Tuesday 5 March 2013

Increase iOS Accessibility With Accessibility Hints · YDN Blog

Apple's iOS Human Interface Guidelines encourage developers to create compelling, immersive mobile interfaces. The goal is to delight the user with an inventive interface that invites the user to touch and explore. Often times, this leads to designs with interactions that are not immediately understood.

High Scalability - High Scalability - Sponsored Post: Fitbit, OLO, Amazon, aiCache, Aerospike, Percona, ScaleOut, New Relic, Logic Monitor, AppDynamics, ManageEngine, Site24x7

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 9:30AM Who's Hiring? Fitbit is hiring a Site Operations Lead to help us on our mission to make the world a healthier place! Fitbit's wearable fitness devices are worn by people across the world, each syncing with the web site, wirelessly and automatically, every 15 minutes.

Windows Azure Mobile Services adds Android support and extends availability to East Asia - Windows Azure - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

We created Mobile Services to make it easier for developers to build engaging and dynamic mobile apps that scale. By using Mobile Services, developers are not only able to connect their applications to a scalable and secure backend hosted in Windows Azure, but also store data in the cloud, authenticate users and send push notifications.

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.

SpringOne 2GX 2012 Replays: Spring Data Repositories Deep Dive, Intro to Cascading | SpringSource.org

The repository abstraction layer is one of the core pieces of the Spring Data projects. It provides a consistent, interface-based programming model to allow implementing data access layers easily. The talk will start with a brief introduction and dive into best practices and implementation patterns later one.

This Week in Spring - March 5th, 2013 | SpringSource.org

Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring. We've got a lot to cover, though, so let's get to it! I'm presenting a webinar on March 14, 2013 - Multi Client Development with Spring! Join me to learn about REST, OAuth, Spring MVC, Spring Android, and much more!

Being Social with Cascades

We've already learned that YOU ARE AWESOME and your family and friends need to be kept constantly up-to-date on all your amazing adventures. With our new socialinvocation sample we show you how you can share your content using Cascades in your BlackBerry 10 apps. The socialinvocation sample shows you how to invoke Facebook, Twitter, and [...]

Google Open Source Blog: Linking students together for a summer

Linking students together for a summer

robots.net - Best Robot Photos of the Week

Today's edition of best robot photos of the week show robots interacting with cavemen, pets, scientists, and babies. You'll also get a glimpse of an attractive but deadly cyborg boob-bot from a recent robot dance-off. And we threw in a few assorted DIY and FIRST robots for good measure.

Dart News & Updates: New Dart Editor Release WIth Substantial Performance Improvement

New Dart Editor Release WIth Substantial Performance Improvement

CPAN modules that (can) load other modules | NeilB [blogs.perl.org]

I've just uploaded the first version of a review of CPAN modules that (can) load other modules. I started making this list of modules when looking at modules for getting dependency information: one class of such modules parse code looking for things that signify a dependency, either implicitly or explicitly.

Magento Ecommerce Blog | Magento

The Magento community is looking forward to this weekend's Magento Bugathon, where they will join fellow community members and Magento core team to stomp out issues that have been a bug in their daily work life. During the event there will be lots of great opportunities to network, code, listen and participate to presentations, and share Magento experiences with the Magento community.

Reborn Opera Mobile Sings on Android | Webmonkey | Wired.com

Opera software has unveiled the first version of its new WebKit-based browser for Android. The new WebKit-based Opera is not just different under the hood, for all intents and purposes this is a totally new web browser and, surprise!, it's better than its predecessor.

DailyJS: jQuery Roundup: 2.0 Beta 2, Alpha Image, jqTree

jQuery 2.0 Beta 2 is out, which has fixes for most of the major parts of the framework. This version also includes a Grunt build script, so you can build custom versions of jQuery more easily. The announcement posts suggests swapping out Sizzle for another selector engine.

Spring-AMQP 1.1.4.RELEASE is now Available | SpringSource.org

We are pleased to announce that Spring-AMQP 1.1.4.RELEASE is now available.

Win a pre-production camera board! | Raspberry Pi

We've sent the first camera boards to production, and we're expecting to be able to start selling them some time in April. And we've now got several pre-production cameras in the office that we're testing and tweaking and tuning so the software will be absolutely tickety-boo when you come to buy one.

Arduino Blog " Blog Archive " Turing and interaction at the Science Museum in London

Codebreaker is the exhibition started last year at the Science Museum of London and celebrating the centenary of the birth of computing pioneer Alan Turing. Hirsch&Mann were commissioned to create a "series of exhibits which demonstrated and recognized the progress in computing while at the same time representing a spirit of engineering and innovation" .

Arduino Blog " Blog Archive " The Call For Makers Is Open! Are you ready to show and tell?

Post originally published on the Maker Faire Rome official Blog by Massimo Banzi If you are a maker living in Europe and you've been looking at the Makerfaire events with enthusiasm and wishing to be there, this is the moment to spring into action because The Call for Makers for the 1st Maker Faire Rome - The European Edition, is NOW open (until 2nd June 2013)!

Welcome Costin | ElasticSearch

Big Data Search and Analytics Made Easy

Google Chrome Speeds Up the Small Screen | Webmonkey | Wired.com

Google's Chrome for Android web browser gets a much-needed speed boost.

nginx news

nginx-1.3.14
development version has been released.

Yorkshire Pigs Control Computer Gear With Brain Waves | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Wouldn't it be great if you could control your PC with your brain? Well, this sort of thing may be closer than you think. Researchers at Brown University have built the first wirelessly rechargeable brain implant that could be used to control wheelchairs, robotic arms, or computer interfaces like cursors and keyboards, as detailed in a paper published in the Journal of Neural Engineering .

Announcing point-and-click access to Amazon RDS database logs

Announcing point-and-click access to Amazon RDS database logs We are pleased to announce a significantly easier way for you to monitor a number of log files generated by your Amazon RDS DB Instances. You so far had the option to monitor most of these database logs by querying the database.

Announcing New Lower Pricing for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

Announcing New Lower Pricing for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances We are excited to announce a reduction in reserved instance pricing for Amazon EC2 running Linux/UNIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Linux/UNIX Reserved Instance prices will decrease by up to 27 % for Amazon EC2 for the Standard (M1), Second-Generation Standard (M3), High-Memory (M2), and High-CPU (C1) Instance families.

OpenCart - March Template Competition

Users Online There are currently 2741 users online.

Orchard

In this series we will be implementing a custom module to see what it takes to implement a Templated Messaging System that leverages not only basic Orchard stuff, but also more advanced APIs such as Rules, Tokens, Messaging, Channels, Site settings and Content Type/Part settings.

Define Global Variable in CakePHP :: The Bakery: Everything CakePHP

Define Global Variable in CakePHP

Opera News - Opera. Made for Android.

Today, we released a beta version of the new Opera for Android. We have a whole set of new and improved features we're excited about. In particular, we'd like you to try out and give your feedback on the following: Tabs. Better than ever.

Qt for iOS Preview | Qt Blog

Qt for iOS Preview

New York Perl Hackathon a success! | kid51 [blogs.perl.org]

New York Perlmongers held a successful hackathon this past weekend at an event hosted by Rubenstein Tech in lower Manhattan. By our count, at least 24 people participated, coming from as far away as Harrisburg PA and eastern Connecticut..