The Insider News

Peter Provost[^]:

Lately I’ve been asked by more and more people inside Microsoft to help them really learn to do TDD. Sure, they’ve read the books, and probably some blog posts and articles, but they are struggling to figure it out. But with so many people talking about how good it is they are frustrated that when they try to apply it at work, in their day job, it just doesn’t seem to work out.

InfoQ[^]:

Visual Studio Express was never meant to be a free product. When the first version was released in 2005, the Express edition was intended to be an entry level product that cost approximately 100 USD. In order to build up a customer base for the product, and to promote .NET in general, Microsoft said that anyone registering the product within the first year would get it for free.

Karl Seguin[^]:

How do computers actually work? We write code, but how do our inputs become outputs? As you know, there are a number of layers between the code that we write and the electrical impulses that race through our hardware. If we stick to the software end of things though, we're actually pretty close to the lowest levels. What I'm talking about, of course, is assembly.

nodeguide.com[^]:

Now that you're all hyped up about using node.js, it's time to convince your boss. Well, maybe. I have had the pleasure of consulting for different businesses on whether node.js is the right technology, and sometimes the answer is simply no. So this guide is my opinionated collection of advice for those of you that want to explore whether node.js makes sense for their business, and if so, how to convince the management.

Boris Smus[^]:

There's an increasing variety of devices in use today. Even generally rectangular touch enabled devices vary hugely in their physical sizes, aspect ratios, pixel densities, etc. One thing that remains constant across these devices are their users. As a result, ergonomic considerations like touch target sizing, readable text and image size remain constant. Fingers will be fingers and eyes will be eyes! Our bodies are firmly rooted in the physical world, and the interfaces we create should reflect that.

reghardware[^]:

Back in the late 1970s you wouldn't have guessed that this shy young Cambridge maths student named Wilson would be the seed for what has now become the hottest-selling microprocessor in the world. Ninety-five per cent of today's smartphones are built around an ARM processor. The ARM began with Wilson.

Greg Duncan[^]:

I've been blogging for almost a decade now (wow) and had used many blogging tools. Until that is WLW came out. Since I moved to WLW, I've never looked back. It just works. So you can see why I'm interested in hearing about its future, am an concern that nothing at all is being said about it. Please. Any idea, direction, indication, would be great.

Brian S Hall[^]:

There is no smartphone war. iPhone won. As I've written many times, the war now is between Apple and Samsung. Here's where the battle will be fought and won.

The Andrew Turnbull Mozilla Network[^]:

The development and evolution of the Mozilla browser, from its Netscape-seeded beginnings through the Firefox releases of today, can be fascinating. Numerous changes occurred to the software in terms of technology, features, and appearance; particularly when Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox were both in their infancy and many groundbreaking developments were made. Much of this software was not widely seen or used when initially released.

LWN.net[^]:

Once upon a time, Unix was the up-and-coming operating system that was the future of computing. But something happened on the way to world domination, and, while Unix was certainly a commercial success for many years, it has mostly been supplanted by other things - including Linux. It has often been said that Linux cannot suffer the same fate that brought down Unix, but it is worth thinking about whether that is really true.