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Introducing Facebook Camera
Today, we're introducing Camera, a new mobile app that makes using Facebook photos faster and easier.
WebGL: 80,000 particles
Disclaimer: this page only dispays 30,000 particles. You can check the 80,000 version here .
To boldly go where Node man has gone before
With all the chatter about how uber-amazing Node.js is I figured I'd do a little comparison with my favorite language du jour: Go . Node'...
Building a higher-level query API: the right way to use Django's ORM
This blog post is based on a talk given at the Brighton Python User Group on April 10th, 2012.
Supporting IE Is Too Much Work
Bart van Zon, software developer
Windows On ARM Users Need Browser Choice Too
For the past eight years, users and developers have enjoyed a Windows platform environment that offered users a choice of browsers to navigate their digita
Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
One of the things that I’m passionate about in my role at Microsoft is helping developers ensure that their sites provide an awesome experience in every browser. Yeah, yeah I know it seems odd th…
The Lazy Man's URL Parsing
Learn how to pull the pieces of a URL apart the lazy way so you can find out all the important information you wish to know about your URLs.
Why I will always love RSS
There has been a lot of noise in the tech community earlier this year about how RSS is supposedly having one foot in the grave. If that would be even remotely true, I hope it dies with its boots on. The herald would be browsers and social networking sites killing or hiding support for RSS. While that may be true…
I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?
Part of my Python FAQ. I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?
Passwords For Your Facebook Account
This is interesting. You can log into your Facebook account using three passwords – one is the main password that you created and the other passwords can…
Probabilistic Data Structures For Web Analytics And Data Mining
Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets oft…