The literary world - especially academics - has a number of readability metrics that show how “hard” a given work is to read in English. If you are a writer, these metrics can give you a pretty good swag at how easy it will be for people to read your work.
In this [...]

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This is a true story, currently unfolding. (Thankfully, not where I work.)
My friend “Paul” works at a large international company in a small developer team that builds web applications. The technology stack is J2EE, including Spring and Hibernate in the mix.
Unfortunately, except for Paul and a coworker, most of the team is underskilled [...]

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The next big platform for app development is likely going to be mobile devices. Unlimited data plans, GPS functionality, and reasonably-good processing power make such devices a ripe target for commercial and open-source goodies.Google and Microsoft have both recently released search+map applications for the Windows Mobile platform. Microsoft has introduced Live Search Mobile and Google [...]

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