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Source: Security DevCenter The 4th annual Maker Faire – the world's largest DIY festival – is happening this weekend at the San Mateo County Event Center! Things are going great guns at the fairgrounds and the excitement is palpable. It promises to be an off-the-hook weekend, maybe even several hooks! Follow it online via Twitter and makezine.com.
For those of you attending, follow our Twitter traffic channel @FaireTraffic for up-to-the-moment traffic conditions and parking info. Also, check out Becky's Ask MAKE column from a few weeks ago for useful tips on prepping for the Faire in general.
Source: Security DevCenter John Gruber's "Excerpts From the Diary of an App Store Reviewer" is cutting satire of the arbitrary decision making and capricious censorship that is generated by Apple's opaque App Store approval process. Read more about this brilliant commentary on the absurdity of the relationships between the Censor, the Censored, and "objectionable" material.
Source: Security DevCenter Last week I wrote about two different projections claiming that Linux will recapture 50% of the netbook market, either in three years or by next year. Compelling MIPS and ARM based systems are the reason I believe those projections are correct. Current versions of Windows won't run on ARM or MIPS processor based systems at all. [ ] Lightweight, optimized versions of Linux are another matter entirely. They run just fine for many applications on the MIPS based systems released so far despite processor speeds ranging from 400 to 800 MHz. If that sounds slow please remember that the original Asus EeePC was underclocked to 600MHz and sold like proverbial hotcakes.
Source: Security DevCenter Detailed Solutions in Eight Programming Languages
Source: Security DevCenter Apache Hadoop is ideal for organizations with a growing need to process massive application datasets. Hadoop: The Definitive Guide is a comprehensive resource for using Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems. Programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets with Hadoop, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters. The book includes case studies that illustrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems.
Source: Security DevCenter I had a few miscellaneous notes on Google I/O that I wanted to share, including a few anthropological observations best made with pictures. I thought it was really interesting that there were more registration lines for Academia than there were for general admission. Google knows the same truth as Apple, that students are the future. They are making it really
Source: Security DevCenter After the press conference following this morning's keynotes, I was part of a small group conversation with Lars Rasmussen, head of the Google Wave team. He told the story of how they pitched Sergey Brin on the Wave project. "We'd worked on our message," he said, "and we boiled it down to this: 'We think we have an idea that
Source: Security DevCenter On Monday, June 1st we will be kicking off Internet Week with an Ignite at the New World Stages. Tikva Morowati and I are co-hosting. Ignite NYC IV is proudly co-presented by the team at Web 2.0 Expo, a conference and expo bringing together the best and brightest in the Web 2.0 universe to show the world how the next Internet Revolution is being designed and delivered. Ignite NYC is sponsored by Web 2.0 Expo New York (which is November 16-19th at the Javits Center -- remember you have till Friday at midnight to get a submission in).
Source: Security DevCenter Creating Distributed Enterprise Applications
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Source: Security DevCenter Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Sponsored by: Twitter Boot Camp There's a lot of buzz around Twitter, but many marketers don't know how to translate that buzz into a worthwhile marketing tool for their business. Most people's first reaction to the social media "micro-blogging" tool is that it is a waste of time, but as Twitter becomes more and more mainstream, businesses are now using Twitter to engage with customers, reach the media directly, and further establish themselves as thought leaders in their industry. Attend this free webcast to learn all the basics of how to use Twitter to market your business. About Mike Volpe Mike Volpe, (@mvolpe), is VP of inbound marketing at HubSpot, an Internet marketing software startup, where he leads the company's lead generation and branding strategy through inbound marketing, including blogging, search engine optimization, video marketing, and social media. Mike is a cutting-edge B2B inbound marketer who ranks in the top 0.1% of all users on Twitter, speaks at numerous conferences, hosts the weekly live marketing video podcast HubSpot TV, and blogs frequently. About Twitter Boot Camp On June 15, 2009, join O'Reilly Media founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly, Edelman Digital SVP Steve Rubel, and Twitter expert Sarah Milstein at this one-day boot camp. Attend this event to learn best practices you can immediately apply to engage your customers and grow your business. Full details and registration information » Webcast attendees can use the code webcast to receive $50 off the $399 registration.
Source: Security DevCenter The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. And if you're a traveler who loves science, you'll definitely want to check out at a timely new resource from O'Reilly, The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science & Technology Come Alive ($29.99), by John Graham-Cumming. Arriving just in time for summer vacation planning, this unique travelers' guide covers 128 interesting destinations around the globe where major breakthroughs in science, mathematics, or technology occurred--or are happening now. Learn about the Tesla Museum, in Belgrade, Serbia in this excerpt from The Geek Atlas.
Source: Security DevCenter In my blog last year Is ODF the new RTF or the new .DOC? Can it be both? Do we need either? I raised the question of whether ODF would replace RTF or DOC. I think this issue has come
Source: Security DevCenter I haven't posted here in a long time. Hope this one is helpful to you. I want to introduce you to a new way of visualizing your thoughts for a presentation. Andre Heller once called his life falling through dreams .
