Jacobson v. Katzer, a significant legal case relating to open source software licensing enforcement, has been settled.

35 powerful and effective jQuery plugins and techniques for slideshows, graphs and text effects

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.

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!

Twitter just recently launched a new Twitter Engineering blog, and to kick things off, one team member, Ben Sandofsky, decided to share a video he made representing Twitter’s development history. The video was made using Code Swarm, a software tool used to visualize data.

Many of you have probably heard all the buzz around CSS3, but exactly which techniques can we use today? In this article I'll show you some different CSS3 techniques that work great in some of the leading browsers (i.e. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera ), and how they will degrade well in the non-supported browsers (i.e. Internet Explorer).

...watch this video of Vint Cerf (who has been credited as the father of the Internet) suddenly mention mainframe time-sharing in the middle of a chat on cloud-to-cloud operability.

The "NoSQL movement" and Cloud based data stores are striving to completely remove developers from a reliance on the SQL language and relational databases. Some developers think this is something new, but object databases appeared in the 1980s and Ray Ozzie started the commercial document-centric datastore business with LotusNotes.

Several anonymous sources have confirmed that Facebook has indeed been making some changes to the basic PHP runtime environment. It will increase speed by around 80% and offer a just-in-time compilation engine that will offer a number of advantages.

An interesting tidbit of jobs data came out this week from the IEEE-USA, which said the total pool of employed software engineers fell by nearly 2%. Are they retiring, leaving the workforce, or just building iPhone and iPad apps down at the local coffeeshop?

MySQL is a fantastic choice for any new developer, because of its open source nature, wide support and abundance of tutorials available on the subject.Here are some great tips to improve your MySQL coding, and to help you save time.

Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3.6, a significant update of the popular open source Web browser. Ars takes a hands-on look at the new version and the enhancements that it offers for Web developers and regular end users.

The target is to kickstart a new wave of services that find novel ways to make use of the information.

Who said programming was all numbers? Here's a formula you can use.

Often, when we meet other game developers and say that we use OpenGL for our game Overgrowth, we're met with stares of disbelief -- why would anyone use OpenGL? DirectX is the future.

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The advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.

At first glance this appears to be a CGI post process. AR Business Card AR BusinessIs this real?

apparently Google has a “code freeze” policy that goes in place sometime in December. If you don’t get your product/service out the door by then, it gets pushed til when the freeze is lifted, likely sometime in the new year. A few Googlers confirmed this policy off-the-record, but all seemed concerned about publicly acknowledging it.