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BlogsVisualization of the Week: Booze, tipple, imbibe, or whatever you’d like to call itBy Ann SpencerJune 19, 2013 Sooooooo. This is what happens when Jenn Webb attends Velocity this week and I briefly step in to cover the Strata Visualization of the Week element. I could have focused on the Governments Search for Google Data visualization from Chris … Mobile First? Not So Fast!By Laura KleinJune 19, 2013 Are we done with the Mobile First meme, yet? Can we be? Please? Look, don’t get me wrong. I fundamentally agree with a lot of the thoughts behind the annoying catchphrase “mobile first.” For example, I agree that mobile devices … Practice Makes ProgrammersBy Simon St. LaurentJune 19, 2013 Programming gets easier and easier as you do more of it. Languages and logic become familiar, in ways that extend from looking up less and less all the way to muscle memory in your typing. The first few iterations in … Like Water for OryxBy Edie FreedmanJune 19, 2013 A Smart Solution to an Age-Old Problem One of the challenges for endangered species that live in the Arabian desert is access to fresh water. A case in point: the Arabian oryx, a member of the Bovidae family native to … The post Like Water for Oryx appeared first on Animals. Upward Mobility: Android for iOS Developers, Part 2By James TurnerJune 18, 2013 When we last left our application, it was running on the emulator, but didn’t do much. This week, we’ll add some more controls to our activity and wire up some functionality. As a reminder, activities are roughly equivalent to view … Using Iframes to Address Third-Party Script Issues and Boost PerformanceBy Jenn WebbJune 18, 2013 In the following interview, Philip Tellis, chief architect at SOASTA, talks about how iframes can be used to address performance and security issues with third-party scripts, and how the element can help third-party script owners make use of far-future expires … Four short links: 19 June 2013By Nat TorkingtonJune 17, 2013 Multithreading is Hard — The compiler and the processor both conspire to defeat your threads by moving your code around! Be warned and wary! You will have to do battle with both. Sample code and explanation of WTF the eieio … Four short links: 18 June 2013By Nat TorkingtonJune 17, 2013 Our Backbone Stack (Pamela Fox) — fascinating glimpse into the tech used and why. Automating Card Games Using OpenCV and Python — My vision for an automated version of the game was simple. Players sit across a table on which … Why We Started the Velocity ConferenceBy Tim O'ReillyJune 17, 2013 Back in 2006, Debra Chrapaty, then VP of Operations for Windows Live (later CIO at Zynga, and now CEO of Nirvanix) made a prescient comment to me: “In the future, being a developer on someone’s platform will mean being hosted … Getting to Signature Moments with MicrointeractionsBy Dan SafferJune 17, 2013 Microinteractions are the small pieces of functionality that are inside or around features. They are brief, single use-case moments. Turning off the ringer on your phone is one example. While no one buys a phone for the ability to turn … Four short links: 17 June 2013By Nat TorkingtonJune 17, 2013 Weekend Reads on Deep Learning (Alex Dong) — an article and two videos unpacking “deep learning” such as multilayer neural networks. The Internet of Actual Things — “I have 10 reliable activations remaining,” your bulb will report via some ridiculous … Intro to Raspberry Pi, Wharton Web Conference, Agile 2013, and MoreBy Jenn WebbJune 17, 2013 Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology spaces. Have an event to share? Send us a note. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised webcast: Jonathan Stark discusses the coming wireless wave and how it … HBase looks more appealing to data scientistsBy Ben LoricaJune 16, 2013 When Hadoop users need to develop apps that are “latency sensitive”, many of them turn to HBase1. Its tight integration with Hadoop makes it a popular data store for real-time applications. When I attended the first HBase conference last year, … Strata Week: Why we should care about what the NSA may or may not be doingBy Jenn WebbJune 14, 2013 It’s a question of power, not privacy — and what is the NSA really doing? In the wake of the leaked NSA data-collection programs, the Pew Research Center conducted a national survey to measure American’s response. The survey found that … Networked Things?By Mike LoukidesJune 14, 2013 Well over a decade ago, Bill Joy was mocked for talking about a future that included network-enabled refrigerators. That was both unfair and unproductive, and since then, I’ve been interested in a related game: take the most unlikely household product … Really Understanding ComputationBy Mike LoukidesJune 14, 2013 It’s great to see that Tom Stuart’s Understanding Computation has made it out. I’ve been excited about this book ever since we signed it. Understanding Computation started from Tom’s talk Programming with Nothing, which he presented at Ruby Manor in … Four short links: 14 June 2014By Nat TorkingtonJune 14, 2013 How Geeks Opened up the UK Government (Guardian) — excellent video introduction to how the UK is transforming its civil service to digital delivery. Most powerful moment for me was scrolling through various depts’ web sites and seeing consistent visual … Radar podcast: the