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Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours 154

Posted by Soulskill from the first-in-line dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Ardiri challenged himself to port his classic PalmOS version of Lemmings to the iPhone, Palm Pre, Mac, and Windows. The porting was done using his own dev environment, which creates native C versions of the game. He liveblogged the whole thing, and finished after only 36 hours with an iPhone version and a Palm Pre version awaiting submission, and free versions for Windows and Mac available on his site."
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Best Places To Work In IT 2010 205

Posted by kdawson from the wish-you-were-here dept.
CWmike writes "These top-rated IT workplaces combine choice benefits with hot technologies and on-target training. Computerworld's 17th annual report highlights the employers firing on all cylinders. The Employer Scorecard ranks IT firms based on best benefits, retention, training, diversity, and career development. Also read what IT staffs have to say about job satisfaction. How's your workplace, IT folk?" Read below for a quick look at the top 10 IT workplaces according to this survey.

Comment This will end badly (Score 1) 295

by LittleWebFoot (#30972080) Attached to: Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed
Rewriting a managed runtime is difficult, costly, and time consuming. And at the end of the day, the odds that they will beat the performance of the CLR or JVM is super small. At best, they may match the performance of either of those runtimes, but at an enormous cost. Open sourcing it won't make a difference - it's already open source and has been for years. A much better investment would be changing the site to use a different technology that was faster. There are lots of options. The goal is to improve performance, not embark on a fun science project.

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