Microsoft made a enormous offers which will pay up to $100,000 to developers to port popular apps to Windows Phone 8. The well-supported rumors started through a report in Bloomberg Businessweek's Technology section by Ashlee Vance. According to Ashlee Vance the source of the rumor came from "Silicon Valley friends." It was also confirmed by two sources contacted by Business Insider, the rumors was not refuted by Microsoft.

The PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is one of the world's most widely used programming language. Although PHP developers and users admitted that the language isn't perfect but there are various reasons why it beneficial to learn the language in the next few years. There are movements and cool projects develop and used by some PHP enthusiast that will help propel PHP to higher level. PHP started out as as what we could refer to today as templating language.

The world's leading internet company Google has released a new tool for structuring web pages that will include rich snippets. Rich snippets are increasingly getting more important in Google Search results. Rich snippets enhance search results by appearing alongside the basic search results as highlights such as a thumbnail photograph or video, or a small chart or other extra that gives a clue as to what you’d see if you clicked through to the page.

Software developers is one of the hottest jobs not only in the United States around the world. Programmers and developers in the US even get more than $100,000 yearly salary but some of them even doubled their salary up to $200,000 per year. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, although earning $200,000 per year is unusual but is indeed achievable in the United States. The BLS data also showed that 90% of the base salary for software engineers with 8-10 years experience is at $139,473.

Internet search giant, Google, launched an Application Programming Interface (API) to enable users of its Cloud SQL to manage their databases. The Google Cloud SQL was originally available way back October 2011, but only in limited preview. The program lets you run MySQL databases in Google's cloud. Based upon the description of Google Cloud SQL through its website, it enables you to: "Use a fully managed service to maintain and administer your databases, so you can focus more on building your applications and worry less about database management.”