<b>The Open Road:</b> "Open-source developers and businesses are focused on the wrong opportunity, according to industry luminary Tim O'Reilly. The future isn't programming for Linux or MySQL. The future is programming for the "whole Web.""
XBRL (short for eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an XML-based standard for handling corporate financial information. This article explains what XBRL is, provides an introduction to some of it's uses, and provides links to a number of XBRL related resources for you to continue learning about XBRL.
The first part of this two-part article explains how you can use advanced math -- linear least squares -- to find the line that best fits your diverse business data.
<b>MakeTechEasier:</b> "Creating a cool space scene can be done in a few minutes once you’ve got the basic method down, and Gimp provides several ways to go about adding random elements to keep things interesting."
<b>The Register:</b> After calling Flash a "CPU hog," Steve Jobs has given Adobe the chance to live down this now famous insult. And Adobe is taking it.""
Presenting data visually can quickly reveal crucial trends. Learn how to use the Google Chart API in conjunction with PHP to create a variety of useful charts.
Garry Robinson discusses some of the subtleties that you can apply to your database tables prior to upsizing your tables to SQL Server. In this article, I will show you how to fix up some of your Access backend before you make the conversion.
Most IT shops have handled the e-mail threat but overlook the rise of the Web as today's primary attack vector. Secure Web gateways that know better than to trust "good" sites will be key to addressing that oversight.
<b>ZDNet:</b> "Google’s Android code will assume its rightful place in the Linux kernel — in good time, the company’s top open source guru says."
<b>DevX:</b> "Forbes released its annual list of the world's billionaires Thursday, and technology companies are well represented, even though Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest person."
<b>Serious Eats:</b> "Carve Steve's head out of a block of mozzerella, add some black pepper for hair, stick on a pair of glasses, and you've got the perfect centerpiece for your iPad launch party."
<b>Fast Company:</b> "Groklaw is an attempt to get geeks and lawyers together, so they can help each other understand the other's world, with the goal of ideally getting better court results based on technical realities"
In today's environment prototyping your UI can be paramount. This article will show users how to use the Microsoft Expression Blend 3 prototyping tool and discuss the differences between static, interactive and convertible prototypes.
<b>IT World:</b> "Since we live in an entropic universe, things end. Heady stuff for a Monday morning, I will admit, but just keep drinking that coffee, you'll catch up."