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Tuesday 19 March 2013

Announcing EBS-Optimized Support for Additional Instance Types

We are excited to announce the global availability of EBS-optimized support for four additional instance types: m3.xlarge, m3.2xlarge, m2.2xlarge, and c1.xlarge. EBS-optimized instances deliver dedicated throughput between Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS, with options between 500 Megabits per second and 1,000 Megabits per second depending on the instance type used.

Adobe ColdFusion now on AWS Marketplace

Adobe ColdFusion 10 on AWS Marketplace is an easy and affordable way to access powerful yet easy-to-use features to build high performing, enterprise-ready applications that scale dynamically to meet your business needs. Easily create interactive web applications leveraging unique built-in HTML5 support. 1-Click deploy running on Windows Server or Ubuntu.

Herschel Discovers Some of the Youngest Stars Ever Seen WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have found some of the youngest stars ever seen thanks to the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions.

NASA will host a news teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT, Thursday, March 21, to discuss the first cosmology results from Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation.

Adobe Reports Strong Q1 Results

Adobe Creative Cloud Adoption Accelerates and Adobe Marketing Cloud Achieves 20 Percent Annual Revenue Growth SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 19, 2013 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today reported financial results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2013 ended March 1, 2013.

March 26: Facebook Developer Day at GDC SF

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

The Spring Data project is an umbrella project that provides a familiar and consistent Spring-based programming model for a wide range of data access technologies. Motivated by the rise of new NoSQL databases and Big Data solutions, there is support for Redis, MongoDB, HBase, Neo4j, Gemfire, Hadoop and Splunk.

The jQuery Mobile team is happy to announce 1.1.2. This is the second maintenance release for 1.1 and contains fixes throughout the library. Try it now!

Today's edition of best robot photos of the week includes a vintage Armdroid 1, a robot from SXSW, two Comic Con robots, a Barcamp robot, and a few other oddities. Every week we post a collection of the best robot photos submitted by our readers to our robots.net flickr group.

Public service announcement! | Raspberry Pi

We've just had an email from one of our distributors: I have noticed an increase in the quantity of returns where it's claimed by the customer that the Pi will not boot.

CakeFest 2013 has a number of large communities around the world. Two of our largest, the USA and Japan, are up for selection for the next CakePHP conference. We'd like to empower you, the user, to input your own selection and help us decide where to take the next CakeFest conference.

Orchard

The content picker is an incredibly useful field in Orchard CMS. When it first came out, however, it did not filter on content types which led me to creating my own Content Picker in Orchard CMS With Content Type Filtering and Search.

Can't wait to dig into Sphinx 2.0.7? Here's a sneak peek at some of our activities: Issue #1382: A diligent and devoted Sphinx user informed us that trying the search "@name }" returned syntax error in results.

We are proud to announce that the Sphinx 2.1.x tree has been finalized. Sphinx 2.1.1-beta will be released in the very near future! We were so excited about the work we've accomplished that we couldn't wait to start sharing some of the new features that will be included in 2.1 series.

The EXIST() function Previously, searching in non-existing fulltext fields was possible using @@relaxed operator, but attributes didn't have anything similar until now. The EXIST() function is an equivalent of @@relaxed, but it is specifically to be used for attributes: SELECT *, EXIST('gid', 6) as cnd FROM i1, i2 WHERE cnd>5 This example will return results only from the index that doesn't have the "gid" attribute.

In 2.1.1, Sphinx's main application brings not only new features, but also a handy new tool: wordbreaker. As its name suggests, wordbreaker splits long words into several smaller words. This tool has many applications, but in this post we'll focus on breaking apart URLs.

We're delighted to announce that Sphinx 2.1 begins support of JSON attributes. While complete support is yet to come (some quirks and limitations are yet to be ironed out), we consider this to be a major step ahead. Storing sparse key-value data is no longer a fundamental issue in Sphinx!

We all want to see Sphinx run as fast as possible. How do different compilers impact Sphinx's performance? We imagine that many of you are using the default compilers available on your machines. Is this wise? With some simple testing we confirmed that certain compilers are friendlier to Sphinx's performance than others.

It's that time of year again. The annual migration of MySQL users will soon begin! In a little more than one month's time, much of the MySQL ecosystem will be gathered at the Percona Live: MySQL User Conference and, as usual, you can expect an appearance from the Sphinx Team.

Fivetran, a new Y Combinator-backed startup that is launching today, wants to bring spreadsheets into the modern age and make it easier for users to work with messy data and analyze large amounts of information.

By now, we probably don't have to tell you that GitHub is a big deal. The site is the home to over 4.5 million open source projects, letting software coders share and collaborate on software code, and sometimes, people share other stuff too.

The Wii U hasn't been doing particularly well in the market. It only sold roughly 57,000 units in January, and February isn't much better. Last month, Nintendo's latest console only sold an estimated 64,000 units. Considering that the Wii U launched just a few months ago, these numbers are cause for worry.

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.

It began as the encyclopedia anyone can edit. And now it's also the encyclopedia anyone can program. As of this weekend, anyone on Earth can use Lua - a 20-year-old programming language already championed by the likes of Angry Birds and World of Warcraft - to build material on Wikipedia and its many sister sites, such as Wikiquote and Wiktionary.

In what is essentially a fancy science fair sponsored by Intel, over 1,700 high school seniors enter projects each year in order to not only be crowned the country's maddest scientists, but a chance to win $100,000.

Alex from the Inside BlackBerry Developers Blog covers what you might have missed last week in BlackBerry development news. Inside BlackBerry Developers Blog Drive Downloads of Your BlackBerry 10 Game with Scoreloop See the BlackBerry Z10 in Austin - and hear some great music too!

