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Source: Security DevCenter Getting Started withArduino — This valuable little book offers a thorough introduction to the open-source electronics prototyping platform that's taking the design and hobbyist world by storm. Getting Started with Arduino gives you lots of ideas for projects and helps you get going on them right away. To use the introductory examples in this book, all you need is a USB Arduino, USB A-B cable, and an LED. This 128-page book is a greatly expanded follow-up to the author's original short PDF that's available on the Arduino website.
The Best of Instructables Volume 1 — Instructables has become one of the most popular magnets for makers and DIY enthusiasts of all stripes. Now, with more than 10,000 projects to choose from, the Instructables staff, editors of MAKE: Magazine, and the Instructables community itself have put together a collection of technology how-to's from the site. The Best of Instructables Volume 1 includes plenty of clear, full-color photographs, complete step-by-step instructions, and tips, tricks, and new build techniques you won't find anywhere else.
Source: Security DevCenter Search engine optimization has always been a thorn into Flash’s side. But on July 1st Adobe issued a press release stating that they had developed, in collaboration with Google and Yahoo!, a new Flash player intended to help search engines
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Source: Security DevCenter If you're ready to give your Flash projects a considerable performance boost, learning ActionScript 3.0 is a must. This Quick Answer Guide is designed specifically to help Flash designers and developers make the leap from ActionScript 2.0 to the new object-oriented ActionScript 3.0 quickly and painlessly. You'll learn key differences between the two language versions, allowing you to more easily leverage ActionScript 3.0 using Flash CS4 and other Adobe technologies like Flex and AIR.
Source: Security DevCenter For all the up-to-the-minute coverage at Web 2.0 Expo Europe, check out the official Conference News & Coverage page.
Source: Security DevCenter Jason Soo reports on Tim O'Reilly's Keynote Address at Web 2.0 Expo Europe:
Amidst a gloomy backdrop of the current economic woes of investors, entrepreneurs and high tech startups, Tim O'Reilly delivered an inspirational Keynote address at the European Web 2.0 Expo this Tuesday.
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Source: Security DevCenter Robin Wauters mentions Web 2.0 Expo Europe in article on European startups:
A lot has already been said and written about the current economic crisis, and how the financial meltdown is and will keep on affecting startups in the US. VC’s and angel investors are telling their portfolio companies to say goodbye to the good times and batten down the hatches, and at the same time raising the bar for new financing rounds, while startup CEO’s are executing substantial lay-offs and some company founders are even jumping ship altogether.
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Source: Security DevCenter J. Kleske summs up day one of Web 2.0 Expo Europe:
This is how I summed up the atmosphere after the first few days of the Web 2.0 Expo Europe last year. "They are just doing their usual show" was a complain I heard from many, "We have heard it all many times before. Do they think w're dumb?"
What a difference a year makes. Following the communication of Techweb and O'Reilly in the last weeks you could really hear them making a huge effort of doing it right this time. I mean they could have easily said "Screw you, guys, we're going to another city where people actually appreciate what we're doing". But instead they came back and asked for a second chance. And this time they are not bringing us "the gospel of Web 2.0" but are doing a lot to empower the European web community.
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Source: Security DevCenter Check out all the great coverage from Antonio Volpon from Web 2.0 Expo Europe.
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Source: Security DevCenter How can you master the fundamentals of Photoshop CS4, with all of its incredible features? Deke McClelland's proven One-on-One learning system offers step-by-step tutorials, five hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and hands-on projects to improve your knowledge and hone your skills. Read about features such as Photoshop's new Adjustments panels in the book, and see how they're used first-hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective.
Source: Security DevCenter A week ago Adobe began shipping Photoshop CS4 and already Deke McClelland's highly anticipated Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One is climbing bestselling charts. Even better, dekePod's special Halloween episode sheds light on CS4's scariest feature, the Masks palette. "It's kind of cute, but it's got a big old knife," notes Deke. Watch dekePod now to find out how to transform the Masks palette from, in Deke's own words, "a devil doll to a responsible citizen."
Source: Security DevCenter Is ODF the new RTF or the new .DOC? Can it be both? I suggest that perhaps the
looming challenge for document standards is not in deciding or developing perfect formats, but in integrating the packaged world of documents with the fragmented world of web resources. First, a potted history of the document format landscape over last 25 years
Source: Security DevCenter As some of you may know, one of our authors, Mikkel Aaland, recently returned from a trip to Tasmania with a group of photographers and a team from Adobe. Below are tips & tricks regarding Photoshop Lightroom 2, as well as Mikkel's reflection on the trip.
Source: Security DevCenter Learn How to Manage Your Projects with SharePoint
Source: Security DevCenter Dr. Andrew Weaver may be one of the most famous people you've never heard of. Weaver, a professor at the University of Victoria's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, is one of the world's leading experts on climate modeling. He was served as lead author for last year's ground-breaking report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and when the Discovery Channel needed someone to analyze the potential impact of their "Project Earth" geo-engineering schemes, they turned to Dr. Weaver for help.
