February 2012
004 JSJ Backbone.js with Jeremy Ashkenas →
004 JSJ Backbone.js with Jeremy Ashkenas
Build a house for less than $5000 | Cira Car →
You are looking at pictures of a house that Simon Dale built for his family in Wales. It was built by him and his father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting they were moved in and cosy. He estimate 1000-1500 man hours and $5000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).
Protips for Aspiring Developers | MeltingIce Blog →
Hack on some side projects in your spare time, and host them at GitHub. If anything, this is the most important thing you can do. At least 80% of the emails I get from recruiters start with, “I saw your [X] project on Github, and…”
ccoenraets/backbone-directory - GitHub →
“Backbone Directory” is a sample application built using Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap. The application is an Employee Directory that allows you to look for employees by name, view the details of an employee, and navigate up and down the Org Chart by clicking the employee’s manager or any of his/her direct reports.
High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr... →
With over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular blogging platform. Users may like Tumblr for its simplicity, its beauty, its strong focus on user experience, or its friendly and engaged community, but like it they do.
Hope from Athens found in Cold Fusion →
Here are some miscellaneous other things I learned during my visit today:
Defkalion has 27 people presently involved in their headquarters (where I visited) and their lab.
Their lab is located elsewhere.
Their primary product is “heat”. Their business model is arranged around that. Others can figure out how to put that heat to good use.
The reaction chambers are able to go as high...
MIT's Error Correcting Codes Will Fix Your Crappy... →
The transmission strategy is that we send the first part of the codeword. If it doesn’t succeed, we send the second part, and so on. We don’t repeat transmissions: We always send the next part rather than resending the same part again. Because when you marry the first part, which was too noisy to decode, with the second and any subsequent parts, they together constitute a new, good...
Missing dark matter located: Intergalactic space... →
Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational lensing to reveal how dark matter is distributed around galaxies.
Enabling SmartAlerts™ Notifications — Socialize... →
The notifications button will only appear if a valid push token has been registered with Socialize using [Socialize registerDeviceToken:]. This means the buttons will never show on the iOS simulator.
Socialize Action Bar — Socialize iOS SDK 1.3.2... →
If you find you have problems with the Action Bar Automatic Layout, and you would like to disable the auto layout feature completely, you can do so. The following example disables autolayout and manually places the Action Bar at (0,400).
The Quantum Universe: Why Anything That Can Happen... →
Quantum theory is perhaps the prime example of the infinitely esoteric becoming the profoundly useful. Esoteric, because it describes a world in which a particle really can be in several places at once and moves from one place to another by exploring the entire Universe simultaneously. Useful, because understanding the behaviour of the smallest building blocks of the universe underpins our...
Electronic Security a Worry in an Age of Digital... →
The implication, said Jacob Olcott, a cybersecurity expert at Good Harbor Consulting, was that devices brought into China were hacked. “Everybody knows that if you are doing business in China, in the 21st century, you don’t bring anything with you. That’s ‘Business 101’ — at least it should be.”
Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie? →
Zen coder prefers long-term happiness and productivity. He is capable of focusing deeply. He trains focus. Distraction junkie coder prefers instant gratification for the price of not reaching his full potential and hurting himself both physically and mentally in the long run. He is too lazy to focus.
Food Fight: Episode #3, #!/usr/bin/ruby # for... →
Episode #3, #!/usr/bin/ruby # for sysadmins with John E. Vincent
Server and Site Architecture: Object Model... →
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation offers a highly structured server-side object model that makes it easy to access objects that represent the various aspects of a SharePoint Web site. From higher-level objects, you can drill down through the object hierarchy to obtain the object that contains the members you need to use in your code.
Life is short | Byte Size Biology →
Life is metabolizing material informational system with ability of self-reproduction with changes (evolution), which requires energy and suitable environment.
Pushing Files to the Browser Using Delivery.js,... →
Recently I’ve been working with both the HTML 5 File API and Socket.IO and it occured to me that those technologies could be used to send, and push, files between the client and server. Immediately I set about making delivery.js, a simple node module that makes it extremely easy to send and push files between the client and the server via Socket.IO.
Timer jobs cmdlets (SharePoint Server 2010) →
You can use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage timer jobs in a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 farm.
Timer job reference (SharePoint Server 2010) →
This article describes the default timer jobs for SharePoint Server 2010. A timer job runs in a specific Windows service for SharePoint Server. Timer jobs also perform infrastructure tasks for the Timer service, such as clearing the timer job history and recycling the Timer service; and tasks for Web applications, such as sending e-mail alerts. A timer job contains a definition of the service to...
I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist... →
Am I alone in feeling this? Do other programmers struggle with this as well? Is this a manifestation of Imposter Syndrome? I thoroughly enjoyed college, but I did not study as hard as I should have. If you are a Computer Science major in college now and a lot of this does not come naturally, I urge you: please spend time on your studies. Really learn the algorithms presented in class. If you never...
