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Comic book legend Michael Golden shares his secrets for successful storytelling
This past Saturday, a group of fans and aspiring creatives of all kinds gathered together in the basement level of Silicon Valley Comic Con. Outside this room, the convention bustles noisily with costumed characters, video games, and the murmur of human voices. Inside...

Are Developers Coming Back to Microsoft?
Developer interest in C# has declined sharply since its peak in 2012 according to data from the TIOBE index. As one former .NET developer wrote back in 2015, this precipitous decline in due to the rise of cloud-native application frameworks and mobile platforms where...

Silicon Valley Ageism Versus the Productivity of Famous Inventors
A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a friend who half-jokingly asked me if I was ready to retire yet. I half-jokingly quipped that I was well past the age of "fundable" established by Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and would therefore be relocating to Puerto...

Automating application deployments across clouds with Salt and Docker
If you have not had the chance to work with Salt yet, it is a very exciting new configuration management system that is easy to get up and running, powerful enough to support distributed command execution and complex configuration management, and scalable enough to...
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