Armel Nene: PaaS Cloud - The Rise of The Developer Entrepreneur
It used to be hard to build products in the past due to high cost of hardware; to build a java-based product you had to find a suitable... more »
Arquillian enters new territory with Spring Framework Extension
Jakub Narloch revealed on the Arquillian blog that his Google Summer of Code 2012 project, the Arquillian Extension for Spring Testing,... more »
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Replica Set Internals Bootcamp: Reconfiguring
This replica set bootcamp is focused on keeping the mongodb user from reconfiguring him/herself into a corner and ending up with all arbiters.
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Adding "Filter as you type" Support to IndexedDB
One truly disappointing aspect of IndexedDB is that there is no (simple) support for search across your data. It is very much based on... more »
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Creating QR Codes with Python
The other day, I thought it would be fun to create a little program that could generate QR codes and show them onscreen with wxPython. Of... more »
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Windows Phone Development Tips and Tricks Helping You Make Apps.
The Windows Phone marketplace is a semi curated environment. This is both a good and a bad thing. It makes the app submission process... more »
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ampex — a practical use of Ruby's & operator
Ruby is renowned for both its readability and its flexibility. The ultimate goal of every Ruby program is to work well while appearing as... more »
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5-Minute Beginner's Guide: Installing / Testin Redis and Node.js on OS X
Today I’m going to show you how quickly you can get Redis and Node.js running on OS X. In addition, I’ll show you two quick demos you can... more »
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Atlassian and ZeroTurnaround team up to launch Bamboo-LiveRebel plugin
Announcing a brand new Atlassian plugin, Bamboo-LiveRebel is pure ball lightning (yeah, like Tesla-style), harnessing the powers of... more »
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Lazy Programmer: Speech Recognition Software Finally Works
Surprisingly, the summer of 2007 will be remembered for something other than Paris Hilton’s incarceration: It’s also the 10th anniversary... more »
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Print Barcode at ASP.NET Application
Barcodesoft ASP.Net Server Control enpowers you to print barcode from your own ASP.NET application. It supports all major linear and... more »
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Lazy Programmer: How Cloud Computing Works
A typical cloud computing system. See more computer networking pictures. Let's say you're an executive at a large corporation. Your... more »
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Visual Studio 11 Details: VS11 Express for WinPhone
Today, we want to share the final product lineup and specifications you can expect to see for the next release of Visual Studio. This... more »
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Rovio's $42M Investment In 2011 Actually Went To Its Owners
In early May, Rovio came out with their financial results for 2011. Today, the National Board of Patents and Registration Of Finland has... more »
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The guide to implementing 2D platformers
Having previously been disappointed by the information available on the topic, this is my attempt at categorizing different ways to... more »
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Scala DSL tutorial – writing web framework router
Recently released Play 2.0 framework brings new way of creating web services to Java community. It’s nice and fun, but I dislike few... more »
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Building Twilio Client for Android
Building software for a client-side device is quite a bit different than building for the cloud. In the cloud, deployment intervals are... more »
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bpython interpreter
bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Unix-like operating systems (I hear it works fine on OS X). It is released... more »
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Dark Patterns
Normally when you think of "bad design", you think of laziness or mistakes. These are known as design anti-patterns. Dark Patterns are... more »
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Pinterest Architecture Update - 18 Million Visitors, 10x Growth,12 Employees, 410 TB of Data
There has been an update on Pinterest: Pinterest growth driven by Amazon cloud scalability since our last post: A Short on the Pinterest... more »
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Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley
I teach entrepreneurship for ~50 student teams a year from engineering schools at Stanford, Berkeley, and Columbia. For the National... more »
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Tech Talk: Josh Wills - Meetups on Airbnb
Data scientists-- the people who straddle the line between statistician and software engineer-- are in demand like never before. Even... more »
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wysihtml5 - A better approach to rich text editing
wysihtml5 - A better approach to rich text editing
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Moving from iPhoto to Lightroom
Here's a Python script that allows you to move your photos into a folder structure to use with Lightroom, Picasa, or other software.
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The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours
Last week, I launched The Toolbox, a directory of useful one-page sites and apps. It got upvoted a lot on Hacker News, then went viral on... more »
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