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The Awl[^]:

In Spielberg's future, you only have to twirl your fingers at a computer screen to make it do what you want. It looks cool enough, but it's time for us to let it go: we’ve built our graphics and our electronics around interface eye candy, rather than trying to come up with new and more effective ways to control our real and imaginary gadgets. The best thing you can say about touchscreens are they look good on camera and they’re better than T9 texting, which is kind of like being better than fax machines.

Nettuts+[^]:

If you’ve ever been to a code-focused conference before, you can surely attest to the fact that the number of live-coding talks is incredibly low. The reason why is obvious: they’re super, super hard! Imagine coding on stage in front of hundreds of people, when, all of the sudden, something goes wrong, and your code breaks! In real life, a few minutes of debugging is a non-issue. On stage, even a single moment of silence is a speaker’s nightmare.

Quote: ZDNet[^]

Adobe Systems has released yet another emergency security update addressing three vulnerabilities in Flash, two of which have already been exploited by hackers.

.NET Answers[^]:

Anyone familiar with CSS knows that classes are generally reserved for controlling how an element looks (font, color, size, etc) and rules are generally reserved for where the element is positioned on the screen. The reason for this is that rules correspond to the id attribute of the elements on the screen and if you are using well formed html, you can only have one element on the page with any specific ID. That is, IDs are unique. However, ASP.NET uses that exact same feature of IDs… that they are unique.. to ensure that an ASP.NET control or an HTML control with the runat=”server” attribute set also have unique IDs, and this is where all the problems start...

Blankenblog[^]:

Today, I finally got my first Windows 8 app into the marketplace. It was certainly not for a lack of trying, however. I actually failed my first FIVE attempts, but I chalk most of that up to inexperience more than anything else. This post is meant to shed some light on the issues I faced, so that you might be lucky enough to avoid them.

NCZOnline[^]:

Annual reviews are a reminder that your reputation matters. For most of the year, software engineers don’t care at all what anybody else thinks as long as they’re getting the job done. Then annual reviews come along and we realize we might have rubbed some people the wrong way.... What makes it more difficult for software engineers is that we deal so much with code that we sometimes forget how important it is to deal with people.