Review: Windows Azure shoots the moon
Microsoft's cloud wows with great price-performance, Windows toolchain integration, and plenty of open source options
Stories by Peter Wayner
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Review: Rackspace Cloud keeps IaaS simple
Rackspace stands apart with familiar tools, open standards, and enterprise-grade support
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Review: Joyent Cloud is built for speed
Joyent's very smart SmartOS proves that some cloud servers are better than others
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First look: Microsoft's sharp, new Windows Phone SDK
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 gives developers extensive features, snappier code, lots of help, and the option to code in JavaScript and HTML
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7 apps making the most of HTML5
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.
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Review: HP Cloud challenges Amazon and Google
HP's OpenStack-based IaaS cloud blends openness and portability with nice proprietary extras and welcome hand-holding
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Bossies 2012: The Best of Open Source Software Awards
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
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In Pictures: Beyond the smartphone - Emerging platforms developers should target next
From the car to the living room, technologies and markets are quickly evolving to offer lucrative possibilities for programming pioneers
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Great open source map tools for Web developers
A rich ecosystem of free maps, free data, and free libraries give developers excellent alternatives to Google Maps
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7 hard truths about the NoSQL revolution
Forgoing features for speed has its trade-offs as these NoSQL data store shortcomings show
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Beyond iPhone and Android: 5 hot new platforms for developers
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?
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Review: 3 Web stack monitors in the cloud
Monitoring services from Boundary, Circonus, and Librato combine simple setup and richly different capabilities
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Top 7 dilemmas facing today's developers
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.
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7 top tools for taming big data
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?
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10 hard truths developers must learn to accept
On most days, programming is a rewarding experience, with no problem too challenging to solve. Perseverance, intuition, the right tool -- they all come together seamlessly to produce elegant, beautiful code.
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