Is Chrome taking FireFox to the cleaners?

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.

People pessimistic about the world economy can take heart from the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at Las Vegas, Nevada. Not only was the largest trade show in the Americas bigger than ever, it also managed to attract a record number of visitors. Over 153,000 footfalls were recorded over four days in January, flocking to stalls spread across 1.86 million square feet, or the equivalent of 32 football fields.

Members of the Cloud Standards CustomerCouncil (CSCC) have formed a new Security working group and are soliciting participation. The Security working group will be led by David E. Harris, Ph.D., Sr. Regulatory Compliance Architect, Boeing, and Ryan Kean, Director, Enterprise Platform Technical Services, The Kroger Co.

A panel of successful entrepreneurs are continuing to answer your questions on setting up and running small companies. Their latest answers are below.

It seems like some NoSQL vendors have been moving back towards SQL-like interfaces, which is just what this writer has a problem with. He discusses the problems that arise when these worlds collide, and calls for "a real language for unstructured data," rather than resorting to those like XQuery. There is an interesting list of suggestions for what such a language should include.

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.

Google’s Drive is a response to internet connected mobile computing devices. However, it can soon also turn out to be the major secret weapon for their Chrome OS.

Bloomberg’s BLPAPI will soon go completely open source. “We are essentially taking the programming interface that we use extensively already and we are putting an MIT-style license around it,” said Shawn Edwards, Bloomberg LP’s chief technology officer.”

There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.

Over the past months I’ve talked to several companies that run a symfony 1 codebase, sometimes as old as symfony 1.0, which is big, very big. Often these applications or websites are at the heart of their business. Yet, Symfony2 is stable now, and symfony 1 support is going to stop at some point. Regularly, they ask me for advice on migrating their legacy codebase to a brand new Symfony2 project.

Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey