August 2011
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How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web... →
senchainc:
HTML5 Rocks:
This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel.
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Building client-side MVC application →
The web is evolving to become a medium in which rich HTML5 technologies allow us to create entire MVC applications in client-side JavaScript alone.
Peter Kellner led group held a meetup — Ext JS & Sencha Touch MVC Done Right — covering building an entire MVC Pandora-like app, complete with local storage and business logic, all on the client, using the ExtJS and Sencha Touch.
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What's next for ERP? Tear down the walls →
A recent CIO study identified a few areas where the cloud can help an ERP platform break out of its shell.
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User Centric software development teams →
Insightful from Aad @ Passion for Innovation.
Looks like the least costly is the API as the end product, then car loads of evangelism to get your API adopted and somehow revenues flowing. Perhaps another by-product I learned about having lunch with a Google Engineer (a recruitment program). There’s no people managers, only engineering and product mangers (which I agree with). Adoption...
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The to and fro: How to make a Mac OS X VMware... →
Hello stable Hackintosh!
howardtharp:
Mac OS X virtual machines are not just for VMware Fusion. This is a great write-up on how to install Snow Leopard guest in VMware Workstation (Windows). With Lion, guest support got a bit easier on Macs, but this is a needed write-up for (usually Windows, sometimes Linux) PC’s.
keithio:
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“If you look at the community of Node devs,” said Prasad, “there are a lot of...”
– How LinkedIn used Node.js and HTML5 to build a better, faster app.
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WatchTwitter has undergone exponential growth with very limited staff, hardware, and time. This talk discusses principles by which the wise performance engineer can make dramatic improvements in a constrained environment. Of course, these apply to any systems architect who wants to do more with less. Principles will be illustrated with concrete examples of successes and lessons learned from Twitter’s...
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Agile vs. LeanStartup →
Here’s a table to illustrate some differences by Joshua Kerievsky
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The to and fro: VMware Cloud Application Platform... →
howardtharp:
Cloud Foundry is what I’m most exicted to see at VMWorld.
Unfortunately it’s held in Las Vegas this year (VMworld already has a bit of a corporate/booth babe/sales-y atmosphere, I’m not sure Las Vegas will help make it more down to earth. But at least late-night food will be easy to find, nom!).
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WatchGillmor Gang: political pebbles being skipped across the realtime stream
We love robots – We hate robots! →
Foxconn’s founder Terry Gou’s declaration last week that the company would have as many robots as workers in its China factories by 2013
We love robots – tireless, productive workhorses of the modern assembly line. But we also hate robots – sinister mechanical simulacra of the human workers they make redundant.
Yet, Robots put leadership under skills pressure.
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Web FWD: Introducing the WebFWD Fellow Program →
webfwd:
Since we launched Mozilla’s WebFWD accelerator program four short weeks ago we spoke with numerous people who either applied, were thinking about applying or who contacted us with questions and suggestions. One common comment we heard over and over again was: “The Bootcamp is great but I…
Snippets: Socialise work, not just sharing →
Companies, by very definition, have reporting structures, established workflows, shared systems and processes, defined roles and responsibilities, and closely managed performance. Those are assets we don’t have in communities and forums, which are typically ad-hoc groups of individuals–mostly…
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Parallelism in .NET – Part 13, Introducing the... →
Reed Copsey, Jr. Thoughts on C#, WPF, .NET, and programming for Scientific Visualization
Could Our Online Selves Continue For Ever After We...
overwhelmingfreetime:
We’ll all die eventually and that is a fact! But what if our digital selves continue online, tweeting and posting stuff on facebook and youtube? Technology could enable a service like that in the future to create a digital persona of ourselves, after analyzing all the content we have ever created online. People would be able to interact with your digital copy online as if...
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