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The History of Enterprise Software (source: IT History Society)
From punch cards to the Googleplex.
"Software Advice has published a four-part series on the history of enterprise software that investigates how hardware and software evolved from punched cards all the way to the Internet and social applications."
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Introducing Windows 8 Consumer Preview (source: Windows Experience Blog)
A reimagined Windows for tomorrow's devices.
"The Windows 8 Consumer Preview, available to download now for anyone interested in trying it out. It’s designed to work on a wide range of devices , from touch-enabled tablets, to laptops, to desktops and all-in-ones."
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Windows Consumer Preview: The Fifth IE10 Platform Preview (source: IEBlog)
IE 10: one HTML5 browsing engine that powers two different browsing experiences.
"With IE10 in Windows 8, we reimagined the browser. We designed and built IE10 to be the best way to experience the Web on Windows. Here's what you'll see in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview."
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview: One Step Closer to the PC’s Future (source: TIME)
Here's what you can expect when you boot up Windows 8.
"One glance at the operating-system upgrade – heavily influenced by the company’s inventive Windows Phone – was enough to tell you that it was the most radically new version of Windows since Windows 1.0."
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Here's what I'm going to do................
Absolutely nothing. Don't know what all the fuss is about!
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Why Is There a Leap Year? (source: Wired)
If your SLA is 24/7/365, you just got a day off.
"Really, the question should be: why aren’t there even more leap years? Let me start with the basics."
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Good question.
365 days per year is not exact but it will be approximatly 365.25 days in a year. The 0.25 days means that after 4 years, we need to add a day to the year.
Due to this we are getting the leap year for every 4 years. But here is another calculation. 2000 is a leap year and 1900 and 2100 are not whay?.
Please see the folloing link for the answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/28/opinion/mobile-frankenstein-keen/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6[^]
I left the house for a 5 minute excursion without my phone the other day. I felt this overwhelming compulsion to go back and get my phone...I did. However, before cell phones became standard issue, this was not an issue.
We have made mobile phones a "can't live without" technology in our lives.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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Plain Old JavaScript (source: Ode to Code)
Frameworks have always been a part of JavaScript programming, but they grow more intrusive all the time.
"Once upon a time there was a pure JavaScript model. The model sang songs about simplicity in a land full of complexity and confusion. Then framework dragons descended on the land, enslaving inhabitants and ravaging models."
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Someone Save Us From REST (source: Rob Conery)
We will consume ourselves slowly into RESTful madness.
"REST is a fascinating and illuminating set of ideas and, as it turns out, is a handy guideline for effectively preparing an API. And you're probably doing it wrong. So let's argue about it."
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Network App Macroeconomics (source: Tim Bray)
The category of “things you can do on a PC but not a tablet” is interesting.
"There was a time when any piece of work you could offload from server to client was a win. It might still be; you can’t run an XSLT transform on a phone. It will be interesting to see how this plays out as mobile devices mature."
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The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks (source: caines.ca/blog)
Rails-style MVC frameworks are both too much, and not enough at the same time.
"Rails-style MVC frameworks on the server-side are going to be being phased out in favour of leaner and meaner frameworks that better address the new needs of thick-client architecture. Here's why."
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15 Key Resources to Learn Django (source: Yipit Django Blog)
Learning Python and Django is easy if you have the right resources at your fingertips.
"These fifteen resources really got me going with Django. And while I’m no Django pro just yet, I still think how amazing it is that I picked up so much knowledge in just a short span of time."
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Microsoft's next Steve: Windows boss faces biggest test (source: Reuters)
Resistance is futile. You will be Sinofsky-ized.
"For Steven Sinofsky, the stern but creative engineering manager who runs Microsoft Corp's flagship Windows division, the public test release of the Windows 8 is showtime. Is he ready to take on the whole company?"
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IBM: We're on the cusp of the Quantum Computing revolution (source: Engadget)
"Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer..."
"Technology's holy grail is the development of a "perfect" Quantum Computer. IBM thinks it's closer than ever to realizing this dream. Here's what they're doing."
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I wonder if there is a type of encryption in use now that a capable quantum computer couldn't break in a short amount of time.
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Add-ons behaving badly: the challenges of policing the Firefox ecosystem (source: Ars Technica)
It slices, it dices... and it may add unwanted toolbars to your browser.
"Firefox's powerful add-on system is arguably one of the browser's best features, but making sure that third-party code doesn't degrade the quality of the Firefox user experience is a major challenge."
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UX and internal complexity (source: epicBagel)
The minimal viable product needs a minimal viable implementation.
"Complexity cannot simply be expressed by feature creep. It can still exist within a minimal viable product. We need to think about the complexity of the features themselves."
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Learning coding from boredom (source: bitquabit)
Programmers like to program because they can do cool things, or because they can solve problems.
"I learned a fair amount of programming to finish my math homework, and my calculator programs were the most exciting to me because I was really using them. Being bored by math helped me learn to love programming."
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When in high school, I couldn't afford a calculator right away (had to save a summer of allowance for that), so I often used QuickBasic to do graphing and such for my math homework.
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Visual Studio, you're doing it wrong (source: Jb in a nutshell)
How Microsoft is failing developers with Visual Studio 11.
"Microsoft should invest in making Visual Studio a great platform for the .NET programmer, exposing real managed APIs and letting us plug into as many features as possible. Here's what they're doing instead, and why it infuriates me."
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Why HTML5 is not the choice for enterprise mobility (source: .net magazine)
The future may be an HTML5 one, but right now it’s not the panacea for mobile development.
"HTML5 offers some real advantages in the consumer space and for tools such as social media and video. But is it mature enough for business applications? Let's look at the issues."
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