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Announcing Scala.js v0.1 – a compiler from Scala to JavaScript – Scala.js is a compiler from Scala to JavaScript. It allows you to write your entire web application in Scala and simply compile to JavaScript!
Build a RESTful API with Martini – I’ve been looking for an excuse to try Martini ever since it was announced on the golang-nuts mailing list. Martini is a Go package for web server development that skyrocketed to close to 2000 stars on GitHub in just a few weeks
HTML5 javascript database library for web app – HTML5 javascript database library for web app that supports all desktop, mobile and web client browsers utilizing IndexedDB, WebSQL and localStorage. No dependency.
Docker unleashed: App portability gets a boost – Popular application-virtualization system for Linux no longer needs custom kernel, adds portability and connectivity features
Atlassian: A Leader in Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for Application Development Life Cycle Management – Gartner's 2013 Magic Quadrant for Application Development Life Cycle Management names Atlassian as a Leader. We believe this is based on our investment in agile software development practices and support of team collaboration.
Leveraging PhoneGap within Sencha Touch – With the release of Sencha Touch 2.3 and Sencha Cmd 4, creating your cross platform hybrid applications has never been easier. PhoneGap is now a key feature in the Sencha Touch mobile workflow integrating seamlessly into the newly released, NodeJS based, P
Python Displacing R As The Programming Language For Data Science – R remains popular with the PhDs of data science, but as data moves mainstream, Python is taking over.
cmder | Portable console emulator for Windows – Cmder is a software package created out of pure frustration over absence of nice console emulator on Windows. It is based on amazing software, spiced up with Monokai color scheme and custom prompt layout. Looking sexy from the start.
An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby – Grape is a REST-like API micro-framework for Ruby. It's designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. It has built-in support for common convent
How Authy Built A Fault-Tolerant Two-Factor Authentication Service – On the heels of their newest product release, we sat down with Daniel Palacio, Founder of Authy, to talk about how they built their service.
On launching AngularJS 1.2: what we learned, what we’re changing – We learned a lot from launching 1.2. Here are our own notes on the 1.2 launch process, and what we'll be improving, in case you're curious too.
It can’t just be Big Data, it has to be Fast Data: Reactor 1.0 goes GA – I'm happy to announce that Reactor, a powerful foundational library for building reactive, fast data applications on the JVM has reached GA!
Arm yourself: The API wars are coming – The arms merchants of the cloud and a new wave of developers armed with APIs are going to cause massive technology disruption.
Eric Schmidt’s guide for converting to Android from iPhone – Eric Schmidt's guide for converting to Android from iPhone
Salesforce Making Business Software More Social – NYTimes.com – According to a senior engineer overseeing the project, however, applications running on Salesforce can now be quickly remodeled for any screen, adding and taking away features that might prove more or less useful on a mobile device.
Hands On With Google Glass 2: What’s New? – The second Explorer Edition of Google Glass is out—and we get our paws all over it.
How Node.js Got Big – How the wunderkind framework grew up, from the perspective of one of its earliest contributors.
What it takes to run Stack Overflow – Here’s what runs the Stack Exchange network in that data center
FastR: an implementation of the R language – FastR: an implementation of the R language

AngularJS Tutorial: Learn to Build Modern Web Apps | Thinkster – This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a full-stack application. It features step-by-step instructions on how to build a fantasy football application, code snippets of the full application, and explanations on design decisions
SQL Injection – Understanding and Protection – n this article, we will continue our previously-discussed technical side of SQL injections, as it is imperative to ensure complete knowledge of what a SQL injection is. Otherwise, how can you protect against it? In order to completely understand what a SQL injection is, one must know how a SQL injection works
iOS7 is not about flat – Apple’s new mobile operating system lets us develop lighter, faster apps – Background fetching in iOS7 lets an app wake up before you use it?—?just enough to present the data you’ll want at the moment you open it. It’s like one of those coffee makers that automatically brews your morning joe so it’s fresh and hot just when you come down to the kitchen.
Amazon ElastiCache – Now With a Dash of Redis – In addition to the existing support for Memcached, Amazon ElastiCache now supports the popular Redis key-value store. If you are already running Redis on-premises or on an EC2 instance, it should be very easy for you to upgrade to ElastiCache, while gainin
A painfully obsessive cheat sheet to favicon sizes/types – A painfully obsessive cheat sheet to favicon sizes/types
VNC client on 200 lines of JavaScript | Minko Gechev’s blog – In this quick blog post I’ll show you how to create a simple VNC client in about 200 lines of JavaScript.
For our goal we’re going to use only HTML5 and JavaScript (client and server side).
Google goes back to the future with SQL F1 database • The Register – F1 uses some of Google's most advanced technologies, such as BigTable and the planet-spanning "Spanner" database, which F1 servers are co-located with for optimum use. Google describes it as a "a hybrid, combining the best aspects of traditional relational databases and scalable NoSQL systems".
AngularFire – A real-time backend for AngularJS from Firebase – AngularFire is built to make sure you can write your app as quickly as possible. There's no backend code to write or servers to set up, just start writing your frontend code and focus on building a great experience.
HTML5 Threading with Web Workers and Data Storage with IndexedDB – In this article, I continue exploring HTML5 features with a look at Web Workers, which let you speed up your client-side applications, and Indexed DB, a client-side data storage mechanism that is the preferred storage approach going forward in HTML5. (Befo
Reactor 1.0.0.M2 – a foundation for reactive fast-data applications on the JVM – Reactor is a foundational framework for building high-throughput, asynchronous, reactive applications on the JVM. It provides Selector-style topic matching for event routing, dynamic Consumer assignment, an uber-fast task processor, and reactive Stream and

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