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Published this month on Phoronix were 259 original news stories and 28 featured, multi-page articles covering various open-source and Linux topics.
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NVIDIA's Linux Driver Can Deliver Better OpenGL Performance Than Windows 8.1
Yesterday we looked at the Windows vs. Ubuntu 14.10 Intel OpenGL performance using Haswell HD Graphics to kick off our latest round of Windows vs. Linux OpenGL driver benchmarking. Out today is now our NVIDIA GeForce graphics card comparison on Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.10 using the latest NVIDIA binary drivers. NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 Maxwell graphics cards were tested as well as the mature GTX 780 Ti.
10 Hours Ago - Operating Systems - 13 Comments
Wine 1.7.30 Continues Work On DirectWrite & Offers Regedit Fixes
The latest bi-weekly Wine development release is making a Halloween debut.
11:00 AM EDT - WINE - Wine 1.7.30 - 3 Comments
Has The Sky Fallen? Qualcomm Contributes To Freedreno's DRM/KMS Driver
In an interesting change of events, Code Aurora on the behalf of the Qualcomm Innovation Center has added Adreno A4xx product support to the Freedreno-spawned DRM/KMS "MSM" driver.
09:47 AM EDT - Hardware - DRM MSM - 20 Comments
Manjaro Works To Make Calamares A Distribution-Independent Installer
The Arch-based Manjaro crew has been developing Calamares, an open-source installation framework they hope will basically lead to being a universal Linux distribution installer.
09:24 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Universal Linux Installer - 22 Comments
DisplayLink USB 3.0 Support Sounds Like A Mess
While DisplayLink's USB2-based graphics adapters tend to be well supported under Linux even with a DRM/KMS driver, there's been no support for the newer DisplayLink USB 3.0 devices.
09:00 AM EDT - Hardware - DisplayLink
PulseAudio Gains A Native Bluetooth Headset Backend
PulseAudio now has a native headset backend for dealing with Bluetooth headsets.
08:42 AM EDT - Hardware - Bluetooth HSP - 6 Comments
X.Org Foundation Decides On Its Women Outreach Project
At yesterday's X.Org Foundation Board of Directors meeting they approved one project for the Outreach Program for Women.
08:27 AM EDT - X.Org - X.Org OPW - 21 Comments
30 October
GTK+ 3.16's New GtkGLArea Widget Gets Improved
Earlier this month GTK+ 3.16 development code gained native OpenGL support. This GTK+ OpenGL support involved adding support for wrapping an OpenGL context for native windows with GLX on X11 and EGL on Wayland to use OpenGL to paint everything. A GtkGLArea widget was also added for providing OpenGL drawing access within GTK+ applications. The GtkGLArea has already seen some more improvements to better GTK's OpenGL support.
X.Org Server 1.17 ABI Bumped
For those wondering whether there's ABI breakage with this week's X.Org Server 1.17 Release Candidate, there is indeed some breakage that will warrant the proprietary driver ABIs to be updated and released.
09:00 PM EDT - X.Org - ABI Breakage - 5 Comments
Fedora 21 Beta To Be Released Next Week
While Fedora 21 Beta was delayed, today it received the go ahead to be released next week Tuesday.
08:23 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 21 Beta
Go 1.4 Beta Release Brings Big Runtime Changes
Google's Go language implementation is now in beta for the upcoming 1.4 major release.
07:29 PM EDT - Google - Go 1.4
SIMD For JavaScript Continues Coming Along
SIMD for JavaScript continues to be worked on by Mozilla, Google, Intel, and others for better accelerating particular workloads in the web.
12:30 PM EDT - Mozilla - SIMD.js - 14 Comments
Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 With Intel HD Graphics
For those curious how the latest open-source Intel Linux graphics driver is performing against Intel's newest closed-source Windows OpenGL driver, we've put Ubuntu 14.10 (including a second run with the latest Linux kernel / Mesa) against Microsoft Windows 8.1 with the newest Intel GPU driver released earlier this month.
11:05 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 21 Comments
GNOME 3.15.1 Released
The first development snapshot for the GNOME 3.15 cycle is now available, which will end up being GNOME 3.16 come next March.
11:01 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.15.1 - 5 Comments
Red Hat Software Collections 1.2 Adds GCC 4.9, Nginx 1.6
Red Hat has released their third update to their "Software Collections" that provide updated development tools/packages to RHEL6/RHEL7 users as an alternative to their default packages.
09:54 AM EDT - Red Hat - Software Collections
GLAMOR Acceleration Continues To Be Cleaned Up
Now that X.Org Server 1.17 RC1 has been released with a focus on improving GLAMOR and integrating the xf86-video-intel DDX, Keith Packard has written a blog post about the work that has gone on so far since GLAMOR's inception for optimizing and cleaning up this 2D-over-OpenGL acceleration method.
08:29 AM EDT - X.Org - GLAMOR - 7 Comments
Russia's Yandex Web Browser Finally Released For Linux
After a several year wait, the Yandex Browser is now available for Linux.
08:13 AM EDT - Free Software - Yandex Browser - 18 Comments
GCC 4.9.2 Released Today To Fix Regressions
GCC 4.9.2 was released today as the latest point release in the GCC 4.9 series for the compiler originally released earlier this year.
07:28 AM EDT - Compiler - GCC 4.9.2 - 3 Comments
29 October
Linux Kernel Finally Being Optimized For SSHDs
The Linux kernel is finally being optimized for use of solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) that follow the ATA 3.2 standard.
