Wednesday, July 21, 2010

IT Digest as on 20-July-2010

Industry News

The Art of Trolling: Inside a 4chan Smear Campaign
"We are like... some kind of internet hate machine."
Source: Gawker

Antennagate: If you can’t fix it, feature it!
"Pity the poor schmoe who challenged Jobs to a verbal duel."
Source: Monday Note

David Blackwell, Scholar of Probability, Dies at 91
The first black scholar to be admitted to the National Academy of Sciences.|
Source: The New York Times

Five Ubuntu power tips
Friends don't let friends run as root.
Source: TechRepublic

Weekend Project: Install Web Apps in Chrome or Chromium
I hope your weekend was more exciting than this.
Source: Read Write Web

Android Development 101- Part 2:Graphical Elements
Adding a GUI and a "toast".
Source: Hack a Day

Microsoft puts IronPython, IronRuby under an Apache license
What does this really change?
Source: All About Microsoft

Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview
Judge for yourself.
Source: Engadget

Bomb-making tips, hit list behind Blogetery closure
One bad apple spoils the bunch.
Source: CNET

Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown
"We're the phone company. We don't care, we don't have to."
Source: Wired

Developer News

What’s wrong with C++
Not enough GOTO.
Source: Code Improved

What To Know Before Debating Type Systems
Revisiting a classic.
Source: Steve's Blog

A re-introduction to JavaScript
"The world's most misunderstood programming language."
Source: Mozilla

Gems - Package Management For .NET
You can be cool just like the Ruby kids.
Source: devlicio.us

YubNub: The Web’s "Social Command Line"
Come out of your shell and join the party.
Source: WebWorkerDaily

A few things iOS developers ought to know about the ARM architecture
"On ARM, integer division is actually an operating system benchmark!"
Source: Wandering Coder

Breaking Up with IoC Containers
It's not you, it's me.
Source: Justin Bozonier's Blog

Multi-Core HTTP Server with NodeJS
Some tricks for getting JavaScript to scale.
Source: Yahoo! Developer Network

Kill hashtables, get shorter code
Functions gone bad.
Source: Ethan Herdrick

3 shell scripts to improve your writing
The [Elements] of <style>.
Source: matt.might.net


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