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Monday, 29 April 2013

AWS v GCE Face-off and Why Innovation Needs Lower Cost Infrastructures

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 9:00AM This is a repost of part 2 (part 1) of an interview I did for the Boundary blog. Boundary: There's another battle coming down the pike between Amazon (AWS) and Google (GCE). How should the CTO decide which one's best?

The new set of features could provide even more help for owners of the Learning Thermostat by intelligently understanding users' environments better. (Credit: Lindsey Turrentine/CBS Interactive) With all of the 10 hottest years on record having come since 1998, it's hard to deny that things are getting hotter.

There is a perception in some tech circles that older programmers aren't able to keep pace with rapidly changing technology, and that they are discriminated against in the software field. But a new st

We're pleased to an announce the GA release of Spring Security 3.1.4

The release is available from the Spring

Victor sent in Packery (GitHub: metafizzy / packery, License: MIT/Commercial, bower: packery) from Metafizzy, which is a bin packing library. It organises elements to fit around the space available. Certain elements can be "stamped" into a specific position, fit an ideal spot, or be draggable.

The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 was April 22-25 in Santa Cla

Have you ever been to a cafe or restaurant with 1950s jukebox wallboxes in each booth? Wallboxes were an extension for a jukebox, making it more convenient to select music right from your table. Yo

Monty Meets Monty Monty Taylor says he wound up on the MySQL project because he shared a name with Monty Widenius. Widenius is the Finn who founded MySQL - the world's most popular open source database - and Taylor says that when he applied for a job at MySQL AB, the company that oversaw the project, it was his name that elevated his resume above the slush pile.

In Qt you can create multiple document interface (MDI) applications using a QMdiArea as the central widget. The QMdiArea widget serves as a window manager for the MDI windows. There are already functions available for tiling all the child windows into a tile pattern and for cascading them into a cascade pattern.

RoboGames 2013: Looney the Robot Autonomous Weight Lifting - (watch video)

Looney the Robot, a NAO humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics, demonstrates the autonomous weight lifting competition at RoboGames 2013.

It's been 40-plus years since an astronaut last drove a lunar rover on the moon, but the spirit lives on in a competition designed to inspire a new generation of youthful techies. (Credit: NASA/MSFC) It may be more than 40 years since NASA last put a man on the moon, but those Apollo missions continue to serve as a driving force for some aspiring engineers.

CakePHP 1.2.12, 1.3.16, 2.2.8 and 2.3.4 have just been released to fix a critical issue with how pagination & PaginatorComponent handle sort criteria. When paginating without a sort column whiteli

MAKE held a Raspberry Pi Design competition with MCM Electronics for US-based Pi owners, and have just released the results. I'm not sure what's more impressive: the outstanding quality of the entries, or the fact that even though we spend much of the day furiously googling for new Pi projects, many of the submissions were new to us here at the Foundation.

The question "Is anybody out there?" grows more tantalizing with the discovery of each new far-off planet. CBS Sunday Morning talks to scientists searching for clues. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle) (CBS News) The question "Is anybody out there?" grows more tantalizing with the discovery of each new far-off planet.

A week of symfony #330 (22->28 April 2013) This week, it was announced that the Symfony 2.3 Standard Edition will only include MIT/BSD licensed libraries and bundles ( view pull request). In addition, Symfony 2.3 was declared nearly completed, with just a few important PR remaining before the first beta version.

Robot Hockey is a team sport with 3 robots from each team allowed on the field at any time. The robots weigh 15 pounds and are 18" x 18". Each competition consists of three 3 minute periods.

RnD_Eska, a humanoid robot from Korea, completes in the autonomous weight lifting event at RoboGames 2013.

Day 1 of Hack Europe: London is Smashing!

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Scientists in Sweden believe they've made a breakthrough in creating a machine that police can use to detect high drivers.

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