Tuesday 12 March 2013

This Week in Spring - March 12th, 2013 | SpringSource.org

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, there's a lot of Spring Tool Suite news, so be sure to check out the new release and try it out. One last reminder: be sure to join me Thursday for a webinar introducing Spring's REST and mobile support at 3:00PM GMT (for Europeans) and 10:00AM PST (for North America).

Phys.Org Mobile: Videoconference robot Beam walks the walk at SXSW

18:38, Electronics/Robotics Banners hang in the atrium of the Austin Convention Center on Thursday, March 7, 2013 on the eve of the opening of the 27th South By Southwest (SXSW) interactive, film and music festival.

Docs for SQLite's foreign_key_list($table) | Ron Savage [blogs.perl.org]

AFAICT SQLite's foreign_key_list($table_name) pragma returns a list of 8 elements in this order (i.e. with these interpretations): 1: COUNT 2: KEY_SEQ 3: FKTABLE_NAME 4: PKCOLUMN_NAME 5: FKCOLUMN_NAME 6: UPDATE_RULE 7: DELETE_RULE 8: UNKNOWN If anyone can explain the last item, or offer corrections, please advise.

NASA - Houston Conference to Feature NASA Missions' Science Results

Houston Conference to Feature NASA Missions' Science Results HOUSTON -- NASA researchers and other scientists will present scientific results and contributions from current and past Mars and moon missions during the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference March 18-22.

NASA - NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars

NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars WASHINGTON -- An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.

Using the SQLite database engine with Windows Phone 8 apps

Using the SQLite database engine with Windows Phone 8 apps

Hiding secret messages in email jokes

An alternative to such steganography would be to hide a message in plain sight within a plain text document. Unfortunately, despite the much smaller file sizes that would be possible, secreting a message within normal text usually disrupts the grammar and syntax or the spelling and so immediately looks suspicious.

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.

A couple of ideas for improving commenting/reviewing CPAN modules | Of course I still use Perl [blogs.perl.org]

First, whenever some other modules are mentioned in a review, it should perhaps be shown as reviews/mentions for that module. For example, just minutes ago I added four reviews each for Text::ASCIITable::TW, Text::CharWidth, Text::VisualWidth, and Text::VisualWidth::PP. Basically I just wanted to say that Text::CharWidth is my preferred way.

What would Psychic::Ninja do? | brian d foy [blogs.perl.org]

I have the Psychic::Ninja namespace. I was making a new GitHub repository, and GitHub suggested that name. I took it, but I had no idea what to do with it. I created a distribution that doesn't do anything. I've been thinking about what a psychic ninja would actually do.

Automatic (YC S11) connects to your car's data port, lets you see everything about your car and driving patterns - Y Combinator Posthaven

The Automatic Link, which connects to a car's diagnostics port, is a $70 piece of hardware with built-in Bluetooth connectivity for transferring data from your car's computer to your mobile phone. The app then looks at the data to act as a "smart driving assistant."

3D and 4K UHDTV technology help make surgeons better | ExtremeTech

Stereoscopic 3D movies have been kicking around since the 1890s, and the fad gained steam in the 1950s. It's worth experiencing in theaters at least once, but it's something of a novelty. Nothing substantial, right? Maybe not for entertainment purposes, but 3D technology has the potential to help surgeons work faster and more precisely.

CPAN as {ISBN authority, book publisher, bookstore, ...} | Of course I still use Perl [blogs.perl.org]

Do we want CPAN to be some sort of an ISBN authority, where we merely dole out namespaces and unique IDs? There should be no requirements of content or any editorial activity on the modules. We should not discourage (nor encourage?) experimental modules or implemetations, modules for personal or semi-private use, etc.

MySQL :: Download Connector/J

MySQL Connector/J is the official JDBC driver for MySQL.

Orchard

Messaging Channels Rules And Tokens Part II

Friends help friends recover their hacked sites - Google Developers Blog

By Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead If you've ever helped a friend recover their hacked site, you know it can get fairly complicated - beyond just the technical issues. First, recovery might involve answering your friend's general questions like "Why would someone do this to my site?"

Facebook Mobile Developer Conference 2013

Facebook Mobile Developer Conference is coming to New York, London and Seoul in April & May 2013. If you're an iOS, Android or Mobile Web developer - come and spend the day with Facebook engineers and product managers to learn how to grow your apps, drive installs and re-engage your existing users.

Research Blog: Our Commitment to Social Computing Research: Social Interactions Focused Awards Announcement

Our Commitment to Social Computing Research: Social Interactions Focused Awards Announcement

That's the stuff: Welcome to the Materials Library - physics-math - 12 March 2013 - New Scientist

A special selection of content every week, giving you access to the latest news in science

High Scalability - High Scalability - If Your System was a Symphony it Might Sound Like This...

