Topic: Programming Languages

What's Behind The Acronyms

In order to participate in the discussion it's helpful to know what people are talking about. I've grabbed some of my favorite acronyms from a number of different online sources. I invite everyone to amend, alter, correct and ...READ»

Palm Hopes Building Apps on the Web Will Draw Developers

Palm desperately needs better apps. And it's hoping its new Web-based development environment will lure more creative code monkeys, according to PCWorld. But is the environment really the problem? Or is Palm offering too little too ...READ»

(Re) Writing Code

Senior executives who want to transform their organization can't focus only on strategy or structure. Ultimately, they need to rescue their company's data from digital oblivion.READ»

Game Changer: iPhone Apps That Work on the Zune HD

Microsoft may be building a self-branded smartphone to combat the iPhone. But with over 60,000 apps, Apple's behemoth App Store might be too big to beat. What if a Zune (or a Zune-phone) could run iPhone apps? That's the potential ...READ»

Which Javascript Framework to Choose?

As a developer that tries to maximize the time efficiency of my projects, I highly recommend scripting the behavior layer of your Web sites with the aid of a Javascript framework. Currently, there a quite a few Javascript ...READ»

Google Scripts Help Automate Apps, Premier Edition Only

Automation is the dream of every work-laden computer user, and scripting languages can make those dreams come true. Now Google is releasing its own scripting language for its online apps called Google Apps Script. It seems mostly ...READ»

IBM's Grassroots Revival

The real story of how Big Blue found the future, got the Net, and learned to love the People in Black.READ»

Agenda Items

Forget Napster and Java. The most revolutionary technologies often attract the fewest headlines.READ»

Web Design the Art of Attracting Attention-The Love of Labor

The ever spreading net of the Web has at least more effect on one area – that of web designing. Gone are the days when designing for the Web was an in-house issue. Now you need a web design company for many reasons; the changes ...READ»

Priority (Web) Mail

Mark A. Carlson say the "real value" of the news he gets through Mercury Mail and Castanet is that "it's easy to act on."READ»

Why Google's Chrome OS Is Not in Your Future

Google caused a flurry of excitement last night when it revealed it would convert its Chrome browser into an operating system meant for netbooks. A chorus of OMG's burst from the tech blog network. This is a "clear shot in Microsoft's ...READ»

Blue Sunrise

IBM contemplates buying Sun, but for what reasons? IBM intends to use Sun's software assets to further commoditized the IT market and drive down the margins of their competitors.READ»

Web Development Tips for Beginners

This article contains very useful and information for the newbies in web development industry.READ»

Blackberry and Palm Apps Getting Better, but Not Fast Enough

Even as Apple celebrates the release of its 100,000th app--and that cash machine it calls the app store--Palm and RIM are running fast to catch up, and woo developers to their platforms. Earlier this week, Palm introduced a Web-based ...READ»

Speed Test: iPhone 3G S Even Faster Than Apple Claims

Apple has made claims that the iPhone OS 3.0 yields significant performance gains on the 3G model, and that the new 3G S can accomplish the same tasks up to twice as fast as its predecessors. Anecdotally, the new 3G S definitely ...READ»

Surfing the Web with Voice

An Indian startup named TringMe announced a new platform this week that it says will allow developers to easily write voice-enabled apps and widgets for the Web. But to date, voice-over-IP is a technological underachiever. Could ...READ»

Google and Flash - Marriage Counseling Still Not Working for the Couple

Google recently announced that it was able to now crawl through Flash Web sites. Hog wash. Well, not really. I'm sure that they have no problem extracting data, but for someone not in the know about optimized HTML code - ...READ»

Apple's Tablet Apps Will Live and Die by One Nerdy Thing

For an Apple Tablet to be a hit, it will have to be more than a big-screen iPhone. And the difference between a lithe, touch-based Mac and a giant, lame iPhone comes down to one crucial nerd-factor: memory management. Memory ...READ»

We're Hiring a Web Developer

Mansueto Ventures, publishers of Fast Company and Inc. magazines, is looking for a Web Developer to join their Digital Services department. We're looking for a highly skilled person to help us develop and support our Web ...READ»

Technology: Google OpenSocial Site Is Live

Google's "OpenSocial" site is live! :D "OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends ...READ»

The Jobs of Web 2.0

Is the rise of online social networking creating a new breed of programmers?READ»

WorkFast.TV, A Live Streaming Video Show Launches on FastCompany.TV Today

WorkFast.TV, a live Internet-distributed video show focused on how Internet technologies are changing the way we work, will air live on FastCompany.TV today. Tech bloggers Robert Scoble and Shel Israel will co-host the show that ...READ»

Feedback: Become the Person People Work For

I grew up in northern Virginia, about 10 miles from AOL headquarters. At age 15, I taught myself Java and C++. At age 16, during two summers, I worked for the now-dead boom startup Tidalwave Telephone (at various times also named ...READ»

Phraseology

Leslie Lee's Web Economy BS Generator is a fun little Java app that can help you create phrases to drop into workaday conversation, project proposals, team meetings, and other experiences at work. With it, you'll be able to ...READ»

Internet Explorer 8: Microsoft's Biggest Loser

At a security conference yesterday in Vancouver, a hacker exploited a security hole in Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 8 in under two hours, taking control of a Sony laptop running an internal build of Windows 7. IE8 was launched ...READ»

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