On the heels of the recent World Wildlife Federation report on vanishing sea ice, we thought it might be a good idea to chat with Dr. Weaver about the current state of the art in climate modeling, the political realities of effecting carbon reduction, and why certain proposed geoengineering ideas terrify him.
Source: Security DevCenter Photoshop CS4 has been out one week. Hardly enough time for any of us to embrace it, let alone place our faith in it. And yet faith is precisely what one of the program's most highly touted features, The Masks palette, requires of you. Everything about i
Source: Security DevCenter ProjectLocker.com now offers Git hosting as well as SVN!
Source: Security DevCenter Most Netapp environments do not take advantage of multiple user accounts and passwords. It's safe to say that anyone capable of logging onto a Netapp is likely to be someone that properly knows how to administer it. The Netapp API allows more remote tools to manipulate a filer, reducing administrative overhead, but increasing the risk of compromised security.
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Source: Security DevCenter In just a matter of days, you can develop powerful web applications with Rails that once took weeks or months to produce with other web frameworks. Find out how with Rails: Up and Running. Perfect for beginning web developers, this new edition teaches the basics of installing and using Rails 2.1 and the Ruby scripting language, and covers just about everything you need to develop your own Rails applications quickly. Browse the book now.
Source: Security DevCenter When you mix apps with adverts, you get appverts. They've started to appear on the App Store, but do they deserve space there? And what do developers think of building them anyway?
Source: Security DevCenter Recently I spoke with Jascha Franklin-Hodge, CTO and co-founder of Blue State Digital about how technology is affecting politics and democracy in the U.S. Blue State Digital was born out of Jascha's experience helping Howard Dean’s seminal run for the White House in ’04. and is the technology and strategic services company powering Barack Obama (and many other Democratic leaders
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Source: Security DevCenter Web 2.0 Expo Europe is now underway. The Expo extends the principles, practices and tools of Web 2.0 to a broad audience, bridging the safe center with the disruptive edges. Check out all the highlights from the conference.
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Source: Security DevCenter I'm taking a break from writing to attend a local Salt Lake City Tweetup sponsored by Wells Fargo "Someday Stories". I've just heard a fairly inspirational from Danny Gibbons, one of five finalists in the Wells Fargo "Someday Stories, something you can learn about for yourself and then vote to determine who you feel is most deserved of the grand prize of $100k to help in fulfilling their dreams.
Source: Security DevCenter For years we've heard about the risks and failures of electronic
voting. But election fraud takes place outside the voting place as
well--in fact, a lot of it is aimed at keeping people away from voting
places altogether. Today, the
Electronic Privacy Information Center,
Common Cause,
and the
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
have released comprehensive reports describing schemes found on the
Internet that expedite fraud--and how to combat these schemes.
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Source: Security DevCenter I'm not sure many people really understand what is truly great about the Web and why it works. Most developers see the web as a technology platform and nothing more. HTML, JavaScript, and CSS are simply tools that must be used to satisfy requirements. The sad part is that this lack of understanding will cripple the web and hurt users.
Source: Security DevCenter That's what
O'Reilly School of Technology student Lesley Regan, said about her experience. She adds: "Thanks to OST, I've been able to assemble a respectable portfolio This program is great!" Get certified! Enroll Today and Save 25%!
Source: Security DevCenter Harish Mallipeddi's Blog: Commenting on Velocity '08
I finally had time tonight to look at the presentations from Velocity 08. If you’re interested, they’re all available on the Oreilly conference website.
Personally I thought the following two talks were awesome:
* Capacity Management by John Allspaw (Flickr Ops Mgr)
* Building an Automated Infrastructure by Adam Jacob
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Source: Security DevCenter Earlier this week over at Daring Fireball, John Gruber had a couple links related to refunds for mobile software purchases. The first was a link to Michael Tsai's post on App Store Usability. Both Gruber and Tsai agreed that they
Source: Security DevCenter Everyone's been nervous for months, watching the market numbers, the stock prices, the declining sales figures. In the IT department, it's not been uncommon to see programmers with one window open on code, the second on the app the code's supposed to generate and the third on a steady stream of plummeting financial indexes and bad news about the economy. Then, about two in the afternoon, your project manager taps you on the shoulder - special meeting in ten minutes. When you stand up from your cubicle and look around, you notice that there are several security types idling in the hallway and you know, instinctively, what that meeting's going to be about.
Source: Security DevCenter Maker Faire Austin is now underday! Follow along via the MAKE: Blog, photos and twitter updates! And don't miss the Maker Faire Art Project. Attendees at Maker Faire Austin are using their creativity to show us their vision for the future.
Source: Security DevCenter I have been helping several clients lately migrate part or all of their infrastructure over into the Amazon Cloud. The biggest concern I am seeing relates to whether or not their existing web applications will work OK in the cloud. You need to consider some things.
Source: Security DevCenter Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure — "A practical guide to a program no photographer should be without: Adobe Lightroom 2 This is an adventure you'll be glad you said yes to." —Leo Laporte, from the Foreword
Master Adobe's next-generation tool for digital photographers. Learn more.
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