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Spotify and Ford teamed up at TechCrunch's Hackathon this weekend to demonstrate how the music service can be integrated into cars too.
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Automated testing for your web site....
riginating at the Open Source Applications Foundation Windmill was built to help QA keep up with the rapid release cycles of the Chandler Server Web UI (Cosmo) project. As the Cosmo client is heavy in JavaScript and AJAX functionality, Windmill makes the communication between the service and the client code a priority.
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finance 1.1.0
The finance library provides a Ruby interface for working with interest rates, mortgage amortization, and cashflows (NPV, IRR, etc.).
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Seattle, WA (PRWEB) September 10, 2011 Sundog Software’s Triton ocean simulation technology for game, simulation, and training software developers has received a significant upgrade.
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how I maintain my GTD lists with the version control system Git.
Here are my last twenty commit messages (in chronological order; the final one is from a half an hour ago) on my lists of next actions, waiting fors, projects, and so on:
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Beanstalk and Github are excellent services.
Sadly, though, they are both surprisingly antiquated when it comes to “archival” – they ignore the way that real companies have been working for the past 10 years, and provide a very small number of repositories, with no option to “archive” any of them.
We use both of them – as paid services. Before signing up, I personally asked each of them how they coped with archiving; both companies responded with, essentially:
We don’t; why would anyone archive anything? If you really HAVE TO archive something, just copy/paste it into one repository
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In this post we’ll look to compare a fundamental object oriented feature: Classes. Yup that’s it. This post started as classes, methods, and variables, but it grew too big – there’s a lot to cover when discussing classes! So let’s dive in.
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Herb Sutter answers the question "Why C++?" in his usual thoughtful and well-articulated manner. He shares his perspectives on C++11 (yes, the name of the next version of C++ is officially official now!) and the C++ Renaissance as well as why C++ still matters and will continue to matter far into the future. This is a great introduction to the current state of the language, including a glimpse into the future of general purpose, performance-intensive, power-friendly, powerful native programming. As Herb says, C++ has legs and will continue to enable us to run fast into the future.
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We’ve been excited about releasing a Python agent for a long time. (Ever since Graham joined New Relic, in fact). Not only does this capability round out our offering, which also includes support for Ruby, PHP, Java, and .NET
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You know, I’m a programming language geek. These are the links I collected about Ruby (yes, there is an AjRuby out there ;-)
Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto. It was influenced primarily by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, and Lisp. Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms, including functional, object oriented, imperative and reflective. It also has a dynamic type system and automatic memory management; it is therefore similar in varying respects to Smalltalk, Python, Perl, Lisp, Dylan, Pike, and CLU. The standard 1.8.7 implementation is written in C, as a single-pass interpreted language. There is currently no specification of the Ruby language, so the original implementation is considered to be the de facto reference. As of 2010[update], there are a number of complete or upcoming alternative implementations of the Ruby language, including YARV, JRuby, Rubinius, IronRuby, MacRuby, and HotRuby. Each takes a different approach, with IronRuby, JRuby and MacRuby providing just-in-time compilation and MacRuby also providing ahead-of-time compilation. The official 1.9 branch uses YARV, as will 2.0 (development), and will eventually supersede the slower Ruby MRI.
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You can hardly be an astronomer today without knowing how to write code. As with programmers in all disciplines, we are at the mercy of the language we code with.
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Now, there’s both a steep learning curve but also a complete change of mindset required from centralised source code management (SCM) with SVN to the distributed model of Git. In the end, most projects will decide on a canonical Git repository anyway which pushes you slightly back towards centralised but there’s still a world of a difference.
So, what’s so good about Git? Well, lots. But first and foremost is it’s exceptionally powerful yet simple branching and merging that just works. And works fast – remember, with Git everything is local.
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A while ago Tim Robertson elaborated on his opinion that Java compares rather unfavorably to C++, to the point it's not worth learning. His arguments are well known to the seasoned Java professional: limited features, poorer performance, and a sense of missing out on new developments and becoming more of a legacy platform (the infamous "new COBOL" argument).
I beg to disagree. I have worked - and by "work" I mean professional, 8-to-5 programming work - on both C++ and Java projects for years now. They're both very good languages, and when used together can realize great things (hello Android). That said, I do find quite a few advantages to Java over C++:
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When Google unveiled Android, it hoped it would make good quality, touchscreen smartphones accessible to everyone. To achieve this, it took the unprecedented step of making its new mobile OS open source, encouraging anyone to contribute - users and manufacturers alike
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Two researchers have shown how a modded version of the Firesheep Wi-Fi sniffing tool can be used to access most of a victim's Google Web History, a record of everything an individual has searched for.
The core weakness discovered by the proof-of-concept attack devised by Vincent Toubiana and Vincent Verdot lies with what is called a Session ID (SID) cookie, used to identify a user to each service they access while logged in to one of Google's services.
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The first ever Cleanweb Hackathon opened in San Francisco with over 175 registrants for 100 seats. I call that resounding!!
Cleanweb is the idea that information technology can be the most leveraged way to address resource constraints of climate, energy, water, food, and land use.
We already see examples in companies like Airbnb, which substitutes people’s homes for hotels and Sungevity, which reduces solar electricity costs through smart application of information technology.
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The average price of Intel's notebook processor is seeing a decline led by the ongoing consumer shift to tablets, e-readers, and smartphones as well as more demand for PCs from emerging markets like India and China.
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This book is a practical guide to discovering and exploiting security flaws in web applications. The authors explain each category of vulnerability using real-world examples, screen shots and code extracts. The book is extremely practical in focus, and describes in detail the steps involved in detecting and exploiting each kind of security weakness found within a variety of applications such as online banking, e-commerce and other web applications.
The topics covered include bypassing login mechanisms, injecting code, exploiting logic flaws and compromising other users. Because every web application is different, attacking them entails bringing to bear various general principles, techniques and experience in an imaginative way. The most successful hackers go beyond this, and find ways to automate their bespoke attacks. This handbook describes a proven methodology that combines the virtues of human intelligence and computerized brute force, often with devastating results.
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You can update your local repository with the remote by using the command: $ git pull origin "remote_name" If you receive an error like this: error: Your local changes to 'projectFolder/fileName' would be overwritten by merge. Aborting. Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.
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I was looking for an easy way to define variables for random monster encounters in my game. I'm not sure how to define some without typing out 1000+ lines of code for like 25 monsters.
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Issue with how to properly use push_front and pop_front.
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As part of Microsoft’s commitment to Interoperability, this open source project is an effort bridge PHP developers to Windows Azure. PHPAzure is an open source project to provide software development kit for Windows Azure and Windows Azure Storage – Blobs, Tables & Queues
Overview
Enables PHP developers to take advantage of the Microsoft Cloud Services Platform – Windows Azure. Provides consistent programming model for Windows Azure Storage (Blobs, Tables & Queues)
Features
PHP classes for Windows Azure Blobs, Tables & Queues (for CRUD operations)
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This bluetooth headset hack, although simple, may provide some hacking inspiration. Turning a Bluetooth headset into a wireless input for one's stereo is definitely something that makes one think "why didn't I think of that?
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In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now. I won’t talk about any of the projects’ details, merely about the branching strategy and release management.
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[Clifford Wolf] wrote in to let us know about a project he recently completed called EmbedVM. It's a virtual machine for AVR microcontrollers. The package has a relatively small overhead, taking up about 3kB of program memory.
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