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Dynamo Is Not Just for Datastores
Susan Potter discusses Dynamo, Riak, distribution, consistency and fault tolerance, along with techniques and an example for building an application with riak_core.
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Android App Assimilation
Logan Johnson exposes the Android integration points, explaining how to create apps that consume data and services provided by other applications.
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Building Applications with jQuery UI
Scott González demoes creating web applications with jQuery UI, showing the widget factory, the unified API, how to create new widgets, the CSS framework, and themes.
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CSS3 and Sass
Mark Volkmann introduces CSS3 and Sass, a tool extending CSS with variables, selector nesting, mixins and selector inheritance, the resulting code being converted to regular CSS before deploying.
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Applying the Principles of Stage Magic to the User Experience
Danno Ferrin suggests applying principles used in magic for a UX: Consider the Stage and the Audience, Practice, Overcome Objections Before They Arise, Patter and Showmanship, Sleight of Hand, ...
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The Once And Future Script Loader
Kyle Simpson reviews the script loading history and discusses current script loading techniques and the browser and HTML support for them.
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Generic Programming Galore Using D
Andrei Alexandrescu discusses generic programming, showing how to solve generic tasks with D, tasks that are difficult or impossible to perform with other languages.
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Vim: From Essentials to Mastery
Bill Odom presents the essentials of Vim and demoes advanced techniques, important settings, useful customizations, scripts, plug-ins, tips and tricks.
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A P2P Digital Self with TeleHash
Jeremie Miller presents how to create a fully distributed data network in which nodes communicate directly with each other using UDP, JSON and Kademlia, without relying on central servers.
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Testing, Testing, iOS
Heath Borders introduces several testing tools for iOS - OCUnit, Google Toolbox for Mac (GTM), GHUnit, UISpec, UIAutomation, OCMock – making some recommendations on which is better.
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Embedding Ruby and RubyGems Over RedBridge
Yoko Harada introduces RedBridge, aka JRuby Embed, a Java API for calling JRuby code that is treated as regular Java objects, explaining its relation to JSR223 and demoing how to use it.
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An Introduction to Doctor Who (and Neo4j)
Ian Robinson introduces Neo4J, a graph database, discussing how it can be used to store and work with data associated with Doctor Who.
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