Internet of Things, PRISM, and defense technology that goes civilianBy Jon BrunerJune 14, 2013 On this week’s podcast, Jim Stogdill, Roger Magoulas and I talk about things that have been on our minds lately: the NSA’s surveillance programs, what defense contractors will do with their technology as defense budgets dry up, and a Californian who … Data Journalists Gather, Transparency, and Data VizBy Janaya WilliamsJune 13, 2013 Data journalism is becoming a truly global practice. Data journalists from the UK, China, and the US are sharing data-oriented best practices, insights, and tools. Journalists in Latin America are meeting this week to push for more transparency and access … Talk Amongst YourselvesBy Simon St. LaurentJune 13, 2013 At the Fluent conference earlier this month, I asked the audience to talk to the rest of the crowd. It’s very easy to get caught up in which speaker to go see on which topic, but even the best presentations … The Power of a Private HTTP Archive Instance: Finding a Representative Performance BaselineBy Barbara BermesJune 13, 2013 Be honest, have you ever wanted to play Steve Souders for a day and pull some revealing stats or trends about some web sites of your choice? Or maybe dig around the HTTP archive? You can do that and more … Four short links: 13 June 2013By Nat TorkingtonJune 13, 2013 The Unengageables (Dan Meyer) — They signed their “didactic contract” years and years ago. They signed it. Their math teachers signed it. The agreement says that the teacher comes into class, tells them what they’re going to learn, and shows … A First Slice of Raspberry PiBy Rachel RoumeliotisJune 13, 2013 Simon Monk @simonmonk2 is a full-time author who focuses his writing talents on open source hardware topics. He is currently writing the Raspberry Pi Cookbook which will be available in early release in July and in final release in the … Ins and Outs of Running MySQL on AWSBy Jenn WebbJune 12, 2013 In the following interview, PalominoDB owner and CEO Laine Campbell discusses advantages and disadvantages of using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a platform for running MySQL. The solution provides a functional environment for young startups who can’t afford a database … PowerShell Command Line IntroductionBy Doug FinkeJune 12, 2013 Here’s a slick PowerShell 3.0 one-liner. If you want to pull down an RSS feed from a blog, displaying only the title and publication date try: Invoke-RestMethod "http://www.dougfinke.com/blog/index.php/feed/" | Select title, pubdate It’s that simple. No looping, no checking end … Four short links: 12 June 2013By Nat TorkingtonJune 12, 2013 geogit — opengeo project exploring the use of distributed management of spatial data. [...] adapts [git's] core concepts to handle versioning of geospatial data. Shapefiles, PostGIS or SpatiaLite data stored in a change-tracking repository, with all the fun gut features … Visualization of the Week: NYC Citi Bike use, in real timeBy Jenn WebbJune 11, 2013 New York City’s new bike-share program, Citi Bike, has been underway for a couple of weeks now. Its level of success is still up for debate, but the stats are impressive: as of June 10, there had been 173,516 trips … Four short links: 11 June 2013By Nat TorkingtonJune 11, 2013 For Example — amazing discussion of 3D visualization techniques, full of examples using the D3.js library and bl.ocks.org example gist system. Gorgeous and informative. Anti-Gravity 3D Printer — uses strands to sculpt on any surface. (via Slashdot) How 3D Printing … Easily Invoke Common Protocols with TwistedBy Jessica McKellarJune 11, 2013 Twisted is a framework for writing, testing, and deploying event-driven clients and servers in Python. In my previous Twisted blog post, we explored an architectural overview of Twisted and examples of simple TCP, UDP, SSL, and HTTP echo servers. While … SPTechCon, iPhone Bootcamp, OSCON, and MoreBy Jenn WebbJune 10, 2013 Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology spaces. Have an event to share? Send us a note. HTML5 Application Development Class: This two-day training class offers a small class size and individual attention for … Ways to put the patient first when collecting health dataBy Andy OramJune 10, 2013 The timing was superb for last week’s Health Privacy Summit, held on June 5 and 6 in Washington, DC. First, it immediately followed the 2000-strong Health Data Forum (Health Datapalooza), where concern for patients rights came up repeatedly. Secondly, scandals … Upward Mobility: Android for iOS Developers, Part 1By James TurnerJune 10, 2013 Like many hardcore iOS developers, I’ve eschewed learning “the other platform” because I was happy in Apple-land. In addition, the few forays I’ve made into Android development seem to show that it was a more complex and difficult platform to … Test-driven Infrastructure with ChefBy Courtney NashJune 10, 2013 If you’re a System Administrator, you’re likely all too familiar with the 2:35am PagerDuty alert. “When you roll out testing on your infrastructure,” says Seth Vargo, “the number of alerts drastically decreases because you can build tests right into your … Four short links: 10 June 2013By Nat TorkingtonJune 10, 2013 Anatomy of Two Memes — comparing the spread of Gangnam Style to Harlem Shake. Memes are like currencies: you need to balance accessibility (or ‘money supply’) and