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Four short links: 29 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 29, 2009

Julie Learns to Program -- blog from our own Julie Steele as she learns her first programming language. The point is: it’s in me. I wasn’t sure that is was, and now I know—it is. And what, exactly, is “it”? It is the bug. It is the combination of native curiosity and stubbornness that made me play around with...

Four short links: 15 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 15, 2009

Open Access Week -- world-wide, dedicated to raising awareness of open access to research. (via Creative Commons Aotearoa). 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right -- Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection. The Elements of Statistical Learning 2ed -- classic book (I have the 1st edition) that is now available...

Four short links: 12 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 12, 2009

Snowball -- a small string processing language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval. (via straup on delicious) Insider Trades -- a Yahoo! Hack Day app that turned out to be worth continuing. Scans SEC systems every 30 seconds and alerts you if the stock you track has been traded by an insider. (via straup on...

Big Data and Real-time Structured Data Analytics

By Ben Lorica
August 13, 2009

The emergence of sensors as sources of Big Data hightlights the need for real-time analytic tools. Popular web apps like Twitter, Facebook, and blogs are also faced with having to analyze (mostly unstructured) data in near real-time. But as Truviso founder and UC Berkeley CS Professor Michael Franklin recently noted, there are mountains of structured data generated by web apps...

Twitter Boot Camp Slides

By Mac Slocum
June 23, 2009

Presenters at O'Reilly's Twitter Boot Camp, held June 15 in New York, offered a variety of best practices and case studies revolving around Twitter's business, marketing, branding and advertising opportunities. Slides from the day's presentations are available below (click the...

Mechanical Turk Best Practices

By Ben Lorica
June 11, 2009

Last night, Dolores Labs hosted what was billed as the first-ever Mechanical Turk meetup, and I was fortunate enough to have been able to squeeze into what turned out to be a great series of presentations. While Amazon was the pioneer and remains the largest provider in the space, other services like Dolores Labs and Nathan Eagle's txteagle have emerged...

Crossing the Divide: Incorporating RIA Practices into eLearning

By Amy Blankenship
April 21, 2009

Up until the past year or two, the people doing RIA development and the people doing eLearning development have, for the most part, been two different groups of people. In recent years, the increasing requirement for eLearning to be accessible over the web has pushed eLearning developers toward the same tools used to make RIA's. I think as they spend more time exchanging ideas with RIA developers, eLearning will pick up more of the functionality that characterizes the best RIA applications.

Four Short Links: 20 Apr 2009

By Nat Torkington
April 19, 2009

Camp, visualization, mistakes, and a wireless power meter hack: Toorcamp -- two day hacker camp in a Titan-1 missile silo. The coolest venue evar? I think so. The Allosphere (TED) -- JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the Allosphere, a planetarium-like sound-and-light visualization environment for scientific data. (via Lorrie Lejeune) The Mistake Bank -- The Mistake Bank is a place to share stories...

Learning like teens

By Simon St. Laurent
February 13, 2009

The way I learned computers back in the 1980s doesn't seem that different a path from the way teens are learning now - but both seem very different from the way that adults traditionally learn. Is there a way to improve adult learning by encouraging teen practices?

Did you read the book from that movie?

By Brett McLaughlin
October 9, 2008

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that media is changing the way books are viewed. In fact, video - and YouTube in particular - has already changed how books are sold. Most big fiction releases are heralded by short "book trailers" that give an almost movie-like feel to the contents of the book. But in a recent article published by the Christian Science Monitor, I was surprised to see that there's an even more notable link between movies and the sale of books.

Poll Results: How do you learn?

By Rich Tretola
October 4, 2008

Last week I asked you how you learn when adding a new skill to your skill set and it appears that I am in the majority as along with over 40% of you I also prefer Docs and Samples. Many...

New Poll: How do you learn?

By Rich Tretola
September 29, 2008

Learning a new technology is something that developers need to continue to do in order to stay competitive and marketable in this ever changing world of Internet technologies. Personally, I tend to learn the fastest through documentation and sample code...

Hackerteen Book Trailer

By O'Reilly Media
August 14, 2008

Hackerteen is an educational project that trains teenagers to work with computer security. With an innovative and fun methodology, young people learn how to protect companies - not to break into them - while reducing time spent on computer...

LFFS - 13: Flex Builder Part 3 - Introduction To Debugging

By Adam Flater and Scott Sheridan
July 29, 2008

Inevitably, the process of coding your Flex applications will sooner or later result in some bugs. As a continuation of our coverage of the Flex Builder I.D.E., we focus this time on the built-in debugger tool, and a few of its capabilities. Those new to Flex programming should take away from this a basic understanding of how to use debugging as a means to pinpoint any problems in their code.

Learning From Others

By Andrew Trice
May 7, 2008

The best way to learn Flex is to get in there, and to start working with it. However, there are things you might not pick up on on your own. One of the best ways to get to know the inner workings of the Flex framework, and to learn how others do it. Now, where can you look to see how others have done things? Here are a few ideas...

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