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CoderDojo—Teaching Kids How to CodeJames Whelton, a teen Irish developer, created CoderDojo—a movement to support and teach coding to children from nine to fifteen years of age. CoderDojo quickly spread its reach from Ireland to Los Angeles. Brendan Quinn looks at the appeal of this youth programming movement. | 
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App Developers Needed in the Digital Public Library of AmericaThe vision of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is to digitize America’s cultural heritage via their online portal containing metadata records to millions of archived materials. The DPLA has opened its virtual doors—with a special plea to app developers to work in the App Library section. | 
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Free Mobile Device Testing Labs Add to Culture of SharingThe excitement that comes with each new mobile device launch brings with it one more device for developers and testers to have to weigh the costs of running their mobile applications on, to make sure they're compatible. Could free, open device labs solve that problem? Maybe—if we all chip in. | 
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The Value of Developer Testing in SoftwareDeveloper testing is a great way to improve the quality of your code and deliver more reliably. However, our intuitions about the relative value of testing are often wrong. Only by gaining experience writing tests will you be able to learn which tests really add value. | 
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How Waste Impacts Software DeliveryConstant delays at the Brisbane Airport in Australia cost airlines $75 million last year. This hefty cost is not adding any value to the airlines or to the passengers. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy relates this news of financial waste to what he sees as a software delivery coach. | 
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Why Does IT Management Ignore Testing?Joe Townsend explores why IT upper management does not treat software testing as an equal to software development. Changing the culture and the misconceptions about software testing will be vital to the future of the field. | 
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Apple Announces 45 Billion Apps Downloaded, $9 Billion to DevelopersApple announced in its Q2 earnings call to investors this week that app downloads have passed the 45 billion milestone, only four months after hitting the 40 billion mark in January. To date, the company has paid out to developers more than $9 billion—half of that in the last year alone. | 
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Will Mobile App Development Slow Due to New Privacy Laws? A recent extension to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act has mobile application developers scrambling to not only follow the new laws but also just to understand them—and the penalties that come with them. Some believe the laws can in fact be followed, but more time is needed to comply. |
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