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The announcement early yesterday morning of experimental evidence for what’s presumably the Higgs particle brings a certain closure to a story I’ve watched (and sometimes been a part of) for nearly 40 years. In some ways I felt like a teenager again. Hearing about a new particle being discovered. And asking the same questions I would have asked at age 15. “What’s its mass?” “What decay channel?” “What total width?” “How many sigma?” “How many events?” With Mathematica, I may have been able to make some small contribution to what has now been achieved.
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Rumors of a 7“ iPad have been rampant for months, but this week they’ve really picked up steam as stories at the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have all but confirmed it. But despite everyone calling it ”the iPad Mini“, I remain unconvinced. A 7” iPad has never made sense to me for one reason and one reason alone: interface. Mini-iPad, you complete me!
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: A 7” iPad has never made sense to me for one reason and one reason alone:
interface
Anyone who's used a 7" Android tablet (I have the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus) can attest to the usability issues of trying to cram a tablet UI tuned for a 10" screen into 7". It's awful. Truly painful.
Scaling up to provide a thin, light device that's a larger iPod is the only way it would work. All I want is a device that works in exactly the same way as my iPhone but with more screen space. I don't want a cramped iPad.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Watch out for further discussion of device sizes in tomorrow's newsletters.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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By trying to combine what people do on their PC with what they want to do on a tablet, Microsoft feels it is offering the best of both worlds.The problem with that, as I’ve said before, is that people interact differently with a tablet than they do a computer. So, in reality, you don’t get the best of both worlds, but rather a mishmash of each. Surface doesn't redefine the tablet, it merely presents a different interpretation.
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Enterprise and Small Business Server are both going away; four new versions of Windows Server remain with the new release, which could be released to manufacturing real soon. Here's Microsoft's new SKU/licensing chart for the four editions of Windows Server 2012. Which one will you boot?
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When you say "boot", do you mean "kick out?". If so, I'll hold my tongue for now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The experiment: in three days, update Microsoft's branding and messaging. I decided that Microsoft needs a brand that represents the future. Be slightly aggressive. Promise to deliver the future today. Be almost science fiction. This is the Microsoft I think we all want to see more of.
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Don't like our pig? More lipstick, quickly! 
At least artificial intelligence already is superior to natural stupidity
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Git allows groups of people to work on the same documents (often code) at the same time, and without stepping on each other's toes. It's a distributed version control system.
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Knowing that Git is not the only one: you have Bazaar and Mercurial too for instance, as well as SVK (to some extent I agree). My favorite remains Git though.
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I find this interesting and always wanted to learn git, i can't find a motive to downvote this post, so i give you a 5.
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
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Sentenryu wrote: i can't find a motive to downvote this post, so i give you a 5.
Thanks for +5
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I don't know about the stepping on each other's toes bit. At the end of the day, if the project is not well planned and several people have modified the same file, it comes down to a merge. Sometimes this is easy and can be automated. Sometimes, it is very complex: that is when the toe stepping starts. It is the same in every source code control system and GIT is no different from the rest. It is a problem that has been there since source code control systems began.
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I’m quite a fan of .NET and have found it great to develop with since moving away from PHP in the early days of my career. With its great tools, large community and broad applicability (mobile, Xbox, desktop and Web) it’s both powerful and fun. Let’s be honest, though. I’m probably already playing devil’s advocate. So, let’s see if I can convince you, a seasoned non-.NET developer, to try it out. If you’re already a .NET developer, you might still find something new in the code sample, so I urge you to take a look. Plus: is Mono really an option?
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Stop thinking of startup ideas to build and instead think of problems to solve. Young founders such as myself are notoriously challenged with discovering ripe problems in the world because we don’t have much real world experience. Where do you begin to look for problems? Ask yourself the questions: What do I want to make absurd two years from now? What products can I not live without? We build a better mousetrap because mice are still a problem.
