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Developer Week in Review: Brother, can you spare $100 billion?
February 02 2012
If you haven't heard that Facebook is going public, I hope you live under a comfortable rock. While you wait for the IPO, brush up your Lua if you run a wiki, just don't leave any empty files lying around. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Sometimes, form does need to follow function
January 27 2012
The latest rumors have Apple eyeing the remote control market, but does minimalistic design work for remotes? Australia wants to impose requirements on ISPs, but at what infrastructure cost? And would you let closed-source software keep you alive? read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Early thoughts on iBooks Author
January 20 2012
It looks like Apple plans to totally disrupt yet another industry, but is that a good thing? Richard Stallman puts free above usability, and Microsoft adds incentives to Visual Studio — but some of them encourage the wrong behaviors. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: A big moment for Kinect?
January 13 2012
Microsoft thinks the Kinect has a bright future with the PC. Elsewhere, we have a new contender for worst software patent ever, and the mayor of New York City wants to get his geek on. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: 2012 preview edition
January 05 2012
It's a brand new year, time to look ahead to the stories that will have developers talking in 2012. Mobile will remain a hot topic, the cloud is absorbing everything, and jobs appear to be heading back to the U.S. read moreDeveloper Year in Review: 2011 Edition
December 22 2011
It's time for our annual look back at the year that was, when mobile ruled the world, HTML5 PWNED Flash, Drupal and Hadoop were the hot buzzwords for your resume, and a new batch of languages tried to become stars. read moreDecember 20 2011
The content you see on Cheezburger, Inc.'s Fail Blog often mixes humor and pain — but not always in equal proportions. Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh discusses the boundaries of a fail. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Siri is the talk of the town
November 30 2011
Everyone either wants to be just like Siri or thinks it's (she's?) a waste of time. Stanford expands its free CS curriculum, and JavaScript gains encryption and a JVM implementation. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Adobe sends Flex to Apache
November 18 2011
Adobe just gave away Flex, a new single-board computer might dethrone Arduino as the tool of choice for makers, and researchers bring us a step closer to our robotic overlords. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Adobe raises the white flag on mobile Flash
November 10 2011
Flash isn't dead, but Adobe is checking into hospice options. Eclipse adds another language to the list of ones almost but not exactly like Java. And how do you find good programmers? Probably not with brainteasers. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Adobe raises the white flag on mobile Flash
November 10 2011
Flash isn't dead, but Adobe is checking into hospice options. Eclipse adds another language to the list of ones almost but not exactly like Java. And how do you find good programmers? Probably not with brainteasers. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: The hijacking of an insulin pump
November 03 2011
If you own an insulin pump, someone out there might have a hack with your name on it. Google decides to make high-volume Maps API users pony up some cash, and the creator of Linux goes after C++. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: These things always happen in threes
October 26 2011
One of the earliest language pioneers, John McCarthy, passed last week. Elsewhere, one developer admits he's using the GPL to force companies to pay him, and the creator of the "West Wing" is on the short list to write the film version of Steve Jobs' life. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Talking to your phone
October 21 2011
This week, we ask if Apple's Siri has more than novelty value, and decide it does. Open Office needs you (or at least your money) to stay afloat, and Google bends to developer pressure and finally adds SQL support to its cloud computing platform. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Talking to your phone
October 21 2011
This week, we ask if Apple's Siri has more than novelty value, and decide it does. Open Office needs you (or at least your money) to stay afloat, and Google bends to developer pressure and finally adds SQL support to its cloud computing platform. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Two giants fall
October 13 2011
Better late than never, a few thoughts on Steve Jobs. Also, a Unix pioneer leaves us, and Google's dirty laundry is accidentally hung out to dry. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Android proves fruitful for Microsoft
September 29 2011
Samsung agrees to pay Microsoft royalties for Android use. Elsewhere, Oracle keeps the SPARC line alive, and the hackability of voting machines is exposed. read moreHigh voltage music: Behind the scenes with ArcAttack
September 27 2011
ArcAttack creates a maniacal combination of music and mad science that uses half-million-volt Tesla coils to play songs. We caught up with Steve Ward, a recent addition to the ArcAttack crew, at MakerFaire NY and asked him about the technology behind the show. read moreHigh voltage music: Behind the scenes with ArcAttack
September 27 2011
ArcAttack creates a maniacal combination of music and mad science that uses half-million-volt Tesla coils to play songs. We caught up with Steve Ward, a recent addition to the ArcAttack crew, at MakerFaire NY and asked him about the technology behind the show. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: webSOS
September 23 2011
WebOS is going to the great operating system repository in the sky, Oracle finds yet another way to peeve developers, and the UK tries to create a new generation of programmers. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: HP fires up the TouchPad production line one more time
September 01 2011
The TouchPad's $99 price point proves enticing for consumers and — oddly — HP itself, James Gosling leaves Google, and a possible iPhone 5 leak bears a distinct resemblance to the iPhone 4 leak. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: End of an era
