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• Google I/O 2012 - Developing for a Global Audience: Tools for Localization and Internationalization

  Google I/O 2012 - Developing for a Global Audience: Tools for Localization and Internationalization C. Andrew Warren, Manish Bhargava As internet and mobile penetration continue to rise, developers face a unique and challenging opportunity: billions of new users speaking dozens of distinct languages. English has often been considered a lingua franca for apps and websites, but fewer than half of the current online population now speaks it - success in the global web will require a more nimble approach. This tech talk will explore some of the tips, tricks, and tools that can make internationalization (i18n) and localization (L10n) simpler for web and mobile app developers (with a focus on Chrome, Android, and App Engine apps). For all I/O 2012 sessions, go to developers.google.com From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 9 0 ratings Time: 50:24 More in Science & Technology

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• Copy only folders not files?

  - by Shannon

  Is there a way to copy an entire directory, but only the folders? I have a corrupt file somewhere in my directory which is causing my hard disks to fail. So instead of copying the corrupt file to another hard disk, I wanted to just copy the folders, because I have scripts that search for hundreds of folders, and I don't want to have to manually create them all. I did search the cp manual, but couldn't see anything (I may have missed it) Say I have this structure on my failed HDD: dir1 files dir2 files files dir4 dir3 files All I a want is the directory structure, not any files at all. So I'd end up with on the new HDD: dir1 dir2 dir4 dir3 Hoping someone knows some tricks!

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• New insights I can learn from the Groovy language

  - by Andrea

  I realize that, for a programmer coming from the Java world, Groovy contains a lot of new ideas and cool tricks. My situation is different, as I am learning Groovy coming from a dynamic background, mainly Python and Javascript. When learning a new language, I find that it helps me if I know beforehand which features are more or less old acquaintances under a new syntax and which ones are really new, so that I can concentrate on the latter. So I would like to know which traits distinguish Groovy among the dynamic languages. What are the ideas and insights that a programmer well-versed in dynamic languages should pay attention to when learning Groovy?

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• Google I/O 2012 - Android Design for Success

  Google I/O 2012 - Android Design for Success Rachel Garb, Jens Nagel, Nate Streu, Matias Duarte You have a great idea for an Android app. You want it to stand out among hundreds of thousands. You want your users to love it and tell everyone they know. The Android User Experience team is here to help. We'll talk about the Android Design guide and other tricks of the trade for creating apps that delight users and help them accomplish their goals. No design background is required. For all I/O 2012 sessions, go to developers.google.com From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 46 5 ratings Time: 01:03:04 More in Science & Technology

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• CMS without templates

  - by Mark

  I am looking for a CMS where I can layout the page from scratch using HTML/PHP/CSS and simply enter code such as:- FOR EACH (listOfArticles) SORT mostRecent CATEGORY news LIMIT 5 <div class="articleTitle">{title}</div> <div class="arcielBody">{body}</div> END to get a list of the five most recent articles of a certain category in the relevant place. Does such a thing exist anymore? Unless my mind is playing tricks on me, the CMSs of five or ten years ago had this approach. I am thinking of MovableType and the now defunct CityDesk. It seems to me that CMSs these days have a 'templates first' approach. I.E. you must always choose a template before doing anything - which I find really painful. Learning how to design these structured templates also seems overly painful. So can anyone help me in my quest? Thank you, Mark

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• How do you avoid working on the wrong branch?

  - by henginy

  Being careful is usually enough to prevent problems, but sometimes I need to double check the branch I'm working on (e.g. "hmm... I'm in the dev branch, right?") by checking the source control path of a random file. In looking for an easier way, I thought of naming the solution files accordingly (e.g. MySolution_Dev.sln) but with different file names in each branch, I can't merge the solution files. It's not that big of a deal but are there any methods or "small tricks" you use to quickly ensure you're in the correct branch? I'm using Visual Studio 2010 with TFS 2008.

