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Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

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Now, Pramod Kumar Meher of the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore and co-workers at Central South University in Changsha, China, have developed an efficient new method to implement an important step in signal processing, called the discrete cosine transform (DCT).

When you think of a desktop PC, you probably think of something that eats up a ton of floor/desk space. You have to find that one magical spot with enough square footage, airflow, and cable access for you to put that clunky box in place.

FEW things are more frustrating than waiting for a revolutionary technology to arrive. None more so, perhaps, than quantum computers, which promise to solve problems impervious to conventional methods. Their development has inched a long one qubit at a time. For onlookers, it has seemed like a long and very slow crawl.

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.

Scaling Computer Science Education

Now that application-only authentication is released, we wanted to give you an update on the ongoing gradual retirement of API v1.

Even as U.S. telcos drag their feet and make excuses for not rolling out high-speed fiber optical connections, researchers are pushing fiber technology forward, breaking records in speed, distance, and efficiency. Next week, at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) in Anaheim, California, scientists will gather to discuss their latest breakthroughs.

SHOT six times in a "hit" allegedly planned by prisoners, Robert Johnson knew just who to blame: the cellphone service providers that failed to block calls made inside the jail. Last week, he announced that he plans to sue 20 of these companies.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), the latest attempt by the US legislative branch to hinder online freedom, just received a significant blow from concerned citizens. On the official White House petition site, an anti-CISPA petition has reached 100,000 signatures.

CHIMP will be able to perform complex, physically challenging tasks through supervised autonomy. A remote, human operator will make high-level commands controlling the robot's path and actions, while the robot's on-board intelligence prevents collisions, maintains stability and otherwise keeps the robot from harm.

Oracle has announced that it will acquire Nimbula, a company founded by former Amazon vice president of engineering Chris Pinkham. Nimbula sells software to companies that want to build Amazon-style cloud services inside their own data centers. In typical Oracle fashion, the tech giant didn't say much about the acquisition.

For almost a year, we've been recording weekly shows for YouTube API developers as part of the Google Developers Live series, hosted on the Google Developers YouTube channel. Now, if you want to get just YouTube API-related videos, check out the new YouTube for Developers channel .

Googlers around the Globe

Editor's Note: This post comes from Amy Frampton, Windows Azure Senior Marketing Manager. Initially funded in January 2009 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, VisibleBrands has introduced technology built on Windows Azure Cloud Services that turns retail into a plannable media channel, enables brands to electronically deliver coupons to the supermarket shelf-edge, and offers shoppers savings at the "moment of decision" as they browse the aisles.

Thanks to the enthusiastic response from the Magento Ecosystem, we have sold out of registrations for the third year in a row! While we are thrilled to make this announcement, we are also aware that some of you missed out on your opportunity to secure a ticket.

Today, we're announcing an update to timeline to help people express what's important to them. We're introducing better ways for apps to appear on timeline, improved controls for users, and streamlined tools for setting up Open Graph.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 9:57AM For the last few months I've been programming a system in Go, so I'm always on the lookout for information to feed my confirmation bias. An opportunity popped up when Iron.io wrote about their experience using Go to rewrite IronWorker, their ever busy job execution system, originally coded in Ruby.

Versions (GitHub: 3rd-Eden / versions, License: MIT, npm: versions) by Arnout Kazemier is a module for creating a content delivery network. It was designed to address performance concerns when using Node for serving static assets when compared to servers that support sendfile like Nginx.

Nanophotonics researchers at Arizona State University have created the world's first electrically powered room-temperature nanolasers. These lasers are the single most important step towards building computer chips that use light instead of electricity for ultra-fast and efficient on- and off-chip communications.

Taking an Orchard site offline while you update it If your hosted environment does not give you a staging site and the means to swap it easily with the production environment like Azure Cloud Services do, or if you don't have a staging database, or if you just need to take your site offline for the public while you perform data updates in the admin, you may be wondering what solutions you have, if any.

This tutorial shows you how to build a secure ASP.NET MVC 4 web application that enables users to log in with credentials from Facebook, Yahoo, and Google. You will also deploy the application to Windows Azure. You can open a Windows Azure account for free, and if you don't already have Visual Studio 2012, the SDK automatically installs Visual Studio 2012 for Web Express.

This entry was posted by Zoe Romano on Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 and is filed under arduino, Hardware, inspiration. You can follow any responses to this entry through theRSS 2.0 feed. You canleave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Sipke demo: Content types has an icon and is top-level in the admin menu; filtering by content type names; type descriptions; editing a type does not redirect you to the list any more (still missing a breadcrumb link); will be pushed soon to core

On our developer website, we provide a seamless solution consisting of replacing the Google Maps library for Android with a web view integrating the web version of Google Maps. More information can be found by following this link. That said, a fellow Italian developer (the maker of Prezzi Benzina, just sent me detailed information on [...]

The first commit in the effort to port Qt 4 to Android was on Christmas Day, 2009: "Android mkspecs and semaphore" by BogDan Vatra. On January 22nd, 2010, he committed "A small step for Qt, a giant leap for android" with a working graphics system plugin and could actually run Qt applications on an Android device.