Source: Security DevCenter In which I open the ODF 1.1 spec in Office 2007 SP2, immediately discover a bug with page breaks, trace it through the standards, find a workaround, then find the standard is not as clear as it should be.
Source: Security DevCenter Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free MySQL's Clustering solution provides some pretty sophisticated functionality. In this webcast we'll take you through getting it up and running on your laptop or single node server, building a sandbox where you can play with the dials and levers and get familiar with all the moving parts. This presentation is for intermediate DBAs who are already familiar with the basic MySQL architecture, and want to learn about the cluster architecture in terms of installation, setup, configuration and management. About Sean Hull Sean Hull is a business and technology consultant, author and speaker. He is the founder and senior consultant at Heavyweight Internet Group in New York and has worked as a database consultant and expert for ten years. He is the author of "Oracle and Open Source" (O'Reilly) and his articles appear on Oracle Technology Network, Database Journal, DBA Zine, ChangeThis.com, and many others. Using techniques, technologies, and perspectives discussed in his book, articles, and seminars, he has taken his career into exciting areas. He has served as Technology Consultant, Project Manager, CEO, and mentor with a background in programming, systems integration & administration, project development and management.
Source: Security DevCenter Yesterday's Google I/O keynote highlighted the power of HTML 5 to match functionality long experienced in desktop applications. This morning, Google plans to announce an HTML 5-based application - still very much in the early stages of development - that represents a profound advance in the state of the art. Lars and Jens Rasmussen, the original creators of Google Maps,
Source: Security DevCenter Today at Google I/O, Google has made several announcements for geo developers. To sum:
Google is updating (not abandoning!) its Flash API, but it still prefers the Javascript one
Google is pushing the Maps API into mobile (and performance is a big part of the push)
Geolocation is going to be a part of every Google product eventually
Android is being backed by deep pockets
Google is preparing an army of Qualified Developers to bring more them more API customer
Source: Security DevCenter Around the time I submitted a proposal on the White House's open government dialog site for local forums to implement high-speed networks, the FCC released a 77-page report (in PDF format) that casts some light on the proposal. Their report, titled "Bringing Broadband to Rural America: Report on a Rural Broadband Strategy," covers a huge range of ground (and retells a lot of standard stories, including the reasons for universal service in broadband and a history of public infrastructure efforts). This post details some of the impressions I got relevant to local forums.
Source: Security DevCenter At Google I/O this morning, DeWitt Clinton announed Google Web Elements, a new simple interface layer to Google Ajax APIs. The goal is to make bringing Google features to other sites as easy as cut and paste. And indeed, the cut and paste functionality is impressive: Add news, custom search, conversations, maps and more to your site with only a few clicks. If the earlier HTML 5 announcements were for developers, these announcements are for everyone else. Any blogger can easily incorporate Google services.
Source: Security DevCenter Google's clarion call for HTML 5 and rich interactive browser applications marks an interesting fork in the road for technologists. Will we invest our time in learning more proprietary, native APIs to create better iPhone and Adobe AIR applications, or will everything start to move toward a standards-based browser as the underlying platform for interactivity. Despite Google's influence in the market, this isn't a foregone conclusion. Just how long will it take for the content generators to adopt HTML 5? And, what's in it for Google?
Source: Security DevCenter Signs are our friends. They help us observe the rules when we actually need to know the rules. We don’t all speak English, and tourism is a huge industry, so signs need to be language-independent. Which is why a vocabulary of immediately identifiable symbols is essential to every working artist and designer. So if symbols are so important, why are most such an indecipherable mess? Computer icons! Laundry instructions! Or Deke’s favorite: What you shouldn’t throw into an airplane toilet! Learn what works and what doesn’t in this laugh-out-loud episode of dekePod.
Source: Security DevCenter Frustrated with networking books so chock full of acronyms that your brain goes into sleep mode? Head First Networking's unique, visually rich format provides a task-based approach to computer networking that makes it easy to get your brain engaged. You'll learn networking concepts by tying them to on-the-job tasks, blending practice and theory in a way that only Head First can. Then you'll practice what you've learned, with nearly one hundred exercises, questions, sample problems, and projects.
Source: Security DevCenter With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree at Trinity College, Cambridge, and more. Each site in The Geek Atlas focuses on discoveries or inventions, and includes information about the people and the science behind them.
Source: Security DevCenter Want to create 3-D models using Google SketchUp? This Missing Manual is the ideal place to start. Filled with step-by-step tutorials that will have you creating detailed 3-D objects quickly, Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual offers crystal-clear instructions for using every feature. You'll learn to use the basic tools, build and animate models, and place objects in Google Earth, with lots of real-world examples to show you how it's done.
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