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Want to see Google manhole, click here[^]
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As yet another mini-pc, hardware hacker, prototyping, what-ever you want to call it appears, this one can take Arduino Shields.........
Source: Engadget: rascal-micro-hands-on-video/[^]
but, I am still waiting for my Raspberry PI 
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Samples are the primary way that we as developers learn to develop applications for a new platform. We use samples as a starting point to learn about new APIs, we reference them when we hit bugs in our own code and need a comparison, and we share them for others to learn from our discoveries. If a picture is worth a thousand words then a sample is worth thousand pages of documentation. Where have samples been hiding all this time?
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An experienced project manager I used to work with claimed that he took the programmers’ time estimates, multiplied by pi and converted to the next time magnitude to get the true number. To get a more precise conversion, I’ve created a translation table for programmers’ time estimations, trying to narrow down where things go wrong. It’s really quite a lot to code...
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I tell them to add six months.
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I figure out how much time it will take me to code something, multiply that by 3 and tell my programmers that is how much time they have.
They are quite happy with that.
PS. I used to be a fast coder and also fast at figuring out design/architecture issues.
PPS. A real cowboy! 
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In programming circles, there’s been a steady emphasis on platforms that support Ruby, Python and Node.js - and not as much attention paid to Microsoft .NET platform providers. That’s a real oversight given the enduring popularity of Microsoft languages. From AppHarbor to Uhuru, something for everyone.
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Previously, you needed a Mac to be able to sign an iOS app and test it on a device. But we’ve now released our remote signing service so you can build and test your iOS apps on Windows or Linux – no Mac in sight. Go where no app has gone before.
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What has changed in the last few years is that web applications start providing more than just dynamically rendered HTML templates. JavaScript is used to run more and more logic on the client side and JS usually talks to some backends via JSON. But web APIs are also more and more used to expose raw data to other software. The challenge though, is that we haven’t changed the way we write web applications to adapt to this new way of providing data. Think about your API, how well does it communicate with your future API users?
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Microsoft's largest annual conference explores Azure, Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012, and Windows 8. Also interesting: higher-profile Linux and Mac interoperability than ever before.
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Avoid vendor support hell with these tips for PC, Mac, smartphone, and tablet. First, is it plugged in? Next, is it turned on?
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Some of the biggest names in technology, as well as some prospecting upstarts have entered applications with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for hundreds of new Internet domain name extensions. The list includes common words, such as .auto, .attorney, .baby and .beer, as well as well-known proper names such as .Google. .FedEx and .Microsoft. .youvegottobekidding
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PHP is no longer trendy and has caught flak in certain corners for quite some time. A lot of this probably has to do with the fact that PHP has been around for a while and (developers get bored easily) is now far from the only game in town for developing dynamic web applications. And yet, look how much of the 'net is built on PHP.
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Inspired by Github’s Hubot and fueled by Cinch and Ruby, we’ve slowly changed our IRC from a communication channel to a public and remote REPL device designed to do the boring and tedious tasks: searching for test failures, issuing pull requests, or filing new bugs. If you are interested, read on. /chat #your work away!
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If writing awesome code is using all the best practices I can find, writing interfaces, unit tests and using top notch IoC containers to control my repositories and services all over my application's different layers - Then I'm not writing awesome code at all! I'm not awesome any more. Instead, I'm productive!
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He makes a good argument with which I would mostly agree. KISS works, every time.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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One of the things I love about the MVVM pattern is that it makes things simple (KISS).
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Reputations aren’t randomly given out, they are earned based on experience. What makes the reputation disturbing to me is that I know many software engineers personally, and they are generally a fun-loving, agreeable (if not opinionated), and entertaining bunch. They’re the ones you want to hang out with after work and catch up with on the weekend. So why is it that in the presence of work, a different personality shows up? Software engineers aren’t builders. Software engineers are creators.
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For all of you who have asked what Windows 8 devices will be available later this year? Here is a quick run down on Windows 8 devices from the Computex. Make all the things multi-touch!
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I'm looking forward to Razer's Project Fiona[^] personally (assuming they move it out of concept and into production). Because every tablet should have an i7 processor!
Edit: Fixed the link 
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You’ve probably heard about the new Windows on ARM PCs that will be coming to market with Windows 8. If you’ve been following the TechEd North America coverage, then you’ve also seen these devices in the keynote. In this post, we’re going to cover what this all means for developers. Who, what, where, when... WOA!
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At one time I thought that if collaboration with the community were a high priority, then I needed to use a wiki as a collaborative platform. How could I engage in collaborative efforts without a wiki? Although this seems logical, it turns out that a wiki is not necessary for collaboration. Here's why. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
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This document specifies an additional Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) status code for use when resource access is denied for legal reasons. This allows server operators to operate with greater transparency in circumstances where issues of law or public policy affect their operation. This transparency may be beneficial both to these operators and to end users. 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons.
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