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MSDN Blogs[^]:

Together with Google, Mozilla, and other community leaders, the W3C Web Performance working group has standardized the Navigation Timing, Resource Timing, User Timing, and Performance Timeline interfaces to help you understand the real-world performance of navigating, fetching resources, and running scripts in your Web application. You can use these interfaces to capture and analyze how your real-world customers are experiencing your Web application, instead of relying on synthetic testing, which tests the performance of your application in an artificial environment. With this timing data, you can identify opportunities to improve the real-world performance of your Web applications. All of these interfaces are supported in IE11.

News.com[^]:

Google's Portable Native Client technology gives a new Web-based lease on life for an old operating system and the games it could run.

Neowin[^]:

Get out the salt, do your rain dance, and take this next bit of information as just another rumor - but Eldar Murtazin is saying that Windows Phone 9 will feature an updated UI that will drop the tile-based interface formerly known as 'Metro'.

The Register[^]:

The latest release of the Firefox web browser, version 26, now blocks Java software on all websites by default unless the user specifically authorizes the Java plugin to run.

The Next Web[^]:

The DBA has traditionally been the person in charge of strategies, optimization, capacity planning and security for databases that store and supply information to a given application. However, it occurred to me that the role of the DBA has changed dramatically in the last few years, with a lot more changes to come.

ZDNet[^]:

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offers up his five management tips based on lessons he learned during his 13-year CEOship.

Read Write[^]:

Software may be eating the world, as Marc Andreessen posits, but open-source software seems to be eating itself. And at a far faster clip. While the software world has grown used to products and their vendors dominating for long stretches (think: Microsoft in operating systems and Oracle in databases), the new world of open source is moving at an accelerated, Darwinian pace, leaving no project to rest on its laurels.

Site Point[^]:

Development for multiple devices has its challenges, but there are also possibilities which aren’t typically available on desktop PCs. Consider the vibration mechanism; it’s a simple tactile feedback device which can alert you of new messages or phone calls. It’s especially useful in a noisy environment where sound cannot be heard or quiet places where it would be a distraction.

InfoQ[^]:

In keeping with their tradition of community collaboration on the Java platform, Oracle is inviting the enterprise development community to participate in a survey to help define requirements for the next version of Java Enterprise Edition, Java EE 8.