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Uche Ogbuji has published a tutorial on how to use theopen source CSS preprocessor, LESS, to write readable and maintainable Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for modern websites. CSS makes the terrible old days of layout tricks with tables and invisible images a dim memory. But CSS is still unfriendly, and several initiatives tried to tame it for developers. One of the best is LESS, which extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations, and functions. LESS is a CSS-like language that compiles seamlessly into CSS either on the client side or through server-side preprocessing.

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Start learning how to effectivelymanage privileged user security threats with a new quick-read guide about the capabilities of IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager. This article explains the basics of how IBM® Security Privileged Identity Manager centralizes the management of privileged and shared accounts and helps you track and audit the activities of privileged users so you can provide effective security and authentication governance.

Supal Chowdhury and Rohit Sahai have published a tutorial onhow to use the IBM® Worklight®’s optimization framework. They show a step by step use case for developing a mobile application using the optimization framework that lets the application developer share code across multiple mobile application environments without sacrificing function or the user experience. They also show the return on investment benefits that come from this approach to mobile application development.

This Week On developerWorks for May 31, 2013

Bhargav Perepa , IT Specialist at IBM, discusses his new article series on server-side app mobile app development. He explains how to use IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software and IBM® Worklight together to develop applications for mobile devices, including those that run Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Microsoft Windows Metro operating systems.

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Thejaswini Ramachandra and Pradeep Bhat, Girish Dhanakshirur have published a new article called Send SMS push notifications to your mobile app using IBM Worklight. One of the key requirements for enterprise apps is the ability to send short messages (as notifications or alerts) to mobile clients. Notifications drive user engagement and can be based on events or triggered by user behavior or by some pre-condition. IBM® Worklight® V5.0.5 provides support for sending SMS/text notifications to mobile devices in addition to smart phone push notifications. This article explains how you can set up and send SMS notifications with Worklight, using a retail banking scenario as an example. Sample mobile app source is provided to illustrate how to subscribe and receive SMS notifications.

Sherif Sakr published An introduction to InfoSphere Streams to introduce the world to the IBM's architecture and offerings that can process vast amounts of generated streaming data in real time. Find out what the product is designed to do, when it can be useful, how it works, and how it can complement InfoSphere BigInsights™ to perform highly complex analytics.

This Week On developerWorks, May 10, 2013

CTO of App47 Andy Glover joins me to talk about how to design mobile applications to accommodate how we use them and how we shouldn't use them sometimes. You can dive deeper into Andy's topic in his article series, Mobile for the masses; the latest is on

This Week On developerWorks for May 3, 2013

Nader Nassar, an integral part of the CIO Innovation for Security team, joins me to talk about how IBM can help you with your dynamic testing of mobile apps. You can dive deeper into mobile application dynamic testing by reading Nader's (and Carlos Hoyos and Daniel Anderson's) article Secure Your Mobile applications.