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LinkedIn New Machine Learning Tool for Software Developers

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LinkedIn  has  announced a new tool FeatureFu  which is to become open source for all software developers.  The FeatureFu will help software developers to build machine learning models around statistical modeling and decision engines. This offer by  LinkedIn  which is based on its “ feature engineering ” so that is accessible to software developers from around the world.  In Machine Learning or sometimes refereed by some people as Artificial Intelligence , works by using detailed knowledge of the relevant data that users have at their disposal and then using that to build machine learning models. LinkedIn states that most large-scale recommendation systems tend to be managed by at least two teams: one that handles the offline modeling and one that takes care of the online feature -serving/model-scoring part of the system. “ Many large-scale recommendation systems are brittle and vulnerable. FeatureFu allows for creative and agile dev...

Facebook Users Can Now Rate Media Interests for Richer Data Feedback

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Facebook users now have the possibility to be able to give star ratings on movies, TV shows and books. This new feature arrives in a context where a new development “Sections”  which is capable of showing to users which apps they use in a more interactive engaging feedback. This latest development was initiated for production back in mid-March  where it was included on the new designed Timeline.  It is easier now and more streamlined the way a user can look at home tab in the below left column, where it is displayed a list of different content types with apps having their own Section. It then follows that a user may configure their profile About tab.  In an overall data semantic understanding and business intelligence processing it can now include richer data with users opinions embedded directly into the Facebook graph . On the post-processing side of data analysis for users the output is a leaner data on Facebook Graph Search results for a user favour...

This is Your Brain on a Slow Website

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In this post, we are sharing an interesting conclusion in the form of a graphic display. Slow websites do not the best user experience, thus many visitors tend to leave websites where they feel that their time is more important than the content of their visiting website. Feel Free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

Build and Code Your Own Custom Greetings Cards with Codecademy

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An interesting development by  Codecademy  this morning has dedicated a special code project that allows anyone to develop their own holiday greetings  ‘Cards’  which they can be made with simple custom adjustments and when finished then send to friends.  This is quite good for anyone interested in learning on how to develop their own custom project by exercising and testing basic skills in web development. The Codecademy Cards  appearing now is quite good timing as most people are interested in sending season greetings cards, now by combining an interest with learning new skills and customization results can really motivate and encourage anyone to produce excellent results by simultaneously developing new code skills.   Codecademy now has  new programming languages  with courses called  course creator . Feel Free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

7 Free HTML5 and CSS3 Website Design Templates

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In this post we have collected great free website design templates with free download links. This is a great way to get started with web design customizations or simply looking to have a good looking website compliant with the latest technology html5 and css3 standards.  Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Feel Free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

New Resources for Web Development Professionals

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In this post, we have collected new resources for web development professionals, to use in their web development projects. These new resources include frameworks, tools and APIs where many are based and developed using open-source standards. These new resources will improve the development cycle of any web application. 34 Responsive Grid System 34Grid provides equally distributed columns for each row.  Orion Platform For Cloud Based Development Responsive testing tool Browser-based tool to test any website’s responsiveness.   Cedvel, design grid systems Ease the grid design process and help you explore more alternatives. Duri Data URI is a Uniform Resource Identifier Cut and Slice Use Cut&Slice me to export your assets to different devices in seconds.  Adobe Edge Inspect Preview & inspect web designs on devices Pods WordPress framework create, manage and deploy customized content t...

