Tag: programming

“VB Universal Windows App” series

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

This past week Lucian Wischik, who is great presenter if you ever get the chance to see him at a conference, released an awesome series on creating Universal Apps with one of my favorite programming languages, the Rodney Dangerfield of languages, Visual Basic.NET. No, lets not start a language comment war, please Here are download links for the “VB Universal Windows App” series: … Recently in April 2014, Microsoft announced Universal Windows Apps. I thought I’d take an old Silverlight paddle game and turn it into a VB Universal Windows App. Here’s how the finished game looks, on devices and in the stores: What is a Universal Windows App? A “universal Windows app” is a great end-user experience. It means the user of your app can buy …

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“VB Universal Windows App” series

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Computer becomes first to pass Turing Test in artificial intelligence milestone, but academics warn of dangerous future

June 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

A programme that convinced humans that it was a 13-year-old boy has become the first computer ever to pass the Turing Test. The test – which requires that computers are indistinguishable from humans – is considered a landmark in the development of artificial intelligence, but academics have warned that the technology could be used for cybercrime. Computing pioneer Alan Turing said that a computer could be understood to be thinking if it passed the test, which requires that a computer dupes 30 per cent of human interrogators in five-minute text conversations. Read more: What exactly is the Turing test?Eugene Goostman, a computer programme made by a team based in Russia, succeeded in a test conducted at the Royal Society in London. It convinced 33 per cent…

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Data Discovery Technology Nets DataPad $1.7 Million

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Take a guy who literally wrote the book on Python programming tools and add some of venture capitals’ top investors and you have the recipe for DataPad, a new data discovery technology vendor that just raised $1.7 million. DataPad was founded in 2013 by Wes McKinney, who wrote “Python for Data Analysis” (believe me, it’s apparently a big deal among Python programmers) and creator of Pandas, and Chang She, who was a core developer of Pandas and a former data science instructor at Columbia University. Since its launch the two have managed to wrangle $1.7 million in very early stage funding from big name investors including Accel Partners, Google Ventures, a16z Seed Fund, SV Angel, Ludlow Ventures, and angel investors including Jeff Hammerbacher, Tom …

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Data Discovery Technology Nets DataPad $1.7 Million

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Object-Oriented Programming in WordPress: Scope

April 23, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

In continuing our discussion of object-oriented programming in WordPress, we need to begin talking about the idea of scope. In short, this refers to the idea as to classes can control how their attributes and functions are accessed (or whether or not they can even be accessed).This is yet another core idea of object-oriented programming after which we should be in good shape to begin working on an actual WordPress plugin.Before moving forward, please note that each article in this series builds on the one before it, so if you’re just joining us, please be sure to check out the previous articles in the series:An IntroductionClassesTypesControl Structures: Conditional StatementsControl Structures: LoopsFunctions and AttributesOnce you’re all caught up, let’s continue our discussion on …

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50 Outstanding jQuery Slider to Make Your Website Look Beautiful

April 19, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

jQuery is one of the best JavaScript libraries that are easy to implement and display. One needs not to be a proper programmer or developer to use jQuery plugins, that are available for free in abundance on the web.Today, we are presenting you fifty classy jQuery sliders, to download and use, on your website for free. As I said, jQuery sliders are easy to implement and use, so you just need to paste the two code (one in Html head and other in the body) to get started. Just remember the paths to your .js file, its one of common mistakes designers make. So for developers, this collection will be a piece of cake, every slider in this list is provided with demo and documentation, you…

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