August 26 2011
This week two major players in geek culture called it quits, more airlines decided to replace dead trees with hot silicon, and the HP TouchPad seeks a new OS for a long-term relationship. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Google Goes Yardsaling
August 18 2011
We learned that Google liked Motorola products so much they decided to buy the company, that social media has a dark side, and that C++ isn't ready to join Sanskrit in the dead languages section just yet. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Lion drops pre-installed MySQL
August 03 2011
A pre-installed version of MySQL is noticeably absent from Lion Server, South Korea penalizes Apple for the location brouhaha, and Java 7's compiler injects a bit of randomness into software development. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Linux turns the big 3.0
July 28 2011
The Linux kernel gets to version 3.0. Meanwhile, Oracle doesn't seem to remember the warm reception that Sun gave Android, and big players get lawsuits on their doorsteps. read moreJuly 21 2011
James Turner says the notion that proprietary software is somehow dirty or a corruption of principles ignores the realities of competition, economics, and context. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Mobile's embedded irony
July 20 2011
Microsoft profits from Google's toils, why you shouldn't put older developers out to pasture, and a new source control system enters the fray. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Christmas in July for Apache
July 15 2011
In the latest Developer Week in Review: Apache gets a gift of code from IBM, and a handy patent / travel guide for your next trip to East Texas. read moreJavaFX 2.0: Making RIA with Java
July 11 2011
Jim Weaver, founder of JMentor, explains why JavaFX could become a viable contender in the Rich Internet Applications world. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: The unglamorous life of video game developers
July 07 2011
The folks who make video games sound the alarm bells on working conditions, governments try to break the Internet, and MITRE unveils 2011's most dangerous software errors. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Would your passcode pass muster?
June 30 2011
A weekly lawsuit update, MySpace is purchased for a bargain price, and your darkest suspicions about the stupidity of passcode selections is confirmed. read moreClojure: Lisp meets Java, with a side of Erlang
June 28 2011
OSCON speaker Stuart Sierra digs into Clojure: what it is, how it works, and why it's attracting Java developers. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Start your lawyers!
June 22 2011
The legal community continued to feed off IP disputes among software giants, Microsoft brings the Kinect SDK to Windows, and the web switches IPv6 on for a day, but did anyone notice? read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Are .NET programmers going extinct?
June 15 2011
For Microsoft programmers, the week brought fear, uncertainty and doubt regarding their future as an elite class of developers. For a lucky teen, it brought a big paycheck. And for fans of Java, it brought a new version of the popular language one step closer to release. read moreJavaScript spread to the edges and became permanent in the process
June 09 2011
James Duncan, the chief architect at Joyent, is one of the people using JavaScript in surprising ways. In this interview he shares his thoughts on how we came to depend so heavily on the language and where it might be headed. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: WWDC edition
June 08 2011
in the latest Developer Week in Review: The real value of WWDC, Apple's new iCloud offering and what it means for developers, and an example of how not to create an iOS application. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: The other shoe drops on iOS developers
June 02 2011
If you were an iOS developer, you may have gotten to meet a process server in person this week, as Lodsys doles out the first batch of lawsuits. Oracle gave Apache the keys to OpenOffice, and told them to take it out for a spin, and your faithful editor vents… read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Apple devs cry "gimme shelter"
May 25 2011
If you were an Apple developer, it was a good week. If you were a Sony executive, it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. If you were Oracle, it was business as usual. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Buying a lawsuit with an in-app purchase
May 18 2011
This week Apple's iOS developer community got a patent wake up call, the recently discarded Mono project found a new home, and a favorite scripting language got a new version. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Oracle sends Hudson on its way
May 12 2011
Oracle casts another piece of Sun from their portfolio, Apple and Google defend themselves from big-brother accusations made by, um, Big Brother, and it turns out you probably have a pretty sweet job, after all. read moreProcess kills developer passion
May 10 2011
The software industry is now full of "best practices," and many of them make sense when considered in isolation. But when you lump them all on the backs of developers, you end up with dispirited bureaucrats/bean counters. read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
Webcast: Developing Effective OCUnit and UI Automation Testing for iOS
January 11, 2011
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free The iPhone is a powerful development platform, but can be a difficult one to develop effective testing methodologies for. The OCUnit framework and the UIAutomation framework can allow developers to ...
Webcast: Open Source Language Roundtable
July 22, 2009
Duration: Approximately 90 minutes. Cost: Free We all have our favorite languages in our tool-belt, but is there a best overall language? If anyone can hash that out, it will be the members of this roundtable discussion, some of the stars of the open...
Webcast: Preparing Enterprise Applications for the iTunes Store
October 05, 2011
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Watch the recorded webcast > For individual developers, getting an application into the iTunes App Store is pretty straightforward, once you know the tricks. For developers working in large companies...
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