Large parts of our lives are now being monitored and analysed by computers. Log on to Amazon and intelligent data analysis software can recommend a selection of books you might like to read. Far from being a sinister intrusion into people's privacy, the purpose of these systems is to improve our lives, experts say.

Nuclear power basically comes down to two issues: Safety and cost. Nobody denies that mass nuclear has the raw production capacity to provide for our energy needs through the remotely foreseeable future, but some argue that doing so would either bankrupt us, sicken us, or both.

Dave Hunt (a familiar name in these parts) has been working on perfecting his Raspberry Pi-controlled camera time lapse rig. Before I go into any more detail, here's some absolutely stupendous video resulting from his work on the setup. (I recommend you use HD when viewing this - and watch the video in a full-screen setting if you can.)

Microsoft has changed its Flash policies for Windows 8 and switched from a whitelist to blacklist policy. Instead of only allowing approved apps, the new strategy is to blacklist just the handful of apps that won't work -- but the change comes too late to help public perceptions of Windows RT.

Yesterday, the FCC approved T-Mobile's bid to acquire MetroPCS. With this approval, the FCC specifically noted that the benefit of being able to launch an LTE network with wider channels than its competitors nationally was the main driver to approve the deal.

Guest post from Sonja A - Ed. Social networking has dramatically changed the way mobile games are being designed, played and discovered. Less than ten years ago, the shift from asynchronous messaging and stable home pages to instant status updates and socially engaging interactive experiences on social networks pushed the rise of the web 2.0.

In this series, HTML5 maven David Geary shows you how to implement an HTML5 2D video game one step at a time. In this installment, you'll learn how to bend time to your will to create nonlinear motion and color changes.

Google has hired the man who showed how to make computers learn much like the human brain. His name is Geoffrey Hinton, and on Tuesday, Google said that it had hired him along with two of his University of Toronto graduate students - Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever.

Enrich your Maqetta mobile application prototype with custom JavaScript using Dojo and the Dojo Mobile library.

Amazon ElastiCache now in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, global expansion of M3 cache nodes, and price reduction in select regions

Amazon ElastiCache now in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, global expansion of M3 cache nodes, and price reduction in select regions We are excited to share three announcements today that give you more flexibility and lower costs when deploying Amazon ElastiCache, a fully managed, in-memory, Memcached-compatible caching service. Amazon ElastiCache availability in Sydney.

Announcing AMI Copy for Amazon EC2

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of a new feature: Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Copy. AMI Copy enables you to easily copy your AMIs across AWS regions, enabling the following scenarios: Consistent and Simple Multi-Region Deployment - You can copy an AMI from one region to another, enabling you to easily launch consistent instances based on the same AMI into different regions.

NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility Manufactures Liquid Natural Gas Tanks for Lockheed Martin NEW ORLEANS -- NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the agency's only large-scale advanced manufacturing facility, soon will be building liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanks with commercial applications on Earth. In a ceremony Tuesday that included Louisiana Gov.

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If your hosted environment does not give you a staging site and the means to swap it easily with the production environment like Azure Cloud Services do, or if you don't have a staging database, or if you just need to take your site offline for the public while you perform data updates in the admin, you may be wondering what solutions you have, if any.

Posted 12 Mar 2013 at 20:16 UTC by steve Today's edition of best robot photos of the week includes two Standford robots that may help advance the state of the art in planetary exploration robotics, we also have a variety art robots, images of children and adults fascinated by robots, and an evil invading robot whose plans were thwarted by fog.

Have you wondered how to implement the asynchronous equivalent of a try-catch? Or how errors actually get propagated when working with Futures? Or how you can prevent synchronous errors from leaking out of asynchronous code? Then this article is for you.

The new Google Play Developer Console is out of preview and is the default experience. In addition to offering all of the functionality of the old version, the new version features a streamlined publishing flow, store listings in more languages with language-specific graphics, and new user ratings statistics, so you'll have better tools for delivering great Android apps that delight users.

Programming in C# Jump Start- March 13th, 2013 8:00am-5:00pm PST

For Modern Applications Many businesses are faced with some new messaging challenges for modern applications, such as horizontal scalability of the messaging tier, heterogeneous messaging systems and access methods, and extreme transaction processing. This presentation/demo will cover how businesses can overcome these messaging challenges with the use of Spring and RabbitMQ technologies.

Custom media types for ASP.NET Web API versioning

Posted by maartenba on Friday, March 08, 2013 12:25 PM There is a raging discussion on the interwebs on whether to version API's by using their URL or by using a custom media type. Some argue that doing it in the URL breaks REST (since a different URL is a different resource while versions don't necessarily mean a new resource is available).

THE Stone Age; the Bronze Age; the Iron Age. Mastery over a new material has at times changed human society so radically as to be practically synonymous with whole swathes of our history. Are those times over? Today, we rely more than ever on inventing, rather than discovering, new materials.

This is the 3rd annual Qt Contributors Summit and it will be the biggest summit to date due to our joined forces with the KDE Akademy conference. More than 500 contributors are expected and it's solely dependent on sponsorship to succeed.

Packt is going to publish a book by Dimitri Aivaliotis
"Mastering Nginx".

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