Search Needs to Help Disprove Patent Trolls
There’s not really a setting in a search engine to make a disproving search versus a finding search. If there was, then many patent... more »
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Don't Fear Android, Just Know The Issues
Lots of front-page bad news about Android malware, but instead of giving into FUD, educate yourself and more importantly educate your... more »
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CSS Vendor Prefixes - YOU NEED TO ACT NOW!
The CSS working group is seriously considering implementing the non-standard feature of -webkit as a part of the CSS specification,... more »
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The Big Data Era
A blog comment on a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece which appeared Jan 30, 2012.
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Open Source Still The Biggest Enterprise Software Threat
Cloud is not the biggest threat to enterprise software companies like Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT) and SAP (SAP). It's open... more »
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Where in the world do we find the highest number of secure websites per person?
In 2010, there were just over 1 million secure Internet websites worldwide. Almost half of those, or 446,992 to be exact, were located in... more »
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Learning JavaScript
One of my goals this year is to acquire new skills, so I've decided to start by learning JavaScript. As was the case when I learned HTML... more »
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Transforming User Productivity Thanks to the Cloud
Check out this post for some insightful, historical reflection on changes in personal and workplace computing. You can also check it out... more »
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What's the best Platform-as-a-Service?
Although we will see more players emerge in the space, not all of them will be winners. That said, to answer the question in the title of... more »
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Five open source hardware projects that could change the world
RepRap, Arduino, Opencores are just some of the projects that might change the very way you have been thinking about using hardware.
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Fowler's indo deck on NoSQL (PDF)
Pramod and I have put together a short infodeck (pdf) outlining the reasons why NoSQL databases are an important new dish on the software... more »
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Is Desktop Linux Becoming Fractured as Open Source Matures?
With Gnome, KDE, Unity, Cinnamon, and MATE out there the Linux desktop faces a unique challenge. Will it be a shock for users accustomed... more »
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Developer Productivity Report – Part 2: Developer Stress
In Part 2 of our ongoing survey on what makes developers tick(hint: it would rock more if you added your experiences too!), we take a... more »
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QA / Code reviews in the 21st Century
Developers can bicker over silly little things, offend each other and occasionally catch a bug that probably would have being caught in... more »
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The History of Node.js
A few points from the video: Ryan was working on a math PhD (Algebraic Topology), dropped out and moved to South America with no... more »
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The Problems with Unit Testing Frameworks
“Staying healthy requires best practices such as eating right and working out. Similarly, development teams need the right practices in... more »
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Polyglot Persistence: The Future of NoSQL
Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage have s recently released a slick infodeck tracing a simple history of databases, as well as a prophecy... more »
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DevOps: Adapt or Die
It's a very cool time for developers, and it can be a great time for sysadmins too if they embrace the changes that are coming. Learn... more »
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Findability is So Last Year
Search is more than just findability. So why the fixation with findability? Out of 104 enterprise search scenarios, less than 2% were... more »
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Suffering-oriented programming
Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: "How did you justify taking such a huge risk on building Storm while working on a... more »
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What it really means when someone says ‘Hadoop’
Big data is among the hottest trends in IT right now, and Hadoop stands front and center in the discussion of how to implement a big data... more »
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Data Grid or NoSQL ? same, same but different…
For three years now, NoSQL as a piece of technologies for Big Data has spread over the world and is challenging the centralized world of... more »
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Poll: Which PHP Framework do you use?
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German PHP Magazine asks the developing community, which PHP Framework they use for their everyday work. Besides several popular ones,... more »
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Are PaaS and "NoOps" Inevitable for Most Software Companies?
Is PaaS an inevitability for your organization? A recent infographic makes its case for 2013 being the year PaaS and "NoOps" goes... more »
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It's Browser Version Madness!
If current trends persist, on Feb. 5, 2019, Mozilla will release version 71.0 of Firefox, matching the then-current major version of... more »
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