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• Azure Florida Association: New user group announcement

  - by Herve Roggero

  I am proud to announce the creation of a new virtual user group: the Azure Florida Association. The missiong of this group is to bring national and internaional speakers to the forefront of the Florida Azure community. Speakers include Microsoft employees, MVPs and senior developers that use the Azure platform extensively. How to learn about meetings and the group Go to http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4177626 First Meeting Announcement Date: January 25 2012 @4PM ET Topic: Demystifying SQL Azure Description: What is SQL Azure, Value Proposition, Usage scenarios, Concepts and Architecture, What is there and what is not, Tips and Tricks Bio: Vikas is a versatile technical consultant whose knowledge and experience ranges from products to projects, from .net to IBM Mainframe Assembler.  He has lead and mentored people on different technical platforms, and has focused on new technologies from Microsoft for the past few years.  He is also takes keen interest in Methodologies, Quality and Processes.

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• Recommended Reading for Polishing JavaScript coding style?

  - by wml653

  I've been coding in JavaScript for a while now and am fairly familiar with some of the more advanced coding features of the language (closures, self-executing functions, etc). So my question is, what advanced books/blogs/or anything else would be recommended to help tighten up my coding style? For example, recently I was coding something similar to: var x = ['a', 'b', 'c']; var exists = false; for(var i = 0; i < x.length; i++){ exists = x[i] === 'b' ? true : exists; } But found that the following condensed code would work better: var y = {'a':'', 'b':'', 'c':''}; var exists = 'b' in y; Both store the same value in 'exists', but the second is less common, but much cleaner. Any suggestions for where I should go to learn more tricks like this?

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• How can you become a real programming polyglot?

  - by Yob

  I work as a Java programmer, but C and C++ were always my favourite languages during studies. Unfortunatelly I don't have an opportunity to work with them as often as I would like to. As a result I sometimes get realized that I don't remember something quite important (today example: inherited protected members cannot be accessed in derived class constructors). The other example could be Python and Haskell which I enjoy using but don't use everyday. I got an idea to write my own wiki with easy to forget things (e.g. bash tricks & tips) but I find no sense in writing there everything I can forget about coolest programming languages. I know that the best way would be having a side projects (I want to start working on some C/C++ open source project after graduation), but currently I have to write my graduation thesis and work so I merely don't have time to do this. How do you stay sharp in languages that you don't use everyday?

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• Kostenlose Openbooks: Handbuch zu Ubuntu GNU/Linux 12.04 LTS

  - by britta wolf

  Ab sofort steht das umfassende Handbuch zu Ubuntu GNU/Linux 12.04 LTS als kostenloses Openbook auf der Website von Galileo Computing zur Verfügung. Mit diesem Standardwerk lernt man alles Wissenswerte über die Linux-Distribution Ubuntu »Precise Pangolin« kennen. Das Buch überzeugt durch seine Themenvielfalt und Vollständigkeit. Von der Installation, der Benutzeroberfläche »Unity«, der Paketverwaltung über Optimierung, Programmierung, Migration und Kernelkompilierung bis hin zur Virtualisierung und Serverkonfiguration finden die Leser alle wichtigen Fragen in diesem über 1.000 Seiten starken Buch beantwortet. Darüber hinaus profitieren sie von mehr als 300 eigens gekennzeichneten Tipps und Tricks sowie von zahlreichen Praxisworkshops. Sowohl Einsteiger, erfahrene Anwender als auch Profis profitieren von diesem Handbuch. Die HTML-Version kann bequem im Browser gelesen werden. Das gedruckte Buch ist im Buchhandel erhältlich. Link zum Openbook: http://openbook.galileocomputing.de/ubuntu/ 

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• APEX Theme 25 (Blue/Responsive): Was ist "responsive" ...?

  - by carstenczarski

  Mit APEX 4.2 wurden neben vielen anderen neuen Funktionen, neue "Responsive" Themes eingeführt, mit denen man seine neuen (oder alten) Anwendungen ausstatten kann. Doch was ist ein "Responsive Theme" ...? In unserem aktuellen Community Tipp geben wir eine kurze Einführung in das Thema "Responsive Web Design" und wie man es in APEX nutzen kann. Darüber hinaus sind praktische Tipps und Tricks zum Umgang mit dem Theme 25 enthalten: Wussten Sie schon, dass Sie Seitenteile mit einer einfachen CSS-Anweisung bspw. für Smartphones abschalten können ...?

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• Is Java much harder to "tweak" for performance compared with C/C++?

