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 […]
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
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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After watchingng all the hype leading up to this year's tournament and the breadth of coverage the tournament has received, I think we're seeing a turning point for the sport in the USA. Hopefully MLS and the domestic game can really capitalize on the interest it generates, but from here on out the World Cup
I wish they'd compared it to traffic during the Olympics. Today’s Web traffic has been classified as “Heavy” for the better part of the day, according to measurements by Akamai. At its peak, traffic for News sites globally started a steady climb about 6 am ET and peaked six hours later, at Noon ET, reaching
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If you use Google Analytics, Asynchronous Tracking is now available. This is a faster way for pages to send data to the mother ship, and was announced at the end of last year. The GA module for Drupal is working on supporting the new tag, in fact a patch is available if you want to
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This is the "science" methodology behind anti-vaccine research. In January, Britain's medical council ruled that Wakefield and two other doctors acted unethically and showed a "callous disregard" for the children in their study. The medical body said Wakefield took blood samples from children at his son's birthday party, paying them 5 pounds (today worth $7.20)
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I'm attending tekx, and while I'm taking notes in all the sessions with Evernote, I'll try to clean up and summarize my notes here as well. One of the session's I attended yesterday was Eli White's session on Code and Release management. It focused more on the techniques, policies, and practices to think about about