11:58 PM EDT - Hardware - SSHD SATA - 7 Comments
GPU Profiling Support Lands In Mozilla Firefox
The built-in profiler for Mozilla's Firefox web browser now has the ability to provide GPU profiling information.
10:06 PM EDT - Mozilla - GPU Profile - 4 Comments
Kubuntu 15.04 Will Use KDE's Plasma 5 By Default
Kubuntu's Jonathan Riddell has shared that "Kubuntu Vivid", a.k.a. Ubuntu 15.05 for the Vivid Vervet, will use Plasma 5 by default.
08:17 PM EDT - KDE - Plasma 5 - 38 Comments
GDB 7.8.1 Brings Various Fixes For The GNU Debugger
Version 7.8.1 of the GNU Debugger is now available and it brings various bug fixes over the major GDB 7.8 release.
07:38 PM EDT - GNU - GNU Debugger
KDBUS Submitted For Review To The Mainline Linux Kernel
It looks like KDBUS, the Linux kernel D-Bus implementation, is posed to be added to the next kernel release after Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out its patches today.
06:28 PM EDT - systemd - KDBUS - 13 Comments
Btrfs On 4 x Intel SSDs In RAID 0/1/5/6/10
Earlier this month I published Btrfs RAID benchmarks on two HDDs but as some more interesting results are now Btrfs RAID file-system benchmarks when testing the next-generation Linux file-system across four Intel Series 530 solid-state drives. All RAID levels supported by the Btrfs file-system were benchmarked atop Ubuntu 14.10 with the Linux 3.18-rc1 kernel: RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10 levels along with testing a Btrfs single SSD setup and a Btrfs file-system linearly spanning all four drives.
04:00 PM EDT - Storage - 15 Comments
An Intel-Based Ubuntu Touch Tablet Is Planning To Launch Soon
Today we've received some information a device dubbed the "UT One" that is an Ubuntu Touch tablet powered by an Intel Bay Trail processor and aims to ship in December.
12:09 PM EDT - Hardware - UT One - 30 Comments
OpenMW 0.33 Re-Implements More Of Morrowind
OpenMW 0.33.0 is out to offer the latest of this open-source project striving to reimplement Elderscrolls III: Morrowind as open-source.
11:44 AM EDT - Gaming - Morrowind - 7 Comments
MIAOW: An Open-Source GPU Design Based On AMD's Southern Islands
A new open-source GPU design has been published designed to run on FPGAs... What makes this "open hardware" project more interesting than past designs is that their compute unit was designed around AMD's public "Southern Islands" instruction set architecture.
10:34 AM EDT - Hardware - MIAOW - 9 Comments
SIMD8 Vertex Shaders For Broadwell
Kristian Høgsberg has published a new patch-set but it's not for Wayland, it's for the Intel Mesa driver.
09:01 AM EDT - Mesa - SIMD8 VS
X.Org Server 1.17 RC1 Released, Exciting For GLAMOR & Modesetting
Keith Packard has made available the first test release for the upcoming X.Org Server 1.17 release. This release is coming a bit late but Keith is still hoping to have xorg-server 1.17.0 ready for release at the end of the year or around early January.
08:11 AM EDT - X.Org - xorg-server 1.17 - 4 Comments
6-Way Ubuntu 14.10 Radeon Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Driver Comparison
As a follow-up to last week's Ubuntu 14.04 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 AMD Performance Comparison and yesterday's Radeon R9 290: Gallium3D vs. Catalyst driver comparison, here's taking things further in looking at the performance of the open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver in several configurations while compared against the closed-source AMD Catalyst graphics driver as found on Ubuntu 14.10.
05:00 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 13 Comments
OpenGL 4.x Support For Mesa Still Inching Along
While there hasn't been much to report on lately with regard to major OpenGL 4.x advancements, the OpenGL 4.0+ support is still being worked on by the open-source developers wishing to expose GL4 compliance within the Intel, Radeon, and Nouveau Linux graphics drivers, among other potential Mesa/Gallium3D drivers.
12:00 AM EDT - Mesa - OpenGL 4 - 12 Comments
28 October
AMD's R300 Gallium3D Driver Enables VDPAU Again
For those stuck running on the R300g driver, which supports the ATI Radeon X1000 (R500) series and older GPUs, you really should consider upgrading your graphics card and likely your system. But if you're set on using the R300g driver going into the foreseeable future, you might as well upgrade Mesa.
07:50 PM EDT - AMD - R300g - 15 Comments
Systemd 217: Many New Features, Even More Bug-Fixes
Lennart Poettering announced the release today of systemd 217 and it's quite a big update.
06:13 PM EDT - systemd - systemd 217 - 20 Comments
Humble Indie Bundle 13 Arrives For Halloween
The Halloween-themed Humble Indie Bundle 13 is now available for the next two weeks where you can pay-what-you want for a collection of cross-platform royalty-free games.
04:34 PM EDT - Gaming - HIB #13 - 4 Comments
Intel VA-API Driver Gets Improved De-Interlacing
Linux video expert Gwenole Beauchesne has landed some Video Acceleration API (VA-API) improvements for the open-source Intel driver.
01:43 PM EDT - Intel - VA-API - 6 Comments
AMD Radeon R9 290 On Ubuntu 14.10: RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. Catalyst
Our latest performance benchmarks of last week's release of Ubuntu 14.10 is looking at the performance of an AMD Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" graphics card using the latest open-source (RadeonSI Gallium3D) graphics driver code compared to the Catalyst driver that's packaged for Ubuntu 14.10. The latest open-source tests do include the in-development Linux 3.18 kernel and Mesa 10.4-devel.
