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Why-oh-why didn't I put in for .GIN...
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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I'm surprised more people didn't apply for ".sex" honestly. It's also lacking in common file extensions, just to mess with people (e.g. ".jpeg").
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Interesting bit of news. 
Apple has applied for .Apple, and Intel for .Intel.
Microsoft has applied for:
- .Azure
- .Bing
- .Docs
- .Hotmail
- .Live
- .Microsoft
- .Office
- .SkyDrive
- .Skype
- .Windows
- .Xbox
Looks like Amazon and a few others want .Cloud.
And I see nobody has yet applied for .Code, .Asp, or .Php, though Oracle is after .Java.
It looks like Amazon has applied for the highest number... when I do a search, about a 5th or so of them are by Amazon.
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Quote: Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on online purchases made through the firm's site.
Chief executive Ruslan Kogan told the BBC he wanted to recoup the time and costs involved in "rendering the website into a antique browser".
The charge is set to 6.8% - 0.1% for every month since the IE7 launch.
Underscoring the point, a popup appears, declaring:
"It appears you or your system administrator has been in a coma for over 5 years and you are still using IE7"...
Full article here[^]
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We've had a bit more debate on this one over in the lounge.
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:checks time-stamps:
Craaaap! 
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I really didn't want to say repost because it's a completely different forum, and this really is news, but I thought you might be interested in wading in on the debate.
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Well, we can't exactly say we saw this one coming. Microsoft has today taken the wraps off a rather ambitious project dubbed on{X}, which is available exclusively for Android smartphones initially (support for more platforms is planned), and offers a range of tools that promise to help "automate your life." Developed by the company's R&D Center in Israel, the service consists of a website and an app, the former of which lets you select from a variety of scripts (or "recipes," as Microsoft calls them), while the latter executes them on your phone. The kicker is that anyone can create their own recipes and share them with others, and they can take all of the capabilities of a smartphone into account -- performing an action when you arrive at a specific location, for instance, or setting reminders based on the weather forecast (all the actual processing is handled on the phone). Much like Kinect, Microsoft is hoping that folks will take the platform and run with it, developing new features that it hasn't even thought of. Those interested can get started right now at the source link below, or get a taste of the service in the video after the break.
Source : Microsoft on{x}[^]
Official Site[^]
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Interesting choice, targeting Android first.
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lewax00 wrote: Interesting choice, targeting Android first.
For Windows Phone they have TouchDevelop[^].
Kevin
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Funnily enough, I was considering what it would take to write something like this last night after I read a question in the forums. Conceptually, it's very similar to the apps linked to in this[^] post.
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And you need to login only using FB. Crass .. I just uninstalled FB from my Galaxy S3 
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Want to see Google manhole, click here[^]
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As yet another mini-pc, hardware hacker, prototyping, what-ever you want to call it appears, this one can take Arduino Shields.........
Source: Engadget: rascal-micro-hands-on-video/[^]
but, I am still waiting for my Raspberry PI
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Samples are the primary way that we as developers learn to develop applications for a new platform. We use samples as a starting point to learn about new APIs, we reference them when we hit bugs in our own code and need a comparison, and we share them for others to learn from our discoveries. If a picture is worth a thousand words then a sample is worth thousand pages of documentation. Where have samples been hiding all this time?
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An experienced project manager I used to work with claimed that he took the programmers’ time estimates, multiplied by pi and converted to the next time magnitude to get the true number. To get a more precise conversion, I’ve created a translation table for programmers’ time estimations, trying to narrow down where things go wrong. It’s really quite a lot to code...
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I tell them to add six months.
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I figure out how much time it will take me to code something, multiply that by 3 and tell my programmers that is how much time they have.
They are quite happy with that.
PS. I used to be a fast coder and also fast at figuring out design/architecture issues.
PPS. A real cowboy! 
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In programming circles, there’s been a steady emphasis on platforms that support Ruby, Python and Node.js - and not as much attention paid to Microsoft .NET platform providers. That’s a real oversight given the enduring popularity of Microsoft languages. From AppHarbor to Uhuru, something for everyone.
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Previously, you needed a Mac to be able to sign an iOS app and test it on a device. But we’ve now released our remote signing service so you can build and test your iOS apps on Windows or Linux – no Mac in sight. Go where no app has gone before.
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What has changed in the last few years is that web applications start providing more than just dynamically rendered HTML templates. JavaScript is used to run more and more logic on the client side and JS usually talks to some backends via JSON. But web APIs are also more and more used to expose raw data to other software. The challenge though, is that we haven’t changed the way we write web applications to adapt to this new way of providing data. Think about your API, how well does it communicate with your future API users?
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Microsoft's largest annual conference explores Azure, Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012, and Windows 8. Also interesting: higher-profile Linux and Mac interoperability than ever before.
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Avoid vendor support hell with these tips for PC, Mac, smartphone, and tablet. First, is it plugged in? Next, is it turned on?
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