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What are you looking forward to in the next update to Windows 8?

The Start button is just the start of it.

Step 2: make sure optimization errors do not accidentally cause zombie apocolypse.

Know Thy Complexities!

To be ORM not to be? That is the query.

Are your skills still relevant? How do you keep up to date?

Behind The Hot Water Pipes, Third Washroom Along, Victoria Station.

A titan of an author who has written 35 articles and won 19 competitions on CodeProject.

Math versus programming - what's your interpretation?

Oh, that's great, blame it on the little guy. How original.

I guess last year was the year of the Linux desktop... and we missed it.

Ubiquitous computing and the costs of constant surveillance.

A bitter jest, when the satire comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind.

Is this what the Surface of the future looks like?

You can argue that Haskell is the illegitimate child of LISP and Prolog.

Play the game, or grab the code and build your own version.

But, for my own part, it was printf to me...

If at first you don't succeed, build one yourself.

Why not use null values in the database?

I always show extensions. What do you do?

"Although the branding is 'Android Studio' and the software comes directly from Google's servers, most Java developers will immediately recognize the toolkit as a version of IntelliJ IDEA, the IDE from JetBrains with a fanatical following." Here's an inside look at the new Android developer stack.

As someone who does work on both the development and design side of iOS apps I find that many designers struggle with the transition to UI work, or with the different processes involved in iPhone and iPad app design. In this guide I'll describe the deliverables you'll be expected to produce, outline the constraints of the medium and introduce fundamental iOS and UI design concepts.

There are many variables when you get down to testing your mobile apps on actual devices, particularly with Android. Which collection of supported networks, OS versions and hardware capabilities do you need? Stephanie Rieger provides some thorough advice for cutting through the confusing and focusing on the devices that count.

The Mono-based development tools from Xamarin are crucial tools for coding cross-platform applications in C#, making it really simple to target Android, iOS and Windows Phone from a signle codebase. But setting up the environment has a few gotchas. Pascal Arnould walks you through the process.