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BlogsLooking ahead to a world of data-dominated decisionsBy Andy OramMay 21, 2013 Measuring a world-shaking trend with feet planted in every area of human endeavor cannot be achieved in a popular book of 200 pages, but one has to start somewhere. I am happy to recommend the adept efforts of Viktor Mayer-Schönberger … Four short links: 21 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 21, 2013 Hyperinflation in Diablo 3 — interesting discussion about how video games regulate currency availability, and how Diablo 3 appears to have messed up. several weeks after the game’s debut a source claimed that there were at least 1,000 bots active … Dart Is Not the Language You Think It IsBy Seth LaddMay 21, 2013 When Dart was originally launched, many developers mistook it for some sort of Java clone. In truth, Dart is inspired by a range of languages such as Smalltalk, Strongtalk, Erlang, C#, and JavaScript. Get past the semicolons and curly braces, … JavaScript Flexibility: Fun, But Use with CareBy Elisabeth RobsonMay 21, 2013 When you begin programming in JavaScript, you’ll need to use variables. A variable is just a bit of storage to hold a value. Just about every line of code you write will use a variable of one kind or another, … Google Glass: From Google I/O to Maker FaireBy Rachel RoumeliotisMay 20, 2013 I had quite an experience at Maker Faire this weekend. So instead of a follow up on Google I/O today I’m going talk about how wearables, specifically Google Glass, seem to be bringing people closer together rather than farther apart. … Upward Mobility: Special Effects WizardryBy James TurnerMay 20, 2013 Most developers aren’t great UI designers (although, as with everything, there are exceptions). But there are a few quick tricks that can dress up an app, even if you don’t eat and breathe Photoshop. Let’s look at a simple iPad … Monarch Butterflies and Monsanto: Collateral DamageBy Edie FreedmanMay 20, 2013 Monarch butterflies are dying off in record numbers. A recent census taken at the monarchs’ wintering grounds found their population had declined 59 percent over the previous year and was at the lowest level ever measured. In an interview with … The post Monarch Butterflies and Monsanto: Collateral Damage appeared first on Animals. Four short links: 20 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 20, 2013 Our Fair Deal — international coalition (EFF, InternetNZ, Demand Progress, Creative Freedom Foundation, many others) raising awareness and petitioning lawmakers to reject copyright proposals that restrict the open Internet, access to knowledge, economic opportunity and our fundamental rights. (via Susan … Building Windows 8 Apps, Hadoop Developer Track Course, Write/Speak/Code, and MoreBy Jenn WebbMay 20, 2013 Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology spaces. Have an event to share? Send us a note. Zero to App in Two Weeks webcast: Kraig Brockschmidt shares lessons learned to help you improve your … Kate Matsudaira: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand OpsBy Courtney NashMay 20, 2013 While automation is clearly making everyone’s lives who work in Operations much better, startup founder Kate Matsudaira (@katemats) acknowledges that “No one ever does their work in a vaccum.” You can try as much as possible to Automate All The … Improving options for unlocking your graph dataBy Ben LoricaMay 19, 2013 The popular open source project GraphLab received a major boost early this week when a new company comprised of its founding developers, raised funding to develop analytic tools for graph data sets. GraphLab Inc. will continue to use the open … Strata Week: Are customized Google maps a neutrality win or the next “filter bubble”?By Jenn WebbMay 17, 2013 Google aims for a new level of map customization Google introduced a new version of Google maps at Google I/O this week that learns from each use to customize itself to individual users, adapting based on user clicks and searches. … Software and the physical worldBy Jim StogdillMay 17, 2013 In this episode of the Radar podcast series Jon Bruner and I are joined by Mike Loukides as we muse more on software and the physical world. No coffee shop clatter in the background this time around as we were … Google I/O, Big Data Adolescence, Visualization, and the Future of Open SourceBy Adam FlahertyMay 17, 2013 Google I/O: O’Reilly Editor Rachel Roumeliotis reports from the conference floor. Big Data, Cool Kids: Fumbling toward the adolescence of big data tools. Code as Art: Interactive Data Visualization for the Web author Scott Murray on becoming a code artist. … Three organizations pressing for change in society’s approach to computingBy Andy OramMay 16, 2013 Taking advantage of a recent trip to Washington, DC, I had the privilege of visiting three non-profit organizations who are leaders in the application of computers to changing society. First, I attended the annual meeting of the Association for Computing … Four short links: 16 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 16, 2013 Australian Filter Scope Creep — The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for … Hypermedia APIsBy Rachel RoumeliotisMay 16, 2013 Mike Amundsen explains why developers should explore hypermedia possibilities as they develop RESTful applications. Exploring Hypermedia with Mike