Web Devs: Learn to build high performance websites to banish autumn blues

Free Web Camp and weekly webinars

Promo  As the leaves turn to gold and the autumn mists descend, your average developer’s mind automatically turns to the age-old question of… how can I make my website even better? Well, you could get in out of the cold and turn on to Microsoft’s training sessions.…

Take CTRL! Shallow minds ponder the DEEP spectre of DARK CACHE

Hang on, there’s a shortcut

Something for the Weekend, Sir?  If in doubt, right-click. It’s a motto that has served me well and stood the test of time. Can’t locate a command under multiple sub-menus? Right-click – it’s probably in the contextual menu. Can’t remember what the command is called? Right-click – you’ll find it there. Have absolutely no idea what to do next? Right-click – it will alleviate the boredom.…

Oracle hires former SAP exec for cloudy push

‘We know Larry said cloud was gibberish, and insane, and idiotic, but…’

Oracle has bagged itself a global head to manage the cloudy portfolio just a week after chief techie and erstwhile CEO Larry Ellison talked up the bets the company is placing behind the as-a-service model.…

Software gurus: Only developers can defeat mass surveillance

Fowler, Dörnenburg urge devs to stick up for the users

Software developers should not be content with writing code that works, they have a responsibility not to harm their users, say Agile development experts Martin Fowler and Erik Dörnenburg, speaking at the Goto Aarhus conference in Denmark last week.…