Microsoft's next OS is loaded with features like eight-second boot times and better file management that could make it the best version of Windows since XP--if the company can pull it off.

When planning a client server, this guide will help ensure the RAID version selected best fits the requirements.

You’ve undoubtedly read about the vendor prefix web development drama of the week. If not, the W3C mailing lists have been on fire ever since it was discussed (and essentially announced) that Microsoft, Opera, and Firefox will begin to adopt and style webkit-prefixed properties. One of the reasons behind this decision is that we developers aren’t being responsible when coding our stylesheets; we’re applying too many webkit-specific properties, without considering other browsers.

Perl Data Language (PDL) – the extension that allows Perl to quickly and compactly store and manipulate large N-dimensional arrays – has been updated to version 2.4.10 and adds automatic multi-thread parallelisation support. The multidimensional array capability makes PDL useful to the scientific computing community as a free,

A self-avowed introvert herself, Susan Cain is the author of the recently published book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. Cain says this quality is vastly misunderstood and undervalued. Bill Gates, Craig Newmark, and Mark Zuckerberg would agree: They’re introverts, too.

There’s tons written about the world of startups and even freelancers, but almost nothing written about the world of software development services. The underbelly of the startup world, shops which get hired to do a lot of the dev work.

The strangest thing just happened. I'm sitting here in a hotel in New Zealand and my phone pops up an alert from a push-to-talk voice chat application I recently installed called Voxer. It's a voicemail from a tween (a child perhaps not quite 13 - in-between) teasing me about my name. "Scott Hanselman - Who would name their kid Scott HanselAndGretal man. *giggle*" Harmless stuff, of course, but weird and random. No idea who this is.

When I complain about putting maintainability above creativity and elegance, I do not mean writing a needlessly complex routine to solve a problem. I am talking about situations where companies refuse to let a programmer elegantly and efficiently solve a problem using metaprogramming templates because they're "too hard to maintain".

The path computing has taken wasn't inevitable. Even today's machines rely on a seminal insight from the scientist who cracked Nazi Germany's codes.

If you've got any real world programming experience then no doubt at some point you've had to resort to some quick and dirty fix to get a problem solved or a feature implemented while a deadline loomed large. Game developers often experience a horrific "crunch" (also known as a "death march"), which happens in the last few months of a project leading up to the game's release date. Failing to meet the deadline can often mean the project gets cancelled or even worse, you lose your job. So what sort of tricks do they use while they're under the pump, doing 12+ hour per day for weeks on end?

“If you own an Android 4, there is no question you should download and use Chrome Mobile beta as your primary browser."

A noteworthy 2011 for LoudCloud comprised of new innovative features, rave reviews and client acquisitions that included Grand Canyon University, Career Education Corporation and Jefferson County School District, Colorado, positioned LoudCloud as an emerging leader in providing scalable, adaptable and data-driven instructional innovation solutions to some of the world's leading educational institutions. With the first fully adaptive and configurable platforms, LoudCloud will continue to provide straightway generation solutions and tools that affect positive performance to educators and learners in 2012.

I’m a developer, have been for a long time. I’ve been wrting code for the web for the past decade in my life. I think I might be stuck in a bubble, I look to the web to solve problems that can be solved better in simpler ways. And looking around, I know I am not the only one.

it back, close your eyes, and think about how good you are at coding. Man, you're awesome. When did you learn how to be so awesome? Now just think how awesome you would be if you had learned how to code when you were seven years old.

I’ve noticed a rather interesting thing about best practices and trends in software development, they tend to oscillate from one extreme to another over time. So many of the things that are currently trendy or considered “good” are things that a few years back were considered “bad” and even further back were “good.”

Mistakes in software design aren’t always as easy to spot, but often it comes down to the same thing. To design something you must have at least a basic level of domain knowledge.  That doesn’t means you have to be a world famous chef in order to write a recipe webapp, but you need to make sure you at least know the basics.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have been a part of two winning ideas at Startup Weekend, the first having been built, scrapped, rebuilt and scrapped again only to be built over a weekend by the founder and various teams of developers and designers. The other was an idea I had around improving the wedding website space focussing on beautiful design and simplicity.

I am really excited about the upcoming release and new features of PHP 5.4. I will not be covering the basics of traits or anonymous functions as they are both fairly well documented already. This article is intended for advanced PHP users, but if you have any questions please feel free to contact me or leave a comment.

Global enterprises and growing businesses are harnessing IT to add branch offices, remote sites and enabling mobile users. Simultaneously, they are decreasing the IT administrative footprint, boosting productivity, working with greater efficiency, and improving the bottom line. IT initiatives such as data center consolidation, cloud computing, virtualization, and new application deployments can help meet all of these objectives, but in many cases these projects are major undertakings that consume significant time and resources and are fraught with risk

Gift, jewelry, music, chocolate – everything you can find everything you need to have a perfect Valentine’s Day in the great wild of the open source.

Comparing 10 major points for Jelastic and Heroku. Author is a Jelastic employee.