How RESTful is Your API? | BitNative It’s been over a decade since Roy Fielding wrote his seminal dissertation on Representation State Transfer (REST). Over this period we’ve seen SOAP/WSDL fall out of favor as the cool kids transition their services over to the REST paradigm. Or so it seems on the surface. In reality, we’ve spent the last 10 years building various ad-hoc services over HTTP that borrow bits and pieces from the grand vision that Roy outlined. We’ve settled into a rhythm that, depending on your outlook, is either a naive implementation or an enlightened massaging of the initial approach. A Religious Debate Your answer depends on your faith. We, the wild unruly developers, have chosen to do our own thing. Pragmatism has a variety of benefits which I’ll get to in a moment, but many APIs that claim to be RESTful vary greatly in their implementation. This inconsistency complicates the entire ecosystem around HTTP based APIs. Learning – Learning REST is difficult with such an amorphous definition. REST Cheat Sheet
Making Data Visualizations: A Survival Guide And Other Resources As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. This part of the measurement process is most the fun because it covers visualization, pattern recognition, and reflection. I wanted to take a deeper dive into resources out there that provide useful tips about how to do this step for folks who were not data scientists or data nerds. I did a quick scan of data visualization resources to look for practical advice on the process of thinking visually and some technical information on what chart to select and data storytelling. (1) Data Visualization Survival Guide: This resource (including the 176 slides powerpoint deck) was suggested by Devon Smith. Avoid 3d-charts at all costs. (2) The Functional Art: This is the title of a book by Alberto Cairo who also teaches infographics at the University of Miami.
About The OpenVDB library comprises a hierarchical data structure and a suite of tools for the efficient manipulation of sparse, time-varying, volumetric data discretized on three-dimensional grids. It is based on VDB, which was developed by Ken Museth at DreamWorks Animation, and it offers an effectively infinite 3D index space, compact storage, fast data access, and a collection of algorithms specifically optimized for the data structure for common tasks such as filtering, CSG, compositing, numerical simulation, sampling, and voxelization from other geometric representations. The technical details of VDB are described in the paper "VDB: High-Resolution Sparse Volumes with Dynamic Topology". OpenVDB is maintained by DreamWorks Animation and was developed primarily by Ken Museth Peter Cucka Mihai Aldén David Hill Features and Tools Efficient Data Structure Fast Voxel Access OpenVDB features fast (constant-time) random and sequential access to voxels. Conversion Tools Level Set Tools Filters
La NASA planea lanzar a fin de año satélites basados en teléfonos Nexus | Internet Un smartphone no solo permite hablar por teléfono, mandar mensajes, conectarse a Internet o sacar fotos. Ahora también puede ser usado como satélite. La NASA se encuentra trabajando en el proyecto PhoneSat, en el cual utilizan componentes de un Nexus con Android como núcleo del aparato. Crédito: The Verge Entre sus ventajas no solo se encuentra su pequeño tamaño, sino también su precio. Por otra parte, actualmente también se encuentran trabajando en PhoneSat 2.0. Se estima que ambos satélites viajen en un cohete de la NASA a fines de este año.
Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. New Project :: Fluidui.com FluidUI.com (Fluid UI) uses cookies and saves data on our servers in order to provide the Fluid UI service. This data is gathered in order to provide the relevant functionality for your account. The purpose of this article is to inform you what information we store, when we request it and why we need it. Your email address is used to create a unique identifier for your account when you sign up. It is also used to inform you of important updates relating to Fluid UI and your account. Third party services providers Fluid UI also uses a number of third party services providers in order to provide the Fluid UI service: Google Google Analytics is used to anonymously track who is visiting our site, how long they are staying and where they are coming from in order to allow us to improve how we sell the Fluid UI service. Accessing or deleting your data
Tal Raviv — Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous I love engineering, and not just because I’m a nerd. The best part of engineering isn’t the technical details or the particular science behind it, rather, it’s the opportunity to solve an unfairly hard problem in a way no one has before. In business and marketing there’s a word for that kind of person – hustler – or, in the software startup space, growth hacker. As much as engineers like to joke about our counterparts in sales and marketing, the most successful sales and marketers think like engineers. I got an email from a student who reached out via our “breaking every rule” page. He described his previous entrepreneurial experience: I started a small startup which unfortunately has refused to take off am guessing the idea wasn’t all that awesome or it will pick up after a year, whatever. I checked out Wasswa’s site. After exchanging some links for getting started, Wasswa sent me this: Becoming Dangerous
GGobi data visualization system. Vim, you complete me Ever watch someone else type at a shell, spelling out every filename, even making typos and fixing them, very slowly? "Hit tab!", you yell, helpfully. I do that when watching someone use vim. The Quick Rundown Play with these to get a feel for them. imap <Tab><C-P> The Keyboard Details When using completion, a helpful menu pops up, showing all the potential matches. When you're happy with the selected word you can press ^Y; to give up entirely, press ^E. You can also insert the tokens after a completion, which is useful for when you forget that we invented abstractions 40 years ago. Scenario: paint a wall blue Given I have some paint And I have a white wall When I paint the wall blue Then I should see "success" And now you want to make a similar scenario, but for red: Scenario: paint a wall red G^X^L^X^L^X^L^Wred T^X^L The Configurations You can change all of this. set complete=. set wildmode=longest,list:longest How vim should go about replacing your text. set completeopt=menu,preview Be Smarter
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