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Thursday, February 26, 2015 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com Advertisements 24% of developers don’t use database source control – make sure you aren’t one of them. Version control is standard for application code, but databases haven’t caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out… 3-Days Only...Microsoft Developer Video Library Just $49 Learn Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL and more with thousands of training videos by Microsoft experts. Get a year of access to this popular learning library for ONLY $49 (regularly $99). Hurry, offer ends Friday, 2/27/15.Subscribe now Industry News Facebook: Only 40% of the world has ever connected to the Internet The other 60% have to watch cats *in person* Source: Mashable Google now automatically converts Flash ads to HTML5 Not sure if this is good news, actually Source: Venture Beat Google wants its billion-plus Android users to bring their phones to work Oh, where did I put that news item about Android hack numbers? Source: The Verge AI masters 49 Atari 2600 games without instructions We've solved the dangers of AI: they can't blow into the cartridges Source: Ars Technica Google ditches Pwnium hacking contest in favour of year-round prize of 'infinity millions' I'm holding out for infinity+1 Source: ZDNet Need to create Excel Charts? Use SpreadsheetGear to enable users to visualize data with comprehensive Excel-compatible charting, which makes creating, modifying, rendering and interacting with complex charts easier than ever before. Try it now! Developer News Perl programmers - Booking.com is proof that the world is still your oyster "No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment." Source: Techworld The five essential rules of software project management "Project management is one of those applications that everyone knows someone else should be using." Source: SD Times Microsoft's Pointer Events becomes W3C standard, Google and Apple play hardball I'm so glad the browser wars are "over". /sigh Source: Neowin Understanding .NET 2015 You are (maybe, soon) here Source: Beth Massi GitHub for the rest of us "It's not just for breakfast anymore" Source: Infoworld Code Project Discussions - Your say! Testing Testing 1,2,3 Doesn't everyone just go with, "Works on my machine, ship it!"? Source: CodeProject