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 9:30AM I am in no way a music expert, but when I listen to Symphony No. 4 by Charles Ives, I imagine it's what a complex software/hardware system might sound like if we could hear its inner workings. Ives uses a lot of riotously competing rhythms in this work.

Magento Ecommerce Blog | Magento

ShipStation, based in Austin, recently joined the Industry Partner Program as a Silver partner to help bring value to our Magento community. As a web-based shipping application, ShipStation helps thousands of merchants, most of who ship through multiple sales channels, process and ship their orders with greater efficiency.

DailyJS: jQuery Roundup: jQuery-menu-aim, Toolbar, ngInfiniteScroll

At every position of the cursor you can picture a triangle between the current mouse position and the upper and lower right corners of the dropdown menu. If the next mouse position is within that triangle, the user is probably moving their cursor into the currently displayed submenu.

W3C News Archive: 2013 W3C

W3C today published the report from the W3C Workshop on Do Not Track and Beyond held at UC Berkeley in November 2012. We welcomed experts from academia, industry, civil society and regulators to discuss the status of the current work of the Tracking Protection Working Group on Do Not Track, as well as related and future standards initiatives.

W3C News Archive: 2013 W3C

W3C today published the report from the W3C Workshop on Do Not Track and Beyond held at UC Berkeley in November 2012. We welcomed experts from academia, industry, civil society and regulators to discuss the status of the current work of the Tracking Protection Working Group on Do Not Track, as well as related and future standards initiatives.

W3C News Archive: 2013 W3C

W3C today published the report from the W3C Workshop on Do Not Track and Beyond held at UC Berkeley in November 2012. We welcomed experts from academia, industry, civil society and regulators to discuss the status of the current work of the Tracking Protection Working Group on Do Not Track, as well as related and future standards initiatives.

W3C News Archive: 2013 W3C

W3C today published the report from the W3C Workshop on Do Not Track and Beyond held at UC Berkeley in November 2012. We welcomed experts from academia, industry, civil society and regulators to discuss the status of the current work of the Tracking Protection Working Group on Do Not Track, as well as related and future standards initiatives.

W3C News Archive: 2013 W3C

W3C today published the report from the W3C Workshop on Do Not Track and Beyond held at UC Berkeley in November 2012. We welcomed experts from academia, industry, civil society and regulators to discuss the status of the current work of the Tracking Protection Working Group on Do Not Track, as well as related and future standards initiatives.

Reality TV paves way for Neil Armstrong of Mars - space - 12 March 2013 - New Scientist

Commercial space-flight mogul Elon Musk has quipped that he would like to die on Mars - just not on impact. The quote highlights his desire to build reliable, affordable spacecraft that could one day carry the first people to land on the Red Planet. Musk may have the technological prowess to make it happen.

Reuters visits the Raspberry Pi factory | Raspberry Pi

This piece of news footage is all about how the Raspberry Pi you own is made in the UK.

Whats wrong with the Perl Community? | Sven Eppler [blogs.perl.org]

Hi There, this is my first post here. I never thought about blogging here, because i just didn't felt to do so. But the last weeks made me to think over this. More and more i read negative stuff about Perl coming from the people using Perl. This irritates me.

Samsung Galaxy S4 hardware and software specs leaked ahead of March 14 unveil | ExtremeTech

With two days to go until its official unveil, we have two leaks confirming the Samsung Galaxy S4?s appearance and specs - one leak from Samsung itself, and another from China, where a Galaxy S4 seems to have fallen off the back of a truck.

Microsoft Reverses Windows 8 Flash Ban | Webmonkey | Wired.com

At one point Microsoft said IE10 would not run Adobe's Flash plugin at all in Windows 8's Metro mode. Then that was changed to a whitelist of approved sites that could use Flash. Now Microsoft is ditching the whitelist and letting pretty much any website run Flash in IE10.

Phys.Org Mobile: Junior Robotics online exhibit showcases kids' robots

"Robotics has attracted great interest in primary and high schools and summer workshops because it lays the first foundation in preparing the way for high school robotics enthusiasts to achieve at the university level," Seth Quartey, the Universities' Projects Specialist at EXPO21XX, Hannover, Germany, told Phys.org.

Building User-Extensible Webapps with Local ✩ Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

In an interview with Andrew Binstock in 2012, Alan Kay described the browser as "a joke." If that surprises you, you'll be glad to know that Mr. Binstock was surprised as well. Part of the problem Kay pointed out is well-known: feature-set. Browsers are doing today what word-processors and presentation tools have done for decades.

Can Valve make the Steam Box affordable? | ExtremeTech

Back in January at CES 2013, the world got a good look at a prototype of Valve's upcoming Steam Box. The little cube PC, created by manufacturer Xi3, is essentially a PC gaming rig with modern specs, but aimed at the living room.

Joined CPAN-API (metacpan) Team | kentaro [blogs.perl.org]

Joined CPAN-API (metacpan) Team