Review: Windows Azure shoots the moon
Microsoft's cloud wows with great price-performance, Windows toolchain integration, and plenty of open source options
Stories by Peter Wayner
Review: Rackspace Cloud keeps IaaS simple
Rackspace stands apart with familiar tools, open standards, and enterprise-grade support
Review: Joyent Cloud is built for speed
Joyent's very smart SmartOS proves that some cloud servers are better than others
First look: Microsoft's sharp, new Windows Phone SDK
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 gives developers extensive features, snappier code, lots of help, and the option to code in JavaScript and HTML
Security through obscurity: How to cover your tracks online
From Tor to steganography, these six techniques will help obscure the data and traces you leave online
7 apps making the most of HTML5
HTML5 is more than a few years old and no longer a curiousity. Web pages that used to simply emulate a piece of paper are now expected to do something snazzy to justify their existence. Thanks to HTML5, along with innovations in JavaScript and CSS, interactive logic is a standard strategy for Web programming, and full-fledged Web apps are everywhere. All it takes is a few extra tags to rewrite the world's software as a Web page.
Review: HP Cloud challenges Amazon and Google
HP's OpenStack-based IaaS cloud blends openness and portability with nice proprietary extras and welcome hand-holding
Bossies 2012: The Best of Open Source Software Awards
It's back -- and bigger and badder than ever! Our sixth annual Bossie Awards call out more than 100 open source products in seven categories
9 key career issues software developers face
The path from birth to death is filled with choices about where to work and what kind of work to do. Sometimes the world is nice enough to allow us some input. These days, developers have a lot more say in their employment, thanks to rising demand for their services.
Review: Google Compute Engine rocks the cloud
Google's new compute cloud offers a crisp and clean way to spin up Linux instances and easily tap other Google APIs
In Pictures: Beyond the smartphone - Emerging platforms developers should target next
From the car to the living room, technologies and markets are quickly evolving to offer lucrative possibilities for programming pioneers
Great open source map tools for Web developers
A rich ecosystem of free maps, free data, and free libraries give developers excellent alternatives to Google Maps
7 hard truths about the NoSQL revolution
Forgoing features for speed has its trade-offs as these NoSQL data store shortcomings show
Beyond iPhone and Android: 5 hot new platforms for developers
A long time ago in a mind-set far away, I spent a lunch with friends trying to figure out what we'd do if we could reprogram our cellphones. Our ideas were, in retrospect, lame. Maybe we would change the font on the dialer or come up with a screensaver animation. Wouldn't it be cool if we could get flying toasters running on the screen of our cellphone?
Review: 3 Web stack monitors in the cloud
Monitoring services from Boundary, Circonus, and Librato combine simple setup and richly different capabilities