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Monday 25 March 2013

A Special Platform Event | Twitter Developers

We're working on new Twitter Platform features that we'd like to share with you at an upcoming mobile-focused event. If you're a developer, product manager, designer, etc., working on a product with a mobile presence, then please join us at Twitter HQ on the evening of April 2nd, from 6:30pm to 9pm.

Disappointed by the heavy reliance on English for programming, computer scientist and designer Ramsey Nasser created a new coding language in Arabic Why did you design a programming language that uses the Arabic alphabet? Studying computer science at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, I was struck that every coding language I have ever learned was in English.

Have you published a BlackBerry 10 application that uses bbUI.js? If so, we have an important message that requires your attention: ensure your application is using bbUI.js version 0.9.6.113 or higher in order to properly support the upcoming version 10.1 of the BlackBerry 10 operating system.

Take a moment and picture a laptop with these specifications: 15.6-inch screen, Core i7 processor, DVD burner, Nvidia graphics, four USB 3.0, and a full-sized keyboard. Once upon a time, a laptop like this would have weighed 6-7 lbs and been well over an inch and a half thick.

As you join hundreds of successful merchants, Magento partners, and energetic developers at Imagine 2013 in less than 3 weeks, take the opportunity to get the training you need to ensure your success with Magento. The Magento U team is offering two classroom courses for Imagine attendees on April 11 & 12.

With the upcoming (and much anticipated) release of the BlackBerry Q10, Android developers can now target the first qwerty-keyboard device to be released on the BlackBerry 10 mobile computing platform. The even better news for developers is that they can also port their existing BlackBerry 10 Android apps running on the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry [...]

More and more of what we do online these days involves images. Whether we're just browsing through Tumblr or Flickr, checking out creative portfolios on Dribbble or behance, or getting our daily dose of inspiration from Uncrate, The Cool Hunter or The Sartorialist, it's easy to lose track of the photos we like the most.

Monday, March 25, 2013 at 10:36AM Hidden in every computer is a hardware backplane for moving signals around. Hidden in every application are ways of moving messages around and giving code CPU time to process them. Unhiding those capabilities and making them first class facilities for the programmer to control is the idea behind AppBackplane.

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.

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Dart News & Updates: Notes from the March 18 Dart Language Design Meeting

Lars: I like the "implements dynamic" thing. Gilad: Me too, it's like a get out of jail free card. Kasper: That means the type behaves like dynamic in all contexts? Even for is checks and checked mode checks? Gilad: If you assign something to it, it goes through normal rules.

Phys.Org Mobile: New book by Carnegie Mellon roboticist suggests humans brace themselves for robo-innovation

Robots already vacuum our floors, help dispose of bombs and are exploring Mars. But in his new book, "Robot Futures," Illah Nourbakhsh, professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, argues that robots are not just wondrous machines, but a new species that bridges the material and digital worlds.

As we announced in June 2012, we are moving from Facebook Credits to local currency pricing. Local currency payments simplifies the purchase experience for users, improves the performance of the payments flow, and makes it easier for developers to price virtual goods for a global audience.

The hits just keep getting killed off. Google is shutting down yet another service - the company's domain blocking tool, which allowed logged in users to block unwanted domains from Google's search results.

A standard computer is a complex group of individual parts working together as a whole -- RAM, some kind of data storage, a processor, and so on. When one of those integral parts breaks, the computer is rendered useless and the part must be replaced, but what if the computer could begin routing the broken part's tasks through the parts that are still functional?

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The electric car field has a new entrant, Detroit Electric, with a planned $100,000-plus two-seat sports car that hopes to fill the void left by the original Tesla Roadster. Detroit Electric will skip this week's New York International Auto Show to make an April 3 announcement in Detroit and a reveal of the actual car at the Shanghai Motor Show later in April.

Researchers at the University of Southampton in England have produced optical fibers that can transfer data at 99.7% of the universe's speed limit: The speed of light. The researchers have used these new optical fibers to transfer data at 73.7 terabits per second -- roughly 10 terabytes per second, and some 1,000 times faster than today's state-of-the-art 40-gigabit fiber optic links, and at much lower latency.

It's been a bit of a month for media player news - we just featured the arrival of Plex for the Pi last week, and we were really pleased to see a new book by Sam Nazarko on setting up Raspbmc on your Pi has just been put out by Pakt Publishing.

09:25, Electronics/Robotics Co-director of the WSRN Dr Jan Carlo Barca with a quadcopter.A new laboratory dedicated to technologies at the cutting edge of an emerging field of robotics could radically improve the way search and rescue operations are conducted.

Introduction In a simple statement if I want to define an ASP.NET MVC controller then I can say that classes that are responsible for receiving and processing incoming http requests, handling client input, and sending response back to the client. Controllers also act as a coordinator between Model (Business) and View (Presentation).

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