Are you ready to build or port your apps over to the new Windows 8 Metro UI? Chris Bennet walks you through a high-level overview of the Metro UI design, features, development and deployment of apps.
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Instructor Shereef Bishay has a good track record of finding jobs for attendees, but it is worth the $12,000 price tag?
Tags : Ruby, developer, training

Project Sputnik runs Ubuntu and includes developer-friendly utilities.
Tags : open source, developer, Ubuntu, Dell, laptop

Microsoft sent "save the date" notices to selected developers.
Tags : developer, mobile development, Microsoft, Windows Phone

Staffing firm Bluewolf says that 2012 looks very good for developers with the right skills.
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The new app certification program promises greater security, but it also makes the OS X and iOS ecosystems more closed.
Tags : developer, Apple, Mac, OS X, IOS

The company delivered new releases for three of its development tools this month.
Tags : developer, JavaScript, IDE, JetBrains

Thomas Suarez talks about creating the Bustin Jieber app.
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Any developer who survives a layoff usually faces a significant increase in workload. These three immediate steps can improve a developer's work situation after others are let go.
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Oracle promises Java SE 7 release this year with increased developer productivity, modularization, and support for more than 200 languages.
Tags : Java, Oracle, developer, Mehling

New JavaFX RAD Tool for NetBeans coming next week, in preview at least.
Tags : Oracle, developer, JavaFX, NetBeans, Sun Microsystems

By adopting a messaging based approach to task parallelism, the Asynchronous Agents Library provides a simple model for concurrent programming that avoids the complexity of memory locks.
Tags : developer, Windows, security, Microsoft, programming

OP-ED: Unlike the Illuminati, the IEEE exists, and they have a secret. This secret helps them turn out shiny MP3 players, phones, and computers with processing power than we programmers can figure out how to use. This is how they do it. When will developers learn the same truths?
Tags : developer, programming, software, IEEE