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Mobile Application Monitoring: Cloud Based App Monitoring. Tender Support — Plans & Pricing. The most powerful, yet lightest weight crash reporting solution for iOS and Android developers. | Crashlytics. Flurry launches crash and user acquisition analytics for mobile app developers. 1 February '13, 07:01pm Follow Mobile analytics company Flurry has announced the launch of two new features for app developers: Crash Analytics and User Acquisition Analytics.

The new services, which will be included in Flurry’s existing Analytics SDK, will be offered for free. Flurry tells us that its User Acquisition Analytics feature is available immediately for all users, but Crash Analytics is only available for Android in beta (you must register for it), with an iOS counterpart launching “later this month.” The company details that Crash Analytics, developed through a partnership with Plausible Labs, was “by far the most requested [feature],” following a survey of 100,000 of its users. Flurry has become known for its mobile app reports, powered by data pulled from its Analytics SDK. Image credit: Thinkstock / John Foxx. SEO by Yoast. WordPress out of the box is already technically quite a good platform for SEO, this was true when I wrote my original WordPress SEO article in 2008 (and updated every few months) and it's still true today, but that doesn't mean you can't improve it further!

This plugin is written from the ground up by Joost de Valk and his team at Yoast to improve your site's SEO on all needed aspects. While this WordPress SEO plugin goes the extra mile to take care of all the technical optimization, more on that below, it first and foremost helps you write better content. WordPress SEO forces you to choose a focus keyword when you're writing your articles, and then makes sure you use that focus keyword everywhere. = Premium Support = The Yoast team does not provide support for the WordPress SEO plugin on the WordPress.org forums. One on one email support is available to people who bought the Premium WordPress SEO plugin only.

Write better content with WordPress SEO Page Analysis Meta & Link Elements. Transfluent. Slicy. 6 Ways to get More Bang for your Heroku Buck While Making Your Rails Site Super Snappy · Storm Consultancy. 6 Ways to get More Bang for your Heroku Buck While Making Your Rails Site Super Snappy We love Heroku. It makes deployment so easy and quick. However, it can start to get pricey when you add additional dynos at $35 each a month. With a small amount of work, you can get a lot more out of your Heroku hosting whilst drastically improving the performance of your site.

So how do we max out the performance of our Heroku apps? 1. By default a Heroku dyno is responsible for serving all the assets for your site, so every page load will involve multiple requests to the dyno. The asset_sync gem modifies asset pre-compilation to sync all of your assets to an Amazon S3 bucket from where they are served directly and freeing up your dyno to handle more requests.

If you want to speed things up even more, you can slap Amazon’s Cloudfront CDN in front of your S3 bucket with multiple subdomains. 2. To prevent this from happening you need to decouple the upload process from your dyno. 3. 4. 5. 6. Tokens for Mac: App Store promo codes without the hassle. My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2012 Edition) This is the fourth installment of my must have must have list of tools and utilities as a Mac and iOS developer (2009, 2010, 2011).

A lot can change in twelve months when you work in the technology space. The biggest change for Apple developers each year are the platform updates. This year saw the transition from iOS 5 to 6 as well as Lion turning into a more powerful Mountain Lion. The idea for this list was shamelessly ripped off from Windows developer Scott Hanselman whose list is an enjoyable read every year. Many of the products you will recognize from previous years’ lists. I’ll outline new additions to the list as I go by marking them in bold.

Hardware Though I am currently working on the road, I am still maintaining a dual Mac setup under normal circumstances. Presently I am using my 15” Retina MacBook Pro with a 512GB SSD and 8GB of RAM. I am using Dropbox more than ever to keep everything between the two machines in sync. In terms of accessories and upgrades: Software User Tools. Using `heroku pg:transfer` to Migrate Postgres Databases. Using `pg:transfer` to Migrate Postgres Databases Development of most applications takes place in several disparate environments with the most common pattern being dev-staging-production. While it's necessary for the source versions in each environment to differ it is quite useful to retain some level of data synchronicity between the environments (for example, to populate your local database with production data to diagnose a bug).

