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Mono, the project that brings Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s C# and .Net to Linux, has released version 2.0 of its development framework. The framework provides a runtime system for C# and Visual Basic code to run on the Linux operating system instead of Windows, although it doesn’t attempt to duplicate the complete .Net environment. Read more here.
Interesting article on the negative effects of multitasking. I tend to agree with much of what he says. I definitely think that the last words of the article describing societies lodged into excessive multi-tasking, “their culture may gain in information, but it will surely weaken in wisdom.” Being a programmer myself, multi-tasking is the ultimate trait to have, especially when you geek-it-up and start comparing yourself to a multi-threaded application that you does a hundred different things at once. The article makes you realize that what you definitely gain from multi-tasking, you lose elsewhere.
An interesting article when it comes to testing concurrency errors, especially with parallel programming.
Interesting study on the negative effects of noise in an office space. Read this article if your interested in improving your work productivity: Office noise: Are your homicidal thoughts about your noisy office-mate justified?
Excellent article about the future of Internet platforms. It feels good to be a part of history.
“The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools.” Thus argues John De Goes, president of N-BRAIN, which creates and provides UNA, a source code editor. After all, in the midst of the competitive IDE space, mainly populated by IntelliJ, Eclipse, and NetBeans, there are other players—lighter in weight and fleeter of foot. These are the pure source code editors. The personal edition of one of them, UNA, is now being distributed for free, since a few days ago. We find out more from John, who made the announcement here on Javalobby.
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