The Insider News

ZDNet[^]:

The Internet giant's latest cloud developments point toward a stronger focus on serving organizations with a global footprint.

Dr. Dobb's[^]:

Despite years of refinement, Agile development still does not include architecture and design.

Mike Grim[^]:

IKVM.NET is an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Techcrunch[^]:

Last summer, an article on Fast Company asked an important question related to the increasingly popular picture-based character set called emoji, now found on the majority of modern smartphones: Are emoji racist?

Ars Technica[^]:

EFF experts find only a handful of apps that meet basic security standards.

Venturebeat[^]:

Google today introduced a new tool for testing network traffic security called Nogotofail. The company has released it as an open source project available on GitHub, meaning anyone can use it, contribute new features, provide support for more platforms, and do anything else with the end goal of helping to improve the security of the Internet.

Gigaom[^]:

With Dynomite, Netflix claims it can cut down on performance issues and better handle traffic spikes.

WinBeta[^]:

Microsoft and Dropbox have announced a public partnership, which will be mutually beneficial for both companies and very beneficial for their shared customers.

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In the end it boils down to this: as a programmer your goal is to construct the simplest possible semantic model that would solve your problem. Translate that semantic model as closely as possible into a syntactic model (code) and provide as many clues as possible so that whomever* looks at your code after you can re-create the same semantic model you originally had in mind.