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Responsive Web design has been around for some years now, and it was a hot topic in 2012. Many well-known people such as Brad Frost and Luke Wroblewski have a lot of experience with it and have helped us make huge improvements in the field. But there's still a whole lot to do.

PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell, an integrated scripting environment (ISE), a scripting language built on .NET Framework, an API allowing you to host PowerShell in your .NET applications, and it is a distributed automation platform. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling you to perform tasks on both local and remote Windows systems. PowerShell is a new breed platform for automation, in that it solves administration and adaptability challenges by seamlessly integrating the .NET Framework. It's good for developers, administrators, testers and more. Based on .NET, the tool drives down costs, while providing developers and administrators a simple and enterprise-ready way to automate, measure and improve all of their processes.

There is so much to learn about WordPress theme development. The Internet is home to hundreds of articles about building WordPress themes, to countless theme frameworks that will help you get started, and to endless WordPress themes, some of which are beautiful and professional but not a few of which are (to be honest) a bit crappy.

Packaging is always inspirational. It's one of our favorite subjects, perhaps because it's about real materials, something web designers don't get to enjoy so often. Packaging selections didn't used to be a regular feature on our blog, but we've decided to make a monthly selection thanks to the number of visually outstanding projects that are out there. The creativity to be found in this area is admirable, with such unexpected, aesthetically strong and practical solutions constantly being invented to improve the quotidian objects that surround us.

High-quality usability has been the center of discussions in the industry in the past ten years, as it becomes more and more important for users. Good usability can also help build brand awareness and can generally improve a user's opinion of a website and even a company. There is so much focus on usability today because big and small companies showed how important a good usability strategy can turn out to be. Good usability has been in the past couple of years at the heart of successful start-ups. Simple ideas are most of the time the most innovative and this is mainly what usability is about: making a feature or a product easy to use, while still keeping the product quality at a high level. Today's article comes a lot down to common sense. It seems that after years and years of discussing this issue, web designers still have a hard time understanding it. Usability is not a joke anymore and the advices below should be printed out and pinned on the wall in front of your desk.

The usage for twitter is on the rise and growing day by day. Everyone wants to be unique in everything they do. That is the reason people get customized clothes, cars and accessories. They want everything of theirs to give a statement a about them. This trend has fast caught up social networking profiles. However, a few people know that they can actually improve and customize their twitter backgrounds as well. I am here to reveal these secrets to you:

Online games are undeniably becoming more epic as they improve in terms of gameplay, characters and graphics. One of these online games is called Rift which was released a few years ago. In this game, there are several 'rifts' which are divided into six elements (earth, fire, air, water, life, and death) and it is where monsters emerge to destroy anything in its path. For this moment we will be focusing in air element wherein these monsters are able to control the wind, clouds, and air at their will.

Keeping usability for stumblers, browsers and surfers in mind when creating a website can be an exasperating task. Doing so shouldn't have to be so frustrating... What follows is a list of how to improve your site's usability without going crazy!

« The core of STXXL is an implementation of the C++ standard template library STL for external memory (out-of-core) computations, i. e., STXXL implements containers and algorithms that can process huge volumes of data that only fit on disks. »

CloudFlare claims they can keep spambots off your website, and even stop SQL injection and XSS attacks before they hit your servers ... and they're willing to do part of that for FREE

MbUnit is a .Net Framework test harness ... an attempt to improve on nUnit

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Michael Howard's blog post about SAL(Standard Annotation Language) and how you can improve security by annotating your function declarations.  There's some seriously cool stuff here that could really save you some major headaches.

New CLR libraries incladd-in hosting model, which was discussed in the last two editions of CLR Inside OutSupport for the Suite B set of cryptographic algorithms, as specified by the National Security Agency (NSA)Support for big integersA high-performance set collectionSupport for anonymous and named pipesImproved time zone supportLightweight reader/writer lock classesBetter integration with Event Tracing for Windows® (ETW), including ETW provider and ETW trace listener APIs

Zend is claiming improved Windows performance of between 200 percent and 300 percent overall with Zend Core 2.0.

The source code to (an improved version of) RegSvr32.exe  -- this version has a /c command parameter that forces it to output on the command line instead of using message boxes (why isn't that in the default one?)

This is another IE plugin for improving web debugging