Nov 28, 2011
Summary: Instead of our future start-up companies requiring expensive data centers before we even begin making money, entrepreneurs today can turn to cost-efficient virtual hosts that offer flexibility in a way never conceived before. “In the planning stages, ShareThis, a startup, realized that potential success would mean that it would have to establish a data [...]
Nov 21, 2011
Summary: “.NET is a programming framework created by Microsoft that developers can use to create applications more easily.” Microsoft made the .NET Framework to make developers lives much easier by giving them access to standard libraries and code that could be used instead of writing them themselves or downloading a third-party library. “Using ASP.NET, it’s [...]
Nov 14, 2011
Summary: Microsoft developed a framework tied to ASP.NET in response to developers calls for a more testable and maintainable framework that leveraged the power of the .NET framework without the familiar constraints of ASP.NET Web Forms. Microsoft called this framework ASP.NET MVC. MVC stands for Model-View-Controller, a programming “pattern” that enables better separation of code. [...]
Nov 7, 2011
Summary: One of the most feared gangs in the world might just be made up of your not-so-average computer nerds going by the name of “Anonymous.” Since becoming famous for their “self-righteous” attitude of exposing the institutionalized greed of politics and corporate greed very recently, this group just did what no one’s done before- threatened the most [...]
Oct 31, 2011
The shift to productivity and entertainment wherever you are is no longer the future, it’s the present, according to Toni Paoletta. “Eventually mobile devices will replace desktops,” says the IT Program Manager for Corporate College. She predicts a huge shift away from personal desktops to mobile devices like phones, tablets, and notebooks. As these devices [...]
Oct 23, 2011
Summary: Amazon is releasing the next development standard for its ridiculously popular Kindle e-book reader. What’s unique about the new format is that Amazon is ditching its previous, proprietary standard, for a HTML5CSS3 based format. It will feature “150 new formatting capabilities, including fixed layouts, nested tables, callouts, sidebars and Scalable Vector Graphics, opening up [...]
Oct 9, 2011
Summary: The software development process in companies are almost always the work of at least a small team of developers. Communication in this way is normally satisfactory and without need of much infrastructure. The more developers there are, though, the chances of communication breakdowns that can cause the failure of a project entirety. The author [...]
Oct 9, 2011
Summary: SkyNet is a new grid-computing initiative with the ultimate goal of finding extraterrestrial intelligence. The project aims to entice computer users into allowing the project to use their idle computing resource (like a PC that’s not in use) and internet bandwidth for processing through astronomical amounts of astronomical data. “As we design, develop and switch on [...]
Sep 30, 2011
Summary: Intel announced in a press release that it is abandoning the linux-based mobile platform that it has been developing jointly with Nokia for the last 5 years. The reason they state is because “the future belongs to HTML5-based applications, outside of a relatively small percentage of apps, and we are firmly convinced that our [...]
Sep 29, 2011
Simon Stiphanos Summary: PostgreSQL, a very advanced open-source database, much like MySQL, has recently released version 9.1 of the community-engineered database. It now ships with new enterprise features like: synchronous replication, unlogged tables (which speed up non-sensitive I\O by not commiting resources to logging interactions), and more. Add to that the many long-time features which [...]
