This sounds to be a great game to teach kids programming. The parents are the robots the kids have to program to complete some tasks.

How To Train Your Robot by drtechniko on Dr. Techniko's Children's Stories and Games

Last Sunday, I taught six kids of ages 5 to 7 how to program. “In what programming language?” you may ask. Well...I didn’t use a programming language, at least none that you know of. In fact, I did...

Some material for the game is also provided by Dr. Techniko:

Teaching the "How to train your robot" class by drtechniko on Dr. Techniko's Children's Stories and Games

After popular request, in this post I explain how to teach the “How to train your robot” class. The class is split in two parts. Part 1 - Guess The Robot The first part is a game called “Guess the ...

Just too bad there is only a FB fan-page.

Someone used #Hails already? #MPVC

GitStar - For hackers and other heretics on Gitstar

Hails is a platform and web framework that leverages Information Flow Control (IFC) to support untrusted and mutually distrustful web applications interacting and processing private data.

Presentation at #osdi12
Hails: Protecting Data Privacy in Untrusted Web Applications on Usenix

Modern extensible web platforms like Facebook and Yammer depend on third-party software to offer a rich experience to their users. Unfortunately, users running a third-party “app” have little control over what it does with their private data. Today’s platforms offer only ad-hoc constraints on app behavior, leaving users an unfortunate trade-o...

He makes some good points there.

The ugly underbelly of coder culture by Neil McAllister on Infoworld

By now, it should surprise no one to hear that software development is a bit of a boys' club. We've all read editorials bemoaning the lack of women in tech....

#Git + #Gerrit + #Jenkins are an amazing and powerful combination. Need to finish that implementation also for work. And the integration into #Eclipse works nice, too.

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