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Microsoft, which already has a stake in Barnes & Noble’s Nook and college bookstore businesses, is offering to buy them outright for $1 billion, according to a report in TechCrunch, based on leaked internal documents. The documents also reportedly say that Barnes & Noble plans to discontinue its line of Nook tablets by the end of fiscal year 2014, while letting the e-readers stick around for awhile longer. A nook can’t read so a nook can’t cook, SO... a Surface with Nook might be a good hook.
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On May 9, we invite you to participate in Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of the day is to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with different disabilities. The target audience of GAAD is the design, development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund and influence technology and its use. While people may be interested in the topic of making technology accessible and usable by persons with disabilities, the reality is that they often do not know how or where to start. Take an hour out of your day to experience digital accessibility first-hand.
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Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Dave Auld, a CodeProject star that continues to shine brighter. Learn more about our own Dave Auld, whose day job is a bit more adventurous than coding.
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A couple of days ago I wrote about Why I am the world’s greatest lover (and other worthless security claims) and it really seemed to resonate with people. In short, whacking a seal on your website that talks about security awesomeness in no way causes security awesomeness.... So let’s check out exactly what’s going on here and you really need video to understand the fatal flaw in the logic of SSL logos coming down over HTTPS. An SSL logo on an unprotected page is as good as worthless.
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I’ve struggled with the challenge of work/life balance because I’m interested in so many things. I’ve learned to go through life in seasons and focus on a few things at a time, but it hasn’t always been that way. I don’t have it all figured out, but I thought it was worth sharing my thoughts with the hope that it helps someone that is struggling with balance or someone interested in finding out more about what life is like at Microsoft. Sometimes the work is too much. Sometimes the work is too interesting to stop.
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Wish I had more reason for work life balance. Long romantic strolls to the refridgerator just don't make it.
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Jon Gallant wrote: The first thing you need to realize is that Microsoft is like a thousand little companies - each with its own modus operandi which affects how each team looks at work/life balance.
Pretty much that. There are not many things, good or bad, you can say about Microsoft as a whole.
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Today, ECMAScript 6 is in the process of being finalized. ECMAScript is the foundation of JavaScript and, hence, exploring the proposed features today also means that we get a sneak peak at how we will be writing JavaScript in the near future! In this article, we’ll explore ten new features, with a significant focus on tools, browsers and transpilers. Everything you wanted to know about JavaScript... and then some.
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Wow. It’s finally happened. The CSS Zen Garden is 10 years old today. The web has come a long way in the past decade. CSS3, HTML5, responsive web design, web fonts, a version of Internet Explorer that doesn’t make you want to commit seppuku every time you debug, and any other progress that we already take for granted. (You can get a sense of just how far we’ve come by reading the original cringe-worthy requirements.) The CSS Zen garden enlightened me. What about you?
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One of the really powerful features that TypeScript brings to the JavaScript world is some Static Typing, even if it is only at code/compile time. With TypeScript I can say that an object is of a certain type which implies there are only a limited set of properties/methods available to me. This is great, but it does limit the core power of JavaScript and dynamic languages in general.... Long story shot is that even though TypeScript tries to impose Static typing, which is AWESOME in most cases, you can still force it back to dynamic if you want. You say static. I say dynamic. Let's call the whole thing off and write it in C.
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At the 2013 Game Developers’ Conference, Alon and I from Mozilla and Josh Adams from Epic Games presented a talk called “Fast and Awesome HTML5 Games”. We surprised people by showing off Unreal Engine 3 running in Firefox — compiled from C++ source with Emscripten, running smoothly and efficiently. Today, Epic is making the Epic Citadel demo available, so that you can try it out for yourself. That's right: The Unreal engine, compiled to JavaScript, running in your browser.
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Has anyone managed to get it working?
I tried with Firefox 23 nightly like they recommended, but it just hangs with the message "preparing javascript" forever.
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Epic Games Wait
after 15 minutes Firefox 20.0 threw a wobbly.
It looks like the PC hardware used by games developers is a tad more powerful than an average home pc. Seems they need to reign in those expectations a bit.
"How about a nice game of chess?.."
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Worked for me on FF version 20.0.1. Did require an approval for storing data larger than 50MB but otherwise no problems, loaded in about 2 minutes (game controls are horrible though...)
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I certainly gave it more than 2 minutes... maybe it doesn't work with AMD cards
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Fine for me on Chrome + AMD
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Same for me; works fine in Firefox, but not anything else.
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Just fine for me on Chrome
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Earlier this week, Adobe announced that it would be discontinuing the boxed versions of its Creative Suite software.... Microsoft is another company moving in that direction—with Office 2013, the company began offering subscriptions that allow consumers to install the software on multiple PCs while providing extra SkyDrive storage space. However, Microsoft continues to offer boxed, perpetual-license versions of the software as well. Whoever came up with this plan is a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
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Easy way to chase me away from Office. When they go subscription I will almost definatley either stick with the old version, and lets face it, Office XP still works well, although I use either 2007 or 2010. I find that I like 2010 for some things like Outlooks since it automatically makes hyperlinks (However, I hate that Outlook still is basically what was shipped in Office 97 and is crude by modern standards). I still think that Windows XP is an excellent choice for 32 bit systems, but MS has basically discontinued support, and that Visual Studio 2012 does not support it sucks big time, and one of the things about Microsoft that is leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
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XP is only a year from death (which can't come soon enough). Continuing to grumble about lack of support by new MS products is silly.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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IT still has a lot of people using it. It will probably not really die for a long while after that. The thing that will definately kill xp is that the pretty much all the pcs now sold are 64 bit, and it does not support tablets. Also a large number of computer (the small Atom laptops) cannot support anything else. It has more useage than any os other than Win 7, and far more than Vista. Its use is declining sharply, but I suspect that it will level off since there are computers that will not support newer OS's. See http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp[^]. Makes more sense to drop Vista
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Even first generation netbooks can be upgraded to w7. I did it to mine sometime back during the public beta; and swapped out for a release copy a few months later.
Any competent IT that hasn't already left XP behind already should be well into the migration planning process by now. Virtualize a few legacy apps if necessary because they can't be replaced in time (or for embedded systems that need raw hardware access disable everything but the controller software); but once security patches stop XP will become impossible to secure meaning an XP network will be pwnd repeatedly.
If you exclude parts of the world where WarezdozeXP is a major player I expect XP to drop into the low single digits within a year. Stats Counter[^] has a per country breakdown of their os share stats; in the developed world XP's already down to ~10-15% vs 20-30% a year[^] ago.
Lastly, w3schools browser/os share tracker is for general usage by far the worst of the three that're most commonly cited because it only looks at visitors to their site; beyond seeing what webdevs like it's basically worthless. Stats Counter and Net Applications both have access to data from numerous major sites/CDNs. One major difference between the two are that NA weights its data by total internet using population while SC doesn't; because of the sites being tracked have a bias towards western customers this results in NA reporting higher shares for old browser/OSes than SC. A second major difference is(was??) that they differ in how they treat Chrome's downloading linked content in the background to build a local cache; NA added weighting to counterweight chrome downloading lots of pages that aren't ever viewed by end users; at least initially SC didn't.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Interesting, probably the biggest computer user, China (I don't know for sure) is stil lat almost 60% XP.
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You would think that, once we master space exploration and how to replicate the perfect cup of Earl Grey, everyone in the future according to Star Trek would understand the necessity for unique, strong passwords. Unfortunately, you would be wrong. And no, as we’ll see later, biometrics don’t seem to help. I've giv'n her all she's got captain, an' I still need an uppercase letter and symbol.
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