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Tech Tuesday: Functions (Part 3 – Argument Passing)
Albert Wenger – Aug 14, 2012
In the last two Tech Tuesdays we have learned about how functions let us define new words in a programming language and how arguments and other local variables are restricted to the scope of the function. Today we will take [...] Read more
App.net And The Need for Social Networking Standards
Albert Wenger – Aug 13, 2012
Dalton Caldwell announced yesterday on his blog and on Twitter that app.net has reached its initial funding goal. I look forward to seeing what happens next and am watching the api spec on Github. Here is what I believe would [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Functions (Part 2 – Scope)
Albert Wenger – Aug 7, 2012
Last Tech Tuesday we learned about functions as a way to define our own words in a programming language. We saw that functions take arguments and return results back to where the function was used in the program. We refer [...] Read more
ECommerce Hack Day
Albert Wenger – Aug 6, 2012
This past weekend was the first annual Ecommerce Hack Day in New York organized by Dwolla and Etsy with support from many other companies. I was delighted to be a judge as there were a lot of talented folks working [...] Read more
Feature Friday: Covestor Profile Videos
Albert Wenger – Aug 3, 2012
Video has proven to be a very powerful way of connecting with people online. I think no site demonstrates this more than Kickstarter. For instance, Allison Weiss raising money to make a new record (one of the very early projects), [...] Read more
German National Computer Science Competition
Albert Wenger – Aug 2, 2012
Only a short post today as I was spending most of the morning on the phone with some PR folks in Germany talking about the German National Computer Science Competition (page in German). I participated in and was one of [...] Read more
The Internet, Tape Delay, Proxies and Civil Disobedience
Albert Wenger – Aug 1, 2012
Much has been written about how idiotic it is for the NBC to tape delay Olympic broadcasts when everybody already knows via Twitter what the outcome of an event has been. At the current Olympics we are witnessing like never [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Functions (Part 1)
Albert Wenger – Jul 31, 2012
In the last two posts we looked at control structures as part of the programming series here on Tech Tuesdays. We saw that loops let us repeat a sequence of instructions, which is one way of having to avoid writing [...] Read more
Cybersecurity (Senate Edition): Support Franken and Wyden Amendments
Albert Wenger – Jul 30, 2012
I have written about cybersecurity legislation, covering the House bill called CISPA. This week it’s the Senate’s turn with the Cyber Security Act of 2012 (PDF). One thing that always jumps out at me when looking at these bills is [...] Read more