Microsoft Azure Overtakes Amazon's Cloud In Performance Test

Slashdot

alphadogg writes "Microsoft Azure's cloud outperformed Amazon Web Services in a series of rigorous tests conducted by Nasuni, a storage vendor that annually benchmarks cloud service providers (CSPs). Nasuni uses public cloud resources in its enterprise…

How to jailbreak your iPhone

Macworld

Jailbreaking—the process that enables you to install unauthorized-by-Apple third-party apps and additional features on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad—has been in a largely dormant state since the release of iOS 6. In that version of the mobile operating…

Best PHP Blogs To Follow

Planet Mozilla

A lot of people, especially when starting out in PHP, ask me “what blogs should I read?” There are a lot of great PHP blogs (you can see a nearly complete list of them at Planet PHP) but there are a few that I read on a regular basis and I feel are…

Why working on Open Source software makes you a better developer

Planet Mozilla

Recently there was a bit of a rant on the Selenium users mailing list about how there were a few bugs irritating the person and, because they are only testers with not enough development experience, didnt feel that they could help with fixing these issues.…

Create a Sheen Logo Effect with CSS

Planet Mozilla

I was inspired when I first saw Addy Osmani's original ShineTime blog post. The hover sheen effect is simple but awesome. When I started my blog redesign, I really wanted to use a sheen effect with my logo. Using two HTML elements and a CSS transition,…

The curious case of the persistent image

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The other day I was working on some blog posts, and when I pulled up an image in Preview to edit it, I noticed something odd. It looked like the Preview window was transparent, and that I was seeing a window through it. I thought nothing of it until a few…

Searchpath

inessential.com

Manton Reece just announced Searchpath: > It’s search for your web site or blog with an innovative “popover” UI. Simple, fast. With better control of your search results, and no need to link to Google or show ads to your readers. Sounds cool.

LinkedIn gives all of its employees iPad minis

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

LinkedIn is most known for being a website that helps users get jobs, but it turns out working there is probably pretty nice as well: The CEO of the company today handed out 3,500 iPad minis, to every one of the company's employees. That's right: If you…

Build DOM Inspector

Planet Mozilla

Tragedy of the WebKit Commons

Planet Mozilla