  - by user997112

  Does the "magic" of the JVM hinder the influence a programmer has over micro-optimisations in Java? I recently read in C++ sometimes the ordering of the data members can provide optimizations (granted, in the microsecond environment) and I presumed a programmer's hands are tied when it comes to squeezing performance from Java? I appreciate a decent algorithm provides greater speed-gains, but once you have the correct algorithm is Java harder to tweak due to the JVM control? If not, could people give examples of what tricks you can use in Java (besides simple compiler flags).

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• How do I get started with HTML5 when I come from a Flash background?

  - by daniel.sedlacek

  How do I convert Flash web applications to HTML 5? What is the recommended workflow to learn HTML5? What tools should I install? What SDK? Where to start? How to test? How to debug? What do I read? I'm familiar with Eclipse, should I install Aptana? If yes, what's next? I would like to start lightweight but I would also like to learn the good practices from the beginning. UPDATE: I understand that what is often labelled as "HTML5 development" is in fact a mixture of HTML, CSS, JS and more, however I don't believe that bigger projects are developed in Notepad. That is why I am asking you to reveal your tips and tricks about your workflow.

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• TSQL Tuesday #15 – Maintaining Your Sanity While Managing Large Environments

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  This month’s TSQL Tuesday event is being hosted by Pat Wright (Blog | Twitter) and  the topic this month is Automation! “ I figured that since many of you out there set a goal this year to blog more and to learn Powershell then this Topic should help in both of those goals.    So the topic I have chosen for this month is Automation!   It can be Automation with T-SQL or with Powershell or a mix of both.  Give us your best tips/tricks and ideas for making our lives...(read more)

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• ext4 hogs lot of unkown space compared to ext3

  - by rejith

  Ext4 FS has claimed 3% of partition space. Where has this gone and can I get it reclaimed? I have tried disabling Journals for the ext4 partition. Even this is not helping. Any other tricks I can try to get the space reclaimed other than reverting back to ext3? $ lsb_release -cr Release: 12.04 Codename: precise df -hP |grep media /dev/sda3 21G 430M 20G 3% /media/MAIL /dev/sda2 148G 188M 148G 1% /media/DATA => if I move this to ext4 its claiming 2.4G /dev/sda3 on /media/MAIL type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks) /dev/sda2 on /media/DATA type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks) $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda3 |grep 'Reserved block count' Reserved block count: 0 $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda2 |grep 'Reserved block count' Reserved block count: 0 NO hidden files or directories $ sudo du -ah *;pwd 16K lost+found /media/MAIL

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• Google I/O 2011: Accelerated Android Rendering

  Google I/O 2011: Accelerated Android Rendering Romain Guy, Chet Haase Android 3.0 introduced a new hardware accelerated 2D rendering pipeline. In this talk, you will be introduced to the overall graphics architecture of the Android platform and get acquainted with the various rendering APIs at your disposal. You will learn how to choose the one that best fits your application. This talk will also deliver tips and tricks on how to use the new hardware accelerated pipeline to its full potential. From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 11086 62 ratings Time: 48:58 More in Science & Technology

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• Google I/O 2010 - How Maps API v3 came to be

  Google I/O 2010 - How Maps API v3 came to be Google I/O 2010 - How Maps API v3 came to be: Tips, tricks, and lessons learned in developing a cross platform desktop and mobile API Geo, Tech Talks Susannah Raub, Marc Ridey The Google JavaScript Maps API v3 celebrates its one year anniversary at this year's Google I/O. In this session, we reveal the reasons for embarking on a new API, the challenges we faced in developing a truly cross platform and cross device framework, and the lessons learned on the way. For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to code.google.com From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 5 0 ratings Time: 48:08 More in Science & Technology

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• Google I/O 2010 - Writing real-time games for Android redux

  Google I/O 2010 - Writing real-time games for Android redux Google I/O 2010 - Writing real-time games for Android redux Android 201 Chris Pruett This session is a crash course in Android game development: everything you need to know to get started writing 2D and 3D games, as well as tips, tricks, and benchmarks to help your code reach optimal performance. In addition, we'll discuss hot topics related to game development, including hardware differences across devices, using C++ to write Android games, and the traits of the most popular games on Market. For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to code.google.com From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 10 0 ratings Time: 58:57 More in Science & Technology

