Author Archives: Bramus!

Epic Games released Unreal Development Kit (UDK) for free (via @DonArdonio) — Wow!

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Chroma-Hash, an experiment in how to visualize the live-input of secure fields, such as a password on a login screen.

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Google has launched Google Dashboard which aggregates all the info about the various Google Services your account has been linked to.

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“The Closure tools help developers to build rich web applications with JavaScript that is both powerful and efficient.” — The Closure tools include: A JavaScript optimizer named Closure Compiler, a comprehensive JavaScript library named Closure Library and an easy templating system for both Java & JavaScript named Closure Templates

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Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux.

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“Oracle Database 11g Release 2 introduces a new feature called Recursive Subquery Factoring. When I first was thinking about a pratical use for this feature I couldn’t come up with anything, but on second thought: solving Sudokus!”

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Highly interesting article on Digg The Blog: Digg implemented their new badges feature in Cassandra, a distributed, structured key-value store also used at Facebook. — “When an item is dugg, we asynchronously populate Cassandra. This job fetches the list of followers of the digging user, and places one column in each of their buckets. This …

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Some lovely CSS2.1/CSS3 tricks used in Scrunchup

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SQL Buddy — an alternative to the reigning PHPMyAdmin (via @maxvoltar)

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“Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business. Amazon RDS gives you access to the …

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