Advice for my fellow lazy software developers

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	Advice for my fellow lazy software developers I am a lazy man. It would be difficult to express the magnitude of my laziness. At least, difficult for me... considering how lazy I am. "Very lazy" just doesn't do it justice. Perhaps "Stupidly lazy" or "So lazy, make you wanna slap yo mamma!" Something like that. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Computerworld Honors program Computerworld Honors Program Call For Entries: Deadline 1/18 Computerworld Honors Program nominations will be accepted until January 18, 2013, with the Awards Ceremony and Gala Evening taking place on June 3rd in Washington, DC. Entries selected will have their case studies published in the Honors Global Archive and receive complimentary admission to the Gala program. Submit your entry now! In this Issue Goodbye SDN Controller, Hello Infrastructure Controller: Creating a Hardware Abstraction Layer for the Cloud Why I abandoned Windows Phone 8 Something old, something new: Companies to watch in 2013 Don't faint: Microsoft applauds hacker for Windows RT jailbreaking attempt Microsoft's antivirus is a starting point, not the final stop WHITE PAPER: Polycom The Art of Teleworking Read this Polycom whitepaper to learn how successful teleworking is about overcoming the distance between teleworkers and the organization. Video technology advancements have improved the quality of experience for teleworkers and enables efficient collaboration between the team. Read Now Goodbye SDN Controller, Hello Infrastructure Controller: Creating a Hardware Abstraction Layer for the Cloud Martin Casado & team have been making waves in the SDN community lately - this time talking about the evolving demands that cloud software is placing on infrastructure. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Building modern, virtualization-optimized data centers HP offers a flexible, virtualization-optimized data center network architecture that requires far fewer devices, interconnections, layers, and discrete appliances. HP Networking solutions streamline network operations and accelerate application and service delivery; reduce space, power, cooling, and capital requirements. View Now Why I abandoned Windows Phone 8 A few months ago, I forced myself to switch to Windows 8 on my desktop system (and laptop) and ended up liking the operating system very much. Once I got used to the quirks and garish look of the new Start screen and learned many of the shortcuts built into Windows 8, I found myself enjoying the operating system and was more than pleased by its myriad of enhancements and performance improvements. Read... Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Scaling Out Data Centers Organizations of all sizes are facing daunting challenges as they struggle to adapt their data center networks to new technologies and applications. The move toward cloud architectures in particular is demanding a high-performance network interconnect that can host servers potentially numbering in the thousands. Read Now Something old, something new: Companies to watch in 2013 It's hard to believe, but we're almost at the end of 2012, which means it's time to look ahead towards 2013. I wrote a predictions blog earlier that looked at a few trends, but I think there are a handful of companies worth watching next year. As you can imagine, some of them are smaller startups, but some are more established companies. Magor Read More Don't faint: Microsoft applauds hacker for Windows RT jailbreaking attempt Marked as #FreeWindowsRT, a Nicaraguan hacker called @clrokr tweeted that Microsoft "Surface is such an impressive device - make it even better with Win32!" That would be because he found a way to run "unsigned desktop application on Windows RT." Read More Microsoft's antivirus is a starting point, not the final stop Last week's blog post from Alan Shimel that showed Microsoft's antivirus software, Security Essentials, is the most popular antivirus software product in the world came as no surprise. They give it away for free and push it on you if you go anywhere near Microsoft.com. Read More
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