The Socratic Method →
The following is a transcript of a teaching experiment, using the Socratic method, with a regular third grade class in a suburban elementary school. I present my perspective and views on the session, and on the Socratic method as a teaching tool, following the transcript.
‘The Game of Kings - Medieval Ivory Chessmen From... →
If, by some typically improbable turn of events, Homer Simpson were to unearth from his backyard an old chest containing a chess set from medieval times, what would the pieces look like? Chances are they would resemble the lovable little contestants beautifully carved from walrus tusks by anonymous artisans in the famous cache known as the Lewis Chessmen.
Chromium Blog: The Future of JavaScript – take a... →
The ECMA committee is working hard on designing the next version of JavaScript, also known as “Harmony”. It is due by the end of next year and it is going to be the most comprehensive upgrade in the history of this language. Chrome and V8 are committed to pushing JavaScript forward and have already started implementing the new features.
High performance libraries in Java | Vanilla #Java →
There is an increasing number of libraries which are described as high performance and have benchmarks to back that claim up. Here is a selection that I am aware of.
Node.js - Develop - Windows Azure →
Implement a simple Hello World application in Node.js and deploy the application to Windows Azure. You will learn the basics of working with the Windows Azure compute emulator and deploying a Node.js application to Windows Azure.
CoffeeScript Cookbook » Home →
Welcome to the CoffeeScript Cookbook! CoffeeScript recipes for the community by the community.
Wall Street gains an edge by trading over... →
Why is microwave faster? Electromagnetic waves travel at different speeds depending on the materials they traverse, said Gary Croke, director of product marketing for Aviat Networks, the vendor McKay selected to supply its Eclipse Packet Node radios. Optical fiber has a much higher refraction index than plain old air, thus slowing down light waves moving through it, Croke said in an e-mail...
Herding Code 133: Derick Bailey on Backbone.js →
In this episode, the guys talk with Derick Bailey (consultant and founder of watchmecode.net, where he sells JavaScript themed screen casts) about Backbone.js, which is a popular JavaScript framework.
MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases «... →
In this article I digested a number of MapReduce patterns and algorithms to give a systematic view of the different techniques that can be found in the web or scientific articles. Several practical case studies are also provided. All descriptions and code snippets use the standard Hadoop’s MapReduce model with Mappers, Reduces, Combiners, Partitioners, and sorting.
http://nytimes.github.com/ice/demo/ →
Ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web. The following are demos of Ice in action.
Writing CLI apps with Flatironblog.nodejitsu.com -... →
Command-line interfaces (CLIs) are an often overlooked, but extremely important part of every developers workflow. Think about how different your day-to-day life would be if git functioned differently? Or (gasp) incorrectly or inconsistently? At Nodejitsu, we know CLI applications. The CLI for our public platform jitsu is designed to be quick to get started, highly portable and above all:...
IBM Seeks Patent On Judging Programmers By Commits... →
How’d you like to be deemed unworthy of a job based upon a scan of your GitHub updates? That’s what proposed in a newly-published IBM patent application for Automated Analysis of Code Developer’s Profile, which proposes weeding out developer candidates for certain roles based on things like the amount of changes one typically makes with each commit, how frequently and regularly...
Red Hat launches storage appliance for Amazon's... →
The Virtual Storage Appliance for AWS is a software implementation on Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and EBS (Elastic Block Storage) that enables a network-attached file server to run directly in the cloud. That, in turn, allows enterprises to move all applications that can use NAS storage into the cloud without any modifications, according to Trainer.
Six Vintage-Inspired Animations on Critical... →
The animations — which are part Minute Physics, part The Dot and the Line, part60-Second Adventures in Thought — are released under a Creative Commons license and cover the basics of logic and the scientific method, as well as specificpsychological pitfalls like confirmation bias and Gambler’s Fallacy.
Why Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and... →
It could be that we are on the verge of a great deluge of cognitive enhancement. Or it’s possible that new brain-enhancing drugs and technologies will be nothing compared to how we’ve transformed our minds in the past. If it seems that making ourselves “artificially” smarter is somehow inhuman, it may be that similar activities are actually what made us human.
Physicists create new slow-light technique -... →
A physical phenomenon that is widely used to slow and store pulses of light in clouds of atoms has been seen for the first time in a system of nuclear-energy levels. The breakthrough has been made by a team of physicists in Germany that has seen evidence for the phenomenon, known as electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), as X-rays pass through nanometre-scale layers of iron. The...
You're So Predictable. Daniel Kahneman and the... →
Some people were better than others, but the best were far from perfect and no one was simply bad.
https://gumroad.com/l/KpH →
https://gumroad.com/l/KpH
Machine Learning for Hackers - O'Reilly Media →
Now that storage and collection technologies are cheaper and more precise, methods for extracting relevant information from large datasets is within the reach any experienced programmer willing to crunch data. With this book, you’ll learn machine learning and statistics tools in a practical fashion, using black-box solutions and case studies instead of a traditional math-heavy presentation.