Team members at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory share the challenges of the Curiosity Mars rover’s final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars. Curiosity will land on Mars on August 6th at 7.31 AM (GMT+1)
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Your Startup is Doomed
Sometimes, after I speak at a tech conference, someone will come up to me and say: “Hey! You should check out my new startup.” They give me the elevator pitch, then they ask: “What do you think?” They’re beaming. They’re enthusiastic. And there is no polite way to say: “Statistically speaking, you’d be doomed to …
ASCII Street View
React: Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP
Inspired upon Node.js: <?php require ‘vendor/autoload.php’; $stack = new React\Espresso\Stack(function ($request, $response) { $response->writeHead(200, array(‘Content-Type’ => ‘text/plain’)); $response->end(‘Hello World\n’); }); echo ‘Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337’ . PHP_EOL; $stack->listen(1337); React →
LG Smart TV YouTube App Hidden Gem: Device Pairing
This weekend I discovered something neat on my LG Smart TV (a 42LV5500): in the YouTube App, there’s an option to pair your mobile with the app itself. Once paired, you can use your iPhone to play a YouTube video on the TV. Now, it’s nothing like AirPlay mirroring but more a remote control feature …
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shp.js — JavaScript Shapefile Parser
PaperFold for iOS
Firefox 16 and CSS Prefixes
Firefox 15 Plugs Leaky Addons
Firefox 15 prevents most memory leaks caused by add-ons, including Firebug. For many users with add-ons installed this will significantly reduce Firefox’s memory consumption, without requiring upgrades to those add-ons. For those users, Firefox 15 is likely to be faster (sometimes drastically so) and less likely to crash, especially if they have multiple add-ons installed …