Top 7 dilemmas facing today's developers

Top 7 dilemmas facing today's developers

Platforms, databases, user control -- programming quandaries take hold before the first line of code

The two sides of an IT admin: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Few professions have the propensity to go from normal to obscene as rapidly and thoroughly as IT does...  more

Windows 8's new UI: A return to Flatland

In an amazing reversal, Microsoft intends to remove all vestiges of Vista's 'dated and cheesy' Aero interface in favor of a flat look... more

A new dawn for cloud computing

With HP and Microsoft poised to sell cloud computing by the pound, competition to lock in both public and private cloud customers begins in earnest... more

GitHub embraces Windows developers

Graphical client offered so that Windows app builders don't have to use a command line interface with GitHub... more

What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games

Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones... more

iSCSI storage networking: What you need to know

As simple as iSCSI is to get running, configuring it to perform optimally requires a solid knowledge of how it actually works ... more

Microsoft's Visual Studio 11 lineup adds Windows Phone, Azure tools

Company claims system requirements will be the same as those of Visual Studio 2010 despite performance increases... more

Notes from the Field by Robert X. Cringely

The 7 words you can't say on iTunes

Apple thinks 'jailbreak' is one of them, but this bit of censorship hides a bigger obscenity: The... more

Open Sources by Simon Phipps

What's next after GPL and Apache?

The trend for commercial open source licensing could be back toward the center, either to MPLv2 or... more

Smart User by Galen Gruman

WWDC sneak peek: Don't let iOS 6 blind you to the real action in iCloud

Apple has launched many cloud services in the last... more

Cloud Computing by David Linthicum

Big data in the cloud: It's time to experiment

Big data is not data warehousing or BI, so there are no proven paths --which is why you need data... more

Security Adviser by Roger A. Grimes

The firestorm over firewalls

Two days ago I declared that it was time to deep-six the firewall; the rebuttals were fast and... more

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