This is especially true after Technorati — one of the leading blog and Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, tracking services — acknowledged Monday it recently closed a multimillion-dollar round of venture capital funding. While Technorati’s haul is in and of itself impressive, it’s the expected ripple effect on other RSS technology developers that has some in the industry excited.
Outsource your job to get a new one! This is the new mantra doing the rounds in the US IT sector. Programmers are outsourcing their software modules to cheap and efficient labour in India. This way they get the best of both worlds- more money and more time. They earn doubly - one from the outsourced job, other from the new job they undertake.
NASA’s recent Mars Rover mission uses a host of open source tools. Three members of the team presented how they promoted open source software at NASA, use it in the project, and hope to release more code in the future.
iTunes makes synching my music collection extremely easy. But what about my files? I don’t want to have to drag all my stuff over manually - that’s a pain in the ass, and I’m likely to forget the various hidden “.something” config files and folders so often used by *NIX software. There are numerous backup utilities available for OS X, but which one is the right tool for this job?
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Predominant mass-market housing programs such as project homes or tract housing largely fail to meet the desires of people who appreciate a modernist design aesthetic. Custom-designed modernist architecture is beyond the financial reach of many people and so prefab is viewed as a design and production ideology that has the potential to deliver affordable modernism. While kit or prefab homes have been available in a range of either “traditional” or “alternative” forms for many years, surprisingly few prefab homes exist that truly embrace modernist ideals.