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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:29 AM

So You Want A Job in the Software Industry

Clint Rutkas has been doing a lot of interviewing lately. At a number of events he has been interviewing software professionals about what it takes and what people need to know to prepare for a career in the software industry. His most recent interview
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Friday, February 15, 2008 11:35 AM

An Operating System You Can Play With in C#

The contributors over at Channel 8, the web community for students interested in computer technology, are really turning us some interesting things. Recently there was a student interview with Bill Gates and then the other day I read about Cosmos . Cosmos
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Thursday, January 17, 2008 5:38 AM

How Software Is Built - Updated

It's been about five months since I wrote about a then new site called How Software Is Built and a lot has gone on since then. They have added a bunch of new interviews since then with the five in December bringing the total up to 23. And I know that
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:25 AM

How Software Is Built - Open Source and Closed Source

How is software built in the real world? How are open source and closed source development projects different? How are they the same? How do companies leverage different development styles and ecosystems? Chances are these are questions that come up in
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments
Monday, July 30, 2007 8:52 AM

Microsoft and Open Source

It never fails that when I am introduced to a big Open Source supporter one of the first things I hear is "and of course Microsoft hates Open Source." Well actually they don't. Microsoft competes with some Open Source products but that is not the same
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Friday, October 27, 2006 6:13 AM

A Reply to an Interesting Comment - More on a first programming language

Tom Hoffman wrote a long and very interesting reply to my previous post for which I am very grateful. He makes some thought provoking statements and I like having my thought provoked. I was going to reply in an additional comment but things got really
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 13 Comments
Monday, August 14, 2006 2:35 AM

Mono – Open Source .NET

I get a lot of questions about Open Source both as a concept and on specific Open Source projects. The Mono project which is an Open Source project that is creating a C# compiler and Common Language Reference environment. Recently Miguel de Icaza, VP
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