Fascinating details about how the NYTimes interactive team built 3 online features for the 2010 World Cup and how they solved some of the challenges faced. The live match tracker is an interesting exercise in ingesting data real-time from multiple sources and also re-distributing it to thousands (millions?) of clients. As the Sports department planned […]
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While trying to submit a patch to a drupal project, I ran into a problem creating a unified diff that could be suspected. It turns out that the way I was using the built in Subversion diff tool in NetBeans wasn't the way to go. Now, on the command line, I'm used to doing a
Awesome, now you can watch your Netflix Instant Queue on an iPhone or iPod touch. Pretty soon, many people won't need broadcast television at all. Netflix launched an iPad app months ago that lets users stream movies and TV shows over WiFi or 3G connections. Now you can do the same on an iPhone or
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Another viable option for mobile development is to use a framework like Titanium or Phonegap to quickly build out an app using Javascript. I’ve been looking at Titanium a lot lately and digging into its API. Seems like you can build anything short of a game using its API and there’s a real buzz when