12:00 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 43 Comments
Canonical Announces Its Own Distribution of Ubuntu OpenStack
Canonical has come forward today to announce the Canonical Distribution of Ubuntu OpenStack that offers various advantages over the free, community version of Ubuntu OpenStack.
10:29 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Canonical Ubuntu OpenStack
OpenBSD Drops Support For Loadable Kernel Modules
Interestingly the OpenBSD developers have decided to remove support for loadable kernel modules from the BSD distribution's next release.
09:59 AM EDT - BSD - LKM - 22 Comments
GtkInspector Now Supports Dealing With Multiple Back-Ends For GTK
Matthias Clasen did some weekend hacking to allow GtkInspector to work across different display connections, e.g. debugging a GTK application running in Wayland while GtkInspector is running under X11 or the HTML5 Broadway back-end.
DragonFlyBSD 4.0 Is Coming Soon, Release Candidate Now Available
DragonFlyBSD 3.8 will soon be succeeded by DragonFlyBSD 4.0. For those willing to help test, the release candidate to DragonFlyBSD 4.0.0 is now available.
08:54 AM EDT - BSD - DragonFlyBSD 4.0
Wayland Live CD Updated With New Capabilities, A SDL2 Wayland Game
Rebecca Black OS, what's become the most common Linux Live CD/USB environment for showing off Wayland progress and various Wayland-related features for the Linux desktop, is out in updated form. The revised Rebecca Black OS spins offer various new features and are riding off the very latest Wayland code.
08:34 AM EDT - Wayland - Rebecca Black OS - 9 Comments
Openage: Making Age of Empires II Open-Source
Like Xoreos, GemRB, and OpenMW that seek to remake popular proprietary games/engines as open-source, Openage is another such project and it's seeking to free the once popular Age of Empires II game.
08:12 AM EDT - Gaming - Openage - 13 Comments
27 October
DRI2 Support Proposed For The Generic Mode-Setting Driver
Eric Anholt while working at Broadcom on the Raspberry Pi graphics driver has sent out patches that add support for DRI2 with GLAMOR to the xf86-video-modesetting driver.
06:05 PM EDT - X.Org - xf86-video-modesetting - 8 Comments
Civilization: Beyond Earth Overcoming Linux GPU Driver Problems
Aspyr Media has written a blog update concerning the state of the OS X and Linux port of Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth.
04:45 PM EDT - Gaming - Civilization: Beyond Earth - 56 Comments
NVIDIA vs. Nouveau Drivers On Ubuntu 14.10
Over the weekend I began posting Ubuntu 14.04 LTS vs. 14.10 benchmarks of the open-source Radeon Gallium3D drivers to show how their software stack has advanced. With our NVIDIA graphics testing it's slightly different since the performance state of Nouveau hasn't changed a lot in the past six months since the re-clocking support overall is still in quite inadequate shape for end-users. However, for some new open-source NVIDIA Linux benchmarks to share today is a look at the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver performance out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 14.10, then with the Oibaf PPA enabled plus the Linux 3.17 stable kernel, and lastly when using Ubuntu 14.10's supplied NVIDIA proprietary driver.
12:15 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 10 Comments
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Released - Supports MariaDB, Systemd & Btrfs
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 is out today! SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 supports all of the latest open-source/Linux technologies and more.
Amazon Launches The Fire TV Stick
Just months after launching the Fire TV, Amazon today introduced the Fire TV Stick, which is like a mix of a Roku/Chromecast and the Fire TV.
10:02 AM EDT - Hardware - Fire TV Stick - 10 Comments
Clang Goes Ahead And Enables C11 By Default
LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler went ahead and enabled C11 as the default C language for the upcoming LLVM 3.6 release.
09:32 AM EDT - Compiler - LLVM/Clang - 14 Comments
Reducing The CPU Usage In Mesa To Improve Performance
Timothy Arceri who previously crowd-funded work to add new GL extensions to Mesa and did so successfully multiple times has now written a new blog post on the topic of reducing the CPU usage in Mesa to potentially improve frame-rates.
08:46 AM EDT - Mesa - CPU Usage Reduction - 74 Comments
26 October
Linux 3.18-rc2 Brings OverlayFS, Other Late Merges
Another Sunday evening, another Linux kernel release candidate. The second test version of the Linux 3.18 kernel is now available.
11:06 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 3.18-rc2 - 3 Comments
Ubuntu 14.10 Offers AMD Radeon Driver Performance Improvements
In comparing the open-source graphics driver performance of Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10, the newer Ubuntu Linux release does offer up some performance improvements to the R600 and RadeonSI graphics drivers, but already in the latest kernel and Mesa Git code is faster performance. Here are benchmarks of Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS vs. Ubuntu 14.10 for several OpenGL benchmarks with different AMD Radeon graphics cards while also adding in the results of the Oibaf PPA and vanilla Linux 3.17 kernel.
01:00 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 12 Comments
SteelSeries' QcK Remain Great, Affordable Mouse Pads For Linux Gamers
Earlier this month we reviewed some of the newest high-end mouse pads from XTrac. If you're looking for a new mouse pad due to finally amassing a decent selection of Linux game titles, the SteelSeries QcK remains one of the most affordable and suitable choices.