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PHP is still the easiest language to learn for non-technical people: it allows anyone to create dynamic websites faster than with any other technologies, it allows anyone to host websites cheaply and without any hassles. PHP is probably not the best designed language in the world, but it lets you get things done, and you can't argue with that. PHP is probably not the best language out there, but PHP is the best web platform... ever.
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I don’t like JavaScript. I write an enormous amount of JavaScript — in fact I write it almost exclusively — but I don’t really like it as a language. I don’t want to write a giant screed as to why I don’t like the language, but suffice it to say that it lacks some really basic features, and its lack of clearly defined rules create lots of headaches. Something that has helped me keep JavaScript manageable and even fun is the coding styles I have developed. I write code that is boring, because boring code is readable code.
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... which is why i think LINQ, Lambdas, et al, are the devil's work.
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We have entered an era when the developer may not be king but the developer has an equally if not more important role in that they will be the ones to decide which platform gets the best apps and the market seems to have dictated that the platform with the best and the most apps is the one that shall win. By combining the core of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft is creating a foundation that may unleash such power that, past October, we may see a Windows Phone platform on the ascendancy at a faster rate than the other platform. If you make it easy to build apps, they will come.
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I don't think you're 100% correct on this...Windows platforms for mobile have suffered much in the past! The reason for this is the lack of availability of awesome apps! The same thing goes for RIM's Blackberry device! The cool and fun factors are missing key elements! It is quite an embarassment for Microsoft quite honestly (I myself being an original Msoft dev who has moved on since then and I still continue to hope they will reinvent themselves into something cool!) Microsoft is the 300 pound gorilla in the room with the geeky devs that work really hard to lock you outside of their OS internals with cumbersome logic and updates that seem like a brick wall to a developer. Apple, same thing! Think about this for a moment! Why is Android so successful? Huh? Bet you cannot answer that! The reason is because they open up the box! You can tweek it whichever way you like, the OS is free and portable to any device! If you wish to write your own driver on the opensource platform you can and you don't have to spend an arm and a leg to do it! The only saving grace for microsoft and I hope they read my posting, is to create a new OS that is opensource and does not look like Windows XP, XP Embedded or any costly OS implementation! I have no idea why in god's name they just don't jump on opensource like everyone else! They are going to loose in this game if they don't do something quickly and with the economy in the tank worldwide, they are wasting money even creating their own tablet regardless how cool it looks and the fact it has a keyboard! Do you for a moment think that Google will not come out with a keyboard for the next Nexus device? Cmon...None of this stuff impresses the end user! Its the cool apps that give it the awesome factor! I doubt that the 3rd wheel on this date, Msoft will rise above the other two market share dominants, Android and IOS doing the same old thing! They made the X-box a success after it being a complete failure in the beginning and they lost billions, I would love to see them rise to the occasion, so that I can have something to develop for on their platform also! I just doubt that greedy can also be smart! 
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Prepare the fireworks: The discovery of the Higgs boson is finally here. Early in the morning on July 4, physicists with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN announced they have found a new particle that behaves similarly to what is expected from the Higgs. It turns out the universe does, in fact, exist.
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John Ellis answer the question What is the Higgs boson? in preparation for the press conference following the seminar on LHC 2012 results on the Higgs boson searches, due on July 4 2012 at CERN. TL;DR: 42.
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For many of us, the most shocking revelation to come out of CERN's Higgs boson announcement today was quite unrelated to the science itself. Rather, we were blown away by the fact that a team made up of some of the most undoubtedly brilliant people in the world believe that Comic Sans is an appropriate font for such a historic occasion. It looks like you're searching for the Higgs Boson. Would you like help?
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This is an amazing gadget. I started programming on Radio-86RK in machine code typing in the Monitor. Same here. Also, the issue of the magazine, which GMC-4 is bundled with, according to illustrations (unfortunately, I don’t read Japanese), is dedicated to the history of microprocessors starting from Intel 4004. Then there is a dozen of code examples and projects using GMC-4. Beautiful! DIY FTW!
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