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Floating Point Numbers Monday 21 May | Mike James
Inconvenient though they may be, fractions are the real stuff of number and to work with them we need to know about floating point numbers ...
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GitHub for Windows 22 May | Ian Elliot
 GitHub has released a free-to-download Windows version that will run Windows on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and even the pre-release Windows 8.
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Kinect SDK 1.5 - Now With Face Tracking 22 May | Harry Fairhead
 The new Kinect 1.5 SDK adds a lot of new features to the existing Kinect for Windows without any need for changes to the hardware. It now comes with face tracking, seated skeleton tracking and a lot of new developer tools.
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NoSQL Database OrientDB 1.0 Released 22 May | Kay Ewbank
 OrientDB 1.0, a Java-based NoSQL database that combines the features of document and graph databases has been released.
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Chrome Overtakes IE In Global Stats 21 May | Janet Swift
 Chrome has been steadily increasing its share of the browser market while Internet Explorer's share has been in decline. Last week finally Chrome overtook IE.
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Wolfram Finance Platform Launched 21 May | Alex Armstrong
 Wolfram Research has released a finance tool that harnesses the computational power of Wolfram’s Mathematica software and applies it to finance workflows.
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Bing Search API Moves to Windows Azure Marketplace 21 May | Kay Ewbank
 If you want to make heavy use Microsoft’s Bing API in your apps you’ll soon have to pay for it, as it has been moved to the Windows Azure Marketplace and changed from a free-to-use model.
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Clothbot Climbs You 20 May | Lucy Black
 Clothbot is a strange robot designed to climb up humans by getting a grip on their clothing, hence the name. Watch it in action and cringe. What is this for?
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Cartoon - Why 1970? or Dating Troubles 20 May | Mike James
 This week's xkcd cartoon might be a problem if you have never had any difficulties with dates. However, if you have never had any difficulties with dates, this suggests that you have never had to work with dates - as dates usually mean problems.
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Turing Centennial Celebration at Princeton 20 May | Historian
 During Alan Turing Year celebrations are being held all over the world; many in places Turing himself never visited. He did, however, spend two years at Princeton University which has just held a three-day conference to mark its association with Turing.
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May - Week 2 19 May | Editor
 A digest of the week's news, articles and book reviews on I Programmer from Thursday May 10th to Wednesday May 16th.
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Google Data Center Security 19 May | Andrew Johnson
 All of us have to take precautions to keep our own or our customers' data safe. ever wondered what it must the problem be like when you scale it up to a Google-scale enterprise?
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Hidden Markov Models, Viterbi and the Higgs Boson 19 May | Mike James
 It isn't often that you get the chance to view a video that includes a discussion of a wide range of very technical topics. In this interview, Brian Beckman really does range over topics as diverse as the Viterbi algorithm and the Higgs boson.
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New AWS Managed Services 18 May | Kay Ewbank
 Amazon has launched managed database and application services that you can use to deploy and manage SQL Server databases and ASP.NET applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
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Google Search Goes Semantic - The Knowledge Graph 18 May | Mike James
 The most reasonable response to Google's recent announcement of the Knowledge Graph is "what took you so long?" If Google wants to stay ahead in search, it has to innovate and, since the introduction of the page rank algorithm, core innovation has been very slow.
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Loebner Prize Judges Could Easily Identify Chatbots 18 May | Sue Gee
 The 2012 Loebner Prize for the best chatbot has been awarded to Chip Vivant, created by Mohan Embar, a software consultant based in Milwaukee.
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Book Review of the Day
No Bullshit Social Media Tuesday 22 May
Author: Jason Falls & Erik Deckers Publisher: Que Pages: 272 ISBN: 978-0789748010 Aimed at: Those who haven't yet embraced social media Rating: 4 Pros: Plain-speaking style Cons: Nothing startlingly new or different Reviewed by: Lucy Black
According to the authors, Social Media is like the ocean: You never want to turn your back on it.
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More cartoon fun at xkcd a webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language
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Spring Roo in Action (Manning) 23 May
Teaches how to code Java in Roo, with a particular focus on Spring-based applications. Hands-on examples, show how Roo, a lightweight Java console shell that simplifies compile-time tasks, creates well-formed application structures and supports best practices and tools. Plus, you'll get a quick-and-dirty guide to setting up Roo effectively in your environment.
<ASIN:193518296X>
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iOS Programming (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) 22 May
Updated and expanded to cover iOS 5 and Xcode 4.3 this 3ed edition leads you through the essential concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications. Provides the understanding and confidence you need to tackle iOS projects of your own. Our review of 2nd edition concluded "Highly recommended to all readers except the complete beginner".
<ASIN:0321821521>
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Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby (Pragmatic Bookshelf) 21 May
Subtitled, Control Your Computer, Simplify Your Life. Writing a command-line application that is self-documenting, robust, adaptable and forever useful is easier than you might think. Ruby is particularly suited to this task, since it combines high-level abstractions with system interaction wrapped up in a concise, readable syntax and is supported by many open-source tools and libraries.
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Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health (O'Reilly) 20 May
If you’re interested in how things work, this guide will help you experiment with one crucial system you usually ignore—your body and its health. Long hours focusing on code or circuits tends to stifle notions of nutrition, but with this educational and highly useful book you can approach fitness through science, whether it’s investigating your ancestral health or using the latest self-tracking apps and gear.
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Android Apps with App Inventor (Addison Wesley) 19 May
Hands-on walkthroughs that cover every area of App Inventor development, for both Google and MIT versions. Begins with the absolute basics of program structure, syntax, flow, and function, and then demonstrates simple ways to solve common mobile development problems. Build a dozen real Android apps, from games and geotrackers to navigation systems and news tickers.
<ASIN: 0321812700>
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GIMP For Absolute Beginners (Apress) 18 May
GIMP, the open source graphics and digital imaging application, has almost all the features of Photoshop. But what can photographers and artists actually do with photos and graphical images? These questions are answered here in a photo projects chapter as well as a chapter on digital painting.Covers GIMP 2.8
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The Basics of Digital Forensics (Syngress) 17 May
Provides a foundation for people new to the digital forensics field. Teaches you how to conduct examinations by discussing what digital forensics is, the methodologies used, key technical concepts and the tools needed to perform examinations. It includes details on digital forensics for computers, networks, cell phones, GPS, the cloud, and Internet.
<ASIN:1597496618>
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Cloud Computing (Jones & Bartlett) 16 May
Hands-on introduction to the cloud. Covers data storage, data sharing, performing cloud-based automated backups, and using other cloud-based applications by the end of Chapter 1. Continues with software as a service (Saas), platform as a service (Paas), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), server and desktop virtualization and more.
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