Performance and standards look like dominating work on Microsoft's next version of Internet Explorer. As ever with Microsoft, though, it's likely to be the former that not just trips up the latter but that also continues to sour Microsoft's relationship with the rest of the industry.

Linux has failed to win either mind share or market share on the desktop. Google’s Chrome OS will do little to change that. Learn why.

Nice review of logging frameworks for Java.

Everyone has had an interview that didn't go as well as it should have. Luckily, there are things you can do before, during and after an interview to ensure that your mistakes can be avoided or negated.

To complement the new jQuery lesson series I thought I’d just write an article on what exactly jQuery is, and how it can really help your website without you needing to know too much about Javascript coding or anything like that

Paul asked me to review this, his first book, and my comment to him was that he had a pretty high bar to match; being of the same "series" as Release It!, Mike Nygard's take on building software ready for production (and, in my repeatedly stated opinion, the most important-to-read book of the decade), Debug It! had some pretty impressive shoes to fill. Paul's comment was pretty predictable: "Thanks for keeping the pressure to a minimum."

In an ideal world, each big subject from the software development process would be handed to a specialized professional: UI designers, programmers, architects, database administrators etc. Unfortunately, this is not the case most of times. There a plenty of cases out there where projects suffer from lack of proper expertise and well trained people

Computing evolved with Desktop computing and then web apps. Browser Based apps are always slow and faulty, they can never as robust as a desktop can be. After The invention of web services and REST API, I would love to see web enabled desktop Apps. I love the concept of Portable Apps , When we mix concept of portable Apps and Cloud Based storage, we can achieve much better results. BUT Google will never let it happen, they are re-inventing all those age old things again in browser. I have posted a small video response on you tube.

JetBrains gained a lot of attention when they released an open source version of thier IntelliJ IDEA development platform. For Ruby and Ruby on Rails users, JetBrains created the RubyMine IDE, which is built on the principles of IntelliJ. However, RubyMine did not start out as a plugin like comperable Ruby IDE's for Eclipse and NetBeans. In an exclusive interview, DZone spoke with RubyMine's lead developer at JetBrains, Dmitry Jemerov. The interview covers the recently introduced RubyMine 2.0, which features improved code refactoring and added support for popular Ruby/Rails technologies. Although RubyMine hasn't been around for very long, it has quickly become the one of the most natural Ruby/Rails development environments.

Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 screenshots

In this post we present a new speedy way of writing HTML code using CSS-like selector syntax — a handy set of tools for high-speed HTML and CSS coding. It was developed by our author Sergey Chikuyonok and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.