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Almost since Tim Berners-Lee first came up with the original concept of the web, there’s been a new, improved version on the horizon: the much-promised Semantic Web. This, goes the thinking, is a way to make the online world more useful by categorizing everything on a page with a layer of extra information — data that can tell your browser that one particular series of numbers is a date, say, while another is a price. This, in turn, allows your computer to understand more about the information it processes, theoretically making it easier to identify events on the date you’re looking for, or items at the price you’ve chosen. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
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Redmond may be ready to launch its latest upgrade program, via which those purchasing Windows 7 PCs this summer will get a coupon to move to Windows 8 once it is available. Clip your coupons and save big
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Cisco Systems has surveyed more than 1,300 IT professionals to determine the top priorities and challenges they face when migrating applications and information to the cloud. Guess what? It's harder, and it takes longer than many thought. I don't understand, the commercials make it look so easy!
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...and bears' sanitary habits associated with woodlands.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Over the coming weeks, we will be introducing a brand new way to search designed to help you take action and interact with friends and experts without compromising the core search experience. This ain't your grandma's search box
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Just announced today, so I'm assuming not.
Of course, we all know what happens when you assume...
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TTFN - Kent
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"people should expect more from a search engine."
But I want less; just give me what I asked for and don't go thinking I may not have meant what I said.
"people tell us they expect to get something done when they type into a search box."
But if you can't do what I asked, don't do something you think might be just as good.
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Microsoft’s Visual Basic programming language lets Excel users customize their spreadsheets in all kinds of time-saving ways, but few people take advantage of it. Although designed to be intuitive and easy to use, Visual Basic can still be daunting to users with no previous programming experience. No really. It's not what you think, it's pretty neat. Take a look.
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Windows 8 is coming in the near future. You can download, use it, and develop apps for it today. As of May 2012, the Windows Store is not open for everyone to deploy. However, we are looking for the first wave of great applications which highlight the power of Metro and Windows 8, especially from developers who want to get to market first and build their brand. The line starts here
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In a combined salvo from Mozilla and Google, MS is being bashed for not allowing other browsers access to the same APIs that it's allowing IE to use. Source[^].
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Thanks -- using this in tomorrow's newsletter.
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TTFN - Kent
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A NASA infrared telescope spotted light from the alien planet 55 Cancri e, which orbits a star 41 light-years from Earth. Should we send along a band-aid?
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Lea Verou takes a look at some of the misconceptions of web standards, what the W3C and its working groups actually do and how the standardisation process works. We love standards, that's why we have so many
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The game is afoot in business, as more and more organizations integrate game mechanics into their internally and externally facing applications and processes. The market for gamification is expected to grow significantly in the next few years. But why gaming? Why now? I just got my Level 10 compiler badge!
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HTML could set mobile users free from being locked into a specific smartphone operating system, Gary Kovacs says at the CTIA trade show. If you ignore issues with connectivity, performance, and working in a funky interpreted language.
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The cloud storage scene has heated up recently, with a long-awaited entry by Google and a revamped SkyDrive from Microsoft. Dropbox has gone unchallenged by the major players for a long time, but that’s changed – both Google and Microsoft are now challenging Dropbox on its own turf, and all three services have their own compelling features. One thing’s for sure – Dropbox is no longer the one-size-fits-all solution. Why not store your Dropbox in your SkyDrive?
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Last September, during the f8 Developers’ Conference, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said that the company had no plans for a “central app repository” – an app store. Today, Facebook is changing its tune. The social giant has announced App Center, a section of Facebook dedicated to discovering and deploying high-quality apps on the company’s platform. The App Center will push apps to iPhone, Android and the mobile Web, giving Facebook its first true store for mobile app discovery. Face-what? Is that anything like The Google?
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Microsoft just released seven security updates to fix 23 vulnerabilities in Windows and other products. In February, Apple released a massive update that covered 51 vulnerabilities and also introduced an embarrassing security flaw. The contrast is striking. Put it in a shiny silver case? Oh wait, that's the other way around.
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H9RBS.js (v0.0001) is a flexible, dependency-free, lightweight, device-agnostic, modular, baked-in, component framework MVC library shoelacestrap to help you kickstart your responsive CSS-based app architecture backbone kitchensink tweetybirds. Be the future!
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Amazon announced new managed database services and Elastic Beanstalk support targeting thousands upon thousands of Microsoft-centric developers. To the Cloud!
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Sadly, I can't give Amazon Cloud my money. They handled the Wikileaks situation very poorly (they dropped support for Wikileaks). Particularly interesting is this, in which Amazon says "it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted". Evidently they didn't do their homework, as Wikileaks was incrementally releasing the documents, not all 250,000 at once (though, much later after Amazon dropped Wikileaks support, the rest of the documents were released in unredacted form due to human error).
Azure has not yet screwed over anything I care about yet, so I'm sticking with them.
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I hear you: the WikiLeaks saga was full of cowardice and cheap moves by a lot of companies. Not sure if it matters to you (as it does to me), but Microsoft is still supporting the Heartland Institute[^].
Of course, I'm still cowardly enough to keep doing work for MSFT, so I guess it doesn't bug me that much. Not sure what my point is... Time to go home.
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TTFN - Kent
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Indeed. It would be hard for me to boycott Microsoft. And I have reason to, considering their support of CISPA. However, when pretty much every company has a reason for me to boycott them, it becomes hard for me to find alternatives. Instead, I just choose the biggest offenders to boycott.
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