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HTML5 - New Old Semantics
277 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 15:44:41 by mekkamen | 60 commentsHuge deal! The revolutionary modifications in HTML5 semantics bring the whole new coding (and indexing) experience. But is it really all that new?
25 Amazing and Fresh jQuery Plugins
420 votes | submitted 2010-03-05 13:27:36 by braveheart007 | 9 commentsKeeping up with the new jQuery plugin releases and developments sometimes feels like a full-time job! Every other day something new and better crops up that catches the eye and you think yourself “Wow, that looks good, I could use that!“.
The Future Of CSS Typography
314 votes | submitted 2010-03-01 11:24:11 by kolding | 17 commentsThere has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so its not a surprise that text is treated with utmost care.
Fill in the Blanks: Algorithm Makes Something Out of Nothing
500 votes | submitted 2010-03-01 07:27:01 by mklopez | 65 commentsA technique known as compressed sensing that uses math to turn lo-res datasets into hi-res samples may change everything from medical imagery to astronomy
Exclusive: How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web
342 votes | submitted 2010-02-22 22:07:54 by ryanve | 23 commentsWant to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the world�s most powerful Internet company, that a room filled with three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives figure out how to make their search engine
FOSS devs can collect damages from license violators
390 votes | submitted 2010-02-22 16:51:22 by louiebaur | 25 commentsJacobson v. Katzer, a significant legal case relating to open source software licensing enforcement, has been settled.
50 Powerful Coding Techniques (CSS / jQuery)
333 votes | submitted 2010-02-18 13:12:00 by lekahe | 7 commentsOverview of useful CSS/jQuery coding tips, tricks and techniques for visual effects, layouts and web form design to help you find solutions to the problems you are dealing with or will have to deal with in future.
35 Powerful jQuery Plugins
500 votes | submitted 2010-02-18 13:34:17 by TalSiach | 15 comments35 powerful and effective jQuery plugins and techniques for slideshows, graphs and text effects
10+ Rare WordPress Theme Options Page Tutorials
197 votes | submitted 2010-02-15 16:15:52 by Jimmysh | 4 commentsTheme Options Page have become a necessity in every WordPress themes free and premium, and are very user friendly and self explanatory to set up. With the presence of the Options Page the user don't have to edit the code manually.
PHP and Perl crashing the enterprise party
628 votes | submitted 2010-02-14 18:41:43 by LtGenPanda | 88 commentsThe enterprise has long favored Java and .Net, but PHP and other dynamic programming languages have left their infancies and are rapidly closing the gap on their more stodgy competitors.
Coders Get a New Colleague -- Barbie
347 votes | submitted 2010-02-14 02:19:08 by Carpy | 59 commentsBarbie today got two new careers, and in one she’s a computer engineer! That’s right, coders of the world can now count Mattel’s best-selling toy among their ranks. Sorry, systems administrators!
Twitters Development History Beautifully Visualized
419 votes | submitted 2010-02-06 04:17:04 by bossm4n | 45 commentsTwitter just recently launched a new Twitter Engineering blog, and to kick things off, one team member, Ben Sandofsky, decided to share a video he made representing Twitter’s development history. The video was made using Code Swarm, a software tool used to visualize data.
CSS3 Techniques You Should Know
651 votes | submitted 2010-02-05 15:15:30 by jaygeeze | 77 commentsMany of you have probably heard all the buzz around CSS3, but exactly which techniques can we use today? In this article I'll show you some different CSS3 techniques that work great in some of the leading browsers (i.e. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera ), and how they will degrade well in the non-supported browsers (i.e. Internet Explorer).
Vint Cerf Scares Web Dudes by Mentioning Time-sharing
275 votes | submitted 2010-02-05 02:26:48 by EMFK | 28 comments...watch this video of Vint Cerf (who has been credited as the father of the Internet) suddenly mention mainframe time-sharing in the middle of a chat on cloud-to-cloud operability.
The end of SQL and relational databases?
547 votes | submitted 2010-02-03 16:15:14 by Carpy | 148 commentsThe "NoSQL movement" and Cloud based data stores are striving to completely remove developers from a reliance on the SQL language and relational databases. Some developers think this is something new, but object databases appeared in the 1980s and Ray Ozzie started the commercial document-centric datastore business with LotusNotes.
Confirmed: Facebook Debuts Homegrown PHP Compiler
652 votes | submitted 2010-02-02 09:43:35 by pwarnock | 65 commentsSeveral anonymous sources have confirmed that Facebook has indeed been making some changes to the basic PHP runtime environment. It will increase speed by around 80% and offer a just-in-time compilation engine that will offer a number of advantages.
If you want a job, build an iPad App
379 votes | submitted 2010-01-30 14:56:32 by Carpy | 112 commentsAn interesting tidbit of jobs data came out this week from the IEEE-USA, which said the total pool of employed software engineers fell by nearly 2%. Are they retiring, leaving the workforce, or just building iPhone and iPad apps down at the local coffeeshop?