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This may come as a very surprising news, but according to Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder, Microsoft is paying bloggers to write about Internet Explorer. He received an email from Microsoft regarding the matter, despite his opposing stance on writing paid posts. He also posted the email in its entirety, which offered him compensation for writing a post about Internet Explorer. Hey Microsoft, please send cheque or money order to...
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Google does the same thing. Only they call it advertising. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Anybody got any links to these blogs? I could use a good laugh 
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They all do it, whether it's fake plugs for their own products or artificial criticism of a competitor. Samsung got caught doing the same thing last year, trying to pay off StackOverflow users to promote a developer challenge.
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They probably are also paying NetApplications to game their browser statistics so IE comes in first
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I would like writing a review about IE. But is it allowed to tell the truth?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate humankind in two distinct categories, and those who don't.
"I have two hobbies: breasts." DSK
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Not unless you want the cheque to bounce...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You just need to tell the right "truth"; eg when talking about javascript performance only talk about SunSpider and ignore Kraken and Octane. IE does impressively well on the microbenches in the former; not so much in the more complex and realistic workloads the latter two simulate. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Today, we are excited to announce that we are partnering with Japanese anime studio Production I.G to launch Gargantia: Sky Courier – a brand new game experience that’s fast, beautiful, and perfect for touch with the modern web. The game is based on one of Japan’s top anime franchises, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet. Fans will get never-before-seen footage, cut-scene story featuring Gargantia’s original voice actors, and three different “choose your own adventure” endings. You can play it for free in both Japanese and English worldwide. For developers, we are releasing the source code of a packaged version of the Sky Courier game so you can build your own version with the Turbulenz open source 3D game engine. Latest magnificent demo of the power of Internet Explorer
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In the two months since the OpenSSL vulnerability known as Heartbleed hit the headlines and active solutions were offered to plug the security breach, more vulnerabilities have begun to surface. "When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay"
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Programming is just like drugs, except the dealer pays you. "Strung out in heaven's high"
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The Microsoft SQL Server team has many goals. One of them is to create an industry-leading, high-performance, scalable and resilient database software. The other is to make said-software difficult to download. sudo apt-get install postgresql
Bonus extra: Scott Hanselman has created an easier solution[^].
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Ha! Rebuilding my work laptop and had to download Oracle Express -- requires a profile and login.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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They make you use some third party downloader? Seriously?
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It's still easier than the sql server installer wizarddaemon you end up with after jumping through all those hoops.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Oh, I really mislike that installer. Plus, it's the only one that makes the VS installer look blazing fast.
TTFN - Kent
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That means they've improved since last april[^].
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Home automation is likely the next big wave for consumer innovation. While the idea is nothing new, the barrier to entry for startups is quite low and prices are quickly entering the range where many consumers can afford such luxuries. To help you plan your "million dollar idea"
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It's pretty much a dead market.
X10 was cool but not so much anymore
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In ASP.NET vNext, dependency injection is a first class citizen. While in the previous versions of the framework, DI was partially supported, in ASP.NET vNext it is available throughout the entire stack. A minimalistic DI container is provided out of the box but we are leaving the door open to BYOC (Bring Your Own Container). The default container is useful in the cases when you don’t need any advanced injection capabilities (see the known limitations section at the end of the post). "I watched the needle take another man"
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For a second I thought I read: "In ASP.NET vNext, SQL injection is a first class citizen" 
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No, that's been in there from the start.
TTFN - Kent
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Google has been hit with yet another antitrust complaint in Europe, this time for alleged anticompetitive behavior in the app market, the European Union's top competition authority confirmed Tuesday. They really are, "the new Microsoft"
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ELMAH has indeed served me very well for many years, but now it's time to look at the next evolution of error logging and that’s what brings us to Raygun.io "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
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"Spam"
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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