Editor's Note: This post comes from Shayne Burgess of the Windows Azure HDInsight Team. Yesterday we released an important preview of HDInsight Service on Windows. This second blog in our 5-part series provides a quick walkthrough of this new update of HDInsight Service.

Google App Engine Blog: App Engine 1.7.6 Released

The App Engine team is continuing to make monthly improvements to our platform. We have a number of new features and fixes for this month's release. New App Engine billing system for paid applications We're making it easier to pay for App Engine each billing cycle by transitioning to a new billing system.

We've been talking all about it, now it's here! Download Sphinx 2.1.1-beta to see what lightning fast search is all about. Summary Better real time indexes, they're catching up with on disk indexes! Built in options for high availability Fulltext search and ranking optimizations JSON attributes Wordbreaker New SphinxQL commands and options RT Indexes Realtime indexes were lacking some of the functionality of on-disk indexes.

Bleuette project is hexapod robot equipped with 6 legs that can be operated without any external guidance. The french project is fully open hardware (made entirely with an Ultimaker 3D printer) / opensource and operates on a Arduino Leonardo board with a custom shield developed for it and available on Hugo's website, the author of the project.

Last week we had a minor update to the new Opera browser for Android. And although it's still in beta for now, the latest fixes should make it feel smoother, more stable, and closer-to-final all the time. Here are some of the highlighted improvements: Better translations!

Entity Framework Links #4 - ADO.NET Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

This is the fourth post in a regular series to recap interesting articles, posts and other happenings in the EF world. Entity Framework 6 Since our last EF Links post we announced the availability of EF6 Alpha 3.

Today we released a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: HTML5/JS (CORS) Client + PhoneGap + Windows Phone 7.5 + .NET Portable Library support Web Sites: Mercurial Source Control + Dropbox Deployment support HDInsight: New service that enables you to easily deploy and manage Hadoop Clusters on Azure All of these improvements are now available to start using immediately (note: some services are still in preview).

Panzoom (GitHub: timmywil / jquery.panzoom, License: MIT) by Timmy Willison is a plugin for adding panning and zooming behaviour to an element. It works in jQuery 1.9+, and uses CSS transforms and matrix functions to take advantage of GPU acceleration where available.

Windows Phone Next App Star finalists, vote for your favorite and win

Here's a tidbit for the online retailers out there: If a shopper on your website is using Firefox with Windows XP, the odds of him being a fraudster go up sixfold.

Not you of course, but everyone else sucks at searching, which is why usability expert Jakob Nielsen believes you should re-think your website's search tools. "Having varied vocabulary words spring from their foreheads wasn't a survival skill for ice age hunters," writes Nielsen, "so most people today can't think up good queries without help."

Understanding ARIA Widgets

Liz: We're very close to being able to release the $25 add-on camera board for the Raspberry Pi now. Dave Plowman has been doing a lot of the work on imaging and tuning. He's very kindly agreed to write a couple of guest posts for us explaining some more for the uninitiated about the process of engineering the camera module.

The highly contentious proposal to map the entire output of a human brain just got a huge boost yesterday. Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia published the first partial Brain Activity Map (BAM) of any creature ever recorded.

The MongoDB Engineering Team is pleased to announce the release of MongoDB 2.4. This is the latest stable release, following the September 2012 release of MongoDB 2.2. This release contains key new features along with performance improvements and bug fixes. We have outlined some of the key features below.

MongoDB may be the most popular NoSQL database out there. Demand for the open source database is growing faster than every job skill other than HTML5, according to job search site Indeed.com. Like other NoSQL databases, Mongo is designed house large amounts of data across many computer servers.

video is available in the full version of this article (see link below)] A salamander's locomotion is controlled by neural circuits distributed along its spinal cord. When it chooses whether to swim or walk, its decision depends on the intensity of the electrical signals sent from the brain to the spinal cord circuits.

How do you choose between the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S4? On the one hand, the iPhone 5 is an entirely known entity that just works. You might not be getting the most exciting or feature-rich smartphone, but at least you know exactly what you're getting.

Other investors in Sift Science include Max Levchin (PayPal, Slide, Affirm), Chris Dixon (SiteAdvisor, Hunch), Marc Benioff (Salesforce CEO), First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Founder Collective, SV Angel, Start Fund, Alex Rampell (SiteAdvisor, TrialPay), Kevin Scott (AdMob, Google, LinkedIn), Lee Lindon (Karma Science, Facebook), Harj Taggar (Y Combinator), Garry Tan (Posterous, Y Combinator), Alexis Ohanian (Reddit, Y Combinator), and Rich Barton (Zillow, Expedia).

By Brian Cairns, Software Engineer Google Drive lets users create Docs, Sheets, and Slides, collaborate on them in real time, and have their changes saved automatically. With the new Google Drive Realtime API, you can now easily add some of the same real-time collaboration that powers Google Drive to your own apps.

You asked for them and now Mozilla's Firefox developer tools team is hard at work building a slew of new tools for web developers. A few weeks back Mozilla's Paul Rouget asked developers what they'd like to see in future versions of Firefox's developer tools.

There are many options for publishing your source code to Windows Azure Web Sites today. For example, you can publish from development tools like Visual Studio or Web Matrix, or push code from a local Git repository on your computer, or even set up continuous deployment from a provider like Team Foundation Service, GitHub, CodePlex, or Bitbucket.

Tuesday, March 19, 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.

Last month, the Web Speech API brought voice recognition to Chrome users in more than 30 languages. We thought it would be fun to demonstrate this new technology by using an old one: silent film. The Peanut Gallery lets you add intertitles to old black-and-white movie clips just by talking out loud while you watch them.

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