Monday, 11 March 2013

Spring Data REST 1.1.0.M1 Released | SpringSource.org

Version 1.1 is virtually a re-write from the ground up. Not only is it easier to configure than 1.0 and better conforms to Spring MVC expections for the transition to Spring 3.2, but the biggest change in the internals of Spring Data REST is that it now supports other types of Spring Data repository implementations beyond just JPA.

The Web of the Future Wants to Hear What You Have to Say | Webmonkey | Wired.com

Forget touch screens, the voice-powered web is coming. While voice-powered pages aren't yet ready for prime time, developers are experimenting and discovering how voice commands might fit with and perhaps even rearrange the web as we know it. A new demo from developer Jordan Moore showcases Chrome's voice-powered API to control elements like font size and page color.

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.2.0 released | SpringSource.org

we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.2.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.2.0.

Solar plant domes spring up in Fukushima's shadow - environment - 11 March 2013 - New Scientist

From a distance they look like two giant blancmanges or Jell-Os quivering in the biting midwinter wind. On closer inspection they are in fact white nylon domes, erected alongside thousands of photovoltaic panels on the very fields in Fukushima that were ravaged by tsunami waves and nuclear fallout in 2011.

Researchers print flexible electronic tattoo directly onto human skin | ExtremeTech

From the research lab that brought us stick-on electronic tattoos, and recently the stretchable battery, we now have the first electronic circuit that has been printed directly onto human skin. These sensors can directly measure skin hydration and temperature, and electric signals from muscle and brain activity.

Phys.Org Mobile: Cloud-computing platform for robots launched

(Phys.org) -Researchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots. The platform allows robots connected to the Internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage, and communications infrastructure of modern data centers - the giant server farms behind the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon - for robotics tasks and robot learning.

App::Midgen what is it? | bowtie [blogs.perl.org]

This started out as a way of generating the core for a Module::Install::DSL Makefile.PL, why DSL because it's nice and clean, so now you can generate the contents and check when you want, yes it's another PPI powered app.

3D parametric plotter | Raspberry Pi

This video from Benedek93 is a little slow to get going, but it's well worth watching all the way through for a really tight demonstration of what you can achieve with OpenGL ES on the Pi.

Magento Ecommerce Blog | Magento

Magento's Partner Pavilion opens for the first time at Retail Business Technology Expo, London on March 12-13. Retail Business Technology Expo, Europe's biggest and fastest growing retail event fills the gap in the UK and European retail technology market to provide retailers with the opportunity to discover the newest and most innovative products and solutions.

ASP.NET Web API Queryable with OData (Channel 9)

Download How do I download the videos? To download, right click the file type you would like and pick "Save target as..." or "Save link as..." Why should I download videos from Channel9? It's an easy way to save the videos you like locally. You can save the videos in order to watch them offline.

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A Message Flow in ASP.NET Web API OData - .NET Web Development and Tools Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

What exactly happens from the moment this message arrives at the server until the new Customer gets added in the backend? Let us take a closer look. Stop 1: Parse the incoming URL into OData Path Segments The very first stop is a custom Route Constraint that parses the incoming request URL into a list of OData Path Segments.

Sunday, 10 March 2013

Swiss Perl Workshop - Schedule | Swiss Perl Workshop [blogs.perl.org]

We are proud to announce the full schedule of talks at Swiss Perl Workshop 1. As you'll see, there is a very interesting range of speakers and topics through the day. :m) Thanks to our sponsors: www.perl-magazin.de | www.oetiker.ch | www.leanux.ch | www.booking.com | www.oreilly.de

NASA - Amplified Greenhouse Effect Shifts North's Growing Seasons

Amplified Greenhouse Effect Shifts North's Growing Seasons WASHINGTON -- Vegetation growth at Earth's northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based on a 30-year record of land surface and newly improved satellite data sets.

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.

Notes from a Newbie 11: View Blogs | j0e [blogs.perl.org]

We also have other things going, such as a complete database with all tables and columns needed to record membership and create and use blog entries and comments. We know the difference between DBIC Row, Result and ResultSets, and how to use them to store and retrieve data.

A week of symfony #323 (4->10 March 2013) - Symfony

A week of symfony #323 (4->10 March 2013) This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing minor bugs for the 2.1 branch and improving the Routing component for the 2.2 branch. In addition, the videos of the last Symfony Live Berlin conference were published.

China's next-generation internet is a world-beater - tech - 10 March 2013 - New Scientist

THE net is getting creaky and old: it is rapidly running out of space and remains fundamentally insecure. And it turns out China is streets ahead of the West in doing anything about it.

The pall of Fukushima overshadows our energy future - opinion - 10 March 2013 - New Scientist

The global repercussions of the Fukushima fiasco could threaten our ability to mitigate climate change TWO years ago, on 11 March 2011, the world watched as technicians struggled to bring the overheating Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in eastern Japan under control. Fears mounted that there might be dire consequences as far away as the west coast of the US.

Saturday, 9 March 2013

YANWT (Yet Another No-Warnings Tester) | Ether [blogs.perl.org]

A few weeks ago a casual exchange occured on irc... I might as well quote it rather than paraphrase: 11:26 * GumbyNET7 CPAN Upload: Test-Roo-0.002 by DAGOLDEN http://metacpan.org/release/DAGOLDEN/Test-Roo-0.002 13:32 booo done_testing-- 13:32 Y U NO LIKE Test::NoWarnings 13:33 I do have a tuit item to make Test::NoWarnings play nicer with done_testing..