Slashdot.com Developer News Slashdot: Developers Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable An anonymous reader writes "The has been a lot of buzz in the industry lately about NoSQL databases helping Twitter, Amazon, and Digg scale their transactional workloads. But there has been some recent pushback from database luminaries such as Michael Stonebraker. Now, a couple of researchers at Yale University claim that NoSQL is no longer necessary now that they have scaled traditional ACID compliant database systems." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/g4Rq0bCt9BI/Yale-Researchers-Prove-That-ACID-Is-Scalable Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age theodp writes "Universities really should tell engineering students what to expect in the long term and how to manage their technical careers. Citing ex-Microsoft CTO David Vaskevitch's belief that younger workers have more energy and are sometimes more creative, Wadwha warns that reports of ageism's death have been greatly exaggerated. While encouraging managers to consider the value of the experience older techies bring, Wadwha also offers some get-real advice to those whose hair is beginning to grey: 1) Move up the ladder into management, architecture, or design; switch to sales or product management; jump ship and become an entrepreneur. 2) If you're going to stay in programming, realize that the deck is stacked against you, so be prepared to earn less as you gain experience. 3) Keep your skills current — to be coding for a living when you're 50, you'll need to be able to out-code the new kids on the block. Wadwha's piece strikes a chord with 50-something Dave Winer, who calls the rampant ageism 'really f***ed up,' adding that, 'It's probably the reason why we keep going around in the same loops over and over, because we chuck our experience, wholesale, every ten years or so.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/DDSgmzBbxI4/Techs-Dark-Secret-Its-All-About-Age Rails 3.0 Released An anonymous reader writes "After two years of gestation, 4 betas, 2 release candidates and thousands of commits by 1600+ contributors, the result of the succesful merge of the Merb and Rails frameworks (and teams) is now out and ready to transport your web applications on all new shiny tracks." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/6jZpyF2x9cU/Rails-30-Released iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced recoiledsnake writes "The author of iPhone prototyping tool Briefs has decided to open source it after the App store submission has been in limbo for over three months. The app had got into trouble for what Apple believes is being able to run interpreted code, though the author denies it, saying all the compiling happens on the Mac. While Rob stays civil, his co-worker blasts Apple for not even rejecting the app. Three months is nothing compared to Google Voice for the iPhone though, which is still being studied further by Apple after more than a year." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/g14a7HuAX1g/iPhone-App-In-App-Store-Limbo-Open-Sourced Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-Sort Barrier, With GPUs An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Virginia have recently open sourced an algorithm capable of sorting at a rate of one billion (integer) keys per second using a GPU. Although GPUs are often assumed to be poorly suited for algorithms like sorting, their results are several times faster than the best known CPU-based sorting implementations." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/EZw_x17-Ets/Sorting-Algorithm-Breaks-Giga-Sort-Barrier-With-GPUs What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? gphilip writes "I have been asked to contribute ideas for the preparation of a textbook for ninth graders (ages circa 14 years) in the subject of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Could you suggest material to include in such a text? More details below." Quite a few details, actually — how would you add to the curriculum plan outlined below? Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/DIU4LHN946k/What-IT-Stuff-Should-We-Teach-Ninth-Graders Microsoft's Security Development Process Under CC License An anonymous reader writes "The H Online writes: 'Microsoft has placed its process for secure software development under a Creative Commons License. The company hopes that this will lead to more developers utilising its process for programming software more securely across the entire product lifecycle ...'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/zWIGEp2ERiE/Microsofts-Security-Development-Process-Under-CC-License Google Backs Out of JavaOne snydeq writes "Citing concerns about Oracle's lawsuit against it, Google has backed out of the upcoming JavaOne conference. 'Oracle's recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally,' Google's Joshua Bloch said in a blog post. The move may signal eventual fragmentation for Java, with Google conceivably splintering off the Java-like language it uses for Android." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/-5t9LUXSqjE/Google-Backs-Out-of-JavaOne Skipping Traditional Recruitment, Going Straight To the Source theodp writes "Out of necessity, reports Slate, tech startups are changing the way workers are screened and hired. Take database technology startup RethinkDB, whose old-school recruiting effort — job boards, external recruiters — yielded hundreds of resumes, dozens of phone screens, and numerous four-hour meetings with viable candidates, but no one who fit their criteria. 'They [recruiters] can't tell the difference between the competent ones and the stars,' complained Y Combinator's Paul Graham. Instead, the RethinkDB founders turned to sites like Github.com and stackoverflow.com to pick up six people (they're still looking), a mix of full-timers and interns, both senior and junior. 