inflation. Gangnam Style became globally accessible through top-down mainstream sources (High Popularity), but … Application Resilience in a Service-oriented ArchitectureBy Courtney NashJune 10, 2013 by Ben Christensen, Software Engineer on Netflix API Platform team Failure Isolation and Operations with Hystrix Web-scale applications such as Netflix serve millions of customers using thousands of servers across multiple data centers. Unmitigated system failures can impact the user experience, … 5 Surprises for PHP Developers Coming to JavaScriptBy Stoyan StefanovJune 10, 2013 PHP programmers often see the familiar C-like syntax of JavaScript and think it’s all flowers and roses. And while trivialities like loops and conditions are pretty much equivalent in both languages, things get very weird very quickly. Let’s take a … It’s getting easier to build Big Data applicationsBy Ben LoricaJune 9, 2013 Hadoop’s low-cost, scale-out architecture has made it a new platform for data storage. With a storage system in place, the Hadoop community is slowly building a collection of open source, analytic engines. Beginning with batch processing (MapReduce, Pig, Hive), Cloudera … Strata Week: Wireless body area networks bring humans into the Internet of ThingsBy Jenn WebbJune 7, 2013 Collaborative sensor networks of humans, and your body may be the next two-factor authenticator There has been much coverage recently of the Internet of Things, connecting everything from washers and dryers to thermostats to cars to the Internet. Wearable sensors … Mobile-centric Optimization Requires a Mobile-centric ApproachBy Jenn WebbJune 7, 2013 As our always-on society turns more and more to mobile platforms and devices—a recent Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast predicted 788 million mobile-only Internet users by 2015—mobile app development is becoming more and more important. Developers, however, are finding mobile … Burning the SilosBy Mike LoukidesJune 7, 2013 If I’ve seen any theme come up repeatedly over the past year, it’s getting product cycle times down. It’s not the sexiest or most interesting theme, but it’s everywhere: if it’s not on the front burner, it’s always simmering in … Four short links: 7 June 2013By Nat TorkingtonJune 7, 2013 Accumulo — NSA’s BigTable implementation, released as an Apache project. How the Robots Lost (Business Week) — the decline of high-frequency trading profits (basically, markets worked and imbalances in speed and knowledge have been corrected). Notable for the regulators getting … Global open data, scholarships, and mapping a civil warBy Janaya WilliamsJune 6, 2013 There’s always something new on the radar when it comes to data journalism, and that makes it one of the most exciting beats to pay attention to. Here are some links from around the Web to keep you up to … Four Simple Rules to Avoid DisplayMetrics Antipatterns in Android CodeBy Zigurd MednieksJune 6, 2013 The DisplayMetrics Red Flag A search of GitHub returns more than 42,000 hits for the class name DisplayMetrics. This is a red flag. Although there are safe and valuable uses for this information, a quick look at the code using … The Future Is Graph DatabasesBy Rachel RoumeliotisJune 6, 2013 Emil Eifrem @emileifrem is the Founder of Neo4j and CEO of Neo Technology. He is also one of the authors of Graph Databases. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Emil and we talked about the current and … Four short links: 6 June 2013By Nat TorkingtonJune 6, 2013 ShareFest — peer-to-peer file sharing in the browser. Source on GitHub. (via Andy Baio) Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (Bret Victor) — “Right now, today, we can’t see the thing, at all, that’s going to be the most important 100 … The Future Is Graph DatabasesBy Rachel RoumeliotisJune 5, 2013 Emil Eifrem @emileifrem is the Founder of Neo4j and CEO of Neo Technology. He is also one of the authors of Graph Databases. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Emil and we talked about the current and … Big data vs. big realityBy Mike BarlowJune 5, 2013 This post originally appeared on Cumulus Partners. It’s republished with permission. Quentin Hardy’s recent post in the Bits blog of The New York Times touched on the gap between representation and reality that is a core element of practically every … Visualization of the Week: Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”By Jenn WebbJune 5, 2013 Stephen Malinowski’s hypnotic music visualizations have been quite a hit on YouTube — he has visualized a number of scores, from Debussy’s, Clair de lune to Chopin’s Nocturne in B Major, opus 32 no.1 to his own Fugue in A … Radar podcast: anthropology, big data, and the importance of contextBy Jon BrunerJune 5, 2013 Jim Stogdill, Roger Magoulas and I enjoyed a widely discursive discussion last week, available as a podcast above. Roger, fresh from our Fluent conference on JavaScript, opens by talking about the emergence of JS as a heavyweight computing tool and … Four short links: 5 June 2013By Nat TorkingtonJune 5, 2013 OATV Fund III Pitch Deck (Slideshare) — contains a list of what they were investing in, and what they want to invest in with the new round. Then: Quantified self; Internet subsystems; Smart networks of things; Manipulation and visualization of … 1 to 50 of 11335 Next |
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