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You can automate your workflow in Photoshop with actions, which are pretty popular and which most of you already know about and use. Today, we’ll introduce you to an advanced automation technique: scripting. All you need for this is basic knowledge of JavaScript, which some of us Web designers already have. Script all the things... even the art department.
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I love Illustrator scripting. I created a JavaScript script to create this, which is currently the wallpaper for my phone.
Though one annoying thing I found is that Illustrator has some limitations you'd only encounter when creating scripted objects. For example, I had to remove a bunch of points from that spiral because you can't morph an object with too many points (the limit was around 200 or 300). Guess Adobe's hamsters get confused easily.
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The proliferation of frameworks, libraries and toolkits make crunching data easier and easier. However, we must keep in mind that it is up to us to choose tools appropriate for our data.... Statistical models are trickier than arithmetic because there are so many assumptions regarding the nature of your data. Having access to infinite computing power and accessible toolkits does not relieve you as a human from using rational thinking to determine if the sausage you are making has meaning. Politics, perf logs or pop flies... here are the means for better than average statistical analysis.
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So if the bug was in iAd, why does Balic believe he might be responsible for the developer portal outage? Of the 13 bugs that Balic filed with Apple, one of them was a XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability in the developer site that could have led to accounts being compromised. In fact, of the 13 total bugs, 12 of them were XSS vulnerabilities in various Apple services that had the potential to expose user details. Balic claims he did not dig as deeply into those. That's right: 12 XSS vulnerabilities. Go check your code before the horror subsides.
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Apple must have an iHeadache™©®.
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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Microsoft's "Linux integration services" (LIS) effort is responsible for building support drivers for Linux. LIS drivers enable Hyper-V features to work with Linux virtual machines, including features such as live backups and live migration of Linux guests. Those features work for Linux guests in the same way as they do for Windows guests.... The LIS drivers get reviewed by the Linux community before being added to Linux kernel source code.... Currently supported Linux distros include CentOS, Debian, Oracle, Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu. "The best cloud for Linux" may run on Windows.
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With the recent release of Windows 8.1 Preview, Internet Explorer 11 continues our vision of providing the best Web experience across the full range of Windows devices and screen sizes. IE11 on Windows 7 offers the same improved performance, faster page load times, new standards support for next generation sites, and completely revised F12 developer tools. The Developer Preview of IE11 on Windows 7 is available for download today. 7 come 11... will you roll the dice and give it a chance?
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Revelations about the US government's vast data collection programs have already started hurting American technology firms, according to an industry survey released this week. The Cloud Security Alliance said 10 percent of its non-US members have cancelled a contract with a US-based cloud provider, and 56 percent said they were less likely to use an American company. We'd prefer to be spied upon by a country that can keep its own secrets?
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I created the first-ever HyperCard-based email server/client system, and designed the first-ever “intelligent” HyperCard-based system, a HyperKiosk (more on this below). It was used at a number computer tradeshows throughout the country in its heyday. We talk to Bryan about his days programming HyperCard stacks at Apple, and more.
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IR is a low-level programming language, pretty similar to assembly.... IR code is usually generated by the frontend, but nothing stops us from writing it by hand. Let's do it! DIY LLVM IR LOLs.
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Both my day job and my open-source work involve constant use of git and GitHub. These are some useful patterns that I’ve found myself using regularly. Two forks diverged in a codebase, and I, I pulled the one less committed by...
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Instead of using loops, JavaScript Array object is quite powerful to create sequences. What about some more complex series and not just a list of consecutive numbers or letters? Fortunately, we still have other Array’s functions such filter, map, every, and reduce at our disposal. Those can be used to generate a list of prime numbers, compute the factorial, and produce the Fibonacci series. Or wait five minutes and someone will write a Math.js library (or two).
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There's been a new version of PHP released: PHP 5.5. This articles gives you a quick overview of the new features, why you might care, and what this means for those of us using older versions of PHP. New stuff in PHP. That's right, I said "new" and "PHP" in the same sentence.
