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The Jolt Awards for coding tools recognize the past 12 months of advances for the tools used in creating, testing, and debugging code. "Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth."
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Interesting line up, did not expect to see VS2013 on there?
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It's actually pretty solid. Their (or one of their) problem is that so is 2012, 2010, and 2008.
I thought it was interesting they picked Premium, rather than Ultimate.
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TTFN - Kent
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Why should I give any credit to selections made by a company that still thinks full page reloads are an acceptable way to do a slideshow.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yeah, sorry about that. We usually try to avoid slideshows, but I thought this one might be of interest to a lot of people.
TTFN - Kent
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Together with an unnamed voice recognition technology provider, Intel has developed a new solution for its latest mobile processors to power voice commands locally, foregoing a trip to the cloud. "Listening to you, I get the music."
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*Cough* Dragon.
That would be my guess.
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That's what I thought as well. I wouldn't think they'd sell themselves, but I could imagine some sort of licensing deal getting announced soon.
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They've been cross licensing with their PerC offerings so I should imagine this is more of the same.
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The company is offering an early developer preview of a toolchain based on Apache Cordova, an open-source mobile development framework for building native mobile apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Developers can use the tool to wrap their Chrome app with a native application shell that enables them to distribute it via Google Play and Apple’s App Store. "So never judge a book by it's cover, or who you're going to love but your lover"
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No doubt, our blog is a great site for announcing new books and other quick bits of news; however, we really needed a great landing page to host our free ebooks in an elegant, easy-to-browse way. Our coworkers at the Microsoft Virtual Academy provided the solution. It’s a perfect place to land, since many of you already consume the Jump Start sessions, live events and archived courses from MVA. "Reading maketh a full man"
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'Oops,' says analyst about Apple overestimating demand for less-expensive iPhone. Oh, I see what you did there. Clever headline writer: "call", "iPhone".
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What they blew is saying it was a cheaper iPhone and then essentially putting it out for the same price off-plan, and since most international users--the market they were primarily targeting with this "cheap" smartphone--are buying off-plan, it didn't make sense to buy an iPhone 5 in a cheap plastic case instead of a discounted iPhone 5.
Logic, Tim Cook, logic.
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Ha! They are just realizing this NOW?
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In 2012 Google unveiled an experiment called Build with Chrome, a virtual Lego tool that let you play with tiny plastic bricks in your browser — and two years later the project is finally open to everyone If you need me... I'll be... uhm... in a meeting. Yes. Very busy.
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Well, there goes my productivity.
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Only works in Chrome. As one commentator puts it: "Google Chrome, the new IE 6.0".
OTOH (and if fairness) without IE did introduce Ajax (XmlHttpRequest) without which RIA's and Web 2.0 would have been impossible, so Google's entire model is now predicated on IE innovation.
Seems to be the W3C are so slow and crappy that real innovation goes on in the browsers (again).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It works in FF 26.0 perfectly fine. And another commentator posted that it worked in Opera as well.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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In a dramatic move that illustrates how cloud computing has altered the data center landscape, Microsoft is opening up the server and rack designs that power its vast online platforms and sharing them with the world.
Key motivation: Google
modified 28-Jan-14 12:00pm.
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Appears to be a wrong link, takes me to "Job Description"
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Whoops! Crisis averted
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US and British spy agencies routinely try to gain access to personal data from Angry Birds and other mobile applications, a report says. That's one way to learn how to solve 4-14
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The Department of Justice has announced a new deal with major tech companies that would allow unprecedented levels of disclosure about government data requests. Among other breakthroughs, the deal would allow each company to publicly announce the number of FISA requests and national security letters it has received in a given year, as well as the total number of users affected. They'll still monitor, but now you can find out when
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...but the catch is the companies have to wait two years to disclose new FISA requests. So if a customer finds out in 2016 that their data was obtained by the NSA in 2014, what good does it do?
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