Thanks to recent security debacles from the likes of Target and Home Depot, it’s impossible to overstate the need for organizations to take application, data, and infrastructure security seriously&mdash...

Near Field Communication, or NFC, seems poised to play a huge part in the future of computing. To that end, I think it’s interesting to see how some of the bigger trend-setters and visionaries in our industry...

I regularly take Microsoft to task when they fall short of the somewhat lofty standards I’ve set for them in my head. So it’s only fair that I should also level some harsh criticism at some of their...

I regularly marvel at how quickly the Empire State Building was constructed. Standing at an impressive 102 stories, and a whopping 1453 feet/442 meters and comprising an astounding 2,158,000 square feet, construction...

It's no secret that developers can run afoul of scalability problems when creating solutions backed by SQL Server or other relational databases. In fact, earlier this month, I complained about developers who...

Fine, I confess: that title is link-bait. I could have more accurately used a phrase like “Some Notes to Managers about NoSQL,” or maybe I should have called it something along the lines of “A Rant...

In my mind, I keep envisioning Scott McNealy lounging next to a pool, sipping drinks from glasses with those little umbrellas in them and feeling smugly vindicated about his vision of where computing was headed. If...

It's always the small things.

In modern applications, especially MVC, MVVM, and MVP applications, it’s all too common to run into situations where you need to map data or properties from one object to another. Writing code to tackle this...

Developers are getting the cold shoulder