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As the quality of games has improved, more attention has been given to all aspects of a game to increase the feeling of reality during gameplay and distinguish it from its competitors. Mathematics provides much of the groundwork for this improvement in realism. And a large part of this improvement is due to the addition of physical simulation. Creating such a simulation may appear to be a daunting task, but given the right background it is not too difficult, and can add a great deal of realism to animation systems, and interactions between avatars and the world. James M. Van Verth gave a presentation at GDC 2005... then turned it into a tutorial for everyone.
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What’s the best way to learn to code? After pondering this question for way too long, I decided to JFDI. But instead of just starting aimlessly, I decided to adhere to a simple and strict structure: Build a different website every day for 180 consecutive days. Every website must be accompanied by a blog post. Any code I write must be made publicly available on GitHub (open source) so that everyone can see it. It’s scary to have all of my mistakes and misunderstandings out in the open. The fact is, that if you want to learn to code you are going to make a lot of mistakes... No bootcamps, no books, just coding. Lots of coding.
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Electronic Arts' big push into mobile has paid off according to its recent financial results, with Apple revealed as its biggest games retailer.... Its cosy relationship with Apple was highlighted back in September when Real Racing 3 was used on stage at Apple's press conference to show off the iPhone 5's gaming skills. It seems that it was The Simpsons: Tapped Out that managed to bring in most of the money, however, with EA COO Peter Moore revealing in the earnings call that it had its highest revenue quarter since release and that the App Store was a big cash generator for the company. The App Store is now a bigger revenue generator than its own Origin service.
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I don't know if that's as much an achievement for apple or a story of how EA has driven off most its PC gamers.
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Google announced a new device, dubbed Chromecast.... The tiny dongle plugs into an HDMI input on a TV and connects to Wi-Fi, allowing users to stream video directly to their TVs from other devices—without requiring matching operating systems. Interfaces will now present a "cast" button that, when clicked, will send the video from a PC, tablet, or smartphone to the television. Playback can then be controlled by the device sending the video. Tune in tomorrow — same Chrome-time, same Chrome-channel!
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Nice idea. Now don't have to have hulu+ to watch any hulu on your TV. A lot of devices for displaying internet on a TV require hulu plus.
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Google's Wednesday announcement of Android 4.3 may not have carried the same amount of pizzaz as the company's Android 4.1 presentation in June 2012, but then again you can only fling your executives out of blimps so many times before it starts to get stale. Although the latest release of Google's mobile OS carries with it new features that are important to developers—like Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy and OpenGL ES 3.0 support—it wouldn't be too inaccurate to say that this Android update is drab, dreary, and any other synonym of the word "boring" you want to throw in there. While iOS zigs "all new," Android zags "just better."
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The multi-user (account) ability ROCKS!
This is something the iPad *desperately* needs.
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Meet Hal Lasko, mostly known as Grandpa, a 97-year-old man who uses Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95 to create artwork that has been described as “a collision of pointillism and 8-Bit art.”... Decades after his retirement his family introduced him to Microsoft Paint and he never looked back. To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
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MasterCard and the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto are teaming up on September 28 and 29 to host the first MasterCard N>XT challenge. The two-day event will put teams of developers together to test their capability for creating a breakthrough payment solution. The contestants will have access to MasterCard’s open API, commerce infrastructure and tool kit. An opportunity to win $10,000 and be touted as Canada’s next great developer.
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JavaScript is everywhere: running applications in browsers, running the servers that feed HTML to the browser, and running database engines, to name a few. It should be no surprise, then, that JavaScript can also be used to control off-the-shelf hardware, circuits and other electronics like the Arduino platform. Through the use of frameworks like Rick Waldron’s Johnny-Five for NodeJS, and the “StandardFirmata” software package for Arduino, you can write JavaScript on your computer and use it to control and manipulate nearly any aspect of an Arduino-based hardware setup. SkyNet.js becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th...
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After reading this post, you should be able to figure out what std::move does, although not necessarily how it does it. This kind of thing is how people get in trouble (and get gray hair) with C++.
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