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• T-SQL Tuesday #15 : Running T-SQL workloads remotely on multiple servers

  - by AaronBertrand

  This month's installment of T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Pat Wright ( blog | twitter ). Pat says: "So the topic I have chosen for this month is Automation! It can be Automation with T-SQL or with Powershell or a mix of both. Give us your best tips/tricks and ideas for making our lives easier through Automation." In a recent project, we've had a need to run concurrent workloads on as many as 100 instances of SQL Server in a test environment. A goal, obviously, is to accomplish this without having to...(read more)

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• How to handle loading and keeping many bitmaps in an Android 2D game

  - by Lumis

  In an Android 2D game which is using SurfaceView where its onDraw is driven by a loop from a Thread, I use many bitmap sprites (sprite sheets) and two background size bitmaps, which are all loaded into memory at the start. It all works fine, however, when the activity is onPause or after reloading it few times, Android shows a tendency to wipe out the big bitmaps only, probably to free memory. Sometimes this happens even in the middle of loading this very activity. In order to counter this, I made a check in the onDraw method to test if the big bitmaps are still there and reload them if they are forcefully recycled by Android, before drawing them on Canvas. This solution may not be the most stable, and since I know that there are much more accomplished android game programmers here than myself, I hope you can reveal some tricks or secrets or at least provide some good hints, how to overcome this.

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• Speaking at Houston Techfest on September 8

  - by John Paul Cook

  I’m giving my talk on SQL Server and SSMS Tips and Tricks at Houston Techfest on September 8, 2012. It will be similar to the one I gave at last year’s Techfest and also the one I gave at the Houston SQL Server User Group meeting last month. It will be mostly different from the one I gave at the last SQL Saturday in Houston. I will cover regular expressions. If you bring your laptop with you, you can follow along with me to make sure you leave able to actually use regular expressions. If you are...(read more)

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• Google I/O 2010 - Analyzing and monetizing your mobile apps

  Google I/O 2010 - Analyzing and monetizing your mobile apps Google I/O 2010 - Analyzing and monetizing your Android & iPhone apps Google APIs, Android 201 Chrix Finne, Jim Kelm In this session you'll learn how you can drive awareness and earn revenue for your app using AdSense for Mobile Apps. We'll also discuss how using Google Analytics can help with your app development by providing insights into where your app users are coming from and how they're engaging with your app. We'll share tips, tricks, and examples of real-world mobile apps that have found success. For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 5 0 ratings Time: 38:52 More in Science & Technology

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• How do you maintain content size vs. content quality in an application?

  - by PeterK

  I am developing my first Cocos2d iPhone/iPad game that includes quite a few sprites, I would need approximately 80 different. As this is for both normal and HD displays I have 2x of each sprite. I am using TexturePacker to optimize the thing. I would like to ask if there are any rules-of-thumb, tricks, ideas etc. to adjust to in regards to size of content, quality and how you maintain high-quality HD-based graphics due to its size vs. the device memory sizes? Also, is it a good idea to only have one copy of the sprites and scale it using code?

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• How do you maintain content size vs. content quality in a mobile application?

  - by PeterK

  I am developing my first Cocos2d iPhone/iPad game that includes quite a few sprites, I would need approximately 80 different. As this is for both normal and HD displays I have 2x of each sprite. I am using TexturePacker to optimize the thing. I would like to ask if there are any rules-of-thumb, tricks, ideas etc. to adjust to in regards to size of content, quality and how you maintain high-quality HD-based graphics due to its size vs. the device memory sizes? Also, is it a good idea to only have one copy of the sprites and scale it using code?

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• Google I/O 2012 - Making Good Apps Great: More Advanced Topics for Expert Android Developers

  Google I/O 2012 - Making Good Apps Great: More Advanced Topics for Expert Android Developers Reto Meier In a follow-up to last year's session, I'll demonstrate how to use advanced Android techniques to take a good app and transform it into a polished product, without being a resource hog. Features advanced coding tips and tricks, bandwidth-saving techniques, implementation patterns, exposure to some of the lesser-known API features, and insight into how to minimize battery drain by ensuring your app is a good citizen on the carrier network. For all I/O 2012 sessions, go to developers.google.com From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 2193 69 ratings Time: 58:35 More in Science & Technology

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