Monday, 25 February 2013

Riding Rails: Rails 4.0: Beta 1 released!

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Magento Ecommerce Blog | Magento

On their Magento site Barebonesworkwear.com, BareBones WorkWear recently deployed Fanplayr's Smart & Targeted extension and almost immediately saw increases in conversion rates and average order values (AOVs). In this spotlight, Barebones' CIO Steve Wylie talks to us about his experience with Fanplayr, a Magento Gold Industry Partner.

Riding Rails: Rails 4.0: Beta 1 released!

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Research Blog: Applauding the White House Memorandum on Open Access

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Node v0.8.21 (Stable)

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Facebook SDK 3.2 for iOS

We're happy to announce an update to the Facebook SDK for iOS that makes it easier and faster to develop Facebook-integrated iOS apps. We've also revamped the iOS Dev Center so you can quickly access the tools and resources you need to build great social apps.

Why Hadoop Is the Future of the Database | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

On Monday, Greenplum -- now owned by tech giant EMC -- revealed that it has spent the last two years building a new Hadoop platform that it believes will leave the traditional database behind.

Join the Facebook Games Team at GDC SF on March 26

Facebook Developer Day at GDC SF

Emma's second-grade poster project | Raspberry Pi

Emma is in the second grade (7-8 year olds). And she's already well on her way to being a fully fledged engineer. Every year, Emma's school runs a State Board project, where each kid in the second grade is assigned a US state to make a trifold poster about.

Meet Pneupard, Osaka University's Air-Powered Cheetah Robot - IEEE Spectrum

Roboticists around the world are in the process of reverse engineering the anatomical construction of cheetahs and other cats in an attempt to develop faster and more agile legged robots. The latest project, dubbed the Pneupard, hails from Osaka University.

Industry and Manufacturing: RIA Announces 2013 Board of Directors | Robotics Trends

More Industry and Manufacturing stories The 2013 RIA Board of Directors was announced today during the Robotics Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida. The following robotic industry leaders join the board for their first two-year terms: Henrik Christensen, Director of Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chuck Keibler, Vice President, Genesis Systems Group, LLC; and Pete Squires, Vice President, Schneider Packaging Equipment Company.

Arduino Blog " Blog Archive " Upcoming Arduino Site Maintenance

UPDATE 22 feb 17.00 CET: All of Arduino web services are back up and running again. Thanks for your patience while we upgraded our system! ************ As you may have noticed we've been witnessing several problems with our website since last Sunday 3 a.m. CET.

LWUIT library is out! | Code Blog

Hi all, Fresh from the oven, we have just published the LWUIT Developer's Library. LWUIT Developer's Library describes how to use the LWUIT for Series 40, the port of the Lightweight UI Toolkit for Nokia's Series 40 phones.

Google Chrome Blog: Bringing voice recognition to the web

Web apps, listen up. Today's Chrome Stable release includes support for the Web Speech API (discussed last month), which developers can use to integrate speech recognition capabilities into their web apps. To see what this might look like, check out this demo on how to compose an email just using your voice.

Linux Automation Tool for Repetitive Tasks - Linux.org

Linux.org . How to Linux guide explains what is Linux. Find articles and tutorials. Learn about Linux and contribute by adding your own comments.

Opera News - Become a better browser

Do you use Opera on a computer? Would you like to get more out of the time you spend online? Then you can take our first-ever survey of browsing habits.

News and Announcements for Apple Developers

Get updates, tips, and how-to information on a range of development, App Store, and Mac App Store topics.

News and Announcements for Apple Developers

Get updates, tips, and how-to information on a range of development, App Store, and Mac App Store topics.

Dart News & Updates: New Dart Editor Build with Pub Publish Available

A number of Indexed DB APIs have been updated to return Futures, more will be updated. Deprecated events syntax has been removed. Element.dataAttributes has been removed, use Element.dataset instead. libraries: deprecated Collections-methods removed. New StringBuffer API, implementing StringSink interface.

Google Open Source Blog: A Summer of Code for Science

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Research Blog: Google Research Awards: Winter, 2013

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Google App Engine Blog: Google Cloud Platform introduces new support packages

Support is as important as product features when choosing a platform for your applications. And let's face it, sometimes we all need a bit of help. No matter which Google Cloud Platform services you are using-App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, etc.-or what time of day, you should be able to get the answers you need.

W3C News Archive: 2013 W3C

W3C is pleased to launch a new "HTML5" training course. Experienced trainer Michel Buffa will cover the techniques developers and designers need to create great Web pages and apps. Topics include video, animations, forms, and APIs to create location-based services, and offline applications.

New in Symfony 2.2: The new fragment sub-framework - Symfony

Symfony - Open-Source PHP web framework

Firefox 22 to Stop Eating Third-Party Cookies | Webmonkey | Wired.com

Mozilla has announced that, starting with Firefox 22, the popular open source web browser will begin blocking third-party cookies by default. That means only websites you actually visit will be allowed to set cookies; advertisers on those sites will no longer be able to easily track you by setting a cookie.

DailyJS: Mobile Testing on the Chromebook Pixel

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Riding Rails: Maintenance policy for Ruby on Rails

Since the most recent patch releases there has been some confusion about what versions of Ruby on Rails are currently supported, and when people can expect new versions. Our maintenance policy is as follows. Support of the Rails framework is divided into four groups: New features, bug fixes, security issues, and severe security issues.

Swordsmith Keeps Google Safe From Barbaric Hordes | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Niels Provos Niels Provos is a Google software engineer who spends his weekends forging Viking weaponry. And that's only appropriate. Google, you see, is caught up in a never-ending arms race.

Titanium Cross Platform Mobile App SDK | Native iOS, Android, Hybrid, and Mobile Application Development | Appcelerator Inc

Create rich native iOS, Android, hybrid, and mobile web apps from a single JavaScript-based SDK. Titanium empowers you to choose the right way to reach your end users on any device.

Titanium Cross Platform Mobile App SDK | Native iOS, Android, Hybrid, and Mobile Application Development | Appcelerator Inc

Create rich native iOS, Android, hybrid, and mobile web apps from a single JavaScript-based SDK. Titanium empowers you to choose the right way to reach your end users on any device.