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2073

Introducing Babel

Babel is about letting many different languages work together. Programming languages live in code blocks inside natural language Org documents. A piece of data might pass from an Org table to a Python code block, then maybe move on to an R code block, and finally end up embedded as a value in the middle of a paragraph…

2075

jQuery Joyride Plugin

ZURB is a product design company that helps businesses create better experiences through research-driven design strategy, interaction design, and branding.

2077

Images Now Showing

Posted by John Rae-Grant, Product Manager Have you ever wondered why Gmail asks you before showing images in emails? We did this to protec...

2082

Clojure - Getting Started

Clojure is a dynamic development environment where you interact with your program while you write it, growing and adding to it while it’s running. To work with Clojure you need an editor that supports evaluation in source files and structural editing (working with nested forms in addition to character editing).

2083

org-drill.el – flashcards and spaced repetition for org-mode

Org-Drill is an extension for Org mode . Org-Drill uses a spaced repetition algorithm to conduct interactive "drill sessions", using org files as sources of facts to be memorised. Each topic is treated as a "flash card". The material to be remembered is presented to the student in random order. The student rates his…

2085

Clojure - spec Guide

The spec library ( API docs ) specifies the structure of data, validates or conforms it, and can generate data based on the spec.

2091

Clojure - Deps and CLI Guide

In all the above scenarios you might want to use other Clojure and Java libraries (dependencies or 'deps'). These may be libraries you are writing locally, projects in git (e.g. on GitHub) or, commonly, libraries available in the Maven ecosystem and hosted by central repositories like Maven Central or Clojars.