Sat.Jan 25, 2014 - Fri.Jan 31, 2014

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The Persistent Imbalance Between Supply and Demand for Software Development Labor

The Agile Manager

The growth in demand for software has consistently outpaced the growth in the supply of software developers. This has been the case for well over half a century. It's worth looking at why. Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world.

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Smart Defaults: On Libraries & Frameworks

Tim Kadlec

Yesterday Twitter went nuts over a little site called “You Might Not Need jQuery”. The site’s seemingly innocent claim was that many things that you think you need jQuery for are actually not so bad in plain old JavaScript, depending on what browsers you are supporting. jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.

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