Garbage Collection Gets a Bad Rap
Today I was searching for information why the iPhone doesn’t implement garbage collection. Programs using Cocoa for the Mac do have garbage collection available. Everywhere I looked I saw people stating their opinion that garbage collection was not implemented because it was a performance hog and would reduce battery life. Now, this may be the case, [...]
Microsoft Throws Money Away on Maps
Quick Facts Featured Story Microsoft Bing Maps Beta adds much richer images What Microsoft Bing competes with Google maps Excerpt Microsoft is kicking Bing Maps into a higher gear, announcing a beta version of Bing Maps that uses Silverlight to display [...]
Microsoft Bing’s Pretty Background Images
I’m not sure when Bing was officially released, but I got webmaster mail from them today and I ended up visiting the site. I was really impressed with the design. This picture in particular. This picture shows why Photoshop is a very good thing. They’ve balanced the colors and textures perfectly to create an image [...]
Reader: Why is Outlook HTML Renderer Lame?
Today we have a reader submitted question. David is an IT Manager who leads an organization of developers at a large multinational corporation. To the Editorial Team of sd sync: I have a problem that might be of interest to the sd sync community and am looking for someone to help with a solution. I have [...]