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Teach Concepts Not Just Code Thursday 26 Jan | Mike James
What tends to get overlooked when discussing STEM skills is that we need to teach algorithmic thought in the same way as needing to teach math, not just arithmetic.
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ReRAM - Prepare for a Paradigm Shift 29 Jan | Alex Armstrong
 A revolutionary memory component that could change the way we use computers will be launched next year. Elpida's resistance memory removes the distinction between volatile and non-volatile storage. What will this mean for users and developers?
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Imagine Cup Grant Winners Announced 29 Jan | Sue Gee
 The winners of the inaugural round of the Imagine Cup Grants have been announced and a Windows Phone 7 app to combat malaria is one of the selected projects.
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Evi Overloaded 29 Jan | Harry Fairhead
 Evi, a new rival to Siri, Apple's voice-driven personal assistant, has made its debut on both the iPhone and the Android. And people are so keen to try it out that Evi's servers are overloaded - so be prepared for a wait for answers.
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Work For Twitter - Hilarious! 28 Jan | Lucy Black
 Why work at Twitter when you could work at Google? We have a video that gives you the inside story on Twitter's work package and it's hilarious!
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Sorting Algorithms As A Video 28 Jan | Alex Armstrong
 A mixture of nostalgia and pure brilliance, this classic video from the 1980s shows everything you need to know about sorting, while proving just how far computer animation has progressed in the intervening years.
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ACTA Protest Mounts 28 Jan | Sue Gee
 ACTA may have been signed by dozens of countries, but it has still to be approved by the European Parliament. There is still time to take a stand.
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Google Earth 6.2 Uses Simple Algorithms To Look Good 27 Jan | Harry Fairhead
 What a difference an algorithm makes. Add a simple photo processing technique to Google Earth and the result really is a beautiful world.
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Stanford Online Courses Postponed, Not Cancelled 27 Jan | Sue Gee
 The Computer Science courses that should have started this month but were suddenly postponed. Stanford now says that the courses will be going ahead - but the delay may be months not weeks.
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New Release of Oracle's TimesTen 26 Jan | Kay Ewbank
 Oracle has released the latest version of its in-memory database, Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, 11g Release 2.
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Joomla! 2.5 Released 26 Jan | Lucy Black
 Joomla! 2.5, the long-term-support release of the open source content management system that is the successor to version 1.7, is now available. It will be supported for at least 18 months.
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Windows 8 Not a Beta but a Consumer Preview 26 Jan | Ian Elliot
 The official line at CES was that the "consumer preview" of Windows 8 would be available "in late February". So what has happened to the beta? And what does this mean for developers?
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AWS Storage Gateway 25 Jan | Kay Ewbank
 Amazon has launched AWS Storage Gateway as an easier way to connect applications running locally on a server to cloud-based storage.
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Delay for January Stanford Online Courses 25 Jan | Sue Gee
 Online Computer Science classes that have attracted tens of thousands of students have been put back for a couple of weeks. Is this on account of Sebastian Thrun's resignation from Stanford?
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Microsoft Cancels MIX 2012 25 Jan | Ian Elliot
 Microsoft has announced that the MIX Conference that was due to take place in Las Vegas in April 2012 is not going to happen. Instead it will be "merged" with another developer event later in the year.
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Date Set for SQL Server 2012 Launch 24 Jan | Kay Ewbank
 The SQL Server 2012 official launch date will be March 7th, and the official launch site now has details of the agenda for the webcast that will go out then.
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Book Review of the Day
Meet the Kinect Friday 27 Jan
Author: Sean Kean, Jonathan Hall & Phoenix Perry Publisher: Apress Pages: 205 ISBN: 978-1430238881 Aimed at: Would-be Kinect developers Rating: 2 Pros: First book available on a hot topic Cons: Already outdated, lacks code Reviewed by: Harry Fairhead
This is the first book I've found on the subject of the Kinect. Is it any good?
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Unhandled Exception! - The Difference
More cartoon fun at xkcd a webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language
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The Non-Designer's Illustrator Book (Peachpit Press) 28 Jan
This addition to the Non-Designer’s series sets out to teach the tools and features in Illustrator that designers (as opposed to illustrators) need to use. Along the way, the book offers many design tips for non-designers. Individual exercises ensure that a reader can jump in at any point and learn a specific tool or technique.
<ASIN:0321772873>
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Mac Kung Fu (Pragmatic Bookshelf) 27 Jan
Subtitled, Over 300 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for OS X Lion, shows how to master everyday tools such as the Dock, Spotlight, Mission Control, Launchpad, and Dashboard. You'll discover other tools and built-in add-ons you never knew existed. Customize the OS X interface, refine your workflow, learn valuable security tricks and work better with photos, movies and documents.
<ASIN:1934356824>
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Deploying Cloud-Based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Mircosoft Press) 26 Jan
Take your SharePoint solutions to the cloud and gain scalability and high availability while helping to lower operational costs. IT professionals, architects, and decision makers learn hands-on how to customize and maintain SharePoint cloud solutions and get practical advice for migrating business solutions either to Microsoft SharePoint Online or to a private cloud.
<ASIN:073566210X>
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Clojure in Action (Manning) 25 Jan
A hands-on tutorial for those who know Java or Ruby, but not Lisp. Teaches Clojure from the basics up using practical, real-world application examples. Covers practical matters like unit-testing and environment set-up through to building a scalable web-application using domain-specific languages, Hadoop, HBase, and RabbitMQ.
<ASIN:1935182595>
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Objective-C for Absolute Beginner, 2nd Edition (Apress) 24 Jan
Objective-C is the universal language of iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps, and this book for the complete begineer starts you on the path to mastering this language and its latest release. Using a hands-on approach, you'll learn how to think in programming terms, how to use Objective-C to construct program logic, and how to synthesize it all into working apps.
<ASIN:1430236531>
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PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly) 23 Jan
If you can build websites with CSS and JavaScript, this book takes you to the next level, creating dynamic, database-driven websites with PHP and MySQL. Learn how to build a database, manage your content, and interact with users through queries and web forms with step-by-step tutorials and real-world examples.
<ASIN:0596515863>
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Tap, Move, Shake: Turning Your Game Ideas into iPhone & iPad Apps (O'Reilly) 21 Jan
This complete do-it-yourself guide shows you how to make your game idea a reality for the iPhone and iPad. By developing a real game hands-on through the course of this book, you’ll get a thorough introduction to Xcode and Objective-C, while learning how to implement game logic, sophisticated graphics, game physics, sounds, and computer AI.
<ASIN:1449303455>
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Humanize! (Que) 20 Jan
Knowing the tools of social media is a must for successful marketing these days, but the real promise of social media is the way it can teach us a whole new way of doing business. Humanize takes the principles underlying social media's growth and applies them to the way we lead and manage our organizations in ways that make them more human—and more effective.
<ASIN:0789741121>
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