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Monday 4 March 2013

High Scalability - High Scalability - 7 Life Saving Scalability Defenses Against Load Monster Attacks

Monday, March 4, 2013 at 9:30AM We talked about 42 Monster Problems That Attack As Loads Increase. Here are a few ways you can defend yourself, secrets revealed by scaling masters across the ages. Note that these are low level programming level moves, not large architecture type strategies.

Monday, March 4, 2013 at 10:00AM Listen up all you IT people...NoSQL, it's the rage now, so turn the page now and boost your stack...Hey, mighty people...Go, go, go, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey...Go NoSQL style... I for one feel both edified and entertained...can't wait for the Harlem Shake version.

Netradar reveals the quality of mobile Internet connections

Netradar is a free service that provides neutral, accurate information about the quality of mobile Internet connections and mobile devices collected by end users themselves throughout the world. Unlike other applications that mostly focus on bandwidth, Netradar anonymously gathers, measures and shares over ten different types of data

Just a little note to announce the release of Galileo version 0.023. Galileo is my CMS that aims to be 100% CPAN installable, all you have to do is this:

CodePlex - Open Source Project Hosting

Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to find open source software or create new projects to share with the world.

Faster browsing for your smaller screens

What You See Is What You Get Element With Oracle VM by Richard Friedman How to use Oracle VM to bring the many components of a private cloud together and simplify the deployment and management of virtualized applications. Published March 2013 Want to comment on or discuss this article?

Dart News & Updates: Notes from Feb 25th Language Meeting: Function Type Annotations, Optional Parameters and Exported Types

Here's my notes from last week's meeting. I'll have this week's meeting notes out later this week: function type annotations Kasper noticed (or maybe someone noticed and brought it to his attention) that there is a place in Dart where seemingly innocuous type annotations do have a runtime effect.

robots.net - Random Robot Roundup

You've probably already seen the videos of BigDog throwing a cinder block and the air-muscle powered cheetah robot. But as we dig deeper into the editor's inbox this week, we find more interesting things like Joanne "robot psychiatrist" Pransky's press release awarding "Media's Most Inaccurate Depiction of Robotics' Award" to 60 Minutes.There's also Nissan's recent announcement of an Autonomous Vehicle research facility in Silicon Valley.

Sometimes you need a number and for whatever reason, someone things you need a string. Try this:

I have enjoyed actively participating in the Los Angeles Perl Mongers and Thousand Oaks Perl Mongers groups, but recently relocated to Salt Lake City, UT. So, what stands between Salt Lake City and a Perl Mongers group? You (you know who you are).

OK, so sometimes you decide you're going to stop using some module X, maybe because something better has come along. Let's say I want to track down all my CPAN modules that use Any::Moose because my goal is to port each of them to either Moose or Moo.

The wildly successful Bootstrap project, which helps web developers build responsive designs for web apps, has been ported to Dart's Web UI library. This means the dynamic widgets like accordion, carousel, tabs, and more, are reborn as actual web components. The Dart Widgets library has all the code, and you can easily install it from pub.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--()--Adobe today announced that applications for the 2013 Adobe Foundation Creativity Scholarships are now open. Adobe announced its million dollar Creativity Scholarships fund in April 2012 in conjunction with the launch of the Adobe Creative Cloud and the company's global study revealing a global creativity gap.

Razorfish Standardizes on Adobe Marketing Cloud

Razorfish and Adobe Announce Global Strategic Partnership for Digital Marketing Services and Solutions NEW YORK and SAN JOSE, Calif., March 4, 2013 - Razorfish, one of the world's fastest growing digital and technology agencies, and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE), today announced a new global strategic partnership that will integrate all Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions with Razorfish's existing digital marketing technology platform, Fluent?.

Posted by Fabrice Di Meglio, Android Frameworks Team Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) introduced limited support for bidirectional text in TextView and EditText elements, allowing apps to display and edit text in both left-to-right (LTR) and right-to-left (RTL) scripts.

video is available in the full version of this article (see link below)] As a BigDog video shows, the entire body goes to work with fancy step-work to throw fifty-pound objects over its shoulder, grasping a block with "jaws" and flinging it out of the way.

Howdy folks, Today I'm happy to be able share some more improvements we've made to the identity and access management capabilities in Windows Azure.

Want to know what this thing is? Here's a hint: it's a miniature inchworm. And it's quite possibly the fastest miniature inchworm robot in the world, even though it uses just one single motor. The "Mission: Impossible" music might be a bit much here, but the mechanical design is pretty clever: moving segments equipped with clamps alternately retract and extend, propelling the inchworm robot forward.

W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications, particularly in the mobile context. A deliverable of the webinos project, this edition of the document highlights changes since November 2012, including the advancement of HTML5 to Candidate Recommendation.

Photo credit to Alan L, and his cat) When your content is so riveting that your users can't take their eyes off the screen, the last thing you want is the screen dimming and breaking that immersion. Thankfully, BlackBerry 10 offers a simple API to keep the screen from dimming, which conveniently handles things like [...]

Layer Layer (GitHub: lovebear / layer, License: BSD, npm: layer) by "lovebear" is a module for creating proxies without changing existing code. Given a function, it can augment it with another function that will run first. The returned values from the new function will be supplied as arguments to the original function.

Symfony Live Berlin 2012: videos are now online! We're pleased to announce that all talks from Symfony Live Berlin 2012 are now available on SensioLabs' Youtube channel and as the previous Symfony Live videos, they are free! So if you missed the conference, here is your chance to watch the talks.

To celebrate our first anniversary, RS Components, one of our two main manufacturing distributors, are releasing a limited edition of 1000 blue Raspberry Pis. These Pis are very cute: there's something really handsome about that blue.

NoSQL databases have made it possible to store more data faster and cheaper than ever before. Web giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook have come to depend on them in a big way. But they have some fundamental drawbacks that prevent them from handling many software applications. And FoundationDB wants to change that.

There's a new MagPi out: download it for free over at www.themagpi.com. This month's edition has a great mix of hardware and software projects. You can read from the cover what's on offer: my absolute favourite for this issue is this month's Scratch Patch, where you'll be using Scratch to draw Julia Sets.

Learn More How Infochimps refactored Cube, the Node.js time series visualization tool, to Terabyte Scale MongoDB and ASP .NET Session State Store Provider Solving A Curious Concurrency Case in the MongoDB Ruby Driver g Upcoming MongoDB Days MongoDC, March 11: 146/500 MongoDB Beijing, March 22: 7/275 MongoDB London, April 8:

Welcome to the Big Data era. A lot of people -- most notably computer companies -- talk about Big Data these days, but very few people seem to understand what it means. Enter Victor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier and their new book, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think.

Magento is coming to Internet World in Munich on March 19-20 for the first time with a Magento Partner Pavilion! Internet World, is one of the largest eCommerce trade fairs, exclusively for the B2B industry with over 8,000 attendees each year.

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