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Storied Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins is about to buy .0007% of Facebook for $38 million. Venture Wire first reported the deal,”The venture capital firm . . . is in the process of securing a stake in Facebook by investing $38 million from its $750 million debut digital growth fund, said two prospective investors.”

1.      Mediator: When you have two classes that are in need of each other, you might create a strong coupling between them. In other words, a simple change in one class can affect the other. This is not a good thing since one of the core concepts in object oriented programming is to reduce the [...]

1.      Proxy: The proxy pattern provides a surrogate for another object (You make your calls to the proxy, and the proxy calls the other object to get the work done). The first example that comes to mind when thinking about a proxy is web services. Web services are methods available somewhere on a server. We [...]

Structural Pattern: As the name implies, this pattern concentrates on how elements are structured. For instance, when I look at windows explorer, I see a folder that contains a list of other folders that contains files and folders, and so on… This concept relates to the composite design pattern. The patterns we will explore in [...]

Design Patterns are common solutions to problems you encounter as you are developing software applications. As you are writing code and finding elegant solutions to business problems, you see yourself asking questions such as: why am I copying and pasting code very often? I think I have seen this problem before, did I write a [...]

A post on eBay’s Green Team Talks blog explained, “Topaz becomes one of only a small handful of data centers on U.S. soil to achieve LEED Gold – a pretty major accomplishment considering the availability and security requirements needed to run eBay AND PayPal’s servers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days [...]

Yahoo announced today that the company will appoint Wayne Powers as senior vice president, Advertising Sales for North America. Powers, who previously served as President of the Time Inc. Media Group, will report directly to incoming Executive Vice President of the Americas, Ross Levinsohn. Powers will be based in Yahoo!’s New York office. “Wayne is [...]

“Tomorrow is Election Day and Facebook is committed to encouraging people who use our service to participate in the democratic process. As a result, Facebook is focused on ensuring that all of our users know where they can participate in this year’s elections,” Facebook’s Andrew Noyes said in an email. “U.S. users over age 18 [...]

LinkedIn announced today that users can now customize their profiles with five new profile sections: publications, languages, skills, certifications, and patents. “If you are an author, academic professional, or a researcher, your body of publications helps define you as a professional. With the Publications section, you can add your published work to your profile,” says [...]

Mozilla has appointed former Adobe executive Gary Kovacs as the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the company. The appointment ends a nearly six-month search that began after John Lilly, who has been Mozilla’s chief executive for the last three years, announced that he would leave to join Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm. “Gary [...]