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People probably don't realise just how extensively server-side adaptation is used by the major internet brands in order to fine-tune the user experience for each platform. To help shine a light on this I'm going to look at the approaches that some major brands use in delivering their mobile web experiences. First up, it's Google. A 47 byte file size difference actually masks an entirely different HTML document served to different devices.
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Source code control systems are somewhat abstruse pieces of software for managing code, so why should business people, especially mainstream ones, care? It’s because software culture evolves around tools that are hidden from public view, and as code becomes increasingly critical to everyday life, everybody, programmer or not, needs to develop an appreciation for how the world of software works. Code is the hidden 9/10ths of the technology iceberg today.
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Having spent a significant amount of time conceptualizing and growing Vagrant into a decently successful open source project, I’ve come away learning quite a bit. I haven’t seen many blog posts about open source maintainers commenting on their lessons learned, so I’d like to share them here. These are not only engineering lessons, but lessons involving being an open source maintainer, promoting your project, etc. There's more to open source than giving software away.
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The Tricorder Mark 1 is, for all practical purposes, nearly identical to the device that we see in Star Trek, with the possible exception of being unable to reliably distinguish a Klingon from a Romulan. It's all open source so you can build one yourself.
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One fine night in November 2011 I got an opportunity to get my hands dirty, working on a project for the FBI. They were planning to seize a bunch of computing assets in New York City that were being used as part of a criminal empire that we called "DNS Changer." This is our story. There's a growing threat from hijacked DNS lookup. Is your computer safe?
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For many Physicists throughout the ages - their beards are as remarkable as their brains. Here are just a few. Graybeard gravitas.
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Microsoft already has a much bigger presence with the Xbox and a lot of people use it as a media center. It already does a lot that the aTV does. Why Microsoft hasn’t gotten the media attention that Apple has despite unarguably being the leader in this space isn’t clear. We now return you to a TV revolution already in progress.
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High-profile iOS apps are drifting away from the forced skeuomorphism of user interfaces to embrace a more balanced approach between imitating real-life objects to achieve familiarity, and investing on all-digital designs and interfaces to benefit from the natural and intuitive interactions that iOS devices have made possible. Simplicity vs. obviousness brings us to another issue with user interfaces: discovery vs. frustration.
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In all the hype around Windows 8 the past few months, a lot of developers have got the impression that .NET has been sidelined in Windows 8; C++ and COM is back in vogue, and HTML5 + JavaScript is the New Way of writing applications. You know .NET? It's yesterday's tech. Or is it? Windows 8 does not make .NET developers obsolete.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Windows 8 does not make .NET developers obsolete.
I guess people refer to Winforms/WPF when they talk about .NET being obsolete. Metro/WinRT apps in .NET are basically COM-interop.
I don't agree with that thinking btw, I am just trying to explain why some people think that way 
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It's been my observation that the worst architectural decisions are made when technical people meet by themselves in a room with a whiteboard. I'm not saying the decisions are always bad, or wrong, but the plans and rules that come back to bite you consistently seem to incubate under these conditions. Of course it will work. Just follow the arrows.
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This will be a very tech-heavy post but if you’ve ever gone digging into kernelspace (as a coder, or someone on the ops side of the fence) we hope it’ll pique your interest. We’ll talk about the diagnostic process and introduce some of the new tools that made this possible. Caught in the act: this bug got in, but it won't get out.
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The management pitch is that by getting programmers to follow some process rote you will get good, predictable results out. See, the thing is, the success of the coding-part of a project is dependent on the calibre of the engineers doing that coding and not the process they follow. Process is, actually, just tax.
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In this day and age, I would have thought finding the right tool for the right job is common sense. Apparently not. Agile, among many other things, is not a silver bullet - it never was and it never will be. The key thing is to experiment and find what works for you, your team and your company. A team needs to function efficiently as a team.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: A team needs to function efficiently as a team.
Teamwork is a sham. It is an effective way chosen by management to take away your credit when things go right and to avoid their own responsibility when things go wrong.
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So young, so cynical...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The same opinion by somebody older is known as wisdom.
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While Apple and Google are busy getting bad press for their privacy issues, labor practices and general big-evil-company wrongdoings, Microsoft has done some brand regeneration, making it look like the hippest tech company on the block these days. Like PBR and handlebar mustaches: so bad, it's cool again.
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If it's so bad, why are you participating in a predominantly MS-centric development site?
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It is common to see newbies asking in microcontroller forums if they can run Linux on their puny little 8-bit micro. The results are usually laughter. This project aims to (and succeeds in) shatter(ing) these notions. Yes we can.
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Of course you can.
People seem to forget that the original Unix ran on a 12-bit PDP computer and was later ported to a 16-bit PDP. For the longest time, Unix ran on 16-bit processors.
The trick is to get Unix to run on a 4-bit processor.
Even better, run it on a one-bit bit-slice microprocessor, if you can find one. If you can't find one, build your own and then port Unix on to that. 
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Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto gave a presentation How Emacs changed my Life in which he explains how Emacs influenced him personally and how it influenced the programming language he created. Here is his summary. The answer to life, Emacs and everything.
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I have been playing with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview since the day it was released. It is my primary operating system at nights and weekends. Since I have been investing a lot of time in Windows 8, I thought I’d share 10 things that I certainly didn’t know about Windows 8 at first. This list should be helpful for someone new to Windows 8, but a power-user may learn a thing or two as well. All the cool Windows 8 tips Start here.
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Initially I was of the opinion that it wasn’t a good idea to not test the orchestration code but looking back a month later I think it’s working reasonably well and putting this constraint on ourselves has made the code easier to change while still being well tested. How much testing is too much?
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The market for exploits for zero-day vulnerabilities has exploded in the last year. The number of buyers and the money they are willing to pay for working exploits has dramatically increased, and so has the number of exploits offered for sale each months. Also, the purchase deals are made much quickly than in the past. Obviously, the whole economy around this "product" has matured. Let's just say we'd like to avoid any Imperial entanglements.
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