Articles by Dice Staff
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Freescale Launches Crypto Chip for Data Centers
Freescale has announced a new cryptography coprocessor for the data center—an interesting choice, given that some server chips announced last summer have dedicated crypto blocks to accelerate tho… -
Lockheed Martin Seeks Voluntary Buyouts from Senior Workers
Lockheed Martin on Monday announced a voluntary layoff program for high-level engineers and managers tied to its Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) unit, the second-largest of its bus… -
Apple's Doing Mac Game Developers No Favors
Ever since the first Mac appeared in 1984, Apple has nurtured the idea that its products are so new, so slick, that anyone who used them was cooler than everybody else. So as the popularity of ev… -
Where the iPhone 5 Kicks the Mars Rover's Butt
Giving the Mars Rover Curiosity the brains she needs to operate took 5 million lines of code. And while the Mars Science Laboratory team froze the code a year before the roaming laboratory landed… -
Comebacks for When They Say 'Your Code Sucks'
It's tough enough to have people criticize your code, especially when the comments are coming from an intern. On Slashdot, one anonymous user had precisely that gripe. After ten years as a develo… -
Microsoft Nears $1 Billion in Virginia Data-Center Investment
The state of Virginia announced Jan. 30 that Microsoft is investing $348 million more to expand its modular data center in Mecklenberg County, bringing its total investment in the facility to nea… -
Dell Designs for SAP's In-Memory Database
Dell plans on shipping a range of scale-out servers optimized for SAP’s HANA in-memory database architecture, part of its focus on designing server solutions for specific workloads. Dell also ann… -
BlackBerry's Rise or Fall Depends on BB10 Apps
In unveiling its long-awaited BlackBerry 10 operating system and slick-looking Z10 and Q10 smartphones, the renamed Research in Motion has offered up a critical key to winning over developers and… -
How to Build Controllers and Views with CodeIgniter
Now that we have the CodeIgniter configuration out of the way, let's get started with our first controller. We'll also create a view for it, and then we'll pass data from the controller to the vi…