10:00 AM EDT - Hardware - QcK - 14 Comments
Btrfs RAID: Linux 3.10 To Linux 3.18 Benchmarks
As a follow-up to this week's Btrfs RAID HDD testing on Ubuntu 14.10, I ran some benchmarks of Btrfs in RAID0 while benchmarking every major kernel release from Linux 3.10 to Linux 3.18-rc1.
09:12 AM EDT - Storage - 17 Comments
KDE Developers Come Up With DWD Window Decoration Concept
Yesterday there were "what if" articles about KDE using client-side decorations and Windows 10 components. On a serious note today, the same KDE parties involved, have proposed Dynamic Window Decorations (DWD) as an alternative/hybrid to client-side and server-side decorations.
08:35 AM EDT - KDE - CSD/SSD - 30 Comments
OverlayFS Finally Offered For Pulling Into Linux 3.18
When Linux 3.18-rc1 was released last week, one week sooner than anticipated, Linus Torvalds mentioned he was willing to still allow OverlayFS to be merged this cycle. One week later, that code is hopefully now ready for merging.
08:08 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - OverlayFS - 6 Comments
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"I have participated in the planning of the Northwest [Georgia] Women's Expo since its inception five years ago and have thoroughly enjoyed being a part of something that just keeps getting better every year," she said. "It truly does have something for every woman, and is held in the beautiful Clarence Brown Conference Center, making it easily accessible. Promoting the event is so rewarding because it offers such a wide variety of products, services, activities, demonstrations and giveaways specifically with women in mind.
"Because of its diversity, it has great appeal. It is organized by women, specifically for women, offering 77 exhibitors this year in areas of health, wellness, fashion, finance, beauty, food and lifestyle, among others. And, admission is only $5, making it very affordable."
On Saturday, the Northwest Georgia Women's Expo will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Along with nearly 80 exhibitors, the expo will feature a Taste of Bartow, free health screenings by WellStar and door prizes at the Clarence Brown Conference Center, 5450 State Route 20, Cartersville. The first 50 people in attendance will receive a copy of "Mockingbird's Song: Hettie Keller's 10 Maxims for Peace and Happiness." The book's author, Arnold Heflin, will be on hand to autograph his work from noon to 3 p.m. at booth No. 70.
"The purpose of the event is to showcase products and services for women," said Karon Mauney, owner and coordinator of the Women's Expo. "It's a wonderful opportunity for women to learn more about their health and their health care options. It's also a fun one-stop shopping extravaganza with jewelry, bags, cosmetics, skin care and home décor.
"There are also several exhibitors that will be raising awareness of volunteer opportunities within our community, such as American Cancer Society and Tranquility House. Be The Match is joining us for the first time this year. Be The Match operates the Be The Match Registry, the world's largest listing of potential marrow donors and donated cord blood units. Attendees between the ages of 18 and 44 can add their name to the registry by having their cheek swabbed and completing a five-minute questionnaire."
Along with highlighting area businesses and services, Mauney said, she hopes the Expo will inspire its attendees to be proactive and maintain healthier lifestyles.
"Many health issues can be avoided or at least controlled by simply exercising and making better lifestyle choices," Mauney said. "We want to encourage women to consider their continued education and also provide information on career choices. We want to encourage women to enjoy outside activities like cycling and hiking, which can help reduce stress and provide hours of fun healthy activity.
"We also want to showcase products and services that can help women feel more confident. We will have certified wig consultants from Merle Norman Cosmetics out of Hiram. This exhibitor provides 'hair goods for hair loss' and is just one of the many exhibitors that can help women solve some of the problems that simply come with aging or health issues."
With Mauney's guidance, the Women's Expo initially began in 2009 as a benefit for the American Red Cross' Bartow Service Center. While the offering has increased in size and now is owned by Mauney, it still maintains a philanthropic component.
"The Expo has grown from 28 exhibitors and just over 200 attendees to 77 exhibitors and hopefully more than 1,000 in attendance this year," Mauney said. "While the event is now a 'for profit' business, it continues to benefit the community in many ways.
"Each year, the Expo donates $1,000 to a nonprofit organization. This year's recipient is American Cancer Society. Past recipients include Good Neighbor Homeless Shelter and United Way of Bartow County."
For more information about the Women's Expo, email Mauney at email@example.com or visit www.nwgawomensexpo.com.


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Dr. Rajiv Shah serves as the 16th Administrator of USAID and leads the efforts of more than 9,600 professionals in 80 missions around the world.
Since being sworn in on Dec. 31, 2009, Shah managed the U.S. Government's response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; co-chaired the State Department's first review of American diplomacy and development operations; and now spearheads President Barack Obama's landmark Feed the Future food security initiative. He is also leading "USAID Forward," an extensive set of reforms to USAID's business model focusing on seven key areas, including procurement, science & technology, and monitoring & evaluation.
Before becoming USAID's Administrator, Shah served as undersecretary for research, education and economics, and as chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At USDA, he launched the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which significantly elevated the status and funding of agricultural research.
Prior to joining the Obama administration, Shah served for seven years with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, including as director of agricultural development in the Global Development Program, and as director of strategic opportunities.