AmundsenBy Simon St. LaurentMay 16, 2013 The Web’s flexibility has helped it to survive and thrive, pushing well beyond the browser-based universe where it first showed its promise. While I’ve spent most of my time working with the HTML/CSS/JavaScript side, the HTTP side of the original … A Matter of SemanticsBy Mike AmundsenMay 16, 2013 Messages on the Web carry three levels of information: Structure Semantics, Protocol Semantics, and Application Semantics. No matter the implementation style, all three of these are needed for any successful communication between client and server. This threesome (S-P-A) forms the … Google I/O 2013: Android Studio, Google Play Music: All Access, and New Advances in SearchBy Rachel RoumeliotisMay 16, 2013 While there was no skydiving this year to show off Google’s new wearable Glass, there were plenty of attendees wearing them proudly including me. This year hardware, however, didn’t take center stage. The focus was on new tools and upgrades … Six disruptive possibilities from big dataBy Jeff NeedhamMay 15, 2013 My new book, Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything, is derived directly from my experience as a performance and platform architect in the old enterprise world and the new, Internet-scale world. I pre-date the Hadoop crew at Yahoo!, but … Visualization of the Week: Real-time Wikipedia editsBy Jenn WebbMay 15, 2013 Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi have put together an addictive visualization of real-time edits on Wikipedia, mapped across the world. Every time an edit is made, the user’s location and the entry they edited are listed along with a corresponding … Sascha Bates on Configuration Management: It’s Not about the ToolBy Courtney NashMay 15, 2013 “Puppet and Chef are completely different, and yet exactly the same,” admits Sascha Bates. In this interview about her talk at the upcoming Velocity Conference, she discusses common pitfalls that people can avoid when getting started with configuration management. And … Four short links: 15 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 15, 2013 Facial Recognition in Google Glass (Mashable) — this makes Glass umpty more attractive to me. It was created in a hackathon for doctors to use with patients, but I need it wired into my eyeballs. How to Price Your Hardware … Survey on the Future of Open Source, and Lessons from the PastBy Andy OramMay 15, 2013 I recently talked to two managers of Black Duck, the first company formed to help organizations deal with the licensing issues involved in adopting open source software. With Tim Yeaton, President and CEO, and Peter Vescuso, Executive Vice President of … What Kind of JavaScript Developer Are You?By Simon St. LaurentMay 14, 2013 “JavaScript developer” is a description that hides tremendous diversity. While every language has a range of user skill levels, JavaScript has a remarkably fragmented community. People come to JavaScript for different reasons from different places, and this can make communication … Big data, cool kidsBy Edd DumbillMay 14, 2013 The big data world is a confusing place. We’re no longer in a market dominated mostly by relational databases, and the alternatives have multiplied in a baby boom of diversity. These child prodigies of the data scene show great promise … JavaScript Makes Browsers BehaveBy Elisabeth RobsonMay 14, 2013 If you know HTML and CSS, you’re ready to begin learning JavaScript. But you might be surprised, because JavaScript looks quite different from both HTML and CSS. That’s because JavaScript is a language for computation. Unlike HTML, which is for … Four short links: 14 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 14, 2013 Behind the Banner — visualization of what happens in the 150ms when the cabal of data vultures decide which ad to show you. They pass around your data as enthusiastically as a pipe at a Grateful Dead concert, and you’ve … User-Centered DesignBy Rachel RoumeliotisMay 13, 2013 Travis Lowdermilk (@tlowdermilk) is a software developer who recently joined Microsoft as UX Designer for Visual Studio. He hosts the Windows Developer Show and advocates for User-Centered Design (UCD). Travis is the author of User-Centered Design: A Developer’s Guide to … Big data, cool kidsBy Edd DumbillMay 13, 2013 The big data world is a confusing place. We’re no longer in a market dominated mostly by relational databases, and the alternatives have multiplied in a baby boom of diversity. These child prodigies of the data scene show great promise … Genomics and Privacy at the CrossroadsBy James TurnerMay 13, 2013 Two weeks ago, I had the privilege to attend the 2013 Genomes, Environments and Traits conference in Boston, as a participant of Harvard Medical School’s Personal Genome Project. Several hundreds of us attended the conference, eager to learn what new breakthroughs might … Upward Mobility: Dump Those iOS DelegatesBy James TurnerMay 13, 2013 Because so much of iOS programming involves the delegate pattern (the UITableViewDelegate being a prime example), it’s natural that when programmers are developing their own classes that need to be able to asynchronously call back to a client class, they … Tech Events You Don’t Want to MissBy Jenn WebbMay 13, 2013 Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology spaces. Have an event to share? Send us a note. Kicking up the Dust with NodeJS