I've heavily used different Internet messaging in both the nonprofit and the for profit realms. Being able to quickly chat with developers during a project is a powerful tool. Skype is great because it not only allows you to IM but to talk and to tr...

Here's a great offer from Microsoft.  Although there certainly are moments when I wish MS would behave a little more openly, they've always, always taken great care of their developers.  Their learning programs show signs of rene...

Holy cow, what a rant Zed Shaw goes on. He hammers RoR, several of the core Rails developers, consulting, several companies and then a couple paragraphs on ThoughtWorks. An entertaining read, unless you are a rails lover then it might mean trouble. Who k...

In developing WPF applications developers now have the opportunity to have real control over the color schemes we use. As great as this is we also now have to be able to find that perfect color scheme for our applications. to help us with those uncountabl...

Congratulations to Tiffany, mommy_of_two, who is the winner of a brand-new Jeep® Cherokee Sport Stroller in Neptune Blue! The MM Gals want to thank everyone who entered and the developers over at Random.org who have made picking a winner easier... For t...

FlexSpy is an extremely useful Flex component for developers starting to learn Flex. Similar to Firebug or the DOM Inspector in Firefox, FlexSpy allows you to dig into the visual components in your Flex application, and dynamically change properties and...