Review: Windows Azure shoots the moon
Microsoft's cloud wows with great price-performance, Windows toolchain integration, and plenty of open source options
Microsoft's cloud wows with great price-performance, Windows toolchain integration, and plenty of open source options
Rackspace stands apart with familiar tools, open standards, and enterprise-grade support
Joyent's very smart SmartOS proves that some cloud servers are better than others
From Tor to steganography, these six techniques will help obscure the data and traces you leave online
HTML5 is more than a few years old and no longer a curiousity. Web pages that used to simply emulate a piece of paper are now expected to do something snazzy to justify their existence. Thanks to HTML5, along with innovations in JavaScript and CSS, interactive logic is a standard strategy for Web programming, and full-fledged Web apps are everywhere. All it takes is a few extra tags to rewrite the world's software as a Web page.
HP's OpenStack-based IaaS cloud blends openness and portability with nice proprietary extras and welcome hand-holding
It's back -- and bigger and badder than ever! Our sixth annual Bossie Awards call out more than 100 open source products in seven categories
The path from birth to death is filled with choices about where to work and what kind of work to do. Sometimes the world is nice enough to allow us some input. These days, developers have a lot more say in their employment, thanks to rising demand for their services.
From the car to the living room, technologies and markets are quickly evolving to offer lucrative possibilities for programming pioneers
A rich ecosystem of free maps, free data, and free libraries give developers excellent alternatives to Google Maps
Forgoing features for speed has its trade-offs as these NoSQL data store shortcomings show
A long time ago in a mind-set far away, I spent a lunch with friends trying to figure out what we'd do if we could reprogram our cellphones. Our ideas were, in retrospect, lame. Maybe we would change the font on the dialer or come up with a screensaver animation. Wouldn't it be cool if we could get flying toasters running on the screen of our cellphone?
Monitoring services from Boundary, Circonus, and Librato combine simple setup and richly different capabilities
Your boss wants it yesterday, but it better be good when judged by the standards of tomorrow. Your customers want every feature they can imagine, but don't you dare confuse them by giving them all the buttons they want. Your fellow programmers want your code documented, but they just respond "tl;dr" to anything you write.
The floods that devastated the hard disk industry in Thailand are now half a year old, and the prices per terabyte are finally dropping once again. That means data will start piling up and people around the office will wonder what can be done with it. Perhaps there are some insights in those log files? Perhaps a bit of statistical analysis will find some nuggets of gold buried in all of that noise? Maybe we can find enough change buried in the couch cushions of these files to give us all a raise?