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Mitch Pronschinske05/17/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 17)

New JavaScript and CSS tools are on their way, along with a managed NoSQL DB from Google. Plus Jekyll 1.0 and a super-jumping robot.

Mitch Pronschinske05/13/13
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My Mom Told me That Git Doesn't Scale

Did you have a good Mother's Day? This GitHub developer's mom is certainly interesting... Since day one, we've faced an unique engineering problem: making terabytes of Git data always available, either directly or through our website.

Mitch Pronschinske05/13/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 13)

See why Ars Technica thinks that the W3C’s new DRM framework will empower the open web and check out the benchmarking of Dart and Java. Plus a iOS 7 concept design and 7 tips on minion management.

Mitch Pronschinske05/07/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 7)

Run Ruby in-browser, see 2 views of a chessboard in Python, and find out if video codecs will be written in JavaScript in the future. Plus, take a look at Oculus Rift simulations and learn about Dropbox's first conference.

Mitch Pronschinske05/06/13
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API Usability: Think of the Humans!

We'll talk about common usability traps and the bugs we make or prevent consuming applications. Finally, we'll discuss approaches to API development that improve usability.

Mitch Pronschinske05/01/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 1)

Get some advice for dealing with burnout or if you find that you don't want to program anymore. Plus some important news about the JS spec "Promises" and a 17 year old girl who won a major hackathon.

Mitch Pronschinske04/25/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/25)

Ngnix gets a new major release while TechEmpower continues their epic web framework performance benchmarks. Plus, Google's mobile web performance checklist and a tool for rapid drag-and-drop prototyping with twitter bootstrap.

Mitch Pronschinske04/22/13
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Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API

In this presentation, Les Hazlewood - Stormpath CTO and Apache Shiro PMC Chair - will share all of the golden nuggets learned while designing, implementing and supporting JSON-based REST APIs, using examples from a clean real-world REST+JSON API built with Java technologies.

Mitch Pronschinske04/18/13
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jqMobi Becomes Intel App Framework

Today Intel has launched its revamp of the jqMobi framework as the "Intel App Framework". The new HTML5 development environment is completely free to download and is focused on giving mobile developers a bunch of tools to quickly build web apps.

Mitch Pronschinske04/18/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/17)

Computer dinosaurs still walk the earth. This story, plus a cool Mac Terminal easter egg, a prominent game written in QBASIC, and a Python heart monitor that only needs a webcam.

Mitch Pronschinske04/15/13
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What is User-Driven API Design?

One of the first lessons from Sendicate, an email marketing app vendor, is not to let to let the UI influence your API.

Mitch Pronschinske04/12/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/12)

A node v. php v. go benchmarking session and some cool CSS and Mac tools make up this link list. Plus GitHub turns 5 and we get a demo of quantum levitation.

Mitch Pronschinske04/08/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/8)

More about asm.js from John Resig and also some amazing benchmarks for comparing a ton of different web frameworks. Plus Rackspace is suing patent trolls and a blogger explores what is really necessary in a programming language.

Mitch Pronschinske04/04/13
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Building an Asynchronous Communication Layer w/ XMPP, Ruby, Javascript

Get an introduction to Strophe.js, XMPP4R, and ejabberd, which are the XMPP components that we use to integrate our device automation framework and living room devices under test.

Mitch Pronschinske04/02/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/2)

An April Fools Roundup, Rackspace acquisitions of NoSQL hosters, and NoSQL benchmarking. Plus the Bitcoin surge and the invisible UI concept.