CES 2014 Morning and evening newspapers may be a vanishing breed, but Yahoo! is breathing life into them on the iPhone with the launch of a news summary app for iOS: Yahoo News Digest. via Yahoo!, Summly to publish News Digest: An app for Generation-TL;DR • The Register.
Irish politician Patrick O’Donovan of the Fine Gael party has called for a crackdown on open-source browsers, calling them a gateway to an ‘online black market’ filled with ‘illegal goods such as drugs, weapons and pornography’ – but may, perhaps, be merely confused as to his terminology. via Fine Gael calls for open source browser …
The Realtime Application Platform Our powerful API stores and synchronizes data in milliseconds. Build realtime mobile and web apps in minutes using client-side code. Save time. Delight your users. via Firebase – Build Realtime Apps.
The days of developing an application completely from the ground up are over. A big trend in the past year is to embrace application frameworks (e.g., Bootstrap and YAML) and code libraries (e.g., MooTools and Modernizr). With so many options available, it can be difficult to decide what to use. Then, once you make a choice, setting up the environment and …
The basement cafe at Google Campus has early stage startups working on the next big thing. First came the artists, then came the hackers: The strange history of London’s own Silicon Valley – Feature – TechRepublic.
JS/Pipe provides JavaScript primitives that make it possible to coordinate asynchronous code without callbacks or chained functions. As a result, stack traces are crystal clear so debugging is easy. via JS/Pipe – coordinating asynchronous code.
Pivotal has released the first major update of the Spring Framework since 2009, marking both the first big announcement from an organization recently spun off from EMC and VMware, and the first public step in that organization’s larger mission to use Spring as a key component of a new platform called Spring IO. via Spring …
For a taste of who uses the image-based social network We Heart It, look no further than Facebook. A simple Graph Search query for “People who work at We Heart It” returns hundreds of results, many of them young females with titles like “Boss,” “Heartbreaker,” and even “Chief Executive Officer,” all claiming to work at …
In a post last week about lessons learned using Amazon Web Services, Netflix’s John Ciancutti revealed that the company built something called “Chaos Monkey” to ensure that individual components work independently. Chaos Monkey randomly kills instances and services within Netflix’s AWS infrastructure to help developers to make sure each individual… via Chaos Monkey: How Netflix …
For shops that want to keep using AWS S3 storage service but also want better data consistency, Netflix just open-sourced its S3mper library. via S3mper Fi! Netflix open sources library to make Amazon S3 even more awesome — Tech News and Analysis.