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engadget.com[^]:

Alright, so Microsoft is in no danger of toppling iOS or Android anytime soon. But the analytics firm Kantar has seen significant growth for Windows Phone, largely at the expense of BlackBerry. In practically every major market WP8 has started to chip away at its competitors...

TIME.com[^]:

It was Google that kicked off the age of Internet April Foolery back in 2000, and the company continues to ratchet up the quantity and ambition of its hoaxes each year. I cheerfully concede that it does a much better job than most of the others which have followed its lead. Still, Google has never topped a prank it played in 2004 — one which was so effective that most people, to this day, don’t think of it as a prank. I speak of the launch of Gmail, on April 1, 2004.

SlashGear[^]:

April 1st is upon us, and that can only mean one thing: pranks, gags, and joke products of dubious comedic value, as the tech world tries to make you crack a smile. Whether you love it or loath it, April Fools is inescapable, so join us as we run through 2013′s cons and let us know which – if any – convinced you, and which you thought were actually funny.

Android Police[^]:

According to this rom, the Facebook Phone looks to be a mostly stock, mid-range Sense 4.5 phone that was attacked by a mutant Facebook app. Everything seems to be focused on the Facebook app - they haven't made their own Android Skin, or anything like that. Sadly, we can't get too many more details, because just about everything requires that you have special access to Facebook. Of course, you should also keep in mind that we're tearing down an unreleased, developer version of Facebook's software, and everything is a work in progress. Facebook should show off the full details April 4th.

• Object Oriented Programming
• ASP.NET Web Development
• Windows 8 App Development with JavaScript & HTML5
• Windows 8 App Development with C# & XAML

Jesse Liberty[^]:

Today’s Windows Developer faces a crucial decision: whether to build for the new (shiny!) Windows 8 Store or to build for the Desktop. There are significant advantages to each, and they are, more or less, mutually exclusive.

tugberkugurlu.com[^]:

You may wonder why the title starts with "Basics". The answer is simple: I know only the basics of git rebase It's only one of the powerful features of git and it allows you to have a clean history in a highly branching workflow. "Rebase" is quite powerful as mentioned and what I'm about to show you is only one of the reasons why to use rebase.

The Glass Hammer[^]:

CodeProject is the world’s largest independent community of coders and developers. But in early 2012, Sean Ewington, Jeff Hadfield, Chris Maunder, and Terrence Dorsey recognized three related areas in which they believed CodeProject was not living up to its full potential: helping women embrace programming in greater numbers, enter the industry, and find support within it. To that end, Maunder and David Cunningham decided to create an Advisory Board for Women in Technology.

ExtremeTech[^]:

Unreal Engine 3, the game engine that runs fan favorites like Mass Effect, Gears of War, and Infinity Blade, has been ported to run inside a web browser without any plug-ins. Using JavaScript, specifically the asm.js sublanguage and Emscripten compiler, this engine can run on almost any modern web browser. While this is just a tech demo, it goes to show how the web browser is starting to become a completely valid native platform for games.

Viget[^]:

Overall, the challenges presented with C really forced me to think deeply about how I organized my code and interacted with the machine. Understanding that balance between bare-metal performance and human understandability definitely revealed the language's sweet spot. Even in an industry where older technologies are constantly rendered obsolete, that balance is the reason developers of major modern software projects continue to choose C for their implementation language.

ZDNet[^]:

With the recently leaked Windows Blue build out for the past few days, those downloading it are continuing to find new details as they dissect the code. While some of the early user-interface changes -- in some cases, making Windows Blue look and feel more like Windows Phone -- have been a big focus, the under-the-hood changes have gotten less coverage.... So what is MinKernel in this context? According to one of my sources, MinKernel is a minimal set of functionality that is shared across the different Windows kernels that run on x86, ARM, Windows Phone and Xbox. MinKernel is the one base-level implementation on top of which these platforms are built, the same way that BaseFS may be the base-level file system that is common across different platforms.

Hack a Day[^]:

There were just SO MANY horrible scenes that I started thinking about how to even categorize them.... The state of technology portrayal in movies is frankly abysmal. It is obvious that the only people who know less about tech than “hollywood” are the people making laws about it. So, lets take a look at this list and see what we ended up with.

AllThingsD[^]:

Something Facebook mobile this way comes. And depending on what you read, it’s a little different here and there. A proper Facebook phone. Or not a Facebook phone, but a very Facebook-y version of a phone. Whatever it is, we’re in agreement that it involves Facebook and a phone. But let’s rewind for a second: Who among us would actually want to buy a Facebook phone, much less use it as a primary device?

The Wirecutter[^]:

For most people, there’s no point in getting a smartwatch yet, as all the options have major kinks that need ironing out. Skip this generation of them. But if you absolutely must have one because you have nothing better to spend your money on (impossible) grab a Pebble. Amidst a sea of buggy devices, ugly design, concepts that never ship, and problematic pairing, it only gets the nod because it’s less than ideal, but workable, whereas much of the competition simply does not work, or is priced by crazy people.