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We talk about Don’s new book, Motorola Mobility’s sale to Lenovo, the Julia programming language, Erlang’s new features including hashes, Chrome WebApps in PhoneGap, and more.
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>Wherein we start by discussing Michael Winslow, playing with reverb, and Eric mentions a DEC Rainbow. Topics include improvements to Node in 0.12, a Ruby/Rails children’s book kickstarter, leaving Scrum for Kanban, and more…
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Dr. Andreas Stefik discusses the findings in his paper, an Emperical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax. The results may surprise you…
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In this interview with Gilt Groupe CTO Michael Bryzek, we discuss how the company started, the open source technologies they’ve used, and how their open source commitment has evolved. We take some time to talk about the scale of their operation, and how they leverage micro services as a way to make it more manageable and scalable in both infrastructure and human terms.
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Neo’s Max DeMarzi talks about a number of use cases for Graph Databases, referencing open source projects.
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We have a great set of resources for you today, ranging from HAML-like templates in Javascript, to a great Go tutorial website, to some heavy-duty Scala Akka Finite State Machine discusisons, iOS Workflows, a $15 Arduino with GPS, and much more. Hosts – Ken Rimple, Joel Confino, Eric Snyder and Sujan Kapadia.
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This week we talk about Joel’s experiences with AngularJS, infinite scrolling, MOOCs, five things to watch for when coding in MongoDB, and more.
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Ken and Joel give their “predictions” and “recap” of 2014, which is purely their version, but somebody’s got to do it. Also, we talk tools for testing in NodeJS, namely Mocha and Chai, some linux and regex visualization websites, a < $300 ChromeBook announced by Toshiba at CES, writing and posting HTML content on GitHub using gh_pages, and more.
In our second tutorial on modern Javascript tools, we delve into the client-side browser dependency manager, Bower.
The Node Package Manager, or npm, is one of the most useful utilities downloaded with NodeJS. It is used to install various Javascript tools and libraries, including web frameworks like Connect and Express. This tutorial shows you how to get started with the npm tool.