Programming should be taught by having students read and modify existing code, working against tests. The focus should be much more like literature curricula, with much more reading code than writing it.

Explores the idea that we should allow for many programming languages on the client-side.

Amazon continues to amaze us with its Amazon Web Services series of offerings. The latest is SimpleDB, which will be available in limited beta in a few weeks. And it is bound to have a major impact on web infrastructure.

Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life?

If you walk into any suburban Starbucks these days, you won't see people's faces, instead you'll see laptops. Moms and dads increasingly work from home; broadband took ...

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The Gettysburg Address, done in powerpoint if Abe were a modern CEO

Rules to use in planning JavaScript projects to make it easier (and faster) to develop, deploy, and maintain