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"Keep on the sunny side of life"

"Thinking ahead for the 80s!"

"Everyone's rockin, it's good news"

"We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."

I predict a number of companies will be upgrading to small screen machines soon

Retired Technology

Finally you'll be able to answer the question, "What's the airspeed velocity of an operating laptop?"

When in doubt, rename. That will fix it.

I forget when this applies though

"Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been… is over. From this time forward, you will service… us."

Fingers crossed for Marquee to make its comeback!

I think I've seen this movie before

Missed the bullseye. Try again.

Something to remember the next time you complain that your laptop is too heavy

Alpha Anywhere, AnyPresence, and Salesforce1 lead a rich field of low-code mobile development tools.

Mobile apps can do strange things when networks are slow, and if you want to deploy your app to a global market, knowing how it’ll react when your users are on a slow network connection is pretty important. To test its own apps, Facebook developed Augmented Traffic Control in 2013 and deployed it internally to test its apps on slow connections. Today, it is open-sourcing this effort.

IBM/Ponemon study finds 50% of companies devote no budget to security development. I'm guessing they have a suggestion or three to sell you.

This post reviews four strategies for Android UI testing with the goal of creating UI tests that are fast, reliable, and easy to debug.

Google just released a new security feature that locks your smartphone automatically when you put it down.

Like the websites on the internet, hybrid mobile apps are built with a combination of web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The key difference is that hybrid apps are hosted inside a native application that utilizes a mobile platform’s WebView.

Sprite Kit is Apple's 2D game engine that was introduced along with iOS 7. With the introduction of the Swift programming language in 2014, there has never been a better time to be a game developer for iOS.

"You are a plague and we are the cure."

If only we had some people that we could trust to create and distribute certificates

The next version of Windows might be interesting after all!