Evolution of the QML engine, part 1

QML as a technology has become increasingly important for the success of Qt. It allows for the creation of smooth, animated user interfaces, in line with expectations on the market today. There

How a Scrappy Team of Microsoft Engineers Quietly Built the City of the Future

In 1986, Microsoft?s Redmond, Wash. campus was still a grass- and forest-covered 88-acre plot of land in a sleepy, one-stoplight suburb of Seattle.

Today the campus spans 500 acres and 125 b

Live Apple Bicycle Photographed in Natural Habitat

Most people know about Google's famous multi-co

Recent results on Higgs studies at ATLAS and CMS

Krisztian Peters, presenting on behalf of the ATLAS experiment and Chiara Mariotti, presenting on behalf of the CMS experiment, both commented on the excellent performance of the LHC. A total dataset of approximately 25fb-1 was delivered to ATLAS over the first run, with CMS having around 23fb-1 with an average of 21 interactions per bunch crossing.

We must wake up to the threats of new chemical weapons

SYRIA, AD 256: Persian forces are under siege by the Romans. The attacking forces seek to tunnel under the Persian fortifications, but are met by a toxic mix of fumes from burning sulphur and bitumen. Syria, 2013: as yet unsubstantiated claims and counterclaims abound that chemical weapons have been deployed in the country.

Construction of world's largest optical telescope approved

The massive Thirty Meter Telescope will be able to image objects 13 billion light years away, near the beginning of time. (Credit: Courtesy TMT Observatory Corporation) If you love eye-popping images of space, here's welcome news: the Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources has backed building what's to be the world's largest, most powerful optical telescope above the clouds atop the volcano Mauna Kea.

A C# Helper To Read And Write XML From And To Objects

This is especially useful when writing the import and export methods in an Orchard part driver.

A C# helper to read and write XML from and to objects

I really like jQuery?s pattern of attribute getters and setters. They are fluent and work really well with HTML and XML DOMs. If you specify a value in addition to the name, it?s setting, otherwise it

ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Handlers

Ricardo Peres describes three options for registering a handler in ASP.NET Web Forms, explains some common uses, and shows an example which creates an image from a queryst

The State of Node and Relational Databases

Recently I started work on a Node project that was built using Sequelize with MySQL. It was chosen to ease the transition from an earlier version written w

A week of symfony #328 (8->14 April 2013)

A week of symfony #328 (8->14 April 2013) This week, the Symfony project introduced Debug to its growing family of components. In addition, a code sprint for Symfony 2.3 took place to boost the development of the upcoming first LTS version of Symfony2.

Beat Feet: set your beats and effects with gestures using Arduino

One of the teams participating to the MIT Media Labs Design Innovation workshop at PESIT Bangalore last January built something called Beat Feet using Arduino Uno: We designed a system which will allow musicians, guitarists and keyboardists to set the beats according to the music they play, without getting up from their place or even without lifting their hands off the instrument!

The Second Annual BlackBerry Developer Awards Have Arrived!

With BlackBerry Jam Americas fast approaching, we?re excited to announce the second annual BlackBerry Developer Community Awards!

We are looking to honor those that have gone above and beyon

Boeing's futuristic X-48C makes final flight

The aerospace giant and NASA say the distinctive "blended wing body" design flew like a champ in low-speed tests and holds promise for quieter, more fuel-efficient aircraft yet to come. (Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas ) It's mission accomplished for the experimental X-48C aircraft.

RoboGames 2013: Contour ROAM2 HD Action Camera Test - (watch video)

Getting ready for RoboGames 2013 in mid-April by testing all of my camera gear, including a Contour ROAM2 HD action camera that I plan on using to capture B-roll footage.

ReelSurfer (YC S12) gets a makeover, adds NY Times and ESPN

Y Combinator grad ReelSurfer is an instant video editor, born out of its founders frustration of trying to find clips, quotes and scenes from their favorite movies on YouTube and other video sites.

Fridaygram: fiber marches on, your brain on music, Earth from orbit

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NASA Selects Explorer Projects To Probe Earth's Upper Atmosphere

NASA Selects Explorer Projects To Probe Earth's Upper Atmosphere WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected a new satellite mission and a new space-based instrument to begin development as part of the agency's Heliophysics Explorer Program. The projects will provide space observations to study Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere.

Scaling Out with the SignalR 1.1 Beta

SignalR 1.1 beta We released SignalR 1.1 yesterday with a bunch of performance improvements and new features (detailed in the release notes). Among these new features, were improvements to the .NET client including the ability to set custom headers, client certificates and a custom JSON serializer.

Deploying an ASP.NET Website to Azure in Visual Studio 2012 from a Git Repository Directly

Deploying an ASP.NET Website to Azure in Visual Studio 2012 from a Git Repository directly Posted by: Suprotim Agarwal , on 4/11/2013, in Category Windows Azure Abstract: Explore how to deploy our own ASP.NET WebSite in Visual Studio, using the Git plugin to commit the code to Git and see how we can connect Windows Azure to our repository Azure Websites as we know is a 'platform as a service' offering allowing Azure subscribers to quickly deploy various type of web-applications.