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This week we explore the link between the All Star Game Home Run Derby and software development, if the cloud can replace offshoring and what to do when your help desk needs help.

While some folks dislike Apps in favor of the browser, the mobile experience will include both the browser and stand-alone app for some time to come.

When it's time to review your code base, assign your best architect to the task, and use high-quality code analysis tools to help you decide how to proceed.

We're used to a hue and cry each time a data center goes down, so I was little surprised by the muted reaction when Amazon and Microsoft lost power at their data centers in Dublin this week.

This week we look at Amazon's practice of giving away Apps without compensation, the advantages of throwing out your code and software patent traps.

iCloud and Google+ present both a challenge and a problem for developers as they are faced with more platforms they can't ignore.

Other than the addition of tabs, Ben Horowitz, whose partner Mark Andreessen helped invent the browser, says there haven't been many break throughs and he thinks it's time that changes.

Conventional wisdom suggests that cloud vendors are more vulnerable to hackers like Anonymous than a private data center, but as we have seen, these hackers can strike anyone seemingly at will.

This week we look at Firefox dissing business, a Windows Server 2012 wish list and why you want developers with a back bone and an opinion.

HP is planning to license WebOS making it available to rival manufacturers. While this will expand the WebOS developer pool, it could also cannibalize HP hardware sales leaving HP in a difficult position.

There's no shortage of data in today's enterprise. The real challenge is how to interpret it and take meaningful action.

This week, the 5 links for developers and IT pros looks at how IT can lead innovation, when Agile might not work and 5 Chromebook concerns.

It seems that the new generation of cloud vendors has learned it's better to work together to promote cloud computing and make integration across products easier, than it is to fight one another or to be all things to all people. A case in point is the recently announced deal between Google and Box.net to integrate Google Docs directly in the Box interface.

This week we look at 7 Agile programming sins, why programmers need to get out more and why mobile is at odds with IT.

An industry group has formed to try to establish a common set of standards on which companies can judge cloud purchases. It's a worthy goal, but getting cloud vendors on board might help.

This week we look at why the Facebook API sucks, practical IT cost-cutting measures and advice for beginner mobile app developers.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop reminds of a modern day Don Quixote taking on giants like Google and Apple while trying to keep his company relevant before he releases phones running Windows Phone 7 later this year.

This week the Friday 5 looks at cloud security (which is not much different from in-house), Android marketshare and EU foot-dragging on the cloud.

Companies like Microsoft are paying tons of money to lure consumers to their services, but the real value could be marketing data services to IT.

Nokia appears to be stuck in cell phone Purgatory waiting for the Windows Phone 7 phones to hit the market later this year, while still trying to move phones running Symbian. The phones aren't selling and the second quarter earnings report is ugly.