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What is Apache Tez?

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

You might have heard of Apache Tez, a new distributed execution framework that is targeted towards data-processing applications on Hadoop. But what exactly is it? How does it work? Who should use it and why? In their presentation, Apache Tez: Accelerating Hadoop Query Processing, Bikas Saha and Arun Murthy discuss Tez’s design, highlight some of its features and share some of the initial results obtained by making Hive use Tez instead of MapReduce. Presentation transcript edited by Roopesh Shenoy Tez generalizes the MapReduce paradigm to a more powerful framework based on expressing computations as a dataflow graph. Tez is not meant directly for end-users – in fact it enables developers to build end-user applications with much better performance and flexibility. Hadoop has …

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How To Make A Swipeable Table View Cell With Actions – Without Going Nuts With Scroll Views

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Make a swipeable table view cell without going nuts with scroll views! Apple introduced a great new user interface scheme in the iOS 7 Mail app – swiping left to reveal a menu with multiple actions. This tutorial shows you how to make such a swipeable table view cell without getting bogged down in nested scroll views. If you’re unsure what a swipeable table view cell means, then see this screenshot of Apple’s Mail.app: You’d think that after introducing something like this, Apple would have made it available to developers. After all, how much harder could it be? Unfortunately, they’ve only made the Delete button available to developers – at least for the time being. If you want to add other buttons, or …

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20 Useful Docs and Guides for Front-End Developers

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I come across so many interesting info-apps and documents in my daily research, so I thought I’d provide a list of those here. True, not everyone likes the list post or roundup, but hey, we can’t please everyone. And we don’t do these types of posts too often anyhow. In this case, this is a great way to bookmark a few things maybe for some evening or weekend reading. I guarantee you’ll find at least a few links in here that you’ll want to come back to. Enjoy! A great point-and-click little app to get you up to speed with all the different parts of CSS syntax and what the proper name for them is. A very simple …

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Postbot: Easy WordPress Scheduling for Photos

April 23, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

If you’re a WordPress-using photo-blogger looking to save yourself some spadework, you might like this little tool developed by Automattic. Rather than manually scheduling posts for individual photos one at a time, Postbot lets you drag-and-drop your snaps to upload and schedule them automatically â€“ you can edit the details for each image as they’re uploading to save time, and a post is created for each one accordingly. Postbot then schedules them to publish at pre-set intervals over a number of days. You can also stipulate that it doesn’t post on weekends too. Schedule With Postbot To set yourself up, hit the Connect with WordPress.com button and, if you’re logged in to your WordPress.com account…

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13 Vagrant Resources for WordPress Development

April 22, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Vagrant is an open source tool that makes it easy to configure and distribute virtual development environments. The project was started in 2010 by Mitchell Hashimoto and John Bender who wanted to create a way to standardize development environments for teams. Vagrant was designed to put an end to the works on my machine frustration that often surfaces when teams develop on different environments. Because it’s so lightweight and portable, many WordPress developers have adopted Vagrant for development, which has resulted in different tools and configurations for various project needs. We’ve collected a few WordPress-related Vagrant resources here that will help you get started. Varying Vagrant Vagrants Varying Vagrant Vagrants is one of the most widely used and best-supported Vagrant configurations for WordPress…

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