|
|
|||
BlogsTags > languageJavaScript 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, … 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 … Cutting Your Programming Teeth on JavaScriptBy Elisabeth RobsonMay 7, 2013 JavaScript is a bit different from other programming languages. How? Well, JavaScript runs in an environment, and that’s usually the browser. So when you learn JavaScript, you’ll learn both the language basics, as well as how to use JavaScript in … Direct sales of ebooks in multiple languagesBy Joe WikertApril 24, 2013 O’Reilly has long been a leader in fostering community and building a direct sales channel. This week we took the next step in enhancing the customer’s direct buying experience by offering German editions for many of our ebook titles. Take … What is probabilistic programming?By Beau CroninApril 18, 2013 Probabilistic programming languages are in the spotlight. This is due to the announcement of a new DARPA program to support their fundamental research. But what is probabilistic programming? What can we expect from this research? Will this effort pay off? How long … How the world communicates in 2013By O'Reilly StrataFebruary 24, 2013 By Robert Munro Plain text is the world’s largest source of digital information. As the amount of unstructured text grows, so does the percentage of text that is not in English. The majority of the world’s data is now unstructured text … New school CBy Nathan JepsonDecember 21, 2012 Choosing a programming language for that project you’re working on is a fairly straightforward decision: it needs to be fast, easy to use, and it must come with enough bells and whistles to keep you from re-inventing the wheel every … Commerce Weekly: Gift cards get SquareBy Jenn WebbDecember 13, 2012 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Give a gift through Square Mobile payment company Square got into the gift card business this week, launching a gift card service tied to its … Checking in on PythonBy Rachel RoumeliotisOctober 4, 2012 Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python. I recently had the opportunity to talk with him about the state of the language. You probably don’t realize it, but Python’s capabilities are pushed every time you use YouTube and Dropbox. … Why we need GoBy Rachel RoumeliotisSeptember 13, 2012 The Go programming language was created by Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and Robert Griesemer. Pike (@rob_pike) recently told me that Go was born while they were waiting a long while for some code to compile — too long. C++ and … Mastering iOS DevelopmentBy Rachel RoumeliotisAugust 22, 2012 Matt Neuburg is an O’Reilly author and long-time writer for tidBITS. We sat down recently to talk about iOS development and how best to build solid apps … the secret is take the time to learn the basics. Key points … Getting started with data-related explorations of everyday thingsBy Andy OramJune 7, 2012 Sau Sheong Chang describes the intriguing projects in his upcoming book, "Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby" and how other people can develop their own experiments. Getting started with data-related explorations of everyday things 
By Andy OramJune 7, 2012 Sau Sheong Chang describes the intriguing projects in his upcoming book, "Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby" and how other people can develop their own experiments. Clojure's advantage: Immediate feedback with REPL 
By Timothy M. O'BrienMay 23, 2012 REPL is built into Clojure, and you can connect to any running Clojure process and modify and execute code. In this interview, "Clojure Programming" co-author Chas Emerick discusses the possibilities this introduces for Clojure developers. Visualization of the Week: Anachronistic language in "Mad Men" March 23, 2012 "Mad Men" is praised for its precise attention to historical visuals, but how does its dialogue stack up against text from the 1960s? Ben Schmidt's new visualization explores that question. Visualization of the Week: Anachronistic language in "Mad Men"By Audrey WattersMarch 23, 2012 "Mad Men" is praised for its precise attention to historical visuals, but how does its dialogue stack up against text from the 1960s? Ben Schmidt's new visualization explores that question. Four short links: 23 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 23, 2012 Cache Them If You Can (Steve Souders) -- the percentage of resources that are cacheable has increased 4% during the past year. Over that same time the number of requests per page has increased 12% and total transfer size has increased 24%. Natural -- MIT-licensed general natural language facility for nodejs. Tokenizing, stemming, classification, phonetics, tf-idf, WordNet, string similarity,... Top Stories: March 12-16, 2012 
By Mac SlocumMarch 16, 2012 This week on O'Reilly: Computational linguist Robert Munro explained why location language is far more complex than many realize, we looked at how Kickstarter's crowdfunding is helping game developers, and Joe Wikert explored the major trends shaping ebook prices. Four short links: 13 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 13, 2012 Microsoft Universal Voice Translator -- the promise is that it converts your voice into another language, but the effect is more that it converts your voice into that of Darth You in another language. Still, that's like complaining that the first Wright Brothers flight didn't serve peanuts. (via Hacker News) Geography of the Basketball Court -- fascinating analytics of... Visualization of the Week: Anachronistic language in "Downton Abbey"By Audrey WattersFebruary 24, 2012 Ben Schmidt ran the script of the "Downton Abbey" season two finale through Google Ngrams to see how the show's language matches up with history. Visualization of the Week: Anachronistic language in "Downton Abbey" February 24, 2012 Ben Schmidt ran the script of the "Downton Abbey" season two finale through Google Ngrams to see how the show's language matches up with history. The paperless book November 30, 2011 The publishing world needs some new language that describes what happens and, more importantly, what is possible when the words are separated from the paper. The paperless bookBy Todd SatterstenNovember 30, 2011 The publishing world needs some new language that describes what happens and, more importantly, what is possible when the words are separated from the paper. On Dennis Ritchie: A conversation with Brian Kernighan
