…any additions or revisions to the Foundation framework, you can use them in any iOS project.
Better still, if you've got old projects that you'd like to update to use these new syntaxes but dread having to do so manually, XCode 4.5 has a feature you'll like. Under the Edit menu, you can select Refactor , and inside that submenu is the Convert to Modern Objective-C... command.
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement now in print and shipping.
Found at My Modern Met . Click to see the picture at full size.
This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century .
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James Edward Gray II - Life on the Edge
Noel Rappin - Test Your Legacy Rails Code
Dr Nic Williams - High Performance Ruby: Threading versus Evented
Ben Scofield - Break It Down
Matt Hicks - Running Red Hat OpenShift with a little help from Ruby
Rogelio J. Samour - No Sudo for You!
Joe O'Brien - People Patterns
TinyTDS - Modern, Simple, Tested, Fast! TinyTDS allows us to talk directly to SQL Server databases using FreeTDS's DB-Library API. It has a simple Ruby interface to execute queries and iterate over the results. Full details can be found on our documentation page , but I would like to highlight a few features.
Converting all SQL Server data types to native Ruby primitives is supported. Hooks for ActiveRecord's :local or :utc timezone conversion are also …
…can learn a lot about human nature from the real estate sales techniques which real estate salesmen describe as works of art. The real problem with this "code == art" idea is that it's impossible to resolve the question definitively without entering the greatest intellectual quicksand question in all Western civilization: "what is art?"
Al Held's painting The Big N , housed in the Museum of Modern Art
…Building Data Intensive Apps with Hadoop and EC2 by Pete Skomoroch. Dives into detail about how he built TrendingTopics.org using Hadoop and EC2 .
A Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click. Yes, your mind will hurt after watching this. And no, you probably don't know what your microprocessor is doing anymore.