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Seems you are the victim of either a copy/paste error or resposting yourself. 
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Thanks for the heads up. Pasting error. Fixed now.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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You know me. I'll complain about anything.
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Would you complain about free BACON for life?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Yes, because it's not free beer and BACON for life.
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An increasing number of web development tools are now coming out that are themselves written in web development languages. In fact any project that needs a highly mutable or modifiable UI is a good candidate for being written in web languages. Here are a few of the latest web-based web development tools. Marked up for markup.
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Have you ever peeked into the source code of any of the applications you run every day? Ever used make install to install some application? You will see make in most projects. It enables developers to easily compile large and complex programs with many components. It’s also used for writing maintenance scripts based on timestamps. This article shows you how to have fun with make. Good, old-school, command-line builds.
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An illustrated collection of (sometimes violent) fables, concerning the Art and Philosophy of software development. What is the sound of one bit flipping?
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What is all this fuss about the Higgs boson? The physics community is abuzz that a fundamental particle expected by the largely successful Standard Model of particle physics may soon be found by the huge Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Europe. Here's an explanation for the non-physicist. Tiny explosions that reveal the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
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It's turned into science's worst-kept secret. Tomorrow, physicists at CERN near Geneva in Switzerland are expected to announce the discovery of the Higgs boson, the culmination of a 50-year quest to find the elusive particle that gives others their mass. Here's how they got there. It's the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine.
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Analyzing one of American corporate history’s greatest mysteries—the lost decade of Microsoft, Kurt Eichenwald traces the “astonishingly foolish management decisions” at the company that “could serve as a business-school case study on the pitfalls of success.” Relying on dozens of interviews and internal corporate records—including e-mails between executives at the company’s highest ranks—Eichenwald offers an unprecedented view of life inside Microsoft during the reign of its current chief executive, Steve Ballmer. They used to point their finger at IBM and laugh.
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I really think people are dancing on MS's grave prematurely. Ok, I predict Windows 8 will be an unmitigated disaster for desktop users (especially for business, where it will never gain traction), but they are still profitable. Very profitable, in fact.
They've done something seriously right with the Xbox 360 (once they stopped melting), and I boldly predict, based on almost nothing, that their new tablet will soundly beat Android Tablets, which have never been able to get their act together. MS was never in the position to do what Google did, or what Apple did, and I wish people would stop acting like they should be where those other companies are. Google exploded onto the scene at the right time, and Apple is just a freak of nature at this point.
Look at me still talking when there's science to do
When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
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I’ve been scratching my head lately regarding management, and what is it good for. Wherever you go you’ll find bad managers. Actually, bad or good is not the correct term here – it’s effectiveness. Have managers every made your life as a coder easier - or worse?
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The open data movement is a hammer which has gathered the support of many nails. There are the curious taxpayers, who feel their annual checks mean they deserve a peek at the interesting facts the government has collected. There are the ambitious business owners, who see an opportunity to privatize profits from work with socialized costs. And there are the self-styled activists, who believe that if we reveal the data on what the government is really doing, we will arrest corruption by exposing it to sunlight. It’s always been investigative journalism, not data mining, that’s revealed the big scandals about politicians.
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In a decision that could have widespread implications, Europe's highest court ruled on Tuesday that the trading of "used" software licenses is legal and that the author of such software cannot oppose any resale. [ITworld]
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Does that mean games purchased over Steam and Origin can be sold, and used online keys can be transferred between accounts on Xbox LIVE and PSN?
the judgement on UsedSoft case
modified 4-Jul-12 4:31am.
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California's State Assembly advanced a bill on Monday that aims to establish rules and regulations covering the safe operation of driverless cars on the state's highways. [ITworld]
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atbennett wrote: Driverless cars move closer in California
Not too close I hope, I don't want to get run over...
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This tech is great and I can't wait for it. The problem, though, will be the lawyers. Who are they going to sue when there is an issue? Who is liable? The "driver" who is designated as the responsible party but who we all know is going to be asleep? The company who put out buggy code that didn't account for a leap second? Even if there is clear language in place as to who is responsible, you know lawyers are going to find a way to blame everyone, especially in California where they will get the backing of the legal system.
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Microsoft removed the Start button from Windows 8's Consumer Preview version earlier this year, generating a lot of discussion and mixed reaction over a user interface element that was first introduced in Windows over 15 years ago. In an interview with PC Pro, the company has revealed that telemetry data was a big part of the decision to scrap the Start button and traditional Start menu in Windows 8.
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A hot corner has replaced the Start button orb in the lower left of the screen, while hot corners on the right-hand side reveal a new charms menu that includes a Windows button to navigate to the Start Screen.
Oh, that's just lovely. My main desktop is my central monitor, with a monitor on the left, and one on the right. Which of course will mean I will either have to move the mouse across potentially two monitors depending on which "corner" I want, or, worse, have to precisely navigate the mouse to the hotspot on the central monitor. Either way, it sounds like yet another "nobody really thinks" scenarios of bad UI design. Weren't invisible hotspots thrown out years ago? 
Farhan Ghumra wrote: has revealed that telemetry data
WTF. "telemetry data"? As in, "user feedback?" What am I, I f***ing machine?
Marc
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I think the "telemetry data" is more "what is Apple doing", rather than what are the users doing. I'm a fan of Microsoft (don't hate me), but they seem to think innovation is doing what Apple did years ago in a slightly crappier way. Apps that use the full screen as a revolutionary new interface? Yeah, I have that already on my Mac. Hot corners to perform actions? Yeah, I've got that on my Mac (and I can select what they do and which corner they use). $40 upgrade price? Mountain Lion will cost $20 and I can use it to upgrade all of my machines for that one cost.
Despite all of this, I really am hoping Microsoft pulls off some of these changes. I think Windows 9 (yeah, not a typo) will probably be a good OS if they do.
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Tim Corey wrote: I think the "telemetry data" is more "what is Apple doing"
Really not fair. Apple was "what Steve said" (and that worked well, in a way). In comparison, Microsoft does a lot of UI testing and feedback analysis. (they even have a blog that I can't find anymore  )
Certainly, there are some major blunders: they ignored how polarizing Ribbons would be (and that they aren't the only solution to their problem), or the grey-in-grey all-caps-title Visual Studio. But you have to look at it this way: If no one notices, they did their job perfectly.
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