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Best Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

HTML For Rich Document Layout. Perhaps your user experience dictates that documents be displayed in the application with rich formatting. If the document requires formatted content such as tables to be displayed, then a solution like NSAttributedString won’t be up to the task. Documents such as this are what HTML does best.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

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Knowledge of distributed VCS systems. build automation Only knows how to build from IDE Knows how to build the system from the command line Can setup a script to build the basic system Can setup a script to build the system and also documentation, installers, generate release notes and tag the code in source control.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. The inimitable Paul Graham has an excellent essay called The Python Paradox in which he argues: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project. Interesting post.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

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for XML practitioners comes with the shift from thinking about hierarchically structured data in documents to thinking of data as a distributed data structure. XPATH and XSLT) work well on documents, but require the programmer to implement any mechanism for links between documents. In RDF, a document (e.g.,

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Open Source and Big Data: Two Things I Love About LinkedIn.

Diego Basch

My favorites so far are: Apache Kafka : a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. The design document is a great read, I believe anyone working with distributed systems should check it out. It’s similar to BDB but written natively in Java. Project Voldemort : a Java implementation of the Amazon Dynamo paper.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? And in this crypto algorithm, they said, well, since we're all making this distributed ledger, we now have provably unique digital items that I can send to you, Eric. That was an important document to write.

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