'You can see the code being written and how technically accurate they are,' explained RethinkDB's Michael Glukhovsky." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/BlmxcFRJlCw/Skipping-Traditional-Recruitment-Going-Straight-To-the-Source Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix is reporting that an Indian technology company has been porting the ZFS filesystem to Linux and will be releasing it next month as a native kernel module without a dependence on FUSE. 'In terms of how native ZFS for Linux is being handled by this Indian company, they are releasing their ported ZFS code under the Common Development & Distribution License and will not be attempting to go for mainline integration. Instead, this company will just be releasing their CDDL source-code as a build-able kernel module for users and ensuring it does not use any GPL-only symbols where there would be license conflicts. KQ Infotech also seems confident that Oracle will not attempt to take any legal action against them for this work.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/hsSHA3mjylA/Native-ZFS-Is-Coming-To-Linux-Next-Month .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft An anonymous reader writes "With Oracle suing Google over 'unofficial' support for Java in Android, Microsoft has come out and said it has no intention of taking action against the Mono implementation of C# on the Linux-based mobile OS. That's good news for Novell, which is in the final stages of preparing MonoDroid for release. Miguel de Icaza is not concerned about legal challenges by Microsoft over .Net implementations, and even recommends that Google switch from using Java. However, Microsoft's Community Promise has been criticized by the Free Software Foundation for not going far enough to protect open source implementations from patent litigation, which is at the heart of the Oracle-Google case." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/JcoO1BfuPM0/Net-On-Android-Is-Safe-Says-Microsoft Czech Copyright Bill Undercuts Copyleft, Artists Andorin writes "Earlier this month a copy of a draft of the Czech Republic's new Copyright Act [Czech PDF] was leaked to Pirate News. Included among several disturbing provisions are new regulations for 'public licenses' such as Creative Commons licenses and the GPL/BSD licenses. The amendment essentially requires that an artist wishing to use a public license must notify the administrator of a collecting agency, and must prove that they created the work in question. This goes against one of the strengths of Creative Commons and other licenses, namely the ease with which they can be applied. Additionally, collecting agencies will have increased jurisdiction over copylefted and orphaned works. ZeroPaid covers the story, noting that the amendment also reduces the royalties which artists receive from libraries by 40%, with that money instead going directly to publishers." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/SyF2vb3BYtE/Czech-Copyright-Bill-Undercuts-Copyleft-Artists Glibc Is Finally Free Software WebMink writes "Despite the fervour of some, the dark secret of every GNU/Linux distribution is that, until August 18 this year, it depended on software that was under a non-Free license — incompatible with the Open Source Definition and non-Free according to Debian and the FSF. A long tale of tenacity and software archeology has finally led to that software appearing under the 3-clause BSD license — ironically, at the behest of an Oracle VP. The result is that glibc, portmap and NFS are no longer tainted." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/e4ZhMcm8N80/Glibc-Is-Finally-Free-Software 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines Death Metal Maniac writes "A few lucky British students are taking a computing class at the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park using 30-year-old or older machines. From the article: '"The computing A-level is about how computers work and if you ask anyone how it works they will not be able to tell you," said Doug Abrams, an ICT teacher from Ousedale School in Newport Pagnell, who was one of the first to use the machines in lessons. For Mr Abrams the old machines have two cardinal virtues; their sluggishness and the direct connection they have with the user. "Modern computers go too fast," said Mr Abrams. "You can see the instructions happening for real with these machines. They need to have that understanding for the A-level."'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/srK2t-mzxJw/Retro-Programming-Teaches-Using-1980s-Machines More Devs Going Indie, To Gamers' Benefit Wired is running a feature about how a growing number of game developers are abandoning jobs at major publishers and studios and taking their experience to the indie scene instead. Quoting: "They’re veterans of the triple-A game biz with decades of experience behind them. They’ve worked for the biggest companies and had a hand in some of the industry’s biggest blockbusters. They could work on anything, but they’ve found creative fulfillment splitting off into a tiny crew and doing their own thing. They’re using everything they’ve learned working on big-budget epics and applying it to small, downloadable games. The good news for gamers is that, as the industry’s top talents depart the big studios and go into business for themselves, players are being treated to a new class of indie game. They’re smaller and carry cheaper price tags, but they’re produced by industry veterans instead of thrown together by B teams and interns. Most importantly, unlike big-budget games that need to appeal to the lowest common denominator to turn a profit, these indie gems reveal the undiluted creative vision of their makers." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/brPgazqvifY/More-Devs-Going-Indie-To-Gamers-Benefit

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