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Not everyone in IT is a VC-funded, app-building, social media superstar Dek:  Not everyone in IT is a VC-funded, app-building, social media superstar External Source:  itworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.itworld.com/slideshow/157620

These days, Jonathan Freeman seems to write my posts more often than I do. While I was tied up at the MongoDB World event, Jonathan wrote this great post about a quick and easy way to analyze tweets using MongoDB.

Neither the buzzword nor the concept of the "Internet of things" is new. Since the Internet emerged back in the 1990s (and before), we found it interesting to connect Coke machines and coffee pots, among other items. In fact, some of my first work with the Internet was around connecting data-collection devices to remote databases.

Credit: venimo

Credit: venimo

Leave it to Wzor to send the WinBlogosphere into an unproar, based on two short tweets.

Leave it to Wzor to send the WinBlogosphere into an unproar, based on two short tweets.

Need to program in JavaScript, but hung up on its limitations? Try a language that compiles to JavaScript instead Dek:  Need to program in JavaScript, but hung up on its limitations? Try a language that compiles to JavaScript instead External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/156855

Need to program in JavaScript, but hung up on its limitations? Try a language that compiles to JavaScript instead Dek:  Need to program in JavaScript, but hung up on its limitations? Try a language that compiles to JavaScript instead External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/156855

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