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The Second Coming of Java: A Relic Returns to Rule Web Raffi Krikorian, vice president of engineering at Twitter. Photo: WIRED/Alex Washburn Biz Stone called it “one of the most special days in the history of Twitter.” Best New Mashups: Who’s Feeling Aggregated? One of the most powerful aspects of mashups is taking similar data from competing websites and providing a single place to examine the content. In this round-up of the best new mashups we’ll look at three apps that aggregate data from multiple services. One looks at location check-ins, another at shared photos and another mashes photos with information about where they were taken. Checkin Mania: Find out who is checking in around you. APIs: Foursquare, Google Maps, Gowalla. More at our Checkin Mania profile.
» 30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should Download Positive Space 30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should Download Well it took me a lot longer than I had originally expected but I was able to track down the original links to more than thirty PDF documents that I have collected over the past couple of years.
30+ Tools for Building Mobile Apps (+ Poll!) Over a year ago, we posted a round-up of DIY mobile development tools entitled "13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App," which has been one of our long-standing top posts of all time. Clearly, there's interest in this area. But focusing on just "DIY" tools for just the iPhone platform is an outdated way of looking at mobile development, if we do say so ourselves. Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, Symbian and other platforms are now important considerations too, as is the mobile Web itself. Plus, there is a wide range of services supporting mobile development all the way from DIY kits up to developer-friendly, cross-platform SDKs. This week, we've rounded up over 30 services which aid in mobile app development.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names [This post has been translated into Japanese by one of our readers: 和訳もあります。] John Graham-Cumming wrote an article today complaining about how a computer system he was working with described his last name as having invalid characters. It of course does not, because anything someone tells you is their name is — by definition — an appropriate identifier for them. John was understandably vexed about this situation, and he has every right to be, because names are central to our identities, virtually by definition. Best New Mashups: Get At Hidden Data Most mashups rely on data from other APIs to do their thing. That’s part of the power of open APIs. There’s a special class of mashup that we’re featuring today. These extract additional data, hidden from casual view. Now you can find out where that short URL points, the lyrics (and more) for any song, or the spot where you can meet in the middle–as long as you can spell rendezvous. SongDNA: The SongDNA iPhone app aims to be the source for song information.
A Short History of the O'Reilly Animals In the mid-1980s, O’Reilly (aka O’Reilly & Associates) was selling short books on Unix topics via mail order. These books, known as “Nutshell Handbooks,” were held together by staples, and had plain brown covers. Over time, Tim O’Reilly decided that he wanted to sell the books through brick-and-mortar bookstores, and hired a graphic designer to create new book covers. Those covers were used for the first two titles that were sold into bookstores, but Tim wasn’t satisfied with the design. A neighbor of mine worked at O’Reilly as a technical writer and marketer.
258 JSONP APIs: Get Your JSON Response Anywhere JSON is popular, at least when it comes to API data formats. Of the new APIs we added to our directory, one in five supports only JSON. But how many support JSONP, which allows developers to load data directly on the client side no matter the originating server? TIOBE Software: Tiobe Index TIOBE Index for January 2016 January Headline: Java is TIOBE's Programming Language of 2015! Java has won the TIOBE Index programming language award of the year. This is because Java has the largest increase in popularity in one year time (+5.94%). Java leaves runner ups Visual Basic.NET (+1.51%) and Python (+1.24%) far behind.
6 Free PSD/(X)HTML-Templates - Smashing Magazine Advertisement We love our readers. We respect the hard work of designers and developers across the globe. And we do our best to make the web design community stronger and the Web a little bit prettier. How To Create An API? (10 Tutorials) Behind almost every successful web application, there is an easy-to-use & feature-rich API as they simply help the main application to spread into others & reached by more users. Also, an API-enabled application can be easily developed further using the API itself. In order to create an API for your web application, here are 10 tutorials to get you started. But before that, you may want to checkout the video: How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters by Google.
The Degradation of Java Developers « Yakov Fain's Blog On multiple occasions I was blogging about these legions of enterprise Java developers trained to use certain frameworks without understanding how things work under the hood. This morning I had chance to see it one more time after interviewing three job applicants in a row. Our consulting company got a request for a well rounded Java developer with the knowledge of SQL.
The Old Fashioned » Rediseñando Taringa Rediseñando Taringa This post is written in Spanish: It covers the redesign of the HTML and CSS code for Taringa.net, a site with over 13 million page views daily. In this article, I explain how to save thousands of dollars a day by using simple web standards techniques to reduce the size of the homepage by 50%. A version of this article will be published in English in the coming days. Luego de leer este artículo en Alt Tab, en donde se entrevista a Alberto Nakayama sobre el funcionamiento de Taringa.net, quedé bastante impresionado con la red de servidores y recursos que el sitio consume actualmente.