Node.js, at least from my understanding, was designed to be great at transporting small bits of information around the internet very quickly, and in real-time. Server-side events, instant messaging apps, real-time games, and collaboration tools are all great example of this. Take for example Trello. Trello is a real-time collaboration app that leverages Socket.io and Node.js to enable real-time propagation of events and state-changes between clients.

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This is part two on how to use Skydrive in your Windows Phone applications. Part one was an introduction to how to sign in into Skydrive. In this part, let’s try to read the Skydrive’s folders. I will use the ApplicationBarIconButton to read from my Skydrive then put the result in a very simple list in another page.

The project is integrating several technologies: - Web server - Wifi connection - Dynamic variables substitutions (in xml files) - Ajax callbacks - jQuery use case - Dynamic Memory allocation (malloc/free) (see heap.s) - Web service calls : for tweeter, thingspeak and nimbits

Part 1 of a series on implementing a lightweight version of Spring MVC on top of CDI and Java EE 6.

Productive way to generate the StaticMetamodel files using eclipse and maven.

One point in his article that McConnell did not address--programmer compensation does not vary accordingly. This is a telling point--if the difference is productivity can be 10X, why is it that salaries rarely fall outside the 2X range for experienced developers

Hello ladies and gentlemen! I'm happy to announce my 3rd e-book called "Perl One-Liners Explained." This book is based on the "Famous Perl One-Liners Explained" article series that I wrote over the last 3 years and that has been read over 500,000 times! I went through all the one-liners in the article series, improved explanations, fixed mistakes and typos, added a bunch of new one-liners, added an introduction to Perl one-liners and a new chapter on Perl's special variables.

This week the Ruby Rogues have an all out, knock-down drag-out battle royale over editors and IDEs.

PHP 5.3.9 release was mostly meant to fix a security bug, but it introduced a new more serious bug. PHP 5.3.10 was just released to fix this issue. Meanwhile Debian Linux maintainers decided to stop enabling the Suhosin extension by default. This extension is used by several Linux distributions to provide protection against present and future security bugs of PHP. Read this article to learn more about the just fixed bug what you should do to avoid these security issues. You can also learn more what is the current PHP security status and the importance of the Suhosin extension to prevent PHP security problems.

Rumor has become reality ladies and gentlemen. It looks like Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Phone 8 will use the NT kernel. Thanks to an earlier video leak about WP8 on Nokia, the folks at Redmond have spilled the beans on their upcoming 'Apollo' Release of their mobile OS.

Important Daemons and Startup Services in LINUX

Nobody can deny hat JavaScript is the de facto programming language of Html5. Surprisingly Microsoft recently positioned itself to become one of the most influencing conveyor of the JavaScript hype.

Apple and Motorola are at it again, and still in Germany. Today, the Mannheim Regional Court ruled in favor of Motorola, issuing a permanent injunction against Cupertino's Cloud based services and any device that uses them. Apple has pulled several iPhone models from their German online store, though it said they are still available in brick-and-mortar locations. Apple also announced that it intends to appeal the ruling on iCloud.

"Ubuntu: An Absolute Beginner's Guide", by author Courtney Loo, is the latest free guide from MakeUseOf and will teach you everything you need to know about Ubuntu in easy-to-understand language. Ubuntu is a free/libre, open-source computer operating system with 20 million users worldwide.

Linux Files A simple description of the UNIX system, also applicable to Linux, is this: “On a UNIX system, everything is a file; if something is not a file, it is a process.” This statement is true because there are special files that are more than just files (named pipes and sockets, for instance), [...]

I love me some Scala. Actually, since it’s now my day job, I love it all the time. It combines the short, expressiveness that I prized in Python with a rich library base (thanks Java) and the compiler checking that I have come to depend upon in a statically typed language. I don’t care what some people say.

One of our users, Richard Bremmer, wrote a short post on his blog (Codezuki) about moving from Google App Engine. Here it is in part.

Recently, Mozilla stopped the Electrolysis project that was to give Firefox per-tab processes. Hence, I was relieved when David Bruant pointed out to me that Mozilla haven’t given up on a parallel browser. They are working on a project called Servo which is being implemented in the Rust programming language.

De Marzi continues his series on Graph Visualization and Neo4j, this time creating a follows graph. And, once again, the code's included. Thanks, Max.

Perry continues his coverage of the beta launch of Totango, which promotes SaaS sales by allowing users to "analyze customer engagement in real time," among other useful features. After the recent publication of Totango's research, Perry makes some conclusions about effective ways for cloud-based services to promote business through customer service.

In an attempt to tackle the inefficient complexity of its current template system, Wikipedia will be adopting the Lua scripting language. Known most for its use in videogame scripting, particularly World of Warcraft, Lua is lightweight and designed for easy integration into existing applications. The transition is expected to begin after the release of MediaWiki 1.19, possibly in May.

A major government site in the UK has shifted to essentially a completely open source stack. Can this lead to more governments saving money using open source technologies and save us tax dollars?

Kin's work with CityGrid places led him to the conclusion that user-centered local direction provides search mechanisms for finding local businesses. He suggests that, "rather than requireing users to find their own places, we should be . . . making our local web applications more intelligent in helping users discover what they are looking for."

Dave Rooney suggests some Agile reading for the real-world, non-academic developer. He also reflects on the first and eighth principles of he Agile manifesto, suggesting that "True progress is shown when software is working and in the hands of those intended to consume it such that you can receive concrete feedback on that software's suitability to the business task."