Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Thoughts on potential tech directions...

Why the US tech lead is in danger (it’s based on pursuing Exascale).
http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/five-reasons-the-us-tech-lead-in-danger-179930

And some future news stuff…..
Dart Review. Dart is Google’s potential answer for Javascript. One glaring catch (that will not really be a catch if Dart catches on):

But there may be deeper practical issues. The very simple program that prints "Hello World" is converted into 231,503 lines of code, many of them fairly long. I pushed this code through the built-in optimizer, and the result was still 183K. This overhead, or the ensuing bandwidth bills, will give developers for any popular site a reason to pause.

http://akamai.infoworld.com/d/application-development/first-look-google-dart-vs-javascript-179852

CVS
Very good summary of a version control systems (and why to use them and why you are already using them!).
http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/

Neat tutorial/tips:
Cool tips for Excel users.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/the-10-most-important-things-to-teach-your-excel-users/2854

A big giant list of HTML5 and CSS3 resources.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/webmaster/stay-on-the-design-cutting-edge-with-these-html5-and-css3-resources/912
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