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Google Data GData is a new protocol based on the Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0 syndication formats, plus the Atom Publishing Protocol. [...] All sorts of services can provide GData feeds, from public services...
View Articlesnippets about… Multiple hosts for assets in Rails
Multiple hosts for assets in Rails One other quick win Rails 2.0 will give you is multiple hosts for assets. Browsers will only have two concurrent connections open for any single host, but an easy way...
View Articlesnippets about… Virtual Earth Development
Virtual Earth Development Virtual Earth Interactive SDK Virtual Earth examples at viavirtualearth.com
View Articlesnippets about… Erlang
Erlang general-purpose concurrent programming language and runtime system [...] Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson. [...] terminate every expression with a DOT...
View Articlesnippets about… Starling
Starling Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter’s backend, and is in production across Twitter’s cluster.
View ArticleDetecting retarded browsers using Ruby on Rails
Here is a small code snippet to check for retarded browsers in Ruby on Rails: user_agent = request.user_agent unless user_agent[/msie/i].nil? session[:browser] = 'retarded' else session[:browser] =...
View ArticleExtending HTML vocabulary with AngularJS
It’s quite hip today, but maybe some of you don’t know it. It’s Google’s AngularJS a nifty framework to extend the HTML vocabulary to add dynamic to your web documents. AngularJS is a toolset for...
View ArticleTwitter lays some new API eggs
Twitter tries to get back full-control over their API accesses and will release a new API version soon. This means first that everyone needs to authenticate via OAuth before using any kind of API...
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FourSquare Time Machine with nice visualisation
Nice data visualisation by Foursquare in their Time Machine. Shame on me that I’ve never used FourSquare. Time Machine Data visualisation. Another graph from their data visualisation.
View ArticleEMR 4.0.0 in AWS Data Pipeline
I like the AWS Data Pipeline and love to start EMR clusters with it. Unfortunately it’s currently not possible to use the EMR-4.0.0 release when starting a EMR cluster using the pipeline. You currently...
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