It seems to be the case that if we learn something from the stories about technology and processes that major tech companies use, we might be able to bring some of those best-of-the-best practices back to our neck of the woods. We're fascinated when we get...
0 replies - 2623 views - 11/08/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
To get a sense of the accuracy and performance of Google's Compact
Language Detector, I ran some tests against two other packages:
0 replies - 3290 views - 10/26/11 by Michael Mccandless in Articles
The World Wide Web Consortium said earlier this year that they'd start inviting corporations to buy sponsorship packages that promote the company and associate its brand and offerings alongside the W3C's mission. The money will be used to "W3C will use...
0 replies - 2093 views - 10/19/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Today, it has finally happened: At the GOTO conference, Google has officially presented its new programming language, Dart.
This post gives an overview of Dart and provides a few comments on how it fits into the current programming language landscape.
11 replies - 9642 views - 10/10/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in News
The following keynote will be held at the GOTO Aarhus 2011 Conference on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011:
“Dart, a new programming language for structured web programming”
This post explains what Dart is all about and how it relates to JavaScript.
5 replies - 12527 views - 09/12/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in News
Following a routine that gives users a new version of Firefox every 6 weeks, Mozilla has announced a beta of Firefox 7, which will use as much as 50 percent less memory than Firefox 6. The new version's efficiency comes from a project called...
0 replies - 20556 views - 08/21/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Today, Mozilla's community coordinator Asa Dotzler announced that future Firefox users will not be shown their browser's version number. Despite complaints and outcry from the community, Mozilla believes that this motion only gets rid of a feature that users...
6 replies - 21214 views - 08/16/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
In recent TechCrunch's Mobile
First CrunchUps
0 replies - 2798 views - 08/10/11 by Juhani Lehtimaki in News
Microsoft announced today that they will be awarding a total of $250,000 in prize money in a competition to create new security technologies for preventing memory safety vulnerabilities and exploits. The winner of the contest, dubbed the "Bluehat...
0 replies - 18026 views - 08/04/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
On Friday, the second version of the Couchbase Server was revealed. The new server should "be easy to install and manage, and will bring new indexing and query support; the combination of technologies offers the lowest latency, highest throughput NoSQL...
0 replies - 11193 views - 07/31/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Google has created Page Speed Service, an online service designed to help speed up the loading time of web pages. The service obtains content from your servers, rewrites the pages by applying web performance best practices and serves them to end users through...
0 replies - 13810 views - 07/28/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Google may be in hot water with their judge in the Android lawsuit pre-trial hearings. Judge William Alsup was recently informed of several emails written by Google engineers occurring between 2005 and 2010. One of these emails from 2005 by Andy Rubin,...
2 replies - 9461 views - 07/28/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Oracle, who is suing Google for patent infringement related to the
use of Java in their Android OS, was told on Friday to scale back their
damages claim, which was between 1.4 and 6 billion USD. Judge William
Alsup, in a written order, said the starting...
0 replies - 17829 views - 07/24/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Tomorrow at 9:00 am PT, Oracle will be hosting multi-city events and live webcasts for the Java community detailing the newest innovations for Java 7. The event will highlight the RC release of Java with sessions discussing:
0 replies - 13538 views - 07/06/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
The long-awaited social networking project from Google was revealed yesterday, dubbed Google+. It is not clear from whether or not the social network is aimed to take on Facebook, but Google+ does have some compelling features:
0 replies - 15494 views - 06/29/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
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