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Despite the fact Apple is building more retail outlets, filling each of these with new and specially trained staff that provide assistance at the Genius Bar or help you get your iPhone replaced when its broken, you never really hear about what its like to work at one. Going against Apple’s mantra and lifting the veil of secrecy that is in effect in the boardroom, right down to the retail staff, one employee exposes what it’s really like to work at an Apple store, telling all in an interview withPopular Mechanics....

BUILD cometh! As Microsoft’s new developer event is now justone month away, it’s time to buckle down and dig into the event and to ask ourselves what might be coming, and why it matters. The event, now sold out, recentlycanceled its first day of ‘pre-conference’to allow for ‘focus’ during the other days of the conference. That caused a stir, and some consternation, as many people had already booked plane tickets and made hotel reservation that were designed to allow for that first, and now canceled, day....

Sure, on paper Microsoft is not worried about the iPad, but behind the curtain the man pulling the levers has two eyes fixed on Apple’s slate. Newlyleaked PowerPoint slidesthat Microsoft has sent out to its partners are designed to help them wrap their heads around the iPad at the enterprise level. Collectively, the presentation presents the company’s viewpoints of the iPad’s strengths and weaknesses. The slides constitute a ‘call to arms’ to help vendors fend off the iPad, and to keep selling Windows devices across all form factors....

What my biggest fuck-up as a developer taught me about taking ownership Did someone order fried motherboards?! A bit of background before we continue. At the beginning of my career in tech, I worked as a Junior Software Engineer at a Samsung R&D Center in Poland. I was being paid to build some pretty unique apps — my team was creating JavaScript applications for… SmartTVs. Side note: building apps for TVs is wonderful because there’s only one resolution you need to care about, so we could style entire apps withposition: absolute; because why not!...

What my biggest mistake as a junior engineer taught me about taking ownership As software developers, we get an “amazing” opportunity to fix what we’ve broken. Someone order fried motherboards?! A bit of background before we continue, at the beginning of my career in tech I worked as a Junior Software Engineer at a Samsung R&D Center Poland. I was being paid to build some pretty unique apps — my team was creating JavaScript applications for … SmartTVs....