Putting Google, Yahoo and Bing to the Test in Translation
Mar 14, 2010 Programming
Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Here are some quick comparisons of human translations and computerized versions from Google and two competitors.
HTML5 – New Old Semantics
Mar 11, 2010 Programming
Huge deal! The revolutionary modifications in HTML5 semantics bring the whole new coding (and indexing) experience. But is it really all that new?
25 Amazing and Fresh jQuery Plugins
Mar 6, 2010 Programming
Keeping up with the new jQuery plugin releases and developments sometimes feels like a full-time job! Every other day something new and better crops up that catches the eye and you think yourself “Wow, that looks good, I could use that!“.
Fill in the Blanks: Algorithm Makes Something Out of Nothing
Mar 2, 2010 Programming
A technique known as compressed sensing that uses math to turn lo-res datasets into hi-res samples may change everything from medical imagery to astronomy
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
Feb 25, 2010 Programming
Want to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the world�s most powerful Internet company, that a room filled with three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives figure out how to make their search engine
FOSS devs can collect damages from license violators
Feb 23, 2010 Programming
Jacobson v. Katzer, a significant legal case relating to open source software licensing enforcement, has been settled.
35 Powerful jQuery Plugins
Feb 19, 2010 Programming
35 powerful and effective jQuery plugins and techniques for slideshows, graphs and text effects
Coders Get a New Colleague — Barbie
Feb 15, 2010 Programming
Barbie today got two new careers, and in one she’s a computer engineer! That’s right, coders of the world can now count Mattel’s best-selling toy among their ranks. Sorry, systems administrators!
PHP and Perl crashing the enterprise party
Feb 15, 2010 Programming
The enterprise has long favored Java and .Net, but PHP and other dynamic programming languages have left their infancies and are rapidly closing the gap on their more stodgy competitors.