When managing environments on Heroku the recommendation has been to use Taps and heroku db:pull/heroku db:push to transfer data to and from the remote Postgres database. While Taps aimed to be database-agnostic (allowing you to import/export between different database vendors) this came at the expense of robustness and maintainability. The Heroku pg:transfer CLI plugin is a more stable and predictable tool that automatically transfers data between two Postgres databases using native pg tools and protocols.

Install Download Upload Transfer Outside Heroku. Expert Translation at Unbeatable Prices. Need Some Cache? Redis in Depth. Bio Chris Meadows blends the skills learned through his experience as a flight instructor, trained financial counselor, physics researcher, and software engineer to enable himself and others to pick up and make practical use of technologies in solving business challenges. He is currently a Senior Architect at Terenine Technologies in Chattanooga, TN. Code PaLOUsa is a two-day software development conference to be held March 16 and 17, 2012 at the Marriott Louisville in downtown Louisville, KY.

The conference is designed to cover all aspects of software development regardless of technology stack. We will have sessions revolving around Microsoft, Java, and other development platforms; along with the sessions on higher level topics that are platform agnostic. The conference schedule will feature presentations from well-known professionals in the software development community.

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Meet the combo powering Hadoop at Etsy, Airbnb and Climate Corp. — Data | GigaOM. AFNetworking/AFNetworking. Home — Playframework. Spring Roo. Spring Roo differs from other productivity tools by focusing on: Rapid results100% develop in JavaEasy-to-useFast and simple to removeTotally compromise freeActive, helpful communityComprehensive technology integrationsExtension points via Roo add-onsSpring-certified architecture Instant Results - Making Java Fun Spring Roo is a lightweight developer tool that makes it fast and easy to deliver instant results. Best of all, you code 100% in Java and get to reuse all your existing Java knowledge, skills and experience. You'll like it - and have plenty of fun too! Read how TomTom cut development time in half using Spring Roo. Read the book Getting Started with Roo written by Josh Long and Steve Mayzak.

Ken Rimple and Srini Penchikala have also written the definitive Roo reference book called Spring Roo in Action available for purchase from Manning Publications. Exciting Features - GWT, SOLR, CLOUD, FLEX,... Zero Risks - Productivity Without Compromise Quick Start Download Spring Roo 1.2.5. Austinthecoder/pinger. Track your iPhone, iPad and Mac app rankings with Appstatics. Apache Thrift. Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format. What is it? Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats. Latest Updates Documentation Read the documentation. Discussion Visit the discussion group. Quick Example You write a .proto file like this: message Person { required int32 id = 1; required string name = 2; optional string email = 3;} Then you compile it with protoc, the protocol buffer compiler, to produce code in C++, Java, or Python.

Then, if you are using C++, you use that code like this: Person person;person.set_id(123);person.set_name("Bob");person.set_email("bob@example.com"); fstream out("person.pb", ios::out | ios::binary | ios::trunc);person.SerializeToOstream(&out);out.close(); Or like this: Person person;fstream in("person.pb", ios::in | ios::binary);if (! For a more complete example, see the tutorials. Matthew Kubicina - Google Protocol Buffers vs. Apache Thrift. RestKit. HockeyApp - Home. Mobile App Feedback | Atlassian JIRA Mobile Connect. Feedback & Online Help Desk Software | UserVoice.

Home — JRuby.org. ERB. Quick Sequence Diagram Editor - Summary. iPad GUI PSD (Retina Display) In 2008 we released our first iOS PSD. We continue to do it, not only because we find useful, but because we think a lot of other designers do too. In fact, over the past four years they’ve been downloaded millions of times. It’s become our little thank you to an industry that has given us so much. We’re really proud to be releasing our latest version today. It’s based on iOS 5.1 and includes hundreds of retina assets available natively on the platform. In addition to the GUI assets, you’ll find perfectly scaled ‘New’ iPads to help you create the apps we’ll come to love in the future.

This time around we executed the file in Adobe’s latest release, Photoshop CS6 (currently still in beta). Below are some screens of what you can expect. Download PSD (Retina display)