The Insider News

The Next Web[^]:

With optimism on full blast, here’s 5 reasons why I’m excited about the future of Web design. Sure, standards still move slowly, Flash, IE 7 and IE 8 still exist and Chrome keeps crashing on me, but what the hell — things are still going pretty damn well.

speckyboy[^]:

While my reasons are hardly rare, there are also many more that drive people into freelancing. I will try to present a summary of the main reasons that motivate a person to become a freelancer.

Patexia[^]:

Google’s come up with its solution for Dropbox: If you can’t buy ‘em, copy ‘em. The search engine and online advertising giant replaced its popular Google Docs service with Google Drive, a cloud computing storage service designed to directly compete with start up Dropbox. This raises the question, has Google become the new Microsoft?

InfoWorld[^]:

Embattled by hactivists, cyber criminals and foreign rivals seeking to steal proprietary information, U.S. corporations are ramping up their hiring of cyber security experts, with open jobs reaching an all-time high in April.

GigaOm[^]:

Software, Marc Andreessen declared last summer, is eating the world. In the pages of the WSJ, the Netscape co-founder reeled off a list of industries that were once about something else and are now are dominated by software, from Amazon in the bookselling space to Skype in telecoms and Netflix in video. That’s good news for the American economy, he argued, but it also seems to be really good news for Atlassian.

CIO[^]:

Unlike other Windows 8 products, Windows RT steps away from the Windows legacy code base—which means there's no legacy interface, either—and is largely focused on tablets and devices like them. Like Apple iOS and Google Android, Windows RT users will add applications largely through app stores. However, Windows RT devices are designed to be centrally managed; IT departments can deploy network access controls to keep tabs on user behavior.

The Codist[^]:

Programming is not about writing lines of code, it's about completing projects or shipping applications or whatever you do and generally working in a team. None of that is evident in any kind of interview test or whiteboard session.

News.com[^]:

Researchers at Disney and Carnegie Mellon develop Touche, an interface system where multiple gestures can be added to existing touch screens and other objects, including "smart doorknobs."

Dodgy Coder[^]:

Microsoft started development on the .NET Framework in the late 1990s, originally under the name of "Next Generation Windows Services" (NGWS).

So why did Microsoft choose the name .NET?

Science Now[^]:

Scientists face many obstacles on the path to greater knowledge. But new research suggests how to avoid one of the more common pitfalls: spilled coffee.

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.