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Application Developers Worry as Data Plans Are Capped

AT&T’s new tiered pricing plan that charges customers for the amount of data they consume has application development pros worried that people will stop downloading bandwidth-intensive apps. Noam Bardin, chief

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MeeGo 1.0 Enters Crowded Mobile Field

Software developers looking for the next big thing in the mobile space might want to check out the recently released MeeGo 1.0, the new operating system produced jointly by Intel

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PHP Remains Strong Despite Security Flaws

During the month of May, the PHP community attempted to mop up security flaws in the open-source language. Most of the 60 flaws uncovered would require local server access—in other

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Top 10 Considerations to Focus Your Startup

If the goal of your startup is to succeed, this is probably the most important article on entrepreneurship that I have yet written, The following ten points will help you

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Spy-in-the-Sky as a Cloud Service

Recently, Joel Campbell, president of GIS vendor ERDAS, predicted, “Whether it’s from a constellation of small satellites or whether it’s from a blimp or some other type of airborne drone

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Frank Zappa’s Influence on Linux

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Frank Zappa’s Influence on Linux

“Bitchen” sounds totally Valley Girl right? The sort of speech pattern that, like, gags you with a spoon, right? The link two sentences back is to a YouTube (sound-only) version of the

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ThoughtWorks Gives Agile IT an Online Forum

Application lifecycle management solution vendor ThoughtWorks has unveiled a new forum where developers and other IT pros can discuss agile development. Called “Agile Transitions,” the site focuses on high-level topics

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Securing the Emerging Smart Grid

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — As the federal government pours billions of dollars into utilities and companies that promise to create an intelligent network that would provide renewable energy to billions

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iPhone: Using a Tab Bar App with a Navigation Controller

The iPhone SDK comes with various templates to let developers create different types of applications. Two popular application templates are – Tab Bar Application and Navigation-based Application. In reality, it

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Ruby on Rails 3.0 Moves Nearer Release

Rails founder David Heinemeier Hansson has said that they expect to unveil a release candidate of Ruby on Rails 3.0 by June 7. [login] The latest version of the development

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SF AppShow Gives Developers Leg Up On Competition

With more than 200,000 apps in Apple’s App Store alone, good software can sometimes get lost in the crowd. However, San Francisco’s AppShow offers developers the opportunity to pitch their

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Mayor Bloomberg Touts New York as Next Tech Mecca

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told attendees at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in Manhattan that his city is clearly superior to Silicon Valley in every way. He advised software developers

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Adobe Releases HTML5 Pack for Dreamweaver

Long-time business partners Google and Adobe cosied up pretty close last week at Google’s annual developer conference in San Francisco, where Adobe unveiled its HTML5 development kit and announced that

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Referencing External Configuration Files in .NET

It is always a good design practice to keep most generalized configuration settings in application configuration files (i.e., app.config or web.config) and very particular settings in external configuration files. Suppose

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An Open API from MasterCard? Priceless

MasterCard has announced the availability of an API for the creation of both desktop and mobile applications. They’ve also launched a new portal dubbed “MasterCard Labs” with a variety of

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Convert a PPT File into an Image or HTML File in .NET

By referencing the following two Microsoft Office DLLs and using the .NET code thereafter, you can convert a .ppt file into either an image file or an HTML file: Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.dll

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Software Architecture: Propping Up a House of Cards

All too often, IT professionals in general and business software development companies in particular use “temporary” bad fixes that somehow never manage to get corrected. As a result, companies produce