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In Part I of this article, we discussed the importance of finding new and meaningful ways to spend your time so that your retirement years will be just as rewarding as your working years. Delete the scoop?
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Image via CrunchBase I recently wrote about IBM, often considered a trendsetter for employee benefits, notifying its workers that starting this year it is changing the timing of the IBM match and automatic contribution to the company 401(k) from... Delete the scoop?
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Merrill Lynch, the brokerage unit of Bank of America Corp., was fined $1.05 million by Wall Street’s self-regulator for overcharging customers who traded nonconvertible preferred securities. Delete the scoop?
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While a mileage or points rewards credit card might look enticing, most consumers don’t even keep up-to-date with their balances. Delete the scoop?
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(Breitbart)The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and (Cyprus anyone?
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In 2012, 401(k) plan participants held 36% of their assets in diversified equities and another 13% in company stock, according to Spectrem in Chicago. Delete the scoop?
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If you've had a quiet time of it these last 12 months, then well done you, because the rest of us were sweating just to keep up with the base rate of change online. HTML5 has reached critical mass, responsive development continued to barrel along at full tilt, then there's audio APIs and WebGL…
Thankfully, the degree of change correlates positively to the problem-solving efforts of the developers and designers everywhere, dug into their respective specialities.
As a result, along with the larger corporate-backed applications, we have a huge host of small tools and libraries, each designed to solve a particular problem or preserve a certain set of possibilities. A couple of these projects have become institutions: Modernizr, keeping the technical playing field level and PhoneGap holding the mobile market open for web types.
Most encouragingly, there's room for some 'just for the hell of it' type experimentation. And even a bit of self-congratulation, evidenced by the fact that Google felt confident enough about some tools to package and prink them into the Yeoman project.
Indeed, this is a handsome list, with good representation for most slices of the development pie. From full-scale IDEs to small, exotic libraries with beautiful aesthetics.
But what gives this year its character is the poise that these tools exhibit. Within it's niche, each one shows that we use are beginning to outdistance the problems, freeing ourselves up to give more though to the creative possibilities of the web. How's that for joyous tidings? Happy Holidays.
The 20 best new tools for web design and development of 2012