE is absolutely amazing. I've worked with RubyMine (not bad), Eclipse (totally sucks), and of course more-or-less vanilla text editors that do no to very little syntax checking. I feel crippled when working with non-VS editors because I am so used to the IDE telling me my mistakes before I build the app. Long gone are the days where a misplaced semicolon would throw the lexical parser into a frenzy of error outputs. Long gone are the days of discovering stupid syntax errors at compile time. Etc.
So, the fault is not in the stars, but in the tools these people have to use. When, in the name of all that is holy, will people figure this out???
And as far as developers that choose to work with these crippling tools, all I have to say is, not on my team, I don't care how hotshot you are with !qewoweri editing commands.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: It was also found that syntax errors occurred more frequently when building C++ code than Java.
This is f***ing insane to me. Syntax errors??? The IDE should red-flag those instantly.
As this is based on builds at Google, I'd be willing to bet that there was no IDE involved in the C++ stuff. Certainly not VS that would solve most of those problems (as you mention).
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As this is based on builds at Google, I'd be willing to bet that there was no IDE involved in the C++ stuff. Certainly not VS that would solve most of those problems (as you mention).
My thoughts exactly.
Marc
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