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Microsoft’s Web 2.0 Developer Program Scores Points, but read the fine print

According to this headline, Microsoft has “edged” Google in Web 2.0 services for developers.  The report being discussed is from Evans Data, a technology research group.
Microsoft  and eBay score unexpectedly high marks with developers, according to Evans.
You decide, the  report can be found here.   But I can’t quite grasp what sort of survey panel [...]

"Facebook surfers may cost their bosses" - but look who is doing the survey

Today CNET published an article claiming that Facebook could cost employers as much as $4 billion (yes, thats BILLION) dollars per year.
Internet security company SurfControl looked at the phenomenon and found that Australian workers who keep a close watch on their Facebook profile page were cumulatively costing their employers up to 5 billion Australian dollars [...]

Ok, got the MacBook , now I want to learn Ruby. What first?

I am going to try Locomotive. In the spirit of WAMP/MAMP, it is a full Ruby on Rails stack for OS X. Since I am not terribly interested in doing everything manually (yet), I figure this is my easiest way in.

Solution to an IE gotcha when developing Facebook App in an IFRAME

This was a very frustrating problem for us in our app Jobs (http://apps.facebook.com/getthejob).
The problem was that in IE, if a parent frame has a different domain than the child page, the session data (stored in the Session object) is not preserved. This is a so-called “security feature.”
Anyway, if you have this problem, the [...]