The Insider News

Telerik[^]:

As a programmer, I can honestly say that I am lazy. Forget the menial job of repeating tasks... if it takes me an hour to complete an iteration, I would rather spend 3 hours automating the process. You never know when you might need to do it again, and the click of a button is much more satisfying than an hour of processing data.

Ardalis[^]:

When you’re working in a strongly typed language like C# or Visual Basic, instantiating an object is done with the new keyword. It’s important that we recognize the significance of using this keyword in our code. Any time you use the new keyword, you are gluing your code to a particular implementation. You are permanently hard-coding your application to work with a particular class’s implementation. That’s huge.

fuzzy notepad[^]:

PHP is an embarrassment, a blight upon my craft. It’s so broken, but so lauded by every empowered amateur who’s yet to learn anything else, as to be maddening. It has paltry few redeeming qualities and I would prefer to forget it exists at all. But I’ve got to get this out of my system. So here goes, one last try.

SQL Server Team Blog[^]:

In-memory DBMSs have been around for some time. They were originally employed in performance sensitive applications serving telephony and financial services markets. There is a resurgence of interest around in-memory database technology and we are starting to see in-memory DBMS technology reach a disruptive tipping point for a number of scenarios. Here's why.

Phil Windley[^]:

When personal clouds begin to act as peers with other network services, people gain unprecedented power and leverage. Personal clouds can change how we relate to everything in our lives, rearrange how we buy and sell products and services, and revolutionize how we communicate with each other. For these changes to take place, personal clouds must be able to un applications for you, under your direction.

TIME[^]:

The PC industry is so young that a remarkable percentage of its most significant figures are still with us. But it lost a key one on Sunday when Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore, died at 83. Commodore was one of the first important PC companies, and Tramiel, in his own idiosyncratic manner, played a vital role in getting the PC revolution underway.

ExtremeTech[^]:

Have you ever wondered why a supercomputer is called a supercomputer? Is it the number of processors or the amount of RAM? Must a supercomputer occupy a certain amount of space, or consume a specific amount of power? Let's walk back through the history of these machines to see what made them so super.

Hack Education[^]:

One Laptop Per Child was a good idea, a noble and ambitious one at that. Originally proposed in 2006, OLPC aimed to build an inexpensive laptop that would be sold to governments in the developing world and made available in turn to the children in those countries via their respective ministries of education. Easier said than done.

Mister Goodcat[^]:

Windows Phone 8 is now starting to show up in the browser statistics of analytics services. Is Microsoft being too slow with updates for the phone? I'd say no, and here's why.

YUIBlog[^]:

As nice as it is to simplify your code and iterate over many different types of collections, the real improvement comes when you start to reuse the functions passed to the iterators. But, you ask, how can I reuse my big, complicated function? Here's how.

Rey Bango[^]:

With IE10 Metro going plugin-free, it’s incredibly important to document steps to help developers provide their users with great experiences without the need for proprietary 3rd party add-ons. If you’ve built a plug-in-free browsing experience for the iPad, a few changes will make it ready for the new IE10 plug-in-free experience on Windows 8. Here's how.

Josh on Design[^]:

The world does not want a new programming language, especially from me. But since you are hell bent on creating a new one, you might as well make it an improvement. Here are 8 tips to help make your toy language actually useful.