By Andy OramOctober 30, 2011 I talked on Friday with Brian Kernighan about Dennis Ritchie, who sadly passed away two weeks ago at the age of 70. To a large extent, Ritchie completed what he started. Four short links: 24 August 2011
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 24, 2011 STM in PyPy -- a proposal to add software transactional memory to the all-Python Python interpreter as a way of simplifying concurrent programming. I first learned about STM from Haskell's Simon Peyton-Jones at OSCON. (via Nelson Minar) Werner Vogels' Static Web Site on S3 -- nice writeup of the toolchain to publish a web site to static files served... Four short links: 15 August 2011
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 15, 2011 Illusion Contest -- every year they run an open contest for optical illusions. Every year new perceptual illusions are discovered, exploiting hitherto unresearched areas of our brain's functioning. Citizen Science Alliance -- the team behind GalaxyZoo, who help other researchers in need of crowdsourcing support. Ancient Lives -- crowdsourced translation and reconstruction of ancient papyri from Oxyrhyncus, already found... Four short links: 5 July 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 5, 2011 Conference Organisers Handbook -- accurate guide to running a two-day 300-person conference. Compare Yet Another Perl Conference guidelines. Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM -- interesting how, at scale, there are some tools and techniques of the scorned Enterprise that the web cool kids must turn to. Some. Business Process Workflow XML Schemas will never find love. Louis von... Four short links: 27 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 27, 2011 flockdb (Github) -- Twitter's open source scalable fault-tolerant distributed key-value database. (via Twitter's open source projects page) How to Kill Innovation in Five Easy Steps (Tech Republic) -- point four is interesting, Rely too heavily on data and dashboards. It's good to be reminded of the contra side to the big-data-can-be-mined-for-all-truths attitudes flying around. Architecture of Open Source Applications... Four short links: 19 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 19, 2011 Right to Access the Internet -- a survey of different countries' rights to access to access the Internet. Peace Through Statistics -- three ex-Yugoslavian statisticians nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. In war-torn and impoverished countries, statistics provides a welcome arena in which science runs independent of ethnicity and religion. With so few resources, many countries are graduating few, if... Four short links: 12 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 12, 2011 Telsta Scores Patent Win over Amazon (ZDNet) -- The delegate of the Commissioner of Patents, Ed Knock, found this week that Amazon's 1-click buy facility "lacks novelty [and] an inventive step", making Amazon's claim unpatentable. The Final Answer for What To Do To Prevent Piracy (Jeff Vogel) -- His advice is to do the minimum to encourage people to... Smarter search looks for influence rather than linksBy Jenn WebbMarch 2, 2011 A search algorithm being developed by Princeton University researchers parses language to determine relevance. Academic application is one possibility, but this type of algorithm could also extend to news recommendations. Smarter search looks for influence rather than linksBy Jenn WebbMarch 2, 2011 A search algorithm being developed by Princeton University researchers parses language to determine relevance. Academic application is one possibility, but this type of algorithm could also extend to news recommendations. Big Data: An opportunity in search of a metaphor February 10, 2011 Big data is a massive opportunity, but the language used to describe it ("goldrush," "data deluge, "firehose," etc.) reveals we're still searching for its identity. Four short links: 14 January 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 14, 2011 What Went Wrong at Borders (The Atlantic) -- a short summary of the decline and fall of Borders. Borders has a special place in our hearts at O'Reilly: it was a buyer for Borders who pointed out that Programming Perl was one of their top-selling books in any category, which got Tim focused on the Open Source story. Virtues... Four short links: 13 December 2010
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 13, 2010 European mobile operators say big sites need to pay for users' data demands (Guardian) -- it's like the postal service demanding that envelope makers pay them because they're not making enough money just selling stamps. What idiocy. Grace Programming Language -- language designers working on a new teaching language. Gawker Media's Entire Database Hacked -- 1.5M usernames and passwords,... The Watering Hole - Getting the Full Monty 
