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Books I've Read This Week

Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe. Ug, sometimes it's not a good idea to learn how the sausage is made. As a long time comic book fan and a lover of Marvel comics for untold years I though it would be interesting to learn the story behind how some of my favourite comic books were produced. That was kinda a bad idea that left me feeling depressed. These weren't super happy people bouncing around the bullpen fronted by the always jovial Stan Lee, these were real people with real problems. After reading this book I wonder how the (translate)

PhoneGap: Saving Arrays in Local Storage

One of a handful of local storage options for PhoneGap applications is the localStorage solution which is actually part of the W3C specs. It provides access to a W3C Storage interface since we are just dealing with HTML5 in PhoneGap. This is a good option for storing simple strings but what if we want to […]Related Posts:PhoneGap and HTML5SQL.JSActiveTuts+ “Using AS3XLS with the Flex…Preserving Flex s Button Icon ColorsAS3 Quickie – Event.VIDEO_FRAME and…Slides from 360 Flex 2012 (translate)

WiMAX – Your Highway To Ultra Fast Internet World

In this modern age, when high speed Internet is not just a facility in life, but a necessity to survive in life. More and more technologies are emerging on the surface to provide Internet users with better solutions that are reliable, fast and secure. Same goes with Internet Connections. Large ISPs are coming up with [...] (translate)

Top 4 iPhone Apps for Newlyweds

Later this year I will take the plunge. After 31 years of bachelorhood, I will finally tie the knot. As a tech writer, I’m always looking for ways to put my smartphone to use. The two don’t seem to mesh, matrimony and smartphones, but there has to be a way. After looking around for a bit, [...] (translate)

Seven Benefits of Software Development

Today, software development is a big word being used by various companies and professionals. But do you really know the advantages of software development? You might be surprised that software development can benefit you even more than you expect. For this reason, you need to explore the following benefits of software development. Cost-effectiveness Once you [...] (translate)

Camera Raw 8.1 brings Retina support to Photoshop CS6

In addition to HiDPI support, the new release (available via Adobe Labs) supports a number of new lens profiles plus the following cameras: Hasselblad H5D-60 Olympus PEN E-P5 Olympus PEN E-PL6 Phase One IQ260* Pentax Ricoh GR Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G6 Panasonic LUMIX DMC-LF1   Once Photoshop CC is available, this release will run there as [...] (translate)

Humongous MongoDB - cf.Objective() 2013 - Slides and Code online

The slides and code for my third presentation at cf.Objective() 2013 are now online: Humongous MongoDB slides (PDF) Humongous MongoDB populate and use replica sets and sharding code (Github) (translate)

BigData: Launch CDH on EC2 from ArcMap in under 5 minutes

well....after you get all the necessary software, certificates and... setup everything correctly :-) The idea here is that I would like an ArcGIS user to just push a button from within ArcMap and have a Cloudera based Hadoop cluster started on Amazon EC2. From there on, a user can edit features in ArcMap that can be exported into that cluster to be used as an input to a MapReduce job. The output of the MapReduce job is imported back into ArcMap for further analysis. This combination of SmallData (GeoDatabase) and BigData (Hadoop) is a great fusion in a geo-data scientist arsenal. (translate)

Apple’s App Store Marks Historic 50 Billionth Download

Apple announced that customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps* from the revolutionary App Store. Customers are downloading more than 800 apps per second at a rate of over two billion apps per month on the App Store. The 50 billionth app was Say the Same Thing by Space Inch, LLC, which was downloaded by [...] (translate)

Spaceport: the Adobe AIR alternative The free, cross-platform...

Spaceport: the Adobe AIR alternative The free, cross-platform mobile game framework using ActionScript 3. Spaceport is an alternative to Adobe AIR with high performance and live updates. (translate)

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