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  • Strata Week: Are customized Google maps a neutrality win or the next filter bubble? 17 May 2013, 02:45 PM Google aims for a new level of map customization Google introduced a new version of Google maps at Google I/O this week that learns from each use to customize itself to individual users, adapting based on user clicks and searches. …
  • Software and the physical world 17 May 2013, 12:30 PM In this episode of the Radar podcast series Jon Bruner and I are joined by Mike Loukides as we muse more on software and the physical world. No coffee shop clatter in the background this time around as we were …
  • Google I/O, Big Data Adolescence, Visualization, and the Future of Open Source 17 May 2013, 07:29 AM Google I/O: O’Reilly Editor Rachel Roumeliotis reports from the conference floor. Big Data, Cool Kids: Fumbling toward the adolescence of big data tools. Code as Art: Interactive Data Visualization for the Web author Scott Murray on becoming a code artist. …
  • Three organizations pressing for change in societys approach to computing 16 May 2013, 11:33 AM Taking advantage of a recent trip to Washington, DC, I had the privilege of visiting three non-profit organizations who are leaders in the application of computers to changing society. First, I attended the annual meeting of the Association for Computing …
  • Four short links: 16 May 2013 16 May 2013, 08:34 AM Australian Filter Scope Creep — The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for …
  • Interview with Kate Matsudaira Interview with Kate Matsudaira In order to have a truly efficient, thriving operations team, you can’t ignore the people on that team (or its customers). At the end of the day, all those servers, configuration management tools, and monitoring dashboards are built and run by people.
  • Hypermedia APIs Hypermedia APIs Mike Amundsen explains why developers should explore hypermedia possibilities as they develop RESTful applications.
  • Interview with Velocity speaker Sascha Bates Interview with Velocity speaker Sascha Bates
  • Flexibility is fun, but use it with care (JavaScript is dynamically typed) Flexibility is fun, but use it with care (JavaScript is dynamically typed) When you begin programming in JavaScript, you’ll need to use variables. A variable is just a bit of storage to hold a value. Just about every line of code you write will use a variable of one kind or another, so it’s a good idea to get familiar with the kinds of things you can put in variables, and how you can use them. Now, if you’re coming from another programming language, like Java, you might be surprised to see how loose JavaScript is about variables and their types; JavaScript doesn’t care if your variable starts out with a string value, and ends up being a number: JavaScript’s dynami...
  • Interview with Velocity speaker Jay Edwards Interview with Velocity speaker Jay Edwards Think configuration management is either Chef or Puppet? PalaminoDB CTO (and Lead DB Engineer for Obama’s 2012 campaign) discusses his upcoming talk for Velocity Santa Clara about Ansible, an alternative to Chef and Puppet that lowers the barrier to getting started with configuration management.
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