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JavaScript has taken over the Web, and it's creeping onto mobile apps and back-end services too. Programmers would be well-advised to get in on the JavaScript wave, and with today's surplus of editors and IDEs, they have no excuse to pass up the opportunity.

ECMAscript 6, in development as the basis for future versions of JavaScript, will improve the language for complex applications and libraries and make it a better target for code generators, a programming expert reveals in the below video.

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If you've ever had an iOS app bounced from Apple's App Store, there's typically a good reason for it.

Tcomb, a validation library for Node.js and browsers, is being offered as a tool for domain-driven design and runtime checking for JavaScript.

Many people assume that big data means bigger is always better. People tend to approach the "bigger is better" question from various philosophical perspectives, which I characterize thusly:

The traditional core/aggregation/access network architecture has been a mainstay of enterprise data centers for decades. While compute and storage have evolved to become more flexible, dynamic, and "software defined," the network has remained resistant to change -- and the choke point to data center automation and expansion.

There's EMC and then there's EMC.

Confused? Well, there's EMC, the vaunted storage and converged infrastructure company. But then there's EMC, the capstone of a corporate federation -- including VMware and big-data startup Pivotal -- that has positioned itself quite nicely to capitalize on the critical trends reshaping corporate IT. (Think mobile, cloud, big data, etc.) This summer, EMC's federation model came under fire from activist investors who claim the company would be better served by bringing assets like VMware in-house.

Microsoft announced yesterday that it is re-releasing the ill-fated Windows 8.1 U

Password theft and misuse is so widespread, when only a few million are stolen in one cyber heist, it doesn't even make the news.

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