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For Web apps, performance remains an uphill battle

July 02, 2009
Despite browser improvements, network bottlenecks and scripting problems plague cloud-based applications
4 comments|
62 Recommendations
application performance, Web advertising, Web optimization
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Does the 'hacker ethic' help or harm today's developers?

June 29, 2009
Programmers emphasize independence and entrepreneurship over business processes, development methodologies, and best practices -- to their detriment
9 comments|
117 Recommendations
education
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Opera Unite: The real plan is to put software in control again

June 18, 2009
Online services are disintermediating traditional apps. Opera hopes to use social networking as a Trojan horse to put traditional apps back in charge
3 comments|
293 Recommendations
Opera, Opera Unite, social networking
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How to choose a mobile development platform

June 11, 2009
Smartphone app dev is exploding, leaving developers confronted with a plethora of choices. Here are some tips to help you make the most of your mobile apps
3 comments|
396 Recommendations
BlackBerry, iPhone, mobile SDKs, Palm, Symbian, Windows Mobile
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Java Store: Does it finally enable the Java platform promise?

June 03, 2009
Sun's new software store is an idea whose time has come, and one that sends Java hurtling head-to-head with Windows
1 comment|
489 Recommendations
Java, JavaOne 2009, Sun Microsystems
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Mozilla Jetpack and the battle for the Web

May 28, 2009
An experimental Firefox plug-in makes it easy to filter, modify, and mash up pages (and everything else Web content providers don't want you to do)
2 comments|
609 Recommendations
Firefox, Jetpack, mashups, media, Mozilla
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MySQL: Forked beyond repair?

May 21, 2009
Amid misgivings over past mismanagement, the MySQL community is fragmenting. If Oracle can't pull it together, Monty Widenius just might do it himself.
8 comments|
701 Recommendations
Drizzle, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, Sun Microsystems
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Is Apple barking up the wrong tree with Grand Central?

May 14, 2009
Vendors are scrambling to provide developer tools to support multicore CPUs, but customer demand is heading in the other direction
5 comments|
784 Recommendations
Apple, concurrency, Grand Central Dispatch, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, parallel computing
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Automatic updates: There has to be a better way

May 07, 2009
Pushing security patches to users automatically is the fastest way to fix vulnerabilities, but it's easy to go too far -- as Microsoft has shown
5 comments|
894 Recommendations
Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer (IE), Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), Microsoft, security updates
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We need more polyglot programmers

April 30, 2009
Too many developers limit themselves to C++ and Java, in spite of the wealth of exciting new options
16 comments|
987 Recommendations
.Net, Axum, CLR, Groovy, Java, Microsoft, Scala, Twitter
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