Apple protects their developers, Oracle earns a few bucks, and Sony has a bad week
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh | 25 May 2011
If you were an Apple developer, it was a good week. If you were a Sony executive, it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. If you were Oracle, it was business as usual.
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Nicole Sullivan on how CSS is evolving to meet performance and device needs.
by Jenn Webb
| @JennWebb | 24 May 2011
Velocity speaker and CSS expert Nicole Sullivan discusses the state of CSS — how it's adapting to mobile, how it's improving performance, and how some CSS best practices have led to "bloated code and broken websites."
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The web had its day. Mobile is already peaking. So what's next?
by Alasdair Allan
| @aallan | 19 May 2011
Those evangelizing the revolutionary qualities of "the next big thing" (whatever it may be) would do well to revisit past "big things." Truth is, computing goes in cycles.
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In-app purchasing called into question, Mono moves on, and you've got new perl.
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh | 18 May 2011
This week Apple's iOS developer community got a patent wake up call, the recently discarded Mono project found a new home, and a favorite scripting language got a new version.
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John Allspaw on resilience engineering's role in web development and operations.
by Jenn Webb
| @JennWebb | 18 May 2011
Certain high risk industries — aviation, space travel,healthcare — use resilience engineering to investigate failures. Etsy vice president John Allspaw says the same concepts have a place in web engineering.
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From Chromebooks to Arduino to bots: Mike Loukides examines I/O's big themes.
by Mike Loukides
| @mikeloukides | 16 May 2011
Google I/O 2011 was marked by the Android Accessory Development Kit, the Chromebook vision and lots of robots. Mike Loukides examines the big I/O developments and their possible repercussions.
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