By James TurnerAugust 19, 2010 It was a sad day, BTW, when the last of the hovercrafts stopped making the channel crossing. I was fortunate enough to ride one from Dover to Calais before they were all replaced with SeaCats. Four short links: 2 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 2, 2010 Hidden Features of Google (StackExchange) -- rather than Google's list of search features, here are the features that real (sophisticated) users find useful. My new favourite: the ~ operator for approximate searching. (via Hacker News) Natural Language Parsing for the Web -- JSON API to the Stanford Natural Language Parser. I wonder why the API to the library isn't... Four short links: 22 June 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJune 22, 2010 High-Speed Book Scanner -- you flip the pages, and it uses high-speed photography to capture images of each page. "But they're all curved!" Indeed, so they project a grid onto the page so as to be able to correct for the curvature. The creator wanted to scan Manga, but the first publisher he tried turned him down. I've written... Four short links: 20 May 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMay 20, 2010 People are Walking Architecture -- presentation by Matt Jones of BERG, taking a new lens to this AR/ubicomp/whatever-it-is-today world. "[Mobile phones are] a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities ...." Lexicalist -- insight into geographic and age distribution of language use, based on Twitter data. (via Language Log) Advanced Visualization Techniques -- nice overview... Four short links: 1 March 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 1, 2010 Meet The Sims and Shoot Them -- America's Army has proven so popular globally that, with so many users signing on from Internet cafes in China, the Chinese government tried to ban it. Full of interesting factoids like this about US military-created first person shooter America's Army and other military uses of games. (via Jim Stogdill) Most Overused Cloud... Four short links: 11 January 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 11, 2010 mytop -- a MySQL top implementation to show you why your server is so damn slow right now. What Could Kill Elegant High-Value Participatory Project? -- The problem was not that the system was buggy or hard to use, but that it disrupted staff expectations and behavior. It introduced new challenges for staff [...]. Rather than adapt to these... Four short links: 24 December 2009
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 24, 2009 Jonathan Zittrain on "Minds for Sale" -- video of a presentation he gave at the Computer History Museum about crowdsourcing. In the words of one attendee, Zittrain focuses on the potential alienation and opportunities for abuse that can arise with the growth of distributed online production. He also contemplates the thin line that separates exploitation from volunteering in the... Four short links: 11 November 2009
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 11, 2009 ParticipateDB -- database of online tools for public participation. Closed alpha now, with 32 tools and 15 projects in the database. (via Sara Winge) DataTO -- like data.gov, but it's where users request data sets. (In this case, from the Toronto municipal government) Go -- new language from Bell Labs and Unix central figures Rob Pike and Ken Thompson,... Four short links: 5 November 2009
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 5, 2009 Heat Maps in R -- We used financial data here because it's easier to access than the airline data, but it's actually a pretty interesting way of looking at a financial time series. Weekend and holiday effects are a bit more obvious, and it's a bit like being able to see the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly closes all... Four short links: 27 October 2009
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 27, 2009 Field -- a development environment for "experimental code" and digital art. We think that, for many uses, Field is a better Processing than Processing. Includes Python and Java bridges, goal is to connect to as many different programming systems as possible. OS X only at the moment. Contraptor -- a DIY open source construction set for experimental personal fabrication,... Four short links: 26 October 2009
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 26, 2009 Toiling in the Data Mines -- Tom Armitage describes the process that Berg calls "material exploration". Programmers very rarely talk about what their work feels like to do, and that's a shame. Material explorations are something I've really only done since I've joined BERG, and both times have felt very similar - in that they were very, very different... Worldwide Lexicon: matching up technologies and culture to end the language barrier
By Andy OramSeptember 22, 2009 Essays by Brian McConnell of World Wide Lexicon and Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices describe the technical and cultural sides of developing communities of volunteer translators. Four short links: 2 September 2009
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 1, 2009 The Programming Language With The Happiest Users (Dolores Labs) -- you'll be surprised. Age before beauty! Judge It Now -- fast market opinions on design decisions. Compare to Optimal Sort. Usability tools hitting the mainstream web, so the time to learn what works shrinks and progress is faster. BlockChalk API -- These new interfaces enable developers to do nearly... Four short links: 31 August 2009
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 31, 2009 CK-12 Textbooks Accepted by State of California -- kudos to open textbook non-profit CK-12 for having many of their textbooks okayed for use in classrooms. Their books did better than those from commercial publishers! (via Slashdot) Diagrammr -- web app to diagram simple sentences. (via brian on delicious) Noticings -- Noticings is a game of noticing things in cities.... Four short links: 20 August 2009
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 19, 2009 DIY SPY - a homebrew 2.4GHz wi-fi spectrum analyzer -- As proof of concept (and a cool toy for anyone who has one of these lying around), I have implemented a working Wi-Fi spectrum analyzer on TI’s ez430-RF2500 development kit ($50), a 2-part USB dongle which consists essentially of a CC2500 radio strapped to an MSP430 low-power microcontroller (detachable... 1 to 50 of 53 Next Stay Connected
Got a Question? |
|||
© 2013, O’Reilly Media, Inc. (707) 827-7019 (800) 889-8969 All trademarks and registered trademarks appearing on oreilly.com are the property of their respective owners. |
Subscribe to our Newsletters
Subscribe to our Feeds
O'Reilly on YouTube
O'Reilly on Twitter
O'Reilly on Facebook
O'Reilly on Flickr
