Windows 8 is on its way

by Marcin Dembowski in Microsoft,Operating Systems

Windows 8 is coming

It’s been about two weeks since the Windows 8 build appeared. During the first week about one million users had a chance to run the new build of Windows 8. Have you read our developer preview and our first Windows 8 impressions? Then you probably remember that we wrote about the new metro User Interface, Internet and Windows Explorer. We also added  some screenshots to present what it looks like from a user’s perspective. Since that time a new version appeared with some improvements and additional features. Let’s see what’s inside this package!

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Data without limits but trust is limited

by Peter Horsten 09.03.2012 Books & Events
“Managing Trust” is the main theme of this week’s CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. Managing Trust is a logical progression from the main theme of CeBIT 2011, “Work & Life with the Cloud”. Usage of cloud-based solutions continues to increase, but lack of trust in these offerings remains a major obstacle. “CeBIT has set the goal [...]
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Top 4 qualities of a good software developer

by Pawel Bejger 08.03.2012 Agile software development
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Have you ever wondered whether you can consider yourself a good software developer? If so, you probably also wondered what it means to be a good software programmer. What are the skills of a good software engineer? What are the differences between the bad and the good one? Is this just a matter of experience? [...]
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HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript improvements in Visual Studio 11

by Pawel Bejger 02.03.2012 ASP.net
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Mads Kristensen gave a very interesting lecture at TechDays 2012 in The Hague about all the new functionalities and options in Visual Studio 11 and ASP.NET 4.5.  While browsing through the list of new features we can get the impression that this time the main focus was put on web standards and HTML5. A lot [...]
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Will HTML5 fulfill the old Java(script) write once run anywhere promise?

by Marcin Dembowski 06.02.2012 Software development
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Do you remember the slogan Java Everywhere – write once, run anywhere – WORA, sometimes WORE or by some, and here I mean .NET developers (like me), called Just-W*ORE. This slogan saying you can write Java code on any machine, compile it and run on any device, was very popular a couple of years ago. [...]
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Happy birthday Commodore 64

by Marcin Dembowski 26.01.2012 Books & Events
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“Holly Crap, how old am I? I just became 30 this year! I have no wife, no money, but still many fans and people who love me, even if there are other good-looking and rich guys around”. Commodore 64 could probably say this if he was a human being. How did a home PC look [...]
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The 7 ground rules of communication to became a good Manager

by Maciej Greń 26.01.2012 Management
As a Manager you have to cope with people. This is your daily bread. The way you communicate with others can be a key to either your success or failure. People tend to block themselves, refuse to cooperate when their Manager talks to them in a wrong way. A good Manager has to understand a [...]
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Quick start with method caching using Spring 3.1 and Ehcache

by Rafał Borowiec 20.01.2012 Java
A while ago I wrote about method caching in Java using Ehcache Annotations for Spring. However, Spring 3.1 release, among many enhancements, brings native support for method caching with so-called cache abstraction. The main usage scenario of cache abstraction is to reduce the number of expensive executions and/or slow methods returning the same result for [...]
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How Personas can help you clear the fog

by Peter Horsten 19.01.2012 Best practices
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Just imagine yourself taking part in a lively discussion at some birthday party. Everybody is telling great stories about recent holidays. We ask some polite questions and at least pretend to share the same excitement. What’s wrong with it? Honestly, may not be much as long as everybody likes it. But this shouldn’t happen when [...]
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How to NOT store user credentials in a database

by Marcin Dembowski 10.01.2012 Architecture
Sometimes you need to create an application with your own role and user management module. In most cases you are creating it in a simple and understandable way. That way the user information with a password is stored in the database in the same table named User. In this post I will show you why [...]
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