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Tuesday 26 March 2013

ASP.NET WebAPI Tip #3: camelCasing JSON

var formatters = GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters; var jsonFormatter = formatters.JsonFormatter; var settings = jsonFormatter.SerializerSettings; settings.Formatting = Formatting.Indented; settings.ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver();

Tom Dykstra and I have published a really cool tutorial on creating a MVC FB birthday app. You can test the app out by clicking on the FB link below: https://apps.facebook.com/birthdayapp-mvc/ The image below shows the birthday app.

Announcing AWS CloudHSM

We are excited to announce AWS CloudHSM, a new service enabling customers to increase data security and meet compliance requirements by using dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances wit

NASA has selected Navarro Research and Engineering Inc. of Oak Ridge, Tenn., to provide environmental compliance and restoration services at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M.

My blog and all the sites in and around it are a mix of .NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4. This blog engine is currently .NET 3.5 and runs at http://hanselman.com/blog , but the application at http://hanselman.com/

If you want your applications to run on the new SPARC T5/M5 chips, how do you make sure they use all that new performance? Don Kretsch, Senior Director of Engineering, explains.

He has been developing with the Spring Framework since 2004 and joined SpringSource/VMware in 2009 in a consulting role. From 2009 until the end of 2011 he taught Core Spring and Enterprise Integration with Spring to several hundred developers, as well as providing Enterprise Integration consulting services with Spring Integration, Spring Batch and Core Spring.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!
This week I'm in chilly (brrr!) London, England and Paris, France, for <a href="http://www.springsource.org/www.devoxx

Amin Rigi of the RTS Lab in Tehran, Iran let us know about a new rescue robot they're working on. The robot is nam

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A silkmoth attached to its robotic exoskeleton

Humans aren't the only gam

Robot surgery can mean less blood loss, smaller scars and quicker recovery time, but what if there are complications?<img width="1" height="1" src="http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10899/s/2a0472

For those who don't me, my name is Pratik Sapra and I work as a Gaming Consultant on the Developer Relations team at BlackBerry. In my role, I work with game developers on the technical side and help them bring awesome gaming titles to the BlackBerry platform.

#Re-Hashed, Tuesday March 26, 2013: GDC Edition

Here's all the info on where we'll be at GDC 2013! http://www.gdconf.com - Booth 1216 Developing Cross Platform Mobile Games (Presented by BlackBerry) Steve Grenier | Senior Software Developer, BlackBerry Sean Paul Taylor | Team Lead, Gaming, BlackBerry Location: Room 3022, West Hall Date: March 27 Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM In this session, BlackBerry Gaming R&D experts [...]

Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have created a new, ultra-thin (0.15mm) Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak. Until now, most invisibility cloaks have been large, cumbersome, desk-mounted constructions that really stretch the definition of the word cloak; for the most part, they're more like proof of concepts for the invisibility material being tested, rather than actual invisibility cloaks.

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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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SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Returns Critical NASA Science to Earth WASHINGTON -- A Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft successfully completed the company's second cargo flight to the International Space Station on Tuesday, March 26, with a 12:36 p.m. EDT splashdown in the Pacific Ocean a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico.

Every browser has its fans, detractors, advantages, and disadvantages. One thing they all have in common is
that people increasingly spend more time in them. This series examines how to build the sam

News from the Python community: Release candidates for Python 3.2.4 and 3.3.1 have been released Release candidates for Python 3.2.4 and Python 3.3.1 have been released. Please test! A release candidate for Python 2.7.4 has been released A Release candidate for Python 2.7.4 has been released. Please test! Python trademark dispute resolved!

New lung cancer study takes page from Google's playbook

A team of researchers used an algorithm similar to the Google PageRank and to the Viterbi Algorithm for digital communication to analyze the spread patterns of lung cancer. The team includes experts from the University of Southern California (USC), Scripps Clinic, The Scripps Research Institute, University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York.

A new opt-out tool

Webmasters have several ways to keep their sites' content out of Google's search results. Today, as

Bitnami (YC W13) launches an app store for all server software, already delivers over 1M downloads per month

The BitNami platform provides the server infrastructure that companies would otherwise have to build out themselves to connect apps. It can cost a lot to build out such an infrastructure, and often, companies will create a homegrown system that resembles art more than science.

The advent of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have made us all more connected, but long-distance social networks existed long before the Internet. A new study led by an anthropologis