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Media: #354 Squeel

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Squeel provides a comprehensive DSL for writing SQL queries in Ruby. It is built upon Arel giving you access to many of its powerful features.

Article: An Introduction To WebSockets

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In this article, Shwetank Dixit introduces the WebSockets protocol and API, the problem they are designed to solve, and the first few lines of code to get you started enabling your web applications with this technology

Article: Building Your First Data Cube

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In this extract from Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming, the authors demonstrate how to create a 'simple' OLAP cube using the AdventureWorks database as the data source

Article: Force-Directed Graph Layout in WebSharper

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In this tutorial, Anton Tayanovskyy demonstrates how to build an interactive force-directed graph visualization running in the browser.

Media: #340 DataTables

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DataTables makes it easy to convert a plain HTML table into one with pagination, sorting, and searching - all done with JavaScript and jQuery. Here I show how to set this up and use a Rails application as the data source.

Article: Working with Mobile Devices in HTML5 and CSS3

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With an ever increasing number of mobile devices demanding we code our websites to look good at any number of resolutions, this extract from Murach's HTML5 and CSS3 present some rules of thumb for developing websites that work nicely with every device

Article: Evaluating REST Frameworks Part 1: A Maturity Model

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In the first of this series, William Martinez provides a brief overview of REST and proposes a five level maturity model for use in comparing current frameworks that support the development of systems that should be REST-compliant

Article: Handling Page Orientation in Windows Phone 7

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Windows Phones, as with other small form factor devices, are able to deal with both landscape and portrait modes. In this article, based on Chapter 10 of Windows Phone 7 in Action the authors explain how a Silverlight page declares its supported orientations.

Article: Writing Concurrent Applications Using F# Agents

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In part 2 of this article on F# agents, Tomas Petricek looks at agent-based architecture for concurrent systems from a high-level perspective. It shows how to encapsulate agents into reusable components and several common inter-agent communication patterns used to build a concurrent system.

Media: #334 Compass & CSS Sprites

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Compass improves the Sass experience by providing useful mixins, functions, and more. You will also learn how to make CSS sprites with it in this episode.

Article: Debugging Javascript with Firebug

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In this extract from the book JavaScript & Query: The Missing Manual, David Sawyer McFarland demonstrates how to use Firebug to identify and fix three types of errors: syntax, runtime and logic.

Article: An Introduction To F# Agents

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In this article, Tomas Petricek looks at how F# Agents lie at the intersection of parallel, asynchronous and concurrent programming styles and how they can be used to build concurrent applications

Article: Memory Ordering for Atomic Operations in C++0x

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The operation that writes a value happens before an operation that reads that value. With the default atomic operations that’s indeed true (which is why this is the default), but it does need spelling out: the atomic operations also have other options for the ordering requirements. In this article, based on chapter 5 of C++ Concurrency in Action, author Anthony Williams discusses the memory-ordering tags used for atomic operations and how they relate to the synchronizes-with relation.

Book: Practical SharePoint 2010 Branding and Customization

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With Practical SharePoint 2010 Branding and Customization, SharePoint branding expert Erik Swenson cuts through the fluff and discusses accessible, easy-to-understand consulting and processes to create aesthetically pleasing, highly usable branded and customized SharePoint websites, both internally and externally.

Media: #322 RABL

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RABL - Ruby API Builder Language - provides a DSL for generating JSON or XML responses in a Ruby application. Learn how to share and configure complex JSON data in this episode.