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Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Designing Great Cloud Applications

I get strange looks when I talk to developers about the difference between developing an application to a product versus developing an application to a service. The application you write on premise is written to a piece of software purchased, installed and configured on a piece of computer hardware that you privately own.

I read one of these poignantly humorous comics on Not Invented Here a while back and since I wasn...

The company allows publishers and other businesses to pull relevant photos from social networks or collect them directly from users, then display those images on their own websites and in real-world locations. It's also experimenting with other photo collection methods, like allowing NBC News reporters to post photos of the presidential inauguration directly from a Chute mobile reporting app.

Finish implementing the sophisticated
ad-hoc slider component introduced in "Ad-hoc components, Part 1." Learn how to incorporate event
listeners, animate the slider&

I'm super excited to be presenting three sessions at BlackBerry Jam 2013 in Orlando next week! As a former 3rd party developer I've had the chance to attend several BlackBerry events over the past couple of years. Now that I'm working on the Developer Relations team I've got the opportunity to not only attend these [...]

Engineers at Duke University have used 3D printing to create an object that can shield against detection from microwave beams. (Credit: Duke University) While we remain dubious about the legitimacy of using the word "invisible" when visible light isn't involved, that's what a team of engineers at Duke University have dubbed their creation.

A tiny new satellite is propelled by repulsion. ESTCube-1, which went into orbit on Tuesday, will put proton-powered electric solar sails to the test for the first time. It could pave the way for speedy trips through the solar system. Regular solar sails have large, thin mirrors that reflect photons from the sun to push the spacecraft forward.

We've spoken before about how to integrate your Cascades and WebWorks apps with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn on BlackBerry 10. We've shared samples with you that show how easy it is to invoke these social networking apps in various ways. But there was a big square-shaped hole in our existing sample code.

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk says that while his company might build its own autopilot feature, he could partner with Google on that. (Credit: Google) Tesla, the electric car maker, has been in talks with Google about the development of a self-driving car, the company's CEO revealed on Tuesday.

For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan walks through a simple lesson in recognizing the ideas behind the characters and their meaning -- building from a few simple forms to more complex concepts.

It's plastic but the future of the first 3D-printed handgun may be far from fantastic. The weapon has been fired by hand - proving that a working pistol can be made from plastic, and creating a new nightmare for gun-control advocates.

Asha web apps? Asha web apps are a lightweight application development framework for creating apps for low end Nokia devices (Asha series and earlier). While JME is the most popular technology for creating apps for Asha, web apps are a reasonably quick and convenient way to expose content on the web - basically, your garden variety front ends for restful services, spiced by some simple navigation.

After compiling Percona Server with TokuDB, of course I wanted to compare InnoDB performanc

Before we call Google Glass the next big revolution in tech, remember that it cannot answer one essential question. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Google Glass has generated plenty of interest and excitement. But before we crown it an industry revolutionizer, let's not forget that Google Glass still doesn't have a clear response to the one big question that all revolutionary products must answer: How does it make my life better?

Eben and I are going to be out of the UK for much of the rest of May, doing press, meeting partners, visiting Raspberry Pi fans, hanging out with science fair kids and giving talks. We'll be in Phoenix for Intel ISEF, San Francisco for Maker Faire (come and listen to our talk!

This is a guest post by NYU Information Systems (MSIS) Graduate students Kyle Galloway, Pravish Sood and Dylan Kelemen.</e

2013-05-07

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There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm. The idea arises from experiments suggesting that the portion of your brain dedicated to processing sound from your ears could also handle sight for your eyes.

After a bit of a struggle, no thanks to our interviewee Dale, we now have the latest episode of the BlackBerry Jam Unplugged ser

From the blog YDN Blog: There is an awful lot of great data online which has the potential to power awesome next-generation apps and services. Open data, government data services, and many APIs provide relatively easy access to data which can be integrated with sufficient ... Continue reading ?

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Tami Reller talks Windows 8 sales, apps and the future of the PC

Microsoft sold more than 100 million Windows 8 licenses in the product's first six months, announced Tami Reller, chief marketing officer and chief financial officer of Windows, in an interview on Blogging Windows posted Monday evening. "We've also seen the number of certified devices for Windows 8 and Window RT triple to 2,400 and we're seeing more and more touch devices come to retail."

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Speaking at the Human to Mars Summit, NASA's top administrator Charles Bolden pledges to work to "prevent an asteroid from colliding with devastating force into our planet." (Credit: NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office) Shortly after a large meteor hit Russia in February, injuring about 1,000 people, President Obama's administration announced that the U.S.

CONFTEC Uses Zend to Custom-Build Agile Retail Solutions

Since announcement of 4 community created Single Page Application templates when releasing ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 in February 2013, the community has done some updates to the templates and released 2 more templates: Backbone template and Breeze/Angular template. You can view the details and download the templates at http://www.asp.net/single-page-application/overview/introduction/other-libraries .

I hope you've updated to Visual Studio 2012.2 and picked up Web Essentials because we're continuing to add goodness all the time. As we march forward with the One ASP.NET vision , so does the

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