- Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2013 – Forbes – Gartner took a look at a little closer in, providing a list of the “Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013.
- Thinking In Software: Notes on SpringOne 2012 – Notes on SpringOne 2012
- Google Web Toolkit Blog: GWT Support for Mobile App Development – If you’re interested in using GWT to build mobile apps and mobile web apps from a single codebase, then you’ll want to take a good look at mgwt. The following is a guest blog post from Daniel Kurka, the creator of the mgwt library.
- James Bond: Booze, bonks and bodies – The various Bonds are more different than you think – Data compiled by The Economist show that of the six Bonds, Pierce Brosnan was the most bloodthirsty, bumping off an average of 19 baddies per film. The short-lived George Lazenby, it turns out, was the Bond for the babes, whereas Daniel Craig, the latest, is notably less successful.
- Why Windows Just Can’t Win | Gadget Lab | Wired.com – Before the end of the month, Windows 8, Windows RT, Surface RT, and Windows Phone 8 will all launch. While you can already pre-order some of these products right now, the party’s really just getting started.
And Microsoft is already screwing it up.
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Windows 8 is ‘the end of Windows’ | VentureBeat – Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, always game for a little tech trash talk, said that Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system would be “the end of Windows” and that "Windows is irrelevant."
- Unix Toolbox – This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. This is a practical guide with concise explanations, however the reader is supposed to know what s/he is doing.
- Advanced iOS Development – Pete Goodliffe presents advanced techniques for creating iOS apps based on real life examples that show how to make the most of Objective-C, how to create Retina apps, and others.
- Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings – One of the surprising features of Rust is how it deals with statement termination and it has not been without criticism. Personally: I am absolutely in love with how it does it but I have seen some people being very opposed to it. So here is me explaining why I think it's the best thing since sliced bread.
- XKCD-style plots in Javascript using D3 – Inspired by this blog post and Mike Bostock's comment on this HN thread, I decided to make an XKCD-style plot in Javascript using D3 with a custom interpolation function. I also tried to use the "reusable chart" paradigm.
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