Originally from Detroit, Shah earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and his master's in health economics from the Wharton School of Business. He attended the London School of Economics and is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Shah is married to Shivam Mallick Shah and is the father of three children. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Male Speaker: Good afternoon and welcome to our Development Forum. Please take a moment to silence your blackberries and iPhones. Our program will begin shortly. Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the stage the administrator of the USAID, Dr. Rajiv Shah accompanied by Susan Reichle and Dr. Esther Duflo. [applause]
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Thank you all for being here today to launch the Economic Prosperity Initiative. I am pleased to be joined by the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Agriculture, U.S. Ambassador John Bass, and our USAID Acting Mission Director, Joakim Parker.
It's really wonderful to have you here at the National Press Club this morning for the first meeting in 2011 of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. We are thrilled that you could all join us... This morning we are going to have the opportunity to talk with you about a number of the reform initiatives that are currently ongoing under Dr. Shah's initiative. We really hope that this will be more than anything a dialogue with you. And hopefully, some of the comments that are made will cause you to think about questions you have. And clarifications you hope to obtain in the course of the morning.
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MS. FULTON: Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us for our special press briefing today. We have with us Mark Bartolini, who is the director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at USAID, and Reuben Brigety, who is a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. They're going to talk to you today about the current ongoing humanitarian assistance efforts pertaining to Libya.
It is my pleasure to join you today at this respected university, which is such an important part of Sudan's intellectual community. This is my third visit to Ahfad University, and I am always impressed, inspired and humbled by the dedication, wisdom and imagination of the scholars and students I meet here.
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It is an honor to take part in the signing of this MOU between the U.S. Government and the World Bank, pledging us to work hand-in-hand in the water sector.
MR. TONER: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the State Department. It's our good fortune today to have with Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration, Eric Schwartz and the U.S. Agency for International Development, Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Nancy Lindborg. They've just returned from a weeklong trip to Tunisia and Egypt and are here to brief you on U.S. assistance efforts to address the humanitarian situation resulting from the crisis in Libya.
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SouthEast Valley .NET User Group
260 S Arizona Ave
Chandler, AZ 85225
Every 4th Thursday from 6 to 9 pm
Come discuss all things .NET with us
Join us every 4th Thursday from 6-9 pm.
Learn of upcoming SEVDNUG meetings at meetup.com/sevdnug
Want to present? Want to sponsor an event? Contact Rob Richardson.
February 27, 2014
Nuget is a package manager for the Microsoft development platform. Justin will lead us through all of the essentials for using Nuget. You will learn how to find/consume packages, create packages, view package internals, host your own feeds, and integrate into automated builds.
Chocolatey is a machine package manager somewhat like apt-get but built with Windows in mind. Justin will give a brief overview of how Chocolatey works, finding packages, installing packages, and creating your own packages. Once you start using Chocolatey it will feel wrong to install software without it.
January 23, 2014
Twitter Bootstrap is a "Sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development". Let's see how using Twitter's Bootstrap can make your website come alive with little work. We'll walk through:
December 19, 2013
Single Page Applications (SPAs) are all the rage now days but if you've built a true SPA you know that they can be fairly involved to create. There are typically a lot of moving parts and scripts ranging from history, to navigation, to data access. Have you thought through maintenance of the application down the road and how simple or complex it will be to make modifications as custom and framework scripts change? In this session Dan Wahlin will introduce a new SPA framework called AngularJS that provides a solid base for building SPA applications. If you like to work with views, controllers, modules, plus tie into existing framework features without having to focus on all of the scripts under the cover then this is definitely a framework to check out!
November 21, 2013
We've got a brand new suite of tools that just landed, and each has a plethora of new features to share. Rob will lead us through an overview of each new technology so we can begin digging in.
October 24, 2013
The format is a dojo, where people write from scratch a machine learning classifier to recognize automatically hand-written digits. I have done it a couple of times, it's fun, and a nice way for people to get started with actually using F# on a real problem (I have some material/tutorial ready to help people through steps and some F# concepts).
September 26, 2013
Almost every site uses some form of Membership even if there is only one member. When developing with the Microsoft Stack, there are several options:
What are the differences between these and should I use them in MVC4 and WebAPI? What does the Security Roadmap look like for .Net? In this talk you will learn the benefits and restrictions of each at a high level, then see how to implement some of them in a real-world scenario and when you might consider writing your own.
August 22, 2013
There's no such thing as a write-once application. The world is constantly changing, and our code needs to change with it. We'll think in small pieces and take a look at some techniques to keep our code manageable and understandable. Think about the developer who will come after you. Now, imagine he's a homicidal maniac who knows where you live. Examples will be in C#, but the principles apply to pretty much every programming language.
July 25, 2013
June 27, 2013
Have you wanted to break in to NoSQL but were intimidated by other options? Do you think scalable multi-entity transactions are not possible without a full RDBMS like SQL Server? Fed up with the mapping overhead that comes with ORMs like Entity Framework? Come take a closer look at RavenDB. This next-generation document database was designed specifically with .Net developers in mind. Learn how easy it is to use to add a schemaless, structured data store to your .Net applications.
No prior knowledge of RavenDB or NoSQL is required, but you should have familiarity with C# and general application development. This will be a fast-paced discussion with lots of real code examples. We will cover the following areas, starting from the basic, and moving towards the advanced. There should be something for everyone.
May 23, 2013
Stop wasting time writing unnecessary code and start focusing on the code that really matters. Aspect Oriented Programming keeps us DRY, reduces development and testing time by handling cross cutting "boiler plate" code.
You may have heard about AOP and how it's great for logging. Sure, it's great for logging. But what you haven't heard is the tremendous power it gives you over your code.
