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An Argument in Favor of Pascal and Delphi

Most developers tend to dismiss Pascal and its derivative Delphi as outdated legacy programming languages that few people use any more. But Embarcadero Technologies, which purchased Delphi in 2008, says

Microsoft Azure Revenue Tops $1 Billion

According to Microsoft CFO Curt Anderson, the firm’s Azure cloud computing service has brought in $1 billion in revenue for the company in the past twelve months. That includes both

AppFog to End Support for Rackspace

The AppFog platform as a service started out saying developers who used the service would be able to run their applications on nearly any cloud computing infrastructure, but not the

Using Big Data to Hire Programmers

Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a lengthy piece that describes how a startup called Gild is using big data analytics to help other companies find talented developers.