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Monday, 22 April 2013

10 questions to ask (and answer) when hosting MongoDB on AWS

This is a guest post from Dharshan Rangegowda, founder of Scalegrid, creators of MongoDirector. This originally appeared on the MongoDirector blog. Are you hosting your production MongoDB instances on Amazon AWS? At MongoDirector.comwe manage hundreds of production MongoDB instances on AWS and have learnt a few things along the way.

As we race towards a release of the new Opera for Android, we are also continuing to work hard on our existing products. Today we released Opera Mini 7.5.2 for Android. In addition to the security

To recover a dropped or corrupt table with Percona Data Recovery Tool for InnoDB you need two things: media with records(ib

Oxford Economics: A Success Case

The specific challenge of this project was to provide a long-overdue modern user experience for the company?s website which consisted of two major areas dealing with marketing and providing custome

Workflow Module

Looking forward to the release of the Orchard Workflow Module, which will probably be released around the same time as Orchard 1.7. The Workflow Module will probably replace the <a href="h

Windows AzureConf this Tuesday

ASP.NET, Visual Studio, ASP.NET 2.0, .NET

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Orbital's Antares rocket makes successful test flight

The Antares launched smoothly from Virginia's Wallops Flight Facility and released a simulated cargo ship. It's slated to follow SpaceX's Falcon 9 as a commercial ISS resupply craft. (Credit: Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET) After multiple scrubbed launches last week, an Antares rocket finally lifted off the ground from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of Orbital Sciences' bid to transport cargo to the International Space Station.

This new image puts the famous hydrogen-dust cloud in an ethereal light, revealing the horse rearing its head above cosmic whitecaps. (Credit: NASA) I just re-watched Ridley Scott's " Prometheus," and I think the soundtrack's opening horn melody would go perfectly with this NASA pic.

After participating to Codemotion Rome last month, from the 9th of May we'll be spending a couple of days at Codemotion Berlin, an innovative tech event engaging developers of all languages and technologies. We're having an Arduino wearables workshop organized together with Kobakant duo (Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson) and focused on the use of Lilypad.

NASA Partner Orbital Sciences Test Launches Antares Rocket WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- NASA commercial space partner Orbital Sciences Corporation Sunday launched its Antares rocket at 5 p.m. EDT from the new Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

photo of Pericle Salvini

In Robots Po

A week of symfony #329 (15->21 April 2013) This week, the Symfony 2.3 branch boosted its development activity, specially for the Form component. As a result, and for the first time since a long time, the repository had less than 100 outstanding pull requests.

RoboGames 2013 1st Day Excitement - (watch video)

RoboGames +RoboCup@Home and Combots are always exciting, but the intensity goes up several levels of magnitude whenever the RioBotz team competes and even more when they win. This afternoon they scored a quick, precise, and very calculated knock out shortly after the opening bell.

Forums vs Social Networks

If you're considering whether to build a forum or social network, this article should be helpful to you. The mediums through which people interact with one another online is constantly changing. If you take a step back and think about all of the different ways you have communicated with the people in your life in the past week, it's staggering.

There's a huge shift to mobile underway right now and we're really only at the start. Ranking #1 for a search for "phonegap done right" and #4 for "mobile development platform" with our article on how to understand mobile platforms we want to enable web developers to make the transition with helpful content as well as our platform.

Shortly af

Today, Crowdtilt has confirmed these reports and is officially announcing the close of its Series A financing. In so doing, the startup is adding a few more names to its roster of investors, which is led by Andreessen Horowitz and includes Sean Parker, SV Angel and DCM, along with CrunchFund, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, Elad Gil, AngelList's Naval Ravikant, Sam Altman, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, Dave Morin and Justin.tv and Exec founder, Justin Kan.

Verbling (YC S11) brings immersive language learning into your living room with Courses

When trying to master a new language, practice speaking and listening to it is essential. You don't become fluent by conjugating verbs in a workbook or listening to recordings, but many of us don't have the capability to spend months abroad honing conversation skills.

16:30, Electronics/Consumer & Gadgets If you're in the market for a full-sized tablet but don't want to shell out big bucks for an iPad, Barnes & Noble's Nook HD+ is worth a look. I've long been a fan of Barnes & Noble's Nook products.

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