What you haven't heard is how is will reduce your LOC, reduce complexity and increase reusability How does automating the implementation of several well known design patterns such as INotifyPropertyChanged sound to you? Never bother writing that code ever again!
How about retro actively applying aspects to legacy projects with a single line of code?
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To make all this process as simple as possible, a variation of the third approach (Rack middleware + Selenium Webdriver + no caching) is available here as a Gem. Drop it in your project, have the dependencies installed, and may the SEO gods bless you!
This strategy consists of rendering your app normally, BUT with pieces of "static" content already baked in (usually inside a
<noscript><div> block). In other words, the client-side templates your app servers to be rendered will have at least some level of server-side logic on them - hopefully, very little.
Although it's a somewhat natural approach for a developer used to rendering templates and content on the server side, it leads to a scenario where everything has to be implemented twice - once in the javascript templates/views, once in the pages, making everything hard to maintain (and potentially out of sync) real quick. That Product detail view now includes a "featured review"? No problem, have its text rendered on the server-side (and returned by the JSON endpoint your client app will use to render it again in a Javascript template).
This DOES work well for mostly-static, single-content apps (eg.: blogs), where even the javascript app itself would benefit from having the content already pre-loaded (the javascript views/snippets/segments would effectively fiddle with blocks of content, instead of fetching them from the server).
It's worth noting that you should NOT rely on rendering just bits of content when serving pages to bots, as some of them state that they expect the full content of the page. It's also worth pointing that Google also the snapshots it takes when crawling to compose the tiny thumbnails you see on search results, so you want these to be as close to the real thing as possible - which just compounds on the maintenance issues of this approach.
This technique is supported by Google bot alone (with limited support by some other minor search bots - Facebook's bot works too, for instance) and is explained in detail here.
In short, the process happens as follows:
The search bot detects that there are hash parameters in your URL (eg.:
The search bot then makes a SECOND request to your server, passing a special parameter (
_escaped_fragment_) back. Eg.:
www.example.com/something?_escaped_fragment_=foo=bar - it's now up to your server-side implementation to return a static HTML representation of the page.
Notice that for pages that don't have a hash-bang on their URL (eg.: your site root), this also requires that you add a meta tag to your pages, allowing the bot to know that those pages are crawlable.
<meta name="fragment" content="!">
Notice the meta tag above is mandatory if your URLs don't use hash fragments (which is becoming the norm these days, due to the amazing adoption of html5 across browsers) - analogously, this is probably the only technique of these three that will work if you depend on hash-bang urls on your site (please don't!).
You still have to figure out a way to handle the escaped_fragment requests and render the content these are supposed to return (like the previous approach), but at least it takes that content away from the body of the pages served to regular users (reducing, but not eliminating, the duplication issue). This works somewhat well on sites which part of the content is dynamic - not so much on single-page apps. No universal search bot support is also an obvious downside. Plus, you still have to pick a strategy to render the content without Javascript when the
_escaped_fragment_ request arrives. Which leads us directly to the third approach…
Although this seems counterintuitive at first, this is one of the approaches Google suggests when you're dealing with sites whose majority of the content is generated via javascript (all single-page apps fall on this category).
The idea is simple: if the requester of your content is a search bot, spawn a SECOND request to your own server, render the page using a headless browser (thankfully, there are many, many options to choose from in Ruby) and return that "pre-compiled" content back to the search bot. Boom.
The biggest advantage of this approach is that you don't have to duplicate anything: with a single intercepting script, you can render any different page and retrieve them as needed. Another positive point of this approach is that the content search bots will see is exactly what a final user would.
You can implement this rendering in several ways:
before_filter on your controllers checks the user-agent making the request, then fetches the desired content and return it. PROS: all vanilla-Rails approach. CONS: you're hitting the entire rails stack TWICE.
As for how to store the server-side rendered content (again, from worst to best):
There are a few obvious issues you have to keep in mind when using this approach:
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My third company came almost five years after the second one (not counting the "pet projects" that happened in this period). After coming back to Brazil from a less than pleasant experience working in a large, soul-sucking company in Europe, I felt it was time to try something on my own again - an idea my wife promptly embraced (and joined as a founding partner).
Being in love with "smart hardware" for quite some time (I used to build half-baked "robots" and electronic boards back when ISA was the top-notch standard for computer boards), I decided to give a shot at a hardware-centric idea this time. We spent a couple of months researching markets - everything from smart houses (too small and fragmented market) to public camera systems with face identification (too tricky to sell) and even smart watches (to the likes of the Pebble - too expensive to build and we had zero expertise on the whole supply chain). We ended up settling on the "interactive environments" niche, which is supposedly cheaper to sell and usually boils down to software running on hardware you buy on local shops.
Interactive environments are basically an attempt to augment the "real world" with digital, either by bringing online presence to physical environments or by using sensors to detect people and serve them with interesting digital information: think interactive windows, billboards you can send tweets and the like. Not knowing the market from inside out and knowing exactly which tech could we focus on, we took a few weeks building quick proofs-of-concept, talking to customers in different segments and all in all getting to know the marketplace in order to take a well-positioned first step.
And boy, did we pivot. After attempting all sorts of different "MVPs" - bluetooth marketing (contextually sending images and ringtones), touch-screen kiosks, projecting twitter-feeds in walls for events, little GSM boxes one could use to make "interactive SMS polls" and using Kinects to detect purchasing intentions inside supermarkets - we eventually settled down on the more basic "digital signage" package, licensing our platform for media companies that would like to roll out their own indoor marketing networks.