and a Bunch of Other JavaScript Goodness: Bill Scott talks about … Four short links: 13 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 13, 2013 Exploiting a Bug in Google Glass — unbelievably detailed and yet easy-to-follow explanation of how the bug works, how the author found it, and how you can exploit it too. The second guide was slightly more technical, so when he … Make It Simple: Architecting Your JavaScript Applications for TestabilityBy Sara PeytonMay 13, 2013 Mark Ethan Trostler (@zzoass) writes and tests code for a living, currently at Google. The veteran coder and author of Testable JavaScript recently delivered a comprehensive lesson on writing and maintaining testable code to some 400 folks from around the … Evaluating machine learning systems: Kaggle’s not enoughBy Beau CroninMay 11, 2013 There is a tremendous amount of commercial attention on machine learning (ML) methods and applications. This includes product and content recommender systems, predictive models for churn and lead scoring, systems to assist in medical diagnosis, social network sentiment analysis, and … 11 Essential Features that Visual Analysis Tools Should HaveBy Ben LoricaMay 11, 2013 After recently playing with SAS Visual Analytics, I’ve been thinking about tools for visual analysis. By visual analysis I mean the type of analysis most recently popularized by Tableau, QlikView, and Spotfire: you encounter a data set for the first … Strata Week: President Obama opens up U.S. government dataBy Jenn WebbMay 10, 2013 U.S. government data to be machine-readable, Nicole Wong may fill new White House chief privacy officer role The U.S. government took major steps this week to open up government data to the public. U.S. President Obama signed an executive order … Four short links: 10 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 10, 2013 The Remixing Dilemma — summary of research on remixed projects, finding that (1) Projects with moderate amounts of code are remixed more often than either very simple or very complex projects. (2) Projects by more prominent creators are more generative. … Weekly Highlights and Insights: May 6-10By Adam FlahertyMay 10, 2013 Fit2Cure: Andy Oram introduces a game that crowdsources the search for drugs to cure under-researched diseases of developing countries. Unit testing core data: James Turner shows iOS developers a less painful way to set up an OCUnit project to test … Genomics and Privacy at the CrossroadsBy James TurnerMay 9, 2013 Two weeks ago, I had the privilege to attend the 2013 Genomes, Environments and Traits conference in Boston, as a participant of Harvard Medical School’s Personal Genome Project. Several hundreds of us attended the conference, eager to learn what new breakthroughs might … Yet another Kickstarter: Otherlabs’ Home Milling MachineBy Mike LoukidesMay 9, 2013 If you have a good memory, you know that I’ve written about 3D printers. Technically, I grew up with the laser printer; my first computer industry job (part-time while getting an English PhD) was with Imagen, a startup that built … UX Is about Much More than Making Stuff Look PrettyBy Mary TreselerMay 9, 2013 Travis Lowdermilk (@tlowdermilk) is a software developer who recently joined Microsoft as UX Designer for Visual Studio. He hosts the Windows Developer Show and advocates for User-Centered Design (UCD). Travis is the author of User-Centered Design: A Developer’s Guide to … Four short links: 9 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 9, 2013 On Google’s Ingress Game (ReadWrite Web) — By rolling out Ingress to developers at I/O, Google hopes to show how mobile, location, multi-player and augmented reality functions can be integrated into developer application offerings. In that way, Ingress becomes a … Steering the ship that is data scienceBy Q Ethan McCallumMay 8, 2013 Mike Loukides recently recapped a conversation we’d had about leading indicators for data science efforts in an organization. We also pondered where the role of data scientist is headed and realized we could treat software development as a prototype case. It’s easy (if … Another serving of data skepticismBy Mike LoukidesMay 8, 2013 I was thrilled to receive an invitation to a new meetup: the NYC Data Skeptics Meetup. If you’re in the New York area, and you’re interested in seeing data used honestly, stop by! That announcement pushed me to write another post … Where will software and hardware meet?By Jon BrunerMay 8, 2013 I’m a sucker for a good plant tour, and I had a really good one last week when Jim Stogdill and I visited K. Venkatesh Prasad at Ford Motor in Dearborn, Mich. I gave a seminar and we talked at … Visualization of the Week: Building collapse rescue effortsBy Jenn WebbMay 8, 2013 In the wake of recent building collapses, the BBC addressed the question of what goes into the rescue efforts by creating an interactive guide outlining how rescuers approach a collapsed building. Using information from the International Rescue Corps, the BBC … JavaScript: Not as ExpectedBy Simon St. LaurentMay 8, 2013 JavaScript’s ever-growing importance still takes people by surprise. Every time I post about things JavaScript makes possible, I get pushback from people who refuse to be impressed by JavaScript. Why? Because it isn’t what they wanted. In the course of … 1 to 50 of 11227 Next |
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