Code Bubbles — Rethinking the IDE's User Interface

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kang327 writes "As Java developers we are used to the familiar file-based user interface that is used by all of the major IDEs. A team at Brown University has developed an IDE for Java called Code Bubbles that makes a fairly radical departure from current…

10 March 2010

iPhone devsugar: Unit testing for iPhone view controllers

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Filed under: Apple Unit testing refers to a software validation methodology that allows programmers to test individual program units for correctness. It's been an ongoing question in the iPhone developer community as to whether the iPhone's view controller…

10 March 2010

Now playing: Apps Script for Google Docs

The Official Google Blog

Hey—we've moved. Visit The Keyword for all the latest news and stories from Google Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture The Google Apps team here in New York City is a hotbed of movie fanatics. But while…

10 March 2010

Google Opens Apps Marketplace

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snydeq writes "Google has launched the Google Apps Marketplace, providing a venue for third-party, cloud-based applications to supplement Google's own online applications. The program enables integrations with such applications as Google Gmail, Documents,…

10 March 2010

iPhone devsugar: The need for multiple ipa delivery

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Filed under: Apple App Store clutter remains an ongoing issue. In addition to "business card" applications that offer little or no functionality beyond a simple web page[1], there are lite editions, demo editions, full editions, and even in the case of…

9 March 2010

Like iPhone, iPad ad premieres at Oscars

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Filed under: iPad Talk about big premieres. Like it did with the iPhone and its "Hello" ad, Apple used the Oscars as the platform to debut its iPad commercial. The ad, set to the background of The Blue Van's "There Goes My Love," shows the iPad being…

8 March 2010

Why I don't use Google Docs

Macworld

Rob Griffiths explains why he doesn't use Google's online office suite and why maybe you shouldn't either.

8 March 2010

Serious Apache Exploit Discovered

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bennyboy64 writes "An IT security company has discovered a serious exploit in Apache's HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database. ZDNet reports the vulnerability exists in Apache's core mod_isapi module.…

8 March 2010

Mac 101: Use the tab key in more dialog boxes

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Filed under: Mac 101 TUAW reader Cody Rogers wrote in to say: "I'm fairly new to my iMac and Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard. One of my biggest annoyances from switching over from PC to Mac is when a dialogue box comes up and says 'cancel' or 'okay' I…

8 March 2010

When the Power Goes Out At Google

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1sockchuck writes "What happens when the power goes out in one of Google's mighty data centers? The company has issued an incident report on a Feb. 24 outage for Google App Engine, which went offline when an entire data center lost power. The post-mortem…

8 March 2010