Category Archives: Software Development

Mastercard opens up EMV card

Posted on January 23, 2013 by robertwilkie

Mastercard has seemed to open up its API for EMV (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) smart cards to try and get folks in the USA to adopt them.  EMV cards are a contact (and now contact less) smart card are used all … Continue reading →

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Java on its way down?

Posted on January 17, 2013 by robertwilkie

Interesting article.  It shows that the trend is Java is falling from grace.  And points out that since Oracle buying out Java, its hasn’t put much into it to keep it going.  The one saving grace for Java is IBM … Continue reading →

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Developer Outsources his own job

Posted on January 16, 2013 by robertwilkie

A US software developer (doing government work) apparently outsourced himself.  Basically he took some of his wages and hired a team in China to do the work.  And he was considered one of the best programmers they had….He was caught … Continue reading →

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Help the US Government convert to Opensource, get 3 Mill

Posted on January 15, 2013 by robertwilkie

OK its the VA, they want to update there old healthcare management software from the 1970s.  I guess there was a try at it before, but 170 mill later it was canned.  So…they are looking to the opensource community to … Continue reading →

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Opensource software License concepts

Posted on January 7, 2013 by robertwilkie

Nice write-up about open source software licenses.  The one big thing to take away, is NO MATTER WHAT, you usually at least have to include the licenses of the software you are using in your documentation.http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/14/open-source-software-compliance-basics-and-best-practices/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

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How to configure Eclipse for Stellaris

Posted on December 6, 2012 by robertwilkie

Nice tutorial on how to configure it to use TI’s Stellaris. http://kernelhacks.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/the-complete-tutorial-for-stellaris_25.html  

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Cloudyn helps figure out Amazon EC2 costs

Posted on November 20, 2012 by robertwilkie

This is actually pretty useful if you are playing in the cloud since I can’t make heads or tails out of some of Amazons costs. http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/22/cloudyn-launches-free-tool-for-making-sense-of-amazon-ec2-reserved-instance-costs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

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A TDD Pet

Posted on July 26, 2012 by robertwilkie

This was just too funny to pass up. The author created a virtual pet for Eclipse that is fed off of TDD development work (Test Driven Development). http://www.happyprog.com/tdgotchi/  

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