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The Twelve Factor-App methodology for SaaS

How should you design software today? In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. They need to be designed somewhat differently than older applications. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that: Use declarative formats for setup automation, to minimize time and cost for →

IT eBook sites

IT eBooks is a very interesting site that promises free download IT eBooks. It is like a very large library of IT books on-line. They have very many books and they seem to have complete books on-line and links to sites to buy printed copy. The site is built using  IT eBooks Open API. Other →

HTML5 is now a W3C Recommendation

Developers, browser vendors and the press have been talking about HTML5 for many years. In reality, however, HTML5 has been flux for a long time. But just yesterdays W3C Declares HTML5 Standard Complete as W3C today published its Recommendation of HTML5 — the final version of the standard after years of adding features and making changes →

Arduino and Windows 8.1

I was testing Arduino with new laptop running Windows 8.1. So I hope I could easily get the boards detected by the OS and get the IDE installed without too much problems. I had earlier read reports on new Windows 8 security things making Arduino driver installing hard. There are even video on solving installation →

On Counterfeit USB-serial Chips

USB to serial port adapters are gadgets that we have a love/hate relationship. We love that we can add serial port to a new PC, but we hate that many of those adapters do not feel reliable in use. Counterfeit copies of USB to serial ICs have caused headaches for users and manufacurers. And it →