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 […]
Refereeing a soccer game is not much different than regulating the financial industry. There are a lot of parallels in how you would want to set up both systems to be fair and efficient. The first is that the regulator — in this case, the referee — is fallible. So the rules should make the
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Wow! Arizona politicians are using outright lies and exageration to justify their crackdown on border security. I'm glad I've never visited Arizona, and at this rate I never will. Brewer's mindlessness about headlessness is just one of the immigration falsehoods being spread by Arizona politicians. Border violence on the rise? Phoenix becoming the world's No.
This sounds like a really useful module for synchronizing content from Evernote. I've been using Evernote off and on, and have it on my phone as well. Its a great tool for taking notes and having them available everywhere. Pulling it all into Drupal parallels what I've been doing with my blog, by pulling in
This is a concise example showing how you can use the Features module to bundle configurations in Drupal into a module. It's great to see the Drupal community moving towards using code to capture, reuse, and deploy configuration settings. It's been the biggest pain point in working with Drupal for me. One of the things
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A team from my alma mater won the Solar Decathlon Europe, a competition to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses. The winning design is named Lumenhaus, an 800 square foot home and has a solar array on the roof which which changes to maximize its efficiency. An exhilarating race from start to finish, some houses
The ratings for this World Cup are really impressive. Its pretty safe to forecast an incremental bump. American soccer must capitalize on this momentum. "The real question will be 'what happens to Major League Soccer ratings after the World Cup?'" says Steve Master, Nielsen's vice president of sports. Master and other analysts are forecasting an
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Dave Barry writes the column I've been mulling over for a few days. Go figure, he's a professional writer and all. With the reception the World Cup is getting this year in the USA, I'm hoping the soccer zealots mellow out and stop seeking the approval of the rest of the domestic sports fans. Seriously,
Overview of how MLS marketing has shifted towards courting the Hispanic market. D.C. United features heavily, as an example of a team that got it mostly right from the beginning. "The league had this crazy idea that it was going to be some sort of youth-oriented activity," said Kevin Payne, owner of DC United, a
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There's a new release of the the one full-blown IDE that I've managed to stick with. If Eclipse doesn't fit your style, give Netbeans a spin – I like its inline code completion, the source-code beautifier, and the integration with SVN and Mercurial. I particularly find the source control usability much better than Eclipse. After