About FounderFuel is an intensive 12-week mentor-driven startup accelerator that will help your startup increase traction, secure partnerships, and get to revenue faster, all in an effort to help you raise follow-on funding. We provide seed funding and access to a network of investors (VCs and Angels), experienced entrepreneurs, and top executives, all to help you accelerate the success of your business. What’s all the hype about? Every year, hundreds of teams apply; only 20 teams are chosen to complete the two 3-month cohorts. Getting selected to join the program ain’t no walk in the park! How do I get in?
How to manage a closed source, high-risk project? This Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 100+ Q&A sites. abel is in the early stages of developing a closed-source financial app within a niche market. He is hiring his first employees, and he wants to take steps to ensure these new hires don't steal the code and run away. "I foresee disabling USB drives and DVD writers on my development machines," he writes. BizSpark Plus Program The Windows Azure for BizSpark Plus Offer helps cover a startup’s cloud computing costs by providing a US $5K monthly credit on Windows Azure for 12 months. Through this offer, every dollar startups save on their cloud computing costs means more money for them to spend elsewhere for hiring developers, investing in marketing, acquiring new customers, etc. How to get the Windows Azure $60K Offer See if you QUALIFY: A member or alumni of an Accelerator Program Developing Software Less than five years old Privately Held Making less than US $1M annually
Hacked AP Twitter feed reporting fake White House attack rocks markets Stock prices plunged and then quickly recovered after a Twitter account belonging to the Associated Press was hacked and used to send a bogus report falsely claiming that the White House had been bombed and President Obama was injured. "The @AP Twitter account has been suspended after it was hacked," an unaffected Twitter account belonging to the news organization confirmed. "The tweet about an attack on the White House was false." In a testament to the power that social media has on real-world finances, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 150 points, or about 1 percent, immediately following the tweet, with other indexes reacting similarly. The Dow quickly regained the lost ground about seven minutes after the sell-off began, when the AP confirmed that the report was false. The bogus tweet was sent from one of at least of two compromised Twitter accounts belonging to the Associated Press.
Module: RSS Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a family of formats that describe ‘feeds,’ specially constructed XML documents that allow an interested person to subscribe and receive updates from a particular web service. This portion of the standard library provides tooling to read and create these feeds. The standard library supports RSS 0.91, 1.0, 2.0, and Atom, a related format. Here are some links to the standards documents for these formats: Simple RSS RubyGem: Spotlight on Ruby Gems The Simple-RSS RubyGem provides a simplified interface for reading RSS and Atom documents. You will find short, concise syntax and an easy way to take information from feeds and iterate over the elements in the document. Though this interface is rather simplistic--or example it has no XPath queries and can't write RSS documents--it's just what you need 99% of the time. When parsing some file formats, you don't always need many features.
Agile RSS Aggregator in Ruby By Ilya Grigorik on March 22, 2007 A liberal RSS aggregator in 26 lines of Ruby - may be hard to believe, but it's true. On top of that, it is also capable of serving static files, has a templating engine, and accepts an arbitrary number and types of RSS feeds - talk about squeezing functionality out of every line! Leveraging Ruby libraries Knowing the right libraries is a godsend in any language, but when this knowledge is combined with Ruby, all kinds of spectacular things begin to happen. OSORO Open Tableware System Most people tend to keep different kinds of tableware for different purposes: cooking, eating, storing, microwave-heating, and freezing. But having all this stuff – containers, bowls, and non-uniform lids – can quickly clutter your kitchen cabinets. The OSORO Open Tableware System aims to solve this problem.
Eye-Tracking Software Goes Mobile Go ahead, wake up your smartphone. No, don’t touch it! Just look at it. Wait for a second…and…yes! It recognizes you. Eye tracking Scientists track eye movements in glaucoma patients to check vision impairment while driving. Yarbus eye tracker from the 1960s. History[edit] Interacting With The API — Tastypie 0.9.14 documentation Tastypie also gives you full write capabilities in the API. Since the EntryResource has the no-limits Authentication & Authorization on it, we can freely write data. The good news is that there are no new URLs to learn. The “list” & “detail” URLs we’ve been using to fetch data ALSO support the POST/PUT/DELETE HTTP methods.
4 Ways To Build Business Software Users Actually Love Over the last 10 years, great design has become an essential for consumer software success. If it’s not easy and enjoyable to use, forget about it. But despite how much time people spend interacting with technology at work--McKinsey found that email alone takes up nearly a third of people’s time--not to mention the $297 billion now spent annually on such technology, design in business software has not kept pace. “Business software” conjures images of faceless IT departments in gray buildings, but this is really about software for people, when they’re at work. For those of us who look at a computer screen all day, badly designed software isn’t just time-wasting; it’s soul-sucking. We all deserve great design, not just when we go home, but from 9 to 5, or from 10 to 10.
3D-Printed Parasitic Fungus Chic For her ITP class project, NYU student/designer Xuedi Chen used 3D-printing software and chia seeds to spawn these mossy fashion accessories. Their origins are somewhat grotesque: The Invasive Growth Series was directly inspired by a parasitic fungus. The cordyceps operates by infecting an insect with spores, growing inside the insect while performing a sort of “mind control” that forces it to clasp onto a plant just in time for the cordyceps to burst through its body and grow upward. It’s pretty badass. “I printed it on a Makerbot in three pieces, curved them by hand and joined them together,” Chen explains .
The Most exclusive Schools in the World - The Best education for your children Every parent wants their children to have everything they never had, or better than what they had. As well as love, culture, travel and a stable family background, education comes right at the top of the list. In many cultures the right school is about status. As well as having an exceptionally rigorous selection process, these schools aim to build the character of a child as an all round over achieve, from music to sport and theatre.