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Why (and How) to Replace Amazon SQS with MongoDB

mattinsler — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:53:46 +0000

What is Amazon SQS? Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) is a reliable message queuing service hosted in the Amazon cloud. This service is ideal for sending messages between servers that need to acknowledge that processing has been completed. When a message is popped from the queue, it is not deleted, but marked with the client who has made the request. The client is then responsible for...

Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers

Swizec — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:24:18 +0000

This is a guest post by Jan Pierce - a 4th grade teacher who has over 20 years of experience in the classroom. Her interests include educational technology and online learning. She also owns the site Elementary Education Degree for students interested in earning a degree in elementary education. Preview Text: Ten iPhone Apps that no web...

Hacking into Python Objects Internals

cjsmith — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:01:00 +0000

You know, Python represents every object using the low-level C API PyObject (or PyVarObject for variable-size objects) structure, so, concretely, you can cast any Python object pointer to this type; this inheritance is built by hand, every new object must have a leading macro called PyObject_HEAD which defines the PyObject header for the object. Preview Text: ...

IE Blog Tries to Make Case for Metro-Style Apps

cjsmith — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:01:00 +0000

A recent blog post by the IE development team has generated a lot of buzz by comparing the application performance between Safari, iOS App, IE10, Win8 App (developer preview), Kindle Fire browser, and a Kindle Fire App. Testing configuration: http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html.iPad: 1st Gen, iOS 5.0.1. Preview Text: The IE10...

DomainWatch Offers Google App Security

BenK — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:48:53 +0000

One of the key issues for organizations moving to Google for office productivity applications is the ability to enforce policy on end users around sharing outside of the organization. This issue is a good example of the tension that exists between keeping an offering as simple as possible, and ensuring all the bells and whistles that enterprises require are ticked off. Preview...

Trends in NoSQL Interest According to Google Analytics

KChodorow — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:42:44 +0000

About a year ago, Mike Dirolf drew an enormous circle covering a sheet of paper. “Here are the people who use databases,” he said, “and here are the people who have even heard of NoSQL,” and he drew a circle this big: ° . I think that interest has grown since then. By this time, the number of people that know about NoSQL is at least this big: o . Preview Text: ...

"Understanding" RPython

cjsmith — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:38:52 +0000

Dave Beazley's Chipy talk from January 12, 2012. This is a screen capture taken directly from a laptop with a live audio track. About 50 people were in attendance including Alex Gaynor, one of PyPy's core developers who can be heard from time to time on the audio.Audience questions are audible, but best heard while listening on headphones. Preview Text: ...

Find/Replace in Visual Studio using Regular Expressions

DJ_Link — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:38:11 +0000

Usually Find/Replace gets the job done for what I need, although sometimes using “Replace All” can break more stuff than it fixes. But today I had this function I wanted to get rid of and simply change it with a public variable. So I had something like this.object->setLayer(/*BLABAL BLA CODE, */);I want to replace it with something more simple Preview Text: ...

CSS Vendor Prefixes - YOU NEED TO ACT NOW!

remysharp — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:28:24 +0000

We do like vendor prefixes. They give us access to bleeding edge CSS properties, and make our sites look cool. But there's a serious problem: non-webkit vendors are giving serious consideration to implementing the -webkit prefix to a number of CSS properties. Preview Text: The CSS working group is seriously considering implementing the...

Running Python and R Inside Emacs

johncook — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:04:58 +0000

Emacs org-mode lets you manage blocks of source code inside a text file. You can execute these blocks and have the output display in your text file. Or you could export the file, say to HTML or PDF, and show the code and/or the results of executing the code. Here I’ll show some of the most basic possibilities. For much more information, see orgmod.org. And for the use of org-mode in...

Search Needs to Help Disprove Patent Trolls

hull_j — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:02:57 +0000

As the “father of the Internet,” Tim Berners-Lee, got onto a plane to head to the burgeoning tech center of Tyler, Texas (all sarcasm intended), he must have wondered how he found himself in this position. Berners-Lee is testifying at a court case of a patent holder who is suing Google, Amazon, and others regarding the viability of a patent claiming intellectual property ownership over the...

wxPython: Learning to Use Fonts

driscollis — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:26:20 +0000

Have you ever wondered about how to change your font in wxPython? Well, now is your lucky day because that is exactly what this tutorial is going to cover. We will look at the following three items: Preview Text: Mike Driscoll continues his series on wxPython in this tutorial where he explains how to change the fonts using wx.Font and the...

Programming Language Popularity by SO and GitHub Cross-Ranking

johncook — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:32:07 +0000

Curator's note: Is this two-faceted method for determining language popularity a good metric. The correlation definitely helps its case but I know that Stack Overflow volume doesn't always indicate popularity, but rather, confusion. Also, RedMonk's charts are showing C# slightly ahead of Java on SO but on the tags page, you can see that C# has almost 60k more tags (almost 25% more) and the...

10 resources to get the most out of the CSS text-shadow property

jbj — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:03:02 +0000

The CSS text-shadow property is very popular among web designers and front-end developers. In this article, let’s take a look at 10 resources to get the most out of the text-shadow CSS property. Preview Text: The CSS text-shadow property is very popular among web designers and front-end developers. In this article, let’s take a look at 10...

The Decorator pattern, or its cousin, in JavaScript

piccoloprincipe — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:35:14 +0000

The Decorator pattern is a way to reduce multiple levels of inheritance that clash with each other; for example, if you want to create objects which address one or more between the X, Y or Z responsibilities, plain inheritance leads you to create the following classes:BaseClass X Y Z XY XZ YZ XYZwhile the Decorator pattern allows you to create just: Preview Text: ...