Great Resources For Anyone Looking to Learn to Code

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In this post, we have collected excellent web resources for anyone looking for learn how to code for development work and self-learning. This collection includes a variety of approaches and programming languages.   Treehouse - Great learning tutorial resource portal. Codecademy - Engaging resource portal which includes team learning. Code School - Practical learning resources. Udacity - Learning resource by completing challenges. Coursera   RubyMonk   Khan Academy   School of Webcraft   Google Code University   Orientation to Android Training   phpacademy   Feel Free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

Learn How To Easily Create Your First Windows 8 App

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The new Windows 8 Application Development is quite an innovative framework to anyone develop their applications. Microsoft  offers to anyone a free version of Visual Studio 2012  as a tool. In order to develop apps, you also need the Windows8 Operating System to be running. How to Start: Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012. You can download Visual Studio here . Start with a new project on Visual Studio and choose the language in which you are comfort with to create your app from Visual C++, Visual Basic, JavaScript or Visual C#. After starting with the New Project, you will a Language Nodes pane on the left which allows you to choose the layout and template of your app. Templates like Grid App, Blank App, are there for all the four languages.  Download Blend for Visual Studio to use the Visual Template Designer for your app. You have to use the Solution file (.sln) to use the Blend’s Visual Designer. Code and customise the design templates for your app. To r...

Chrome Experiments, Celebrating 500 Creative Community Projects

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The  Experiments project  is a site dedicated at innovation and particularly for programmers, that showcase and develop experimentations on web technology including HTML5, Javascript and WebGL. It has been active since 2009, and today it is celebrating 500 experiments, below is an official statement : "Today marks our 500th experiment, and in celebration, we created Experiment 500 as a thank you note to everyone who submitted their work to the site."   The site  has quite celebratory interactive features today, so if you are interested in web development or have a general inquisitive mind, then this is a great place to visit today.   Feel Free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

Facebook Developers Have Greater Freedom with its API Data

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It was announced today by Facebook , a few  developer updates to its API on the graph application programming interface, so that developers can have access to more efficient data from users's social graph, and thus improve their applications with less requests and coding. The way facebook developers create applications is by using feeds in a combination with data from the open graph. This new development by Facebook is quite coincidental with Twitter announced restrictions to its API  rules . As a result, it may be a way to attract more app developers to its platform, as many are unhappy Twitter proposed API changes. Feel Free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

Great Free Web Resources to Develop and Test Code for Projects

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We have compiled our favourite list of great Free online editors for code development and testing for simplicity ease of use. This is a great resource particularly for web developers and anyone else just trying or learning how to easily test HTML, Javascript or CSS technologies before implementation. "Put a HTML file online, quickly and with no registration. Use it as a sandbox for playing with CSS and Javascript." Test HTML, Javascript and CSS without creating file or uploading to servers. "Online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool." " Code Playground" "Online compiler and debugging tool which allowsto compile and run code online in more than 40 programming languages." "Online editor for snippets build from HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The code can then be shared with others, embedded on a blog, etc." "Vivid environment for developers to showcase th...

Simpler Facebook App Development Settings Announced

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It has been noted that Facebook keeps innovating almost on a weekly basis, as a result it can be quite time consuming to become a savvy user and embracing all the constant changes that Facebook presents to its users and developers. The new  settings for Facebook apps  developers , is another example, it then follows that in most cases simplification is welcomed as it can be seen on the new  app dashboard , which was announced recently on a post of the Facebook developer blog . As a summary to the changes for Facebook app developers, it can be noted below: Consolidation on basic settings for canvas. The Auth dialog is now permissions, to configure  app center and auth referrals. Simpler Android integration. Contact info available on app details consolidated promotional and review settings. Feel Free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

Twitter, Adds API Limitations to Limit Software Developers Capabilities

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Twitter has announced that intends to limit third party software developers with its API limitations from March 2013, particularly in some aspects it considers that revenue could be generated from its activity user stream by utilizing and contextualizing advertising solutions. These new limitations include per-hour limits and obligatory authentication calls to its database. Furthermore, a new limit on the development of applications where its content stream is shown altered from the official apps. Nevertheless, it appears that twitter is giving preference to apps that analyse data and use influence metrics. Technical statement from twitter: "If your application already has more than 100,000 individual user tokens, you'll be able to maintain and add new users to your application until you reach 200% of your current user token count (as of today) – as long as you comply with our Rules of the Road. Once you reach 200% of your current user token count, you'll be able to ma...