Building Backbone.js/PHP based stack

Source: Hacker News

Last year like a lot of other developers I started to get excited about client-side Javascript frameworks. Particularly interesting to me are frameworks that implement the concept of binding, where changes to your mo ...
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Serendipitor, an app that creates serendipitous routes

Source: Waxy.org Links

is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone that helps you find something by looking for something else. The app combines directions generated by a routing service (in this case, the Google Maps API) with instructions for action and ...
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Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox

Source: Hacker News

apache for your dropbox A python server that uses the dropbox API to serve files that are hosted on dropbox. It will not be particularly useful to a developer who is comfortable with git, heroku, ftp, or anothe ...
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Don't make cloud management an afterthought

Source: InfoWorld

It's clear how public cloud computing is used today by larger enterprises: It's a storage system here, an API providing data there, and cloud-delivered app dev testing somewhere else. However, what's almost never apparent is how ...
Full article at: InfoWorld  More like this  10 hours ago, 6:04pm CDT

Events

Source: The Star Malaysia

The Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) together with the Johor Police are organising a Programme Desa Selamat event at Dataran Ledang in Tangkak today at 7.30am. There will be an array of events including the 1 Ma ...
Full article at: The Star Malaysia  More like this  10 hours ago, 5:34pm CDT

African Press International (API) reports on my campaign

Source: Dr. Orly Taitz, Esquire

If you love your country, please help me fight this creeping tyranny and corruption. Donations no matter how small will help pay for airline and travel expenses. Mail donations to: Defend Our Freedoms Foundation, c/o Dr. ...
Full article at: Dr. Orly Taitz, Esquire  More like this  11 hours ago, 5:24pm CDT

VM export for EC2 (One less case of vendor lock-in)

Source: Hacker News

The AWS VM Import service gives you the ability to import virtual machines in a variety of formats into Amazon EC2, allowing you to easily migrate from your on-premises virtualization infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. Today we are adding the next ...
Full article at: Hacker News  More like this  11 hours ago, 4:41pm CDT

Monopoly madness

Source: LXer

Monopolies, whether created by the state or created by the market, can be problematic for open source, and as technology moves forward, new spaces to monopolise are always appearing. Glyn Moody looks at how the authori ...
Full article at: LXer  More like this  12 hours ago, 3:42pm CDT

GridFS (MongoDB) and Python

Source: Hacker News

filename This is the 'human' name for the file, which may be path-delimited to simulate directories. contentType This is the mime-type of the file encoding This is the unicode encoding used for text files. In some previous pos ...
Full article at: Hacker News  More like this  12 hours ago, 3:40pm CDT