The Insider News

The Next Web[^]:

In a massive leak, some 55,000 Twitter accounts have been compromised, leaving them open for abuse. According to AirDemon, accounts belonging to celebrities were attacked in the process.

CNet[^]:

Redmond is cutting the name "Azure" out of the branding for its cloud services on its billing portal.

Martin Fowler[^]:

The charges against Object/Relational mapping (ORM) tools can be summarized in that they are complex, and provide only a leaky abstraction over a relational data store. Their complexity implies a grueling learning curve and often systems using an ORM perform badly - often due to naive interactions with the underlying database. But as you can tell, I want to push back a bit against this ORM hate - because I think a lot of it is unwarranted.

Infoworld[^]:

So many recent exploits have used Java as their attack vector, you might conclude Java should be shown the exit.

MSDN Blogs[^]:

The purpose of this post is to provide you with an update on the changes we’ve made since beta. I’ve also included a brief summary of the beta feedback that we’ve leveraged in making these updates.

BBC[^]:

Uttering expletives when you hurt yourself is a sensible policy, according to scientists who have shown swearing can help reduce pain.

Morgan Missen[^]:

Most people have no idea what the market rate or prevailing wage is for their profession and career level, much less where they fall on the pay scale.

Angus Croll[^]:

The next JavaScript specification is moving towards completion. TC39, the technical committee charged with creating ES.next (also known as ES Harmony, and sometimes ES 6) has already tentatively approved a number of proposals and there are a bunch more straw men awaiting approval. TC39 includes some of the finest minds in JavaScript (not least, Brendan Eich himself) but as Jeremy Ashkenas famously cautioned “JavaScript is too important to be left to the experts”. They need our help.