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Comment Re:Good, Because Certs Are Worthless (Score 1) 267

by JohnBerman on Friday February 03, 2012 @10:01AM (#38914109) Attached to: The IT Certs That No Longer Pay Extra

Spot on, in my opinion. Whether you like it or not, you have to play HR at their own game. To them it's a science.

Unsung, Unpaid Coders Behind Federal IT Dashboard 99

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 12, 2009 @09:10AM from the where-credit-is-due dept.

theodp writes "The Federal CIO got a standing ovation for the new Federal IT Dashboard. Federal contractors got the cash. But sneak a peek at the 'customcode' directory behind the Dashboard, and you'll see that some individuals also helped bring it to life with their free software. For starters, there's Timothy Groves' Auto Suggest (Creative Commons License), Alf Magne Kalleland's Ajax Tooltip and Dynamic List (GNU Lesser General Public License), and Gregory Wild-Smith's Simple AJAX Code-Kit (SACK) (modified X11 License)."

MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX 674

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @12:12PM from the math-journals-won't-be-switching-anytime-soon dept.

alphabetsoup writes "Office 2010 Technology preview was leaked a few days back. With its leak, a feature which was rumored to be present can now be confirmed. Office 2010 finally adds support for Advanced Typographic features (ligatures, number forms, alternates, etc.) of OpenType, allowing one to create documents so far possible only in TeX or InDesign. Between this, the new equation editor and styles, what are the chances of Word replacing LaTeX as the editor of choice in academia?"

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