Digital signage (we're talking a niche inside a niche, now!) is not a new thing: it compromises all forms of digital communication using billboards, indoor TVs or projectors, which can be used to convey information, entertain people while they wait in line, etc. Think the flight information screens you see at airports, or TVs on bars and supermarkets. The big pain points we were determined to fix here were the deploy complexity of these systems (updating content requires physical access to each machine) or the absurd lack of features they provide (most digital signage "solutions" out there are just recorded video or powerpoint decks playing non-stop). And thus was born BlooBox: our 100% online, one-click install, remote manageable digital signage solution that supported not just displaying text, photos and videos on TV screens, but also polling for live tweets on any topic or hashtag, splitting screen with several different kinds of content (want to put a ticker over a video stream with an announcement on the side? No problem!).
One thing we quickly learned the worst possible way was that building rich desktop applications is surprisingly hard. There are just no options out there to build the kind of thing we had in mind on (a client app that could self-update, display dynamic content, run on any platform and allow the users to build their own content with tools they know how to use, like Flash or HTML) - the only two contestants being Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight, both "mature" by market standards, but frustratingly restrictive in every way possible. There are memory leaks everywhere (making the app crash every X hours). You can't do two things at the same time (Adobe Flash is single-threaded, meaning your entire UI freezes when you try to download a piece of content for later displaying, for instance). There's no documentation whatsoever on things such as loading modules/content, or automatic updating. The list of problems and pain points kept creeping up by the second, and for every bug we squished, another two were born. We even got in touch with the Adobe Air team itself, helping them debug a couple of memory leaks on foundation components of the platform (which led us to use even flimsier beta versions for long periods of time).
Despite all that, with a bit of glue and a lot of spit, we were able to put together a functional product in a few months.
Along with lack of adoption, pricing is the number one killer of companies/projects. Not knowing exactly how to make customers pay, we toyed with all sorts of sales models, from pay-per-use to pay-per-plugin, as well as the overly popular "ad supported" model that works so well online (but was a complete disaster in our offline context - more on that later). The big problem, in our case, was due to the horizontal nature of the market: the customers included everyone from bars (which will pay nothing for a product) to franchise networks (great clients, but with a very long sales process) and single-venue businesses, such as hospitals or clinics. Given our location (yes, here we were again, trying to start a product in the worst possible market. At least it was supposed to be "just during the beta period" this time…), we had only a handful of possible clients on each of those verticals, so specializing was not an option.
Driven mostly by what others were doing, we ended up settling on the "pay per TV" model, with a low monthly value (~48 USD/each) and free installation. The customer would have to buy his own TV and computer, though, which was costly enough for most small ones, and the support cost was an obvious red herring: the more hardware you have distributed in a wide area, the more people you need to keep everything working. You'd be surprised how often customers call in just so that you find that the system "is not working again!!!" because they've unplugged it from the power plug or simply forgot to turn on the TV…
Less than a year in from the day one, we were finally breaking even. But the outlook was not good: we had to make more money per customer, if we wanted to be able to keep growing at all. Our final big mistake was, ironically, trying to "eat our own dog food": determined to not just offer the software for third-parties, we decided to go the extra mile and actually manage our own indoor media network.
Looking back at it, this was possibly the dumbest decision I did in my entire life. The final change on sales model we did on the company would require a big swing in the way we presented the product to everyone: no longer would bar owners be asked to buy TV sets or pay monthly fees (we'd give them all that for free). No longer we would spend time energy and countless trips trying to convince every single layer of management on a franchise network that they should get our product and roll it continent-wide. Our sole sales would turn on trying to convince mid-to-large sized companies to advertise on our TV screens, positioned on half a dozen public spots. If we really wanted anyone to look at our network and see some potential for advertising, we'd have to quickly expand too - and so we did, growing from 6 paying customers to almost 20 free ones in less than 2 weeks (which positioned us as the second biggest ad network in the region).
That single decision that costed a fortune on hardware acquisition, incurred an even larger overhead on support and deviated us too far from what should have been our sole focus: providing software as a service, get paid for it, rinse and repeat. Selling advertising space proved itself a tedious, impossible task and undermined the morale of the team to a point that most of us simply started hating to get out of bed for yet another day of trying to stay afloat.
It's worth noting that we didn't just fall on this trap out of the blue: the entire ad-supported digital signage idea was a trend worldwide, with big-name networks being acquired all over. It was obviously "the way to go". Today, a lot of those companies, even large ones, have also died out, victim of the same uneven expectation about a market trend that didn't materialize. If there was any money to be made on the ad-supported networks, it was made by very few, deep-pocket giants. The money we spent on this "wild goose hunt" was sorely missed, in the end, and could have kept us afloat for another year.
It still saddens me to see that no one has ever done the things we pioneered in those little MVPs. The whole "interactive environment" idea is a very exciting one - if only the associated cost wasn't so big, the tools to build it so archaic. Maybe in a few years - until then, here we are, stuck with clunky kiosks, useless interactive floor-projections and TVs displaying ads that no one pays attention to…
In the end, the company wasn't a total failure: we managed to sell it, a mere couple of weeks before running out of cash, and decided to move on to something less hardware related, more viral. Time for some buzzwords!
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I'm specially awed by all the amazing collection methods I never used (zip, chunk, partition, take, drop, cycle… the list goes on and on), the various tricks to access Ruby's context, interacting with processes and pretty much every dark corner of the Ruby language I thought I knew all about.
