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Ruby developers who are interested in cloud-based, platform-as-a-service offerings, are likely to be considering the use of either Engine Yard or Heroku. They are both built on Amazon EC2, and provide developers with a scalable, managed hosting environment, but developers will find that they each have different features and approaches. For application development, Engine Yard […]

Cloud computing and cloud services have become a very disruptive force for the enterprise, and more recently, the vendor landscape is experiencing the same symptoms. With so many companies getting into the cloud vendor landscape–over 2000 SaaS companies so far–it’s getting hard to keep up. Vice President of the Gartner Group, David Mitchell Smith, discussed […]

Lisa Simpson gave three apples to her brother Bart, then took back one. Q.: How many apples does Bart have? A.: Who knows? We’re still unaware of how many apples he had to start! Can C++ be funny? Let’s check it out! Here are some examples that gladden the programmer’s eye. Enjoy looking at them! […]

Microsoft is once again challenging developers in its Rock, Paper, Azure challenge, and they can win up to $5000 by coding a player “bot”, hosting it on Windows Azure, and then competing in battles against other contestants for weekly prizes. The contest will be running from now until the middle of the month. Developers who […]

Rumor has it that Microsoft will release the public beta of its Windows 8 operating system in late February, 2012. The official release for Windows 8 is already known to be in 2012, and once the details emerge about the public beta release, the overall time frame for the OS will be more clear. Microsoft […]

This week one of Microsoft’s most highly ranked open source CMSs, Composite C1, made an announcement stating that it now includes full cloud hosting support using Windows Azure. By using Windows Azure, users can reap the benefits of cloud computing, including scalable global hosting, low startup costs and enhanced security. As stated by C1’s Hans […]

This week Microsoft announced the availability of the fourth platform preview of its Internet Explorer 10. The release is now available for developers to download and use with the Developer Preview pre-beta release of the Windows 8 operating system. According to the IE blog, this release “adds even more support for HTML5 technologies, enabling richer […]

Time Zone API Unfortunately, the Windows Time Zone API only has four functions: GetTimeZoneInformation() GetTimeZoneInformationForYear() GetDynamicTimeZoneInformation() GetDynamicTimeZoneInformationForYear() These functions only work on the local time zone and, as such, as useless for any globalized application. This API contains enumeration for all the World’s time zones, their bias (offset from UTC), and both the Standard and […]

While some developers have recognized that with the release of Windows 8 in 2012, Silverlight stands to be the best architectural bridge to Windows 8 Metro-style apps available, and apps created with Silverlight will continue to run in Windows 8’s desktop mode. Others, however, are jumping ship, afraid to stick with the technology because they […]

Many developers who use Quest Software’s PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension have found it to be a very useful tool which provides syntax highlighting, IntelliSense and the ability to debug Power Shell scripts from within the Visual Studio environment. In addition, the PowerGUI Script Editor enables scripts to be opened from within Visual Studio with a […]

This week .NET developer solution provider Telerik announced its latest release, which features improvements to 14 Telerik .NET tools, including Silverlight, AJAX, and Windows Phone controls, WinForms touch and multi-touch support, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) support in JustCode. Telerik’s RadControls for Silverlight now features new components including Virtualized WrapPanel, Calculator, TreeMap, Pivot Map, and […]

Microsoft this week announced the latest developer community preview release of Juneau, which is the codename for SQL Server Developer Tools. This release is more stable than previous releases, and includes improvements in many areas. An object explorer for Visual Studio–included with this release–enables developers to explore tables and views of a database that they […]