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Michael and Chris discuss what to do when things go wrong. When should you abandon ship? When should you try to land your project in the Hudson?

Plus: Java\’s had a bad week, but are we overlooking it\’s positive aspects?

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Feedback

Charles writes in to give his two cents on the advantages learning C and shares some great training resources.

+ http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC6B940F08B9773B9F – Buckland\’s COMP1917

+ http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC0C5D85DBA20E685C – COMP1927

+ http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC0C5D85DBA20E685C – COMP2911

+ http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/

+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtXvUoPx4Qs – intro to the course

+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlPj5Rg1y2w – Google Tech Talk

A lot of passionate feedback regarding Niklas FOSS / OSS conundrum.

Christopher writes in to tell me that not all listeners are devs and that he likes the business side. So HA Youtube!

To C or not to C — a lot of your care… .a lot.

Simon writes in to share some great game development stuff: JMonkeyEngine OpenGameArt Liberated Pixel Cup

Keith writes to ask ‘where is the web development (PHP in particular) and where is the Windows love?’

Sven writes in an awesome webpage with a billboard style message! He asks if we think self taught programmers are better at thinking outside of the box than traditional CS grads?

David needs some advice on a distributed African system

Toislav writes in to tell me that Flash is not dead yet! In fact, Adobe AIR seems to have a thriving community — especially in the games space.

Code Snippet for MHazzel

This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

Burned By Some Hot Java

ZOMG Java is going to destroy our machines! or so say the blogs…

What do the Java security issues mean for web developers?

Desktop developers?

So why would I still go with Java today? Right once one everywhere (sort of) Development ease Inexpensive help

Project Looking Glass – YouTube

A Little Bird Bit Me!

What happens when you build your great product on someone else’s platform and they say ‘thanks but no thanks’

App.net the great gray hope?

Whose app is it anyway?

Shot Down

Your app is live — then it’s not! What do you do?

You’ve been gathering metrics right?

Do you have some way to contact your users?

Data issue? You have a manual way to fix that, right?

Tool of the week

Plugs

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