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Yet another dumb mistake, but apparently one very few people have ever faced. While writing a simple Resque job, I started getting a weird "Jobs must be placed onto a queue" error every time I tried enqueing it.
The catch is obviously simple: if you enqueue a job using a string instead of a class instance, it can't find the class, and obviously not a queue associated to it:
Resque.enqueue("MyJob") # this fails!
Resque.enqueue(MyJob) # this works
Obvious at first, but quite hard to spot at first (the class name in question was getting passed as a command line argument).
Oh, the little joys of dynamic typing :-)
A bit of a hack that I happened to stumble upon lately: if you use Capistrano to deploy your stuff and, for whatever reason, need to issue a "nohup" command (i.e. start a process on the server that should keep running once the SSH session is over), you'll probably start trying it like this:
run("cd #{deploy_to}/current && /usr/bin/env nohup rake my_beautiful_job > log/my_job.log &")
Although this would work perfectly on a bash session, it will hang Capistrano forever. The reason here is that Capistrano will wait for the exit of the command to return something (a 'stop' signal), which will never happen since the nohup command cuts out the IO for the command.
It's possible to make Capistrano move on by setting the :pty parameter:
run("cd #{deploy_to}/current && /usr/bin/env nohup rake my_beautiful_job > log/my_job.log &", :pty => true)
That will make Capistrano move on after the nohup return - nice! But still, there is a little problem: since the command will be ran in a pseudo-tty, the 'pseudo session' that Capistrano opens will close before the rake task is put in background.
The final solution (and the one that worked for me) is shoving a sleep time at the end:
run("(cd #{deploy_to}/current && /usr/bin/env nohup rake my_beautiful_job > log/my_job.log &) && sleep 1", :pty => true)
The extra 'sleep 1' at the end will give just enough time for the command to be forked. And
life deployment goes on!
My second attempt was born still inside the walls of the first company - in 2003. While playing with the "cutting edge" devices of the time (wow, phones with COLOR screens!) and the rudimentary JavaME 1.0 (J2ME at the time), we came up with an idea: what if we invested in mobile… games? Don't get me wrong: B2B is certainly where the money is, and all… but I mean, just look at those GORGEOUS little screens. Who couldn't get excited about the prospect of playing on these sexy little devices?
For that 180 degree turn in focus, I brought in two other friends, who worked with me in parallel with the "parent" company (and for free). The simple prospects of having our games running on BILLIONS of devices all over the world kept us going with a never-ending enthusiasm (we all used to make games in the past - I myself learned to program by writing little games on a Z80, as a kid). It was more than enough to make everyone work double shift (besides their regular "job" or company).
The first (and huge) barrier we found was the mobile market itself: back then, it was a nightmare of epic proportions: each telco had their own WAP portal, billing system and pricing scheme. They kept up to 70% of the revenue, meaning our margin would be lower than 30% (after taxes). And the prices HAD to be low, otherwise "people wouldn't pay". The second challenge, was, of course, actually BUILDING the games: the tools we had back then were so bad (and the top-of-line devices so puny) most games couldn't even play sound for the lack of device support. Using the mobile network for anything except downloading the game itself was also a big no-no, given the absurd data rates (and the astonishing speed of the spotty 2g networks).
Despite all this, we pushed on. Managed to close contracts with ALL the telcos in the country (then some more in the rest of south america and even the USA), built some very good looking games, assembled a truly amazing little team, got in the news (and then again, and then again). We even got an investment offer of over $1M for a very favorable stake in the company, after presenting in a VC conference where we were the only ones not wearing a tie (it was also my first experience with VCs, which included going to absurdly expensive restaurants in a BMW and getting mocked because I was asking for too little money).
Despite all this, something didn't feel right. Despite having around 10 games distributed on the portals of a dozen different Telcos, the sales where simply not happening. It was all somewhat expected: we knew the best phones were yet to arrive (we made friends inside the major handset manufacturers who provided us with prototypes), that the data coverage would improve in a matter of months (we made friends on at least two major telco networks). What we could not predict was how long it would take for this market to bloom - for the sales to start tickling.
We tried diversifying: instead of just building our own games (which was costly and took time), we started to also act as publishers for third-party developers from all over the world. Considered shifting focus to Palm games (which, by the time, could have made us a buck - that's how PopCap bootstrapped their growth, with the first version of Bejeweled). We considered SMS as a platform, but dismissed it as "too simple to matter" (the only guy I know that moved away from mobile games into SMS services got so rich its grand-grandchildren will never have to consider working at all). Then gradually, over the course of 2 years, as some of the original team members departed, the idea of mobile games as a viable business slowly faded. The major mistake was obviously timing: we were at least 4 year too early, in a market that would only blossom with the rise of the iPhone.
During the entire lifetime of the company, we managed to sell a grand total of $100 (yes, a hundred dollars) in copies of our games, even with some of them being on the top 10 of more than one portal for months. We were not the only ones who got burried in that graveyard: of the 50-something companies we published in our catalog, only a handful survived past 2005-2006. The few that survived (many of which we had distribution rights back then) lived on to become the huge household names of today: Rovio, Gameloft, Digital Chocolate, Glu, ngmoco, com2us. And they all made it after the iPhone.
Ironically enough, all the involved in the company back then (me included) were dismissive when the iPhone and Android trends started to rise. It was "just another Symbian, after all".
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