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Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Announcing AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server - Beta

We are excited to announce the beta release of AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server. AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server is an easy to use tool that you can run on your EC2 Windows

This is the second post in our Startup Spotlight series featuring new robotics companies from around the world. We're inviting representatives from the companies to describe their technologies a

I remember the first time I tested an iPad app for accessibility. Yahoo! Finance was preparing to launch MarketDash and wanted to make sure it was as accessible as the web site. With VoiceOver enabled and a Flip cam set to record, Victor Tsaran and I began exploring the app.

Several p5p members argue that using indirect method call syntax is considered harmful.

I argue that using indirect method call syntax is the best and sometimes only way to extend the language withou

New web technologies tend to travel a trajectory that moves from ?amazing demo with fiendishly complex code?, to ?very cool product feature? and finally to open source library that takes 10 seconds t

The first ever Raspberry Jamboree is being held on March 9 in Manchester, organised by the indefatigable Alan O'Donohoe. It's a big event, showcasing uses of the Pi in education, where you'll be able to share ideas about getting kids interested in computing and learn more about the wonderful Pi ecosystem.

The engineers who designed Exalogic already took care of most of the performance tuning, but there is plenty of tuning you can still perform, particularly when your workloads change. This blog describ

We're out and about again this month at South by Southwest, Tel Aviv Gaming Day, Social Developers London, and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. If you're heading to any of these events

I have been using EmberJS for a while so I was pretty excited to work on the new EmberJS template for ASP.NET. If you are not familiar with EmberJS, I highly recommend reading through their documentation. In short though, ember is a framework for building client-side browser apps.

The construct is a bit unusual, but that's due to the nature of Attributes. Named parameters are not allowed there, and since I want to avoid a constructor with two strings (which is not very intuitive), we use public properties to fake the named paramaters (a common approach when working with attributes).

Like so many others, Intel wants to sell you Hadoop, the open-source software platform that crunches massive amounts of data across a sea of computer servers.

The company, which was founded by classmates at a computer engineering college program in Singapore, indexes several dozen of the top e-commerce sites online and provides a self-serve API so developers can tap into its constantly updated database of consumer products. Why would developers want to index this data?

It's a mess to maintain in itself, of course, but the real problems come when people leave the team. Right away, an admin must go one by one through shared apps such as Yammer and WordPress and disable access to the group version. As for the spreadsheet?

Google App Engine Blog: New Google Cloud Platform case studies - including Angry Birds and more

One of the most rewarding parts of working on is seeing our developers create groundbreaking new applications on top of our infrastructure. To help our current and prospective users gain insight into the vast array of these applications, we recently added a section to the Online travel agency used Google App Engine Google Cloud Platform site with a collection of case studies .

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
? Phil Karlton

Naming things in web development is hard too, from evolving CSS classes to headers and links.

Hello everyone. As some of you may recall, not so long ago we announced a global contest* focused on helping your apps get more visibility with more customers via a featured placement in a Windows Pho

Today?s Chrome Beta release brings improved spell checking to the browser. To start, we?ve refreshed the dictionaries for Chrome?s default spell checker, and have added support for Korean, Tamil and A

Sphinx 2.1.1-beta, Available Now! " full-text diary | Sphinx | Open Source Search Server

We've been talking all about it, now it's here! Download Sphinx 2.1.1-beta to see what lightning fast search is all about. Summary Better real time indexes, they're catching up with on disk indexes! Built in options for high availability Fulltext search and ranking optimizations JSON attributes Wordbreaker New SphinxQL commands and options RT Indexes Realtime indexes were lacking some of the functionality of on-disk indexes.

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jQuery.IO

jQuery.IO (GitHub: sporto / jquery_io.js, License: MIT) by Sebastian Porto can be used to convert betw

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