24 April 2019

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Introducing .NET for Apache® Spark™ Preview | .NET Blog

Today at Spark + AI summit we are excited to announce .NET for Apache Spark. Spark is a popular open source distributed processing engine for analytics over large data sets. Spark can be used for processing batches of data, real-time streams,

Electron 5.0.0 | Electron Blog

The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 5.0.0! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download the tarballs from our releases page. The release is packed with upgrades, fixes, and new features. We can't wait to …

Hexa Trains

Handcrafted sim game with trains running on a hexagon planet.

dotnet/spark

.NET for Apache® Spark™ makes Apache Spark™ easily accessible to .NET developers. - dotnet/spark

zio/zio

ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for asynchronous and concurrent programming in Scala - zio/zio

Foo Fighters - My Hero (Official Music Video)

Foo Fighters' official music video for 'My Hero'. Click to listen to Foo Fighters on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/FooFSpotify?IQid=FooFMH As featured on Greatest Hits. Click to buy the track or album via iTunes: http://smarturl.it/FFGHiTunes?IQid=FooFMH Google…

Twisted Oak

As a lean co-operative team of seasoned developers, Twisted Oak is able to offer efficient, flexible remote and on-the-floor development and consulting without any middle-man or excessive administrivia.

Dev Tip #158: Strongly Typed IDs

The problem with this de facto standard way of designing entities is that it's impossible to tell one ID from another from the type system. You have to rely on context or naming conventions or other weaker signals. You know, just like in dynamic languages like…

Peddle the Pedal to the Metal

Howard Chu gives tips and techniques for writing highly efficient and scalable software drawn from decades of experience. The guiding principle is a simple one, and can be applied nearly everywhere. The talk is focused on programming in C.

Tech Diversity: WIN the chance to attend LambdaConf 2019 - Signify Technology

At Signify we are proud to support tech diversity opportunities whenever we can, giving each person the chance to succeed. We want to help all underrepresented groups in tech so that everyone has equal opportunities available to them. This is why we are runnin…

Keeping a Ping Pong Ball Bouncing with 4 Mics

An Arduino Project (Using an Arduino Uno & Arduino Nano) that tries to keep a Ping Pong Ball bouncing with 4 mics. The thing uses: - 2 Arduinos - 4 Stepping motors - 4 mics - stuff Some words about how it works: The location is calculated from the time diff…