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Microsoft is still relatively fresh off the launch of Windows 10, which — as presenter and Windows team head Terry Myerson pointed out — happened less than three months ago. Now, the company is getting ready to release its smartphone variant, Windows 10 Mobile. And while the operating system isn’t out yet, we just got our first look at the phones that will run it: Microsoft’s two flagship Lumias, along with one budget option. Oh look they have a laptop AND a smartwatch now.
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Wow. Just wow. This event has so many amazing announcements and demos in it. Continuum for Windows 10 phones is *really* damn cool. I wasn't expecting much but it surprisingly kinda blew me away. Based on the demo I think it might be the first implementation of a phone as a convertible PC done right. That part starts at about 44:00 if you are interested in seeing it in action. Universal Windows Apps are a huuuuge plus for this, especially the part of the demo where the app can switch between the monitor and the phone screen and it keeps its state and everything...so cool!
You can watch the whole event keynote here:
Windows 10 devices event keynote: Hololens,Surface 4 pro,Surface Book,Lumia 950&950XL[^]
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The venerable language for Apple development is losing ground, perhaps with a nudge from Swift Come on baby, don't fear the reaper
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Just because everyone has to pay taxes doesn't make paying taxes "popular."
Marc
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Was it ever "popular" or just in demand?
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The Internet, in short, is killing us. And the Captain Obvious Award goes to...
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The industry is rapidly embracing Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), cloud offering for companies looking to rent access to digital data warehouses managed by an external provider. Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the database management solution.
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Ol' Ben
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Microsoft engineers are working on a new approach to extending the battery life of laptops, tablets and wearable devices, by monitoring user habits. Sure the whole software-defined thing is great, but I'm just waiting over here for Doc Brown to show up in a DeLorean with a Mr. Fusion.
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Almost as soon as they were introduced in 2010, Apple’s iPad tablets became huge hits in U.S. classrooms. By 2013, 40 percent of the digital devices used in American schools were running iOS, while 30 percent were running Windows and 16 percent were running Google’s Chrome OS. Gotta get em' while they're young.
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Prominent Linux kernel developer, Sarah Sharp, announced in a blog post that she would step down from her direct work in the kernel community. *respectful salute*
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Hey Linus! Did you read that?!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Security researchers have disrupted an online criminal operation they estimated drew $30 million per year pushing ransomware on unsuspecting people browsing the Internet. Cisco to hackers: "I am the captain now."
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Microservices are awesome. We know this because of all the success stories that are circulating lately. The news is full of such stories, of people taking large, monolithic codebases, breaking them up, adding HTTP APIs and enjoying all the benefits. "Guys, I don't want to make things too complicated, but maybe we can counter that by using something complicated."
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Outstanding post. Short, succinct, and true. 
Marc
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The significant advance, by a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney appeared in the international journal Nature. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.
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However, a quantum bit (or 'qubit') can exist in both of these states at once
Great, we'll be able to write software with multiple simultaneous bugs.
Marc
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Microsoft has just announced that it will make HoloLens development kits available in the first quarter of 2016. The kits will cost $3,000, and Microsoft is taking applications for them starting today. Exact specs for the kits are still nebulous, but they'll supposedly be "fully untethered," capable of being used without physical cords or a remote PC connection — like the units we tested earlier this year.
If I were a rich man...
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Google has begun pushing out the Android Marshmallow update. This new version of the mobile operating system includes new features and bug fixes across the platform. Although the rollout began today, end users will have to wait for their phone manufacturers to port the OS to their platforms in order to use it. S'mores anyone?
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In this interview, Coveros CEO and agile instructor Jeff Payne discusses why you should make the move to agile, its many benefits, and how to transition. He also explains his SQE Training course, Fundamentals of Agile Certification. Transitioning to agile need not be payneful.
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Ah, yet another article setting up strawmen and then knocking them down. 
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With the final version of C# 6 having been released, we can seen that a lot of syntax changes have occurred since its inception. Because of this, I’ve noticed that most of the blog posts currently on the internet don’t work anymore or are too vague about how they implemented a feature.
I thought it would be useful to make a list of the most essential C# 6 features with simple code examples that would make it both easy to understand and simple to copy/paste a sample into a new console app to try it. Let’s jump in. Don't you feel smarter now?
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Telerik wrote: Let’s jump in.
No, let's not.
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