Debunking PHP’s bad reputation | Opinion

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Sep 062011
 

 

 

PHP has the reputation of being the poor cousin of scripting languages, due to outdated language features and plenty of poor quality code written using it. I use PHP as my main programming language and it’s seen waves of change over the last five years; it’s so much more than a language for script kiddies and hobbyist hackers. There are some ‘truths’ about the language that aren’t true these days, so I’d like to bring you a little update.

via Debunking PHP’s bad reputation | Opinion | .net magazine.

Could Google Fast Flip Have Survived on Tablets?

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Sep 062011
 

 

 

Fast Flip is one of nine in a batch of products to be discontinued from Google Labs. The company announced it would shutter Labs experiments shortly after releasing its second-quarter earnings results in mid-July.

Other Labs products Google will shut down:

Aardvark: Social search product that helps people answer each others’ questions.

Desktop: Gives instant access to data while online or offline.

Fast Flip: Provides a faster, richer news content browsing and reading experience.

Google Maps API for Flash: Allows ActionScript developers to integrate Google Maps into their applications.

Google Pack: Makes it easy to download and install a package of Google and third-party applications.

Google Web Security: Protects against web malware attacks.

Image Labeler: Helps people explore and label images on the web.

Notebook: Helps people combine clipped URLs from the web and free-form notes into documents they can share and publish.

Sidewiki: A browser sidebar that lets people contribute and read information alongside any web page.

Subscribed Links: Enables developers to create specialized search results that were added to the normal Google search results on relevant queries for subscribed users.

via Could Google Fast Flip Have Survived on Tablets?.

Jeff Tiedeken’s Gravity Bike Gets Up to 60MPH

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Sep 012011
 

 

 

As you can see there’s no drivetrain and the crank has been locked, with the pedals replaced with mere foot peg holders. In testing, Tiedeken has reportedly done 60 m.p.h. plus on this thing.

via Jeff Tiedeken’s Gravity Bike Gets Up to 60MPH – Core77.

Constructive Concrete: Incredible Carbon-Negative Cement

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Aug 312011
 

 

 

What could be better than building concrete structures without creating more CO2? How about this: a new form of cement that actually absorbs carbon dioxide rather than being a primary source of its man-made emissions.

via Constructive Concrete: Incredible Carbon-Negative Cement | Designs & Ideas on Dornob.

This is a human heart, alive and beating, in a box

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Aug 312011
 

 

 

It’s like something out of science fiction or a horror movie or both: in order to facilitate transplants, we can now keep human hearts alive and beating and toasty warm inside a special electromechanical box full of fresh blood.

via This is a human heart, alive and beating, in a box | DVICE.

HP’s TouchPad May Have a Second Life

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Aug 302011
 

 

 

HP cut the price of the TouchPad from $500 to $99 earlier this month, after announcing it was pulling the plug on the product. Since then, the item has been hard to find, as customers rushed to get their hands on the discounted tablet.

The new demand prompted Mark Budgell, HP’s PR Manager for Social Media Strategy, to address the issue in a blog post Monday. Budgell said he had no information about whether more TouchPads will become available. “We will have more information available in the next few days about whether or not more will be available and if so, what the details will be about the situation,” he wrote.

via HP’s TouchPad May Have a Second Life.

Transcend Shoehorns 2TB of Storage Capacity into USB 3.0 Thumbstick

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Aug 302011
 

 

 

We don’t know if Transcend is dabbling in voodoo these days or what’s going, but somehow the company figured out a way to cram 2TB of storage into a container that’s about the length of a USB thumb drive and only slightly thicker than a penny. Some of the credit also goes to Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), which co-developed the ‘Thin Card’ device.

via Maximum PC | Transcend Shoehorns 2TB of Storage Capacity into USB 3.0 Thumbstick.

Verizon offering Intuit’s GoPayment reader for free

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Aug 262011
 

 

 

Verizon is now selling Intuit’s GoPayment credit card reader for free at its retail stores.

Thanks to a new partnership between Verizon Wireless and Intuit, business customers can get the mobile card reader for free after a $30 rebate and the activation of a GoPayment account. The card reader and its app can be found at all of Verizon’s retail stores and as well as its business-to-business outlets.

via Verizon offering Intuit’s GoPayment reader for free | Digital Media – CNET News.

Liquid metal shoes harvest massive amounts of power | DVICE

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Aug 262011
 

 

 

Researchers at UW-Madison have been working on an energy harvester that they say can deliver watts of power. And not just one or two watts, but up to 10 or 20. This is a huge amount of power to get from a “free” energy harvester; we’re talking thousands of times more powerful than the current generation of pizeoelectrics. An iPhone, for example, typically consumes under five watts. This means that 10 watts could power two iPhones, and 20 watts could power four of them! Four iPhones! Imagine the possibilities!

via Liquid metal shoes harvest massive amounts of power | DVICE.

Fastest camera in the world shoots one million frames per second

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Aug 262011
 

 

 

The Phantom v1610 has the ability to shoot up to 1 million frames per second, a speed so high that it allows the camera to create videos of real world slow motion events that are so otherworldly they appear dream-like. Additionally, the camera can capture HD footage at 16,000 frames per second and boasts a whopping 96 gigabytes of internal memory.

via Fastest camera in the world shoots one million frames per second | DVICE.

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