OpenShift is Red Hat's free, auto-scaling Platform as a Service (PaaS) for applications. As an application platform in the cloud, OpenShift manages the stack so you can focus on your code.

OpenShift  is Red Hat's Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications. OpenShift Origin is a collection of open source components that are used in the OpenShift Platform as a Service.

Red Hat has been focused on the cloud for some time. A few years ago during a conversation with CTO Brian Stevens, he mentioned in an offhand way a company called Makara, and recommended that we look at them. Which we did [coverage]. Almost a month to the day after we shot that video, Red Hat acquired Makara. Post acquisition, CEO Issac Roth was tasked with building out Red Hat’s PaaS capabilities and given access to resources across the company, including personnel from Red Hat internal IT and the support teams.

OpenShift is the result of those efforts. The Makara code plus some RHEL isolation features, the JBoss EE runtime, and other pieces gives you a top to bottom technology stack.

The Periodic Table of Typefaces is obviously in the style of all the thousands of over-sized Periodic Table of Elements posters hanging in schools and homes around the world.  This particular table lists 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.

As with traditional periodic tables, this table presents the subject matter grouped categorically.  The Table of Typefaces groups by families and classes of typefaces:  sans-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed. 

run 'gdmsetup', in the security tab, uncheck item 'Deny tcp connections to Xserver'.
however, you still need to use xhost to allow remote connections.

This has been covered on here MANY times...a quick search will pull up lots.

The "xhost +" and exporting the display won't work if your X server won't allow incoming sessions. Do a "ps -ef | grep -i listen". If you see a line similar to
Code:
root x x x 08:14 tty3 00:00:55 /usr/bin/Xorg -br :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-a1lUfb
then your X server won't accept incoming connections, because it's not listening (notice the "nolisten" argument to the X server). To fix this, you would either go into your DM setup (either GDM or KDM config), and set it to listen, or you can edit a file manually. Try /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, and set the DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN flag to "yes". You will have to REBOOT, for this to take effect.

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RT @davewiner: Guardian: Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg accused of misleading investors.

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RT @InfosMaurice: De Triton à Tritonik

RT @zedshaw: Moog’s Chief Engineer Explains The MiniGoog Moog Google Doodle Synth:

RT @notscientific: Why Aren't Cities Littered With Dead Pigeons?

12,500 reasons you should be using webinars
#Marketing #webinar

Welcome to Udacity! We currently offer the following courses, with many more to come. All our courses are free, and you are welcome to sign up at any time.

At SV Angel, we have a chart of “mega-trends” that we follow closely. The first and most obvious is social. We see a new kind of entrepreneur emerging in social. We call them “Behavioral Entrepreneurs.” These behavioral entrepreneurs understand that hardcore algorithms are no longer essential for success. Great UI and UX are becoming the new IP. Thanks to the low cost of computing, these entrepreneurs find innovation in human behavior, not pure technology.
Another mega trend we see is the intersection of real-time data and collective wisdom, where audiences contribute value the bulk of the content, enabling other services to build value by mashing up the layers. Quora is the perfect example.
Social commerce is also huge, as are big data, online-to-offline and, of course, mobile.

TheAnfieldWrap is an independently owned UK company. We are Liverpool supporters and have some of the most influential personalities from the media world to contribute to TheAnfieldWrap for your enjoyment.
TheAnfieldWrap concept is simple, we aim to give you the best independent views and information from the world of media available in one place.

Kenny Dalglish was appointed Liverpool manager because he represented permanence and he was sacked last week because he couldn't change.

Dalglish waited 20 years to return to the club and when he did, he swiftly united it. Yet everything unravelled last season. Liverpool were unlucky too often and even an FA Cup final victory wouldn't have saved Dalglish.

Okay, coming from a life-long, born and bred in Liverpool fan.
General History
During the 60s, 70s and 80s, Liverpool FC were far and away the best team in England, and were very often the best in Europe. Winning the League 13 times (and none since) and the European Cup (Champions League) 4 times. And ever since the 90s Liverpool have remained a force to be reckoned with, but never regained their former glory. The odd cup here and there, the most significant being the 2005 Champions League.
Important People
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Python’s handling of default parameter values is one of a few things that tends to trip up most new Python programmers (but usually only once).

What causes the confusion is the behaviour you get when you use a “mutable” object as a default value; that is, a value that can be modified in place, like a list or a dictionary.

A Python wrapper for the Amazon Product Advertising API.

This module offers a light-weight access to the latest version of the Amazon Product Advertising API without getting in your way.

The Amazon API itself provides programmatic access to Amazon's product selection and discovery functionality. It has search and look up capabilities, provides information on products and other features such as Customer Reviews, Similar Products, Wish Lists and New and Used listings.

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Just finished Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein and it's one of the greatest books I've read #Kindle

World’s First ‘Wikipedia Town’ Goes Live Today

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Once you have built your product and it’s in the market, there are only three things that matter: distribution (getting the product into users’ hands), engagement (validating that you’ve built the right product and that users are using it), and monetization (making money from those engaged users). This is your strategy.

Many landing pages, especially those designed to collect leads, will use a form as the primary call to action. In this guide, you will learn how to optimize your form to maximize your conversion rate without sacrificing your lead quality.

Of course I realize that this is a lot easier said than done. After all, if losing weight were easy, two thirds of the population wouldn’t be overweight.   In order to lose weight, you have to eat less and when you eat less you usually feel hungry, which most of us find unpleasant. And that’s where it falls apart for a lot of people. So today, I have some tips for you on how to eat fewer calories without feeling hungry.

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I feel the same too. Back to Linux after nearly five years of being a MacBook user.

RT @yurit0s ha ha ha look what they are posting on facebook. #EPL # MUFC

RT @HarvardBiz: If You're Not Pissing Someone Off, You're Probably Not Innovating

How I manage my todos, priorities and calendar.

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RT @Knowledge7: Using a Linux cluster to make an application 8 times quicker

Last home game and had q goodbye to the fans. What do you think the way to go with @SebastianCoates ?

RT @HackerNewsYC: How dumb court decisions made it impossible to sample like the Beastie Boys

At the end of 2011 we released a monospaced font PT Mono™ — the last addition to the pan-Cyrillic font superfamily PT Sans – PT Serif developed for the project “Public Types of Russian Federation”.

Font families PT Sans and PT Serif were released in 2009–2010 with open user license. The main aim of the project is to give possibility to the peoples of Russia to read and write on their native languages. The project is dedicated to 300-year anniversary of the civil type invented by Peter the Great in 1708–1710 years and was realized with financial support from Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications.

The fonts beside standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code pages contain characters of all title languages of Russian Federation that make them unique and very important tool of the modern digital communications.

Fixie.js is an open source tool that automatically adds filler content to HTML documents.

I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?

This is a deeply complex question. I could easily fill a book on web development and Python and how to make the two interact, so I was hoping to put this one off for a while. But given that I just trashed PHP rather harshly, it seems prudent to answer it sooner rather than later.

The dead simple answer is to stop reading here, get Flask, and start building a thing. I prefer a bit more nuance, though.

This is not a tutorial. I may write one in the future, but for now, plenty of them already exist, and I assume you can read documentation. Instead, this is an overview of the current state of affairs for someone new to Python web development.

In traditional media models, content producers typically give people something they want in the form of entertainment or information. Then they sell access to those people to advertisers — who want to sell something to those people.

Smart online entrepreneurs understand that they play both roles with content marketing. They provide people something they want to consume and share (content) and sell something … but in this case, what they sell is something extremely relevant to the content, and therefore, to the audience.

cloud computing has its shortcomings (more on that later); but small businesses looking to cut computing costs and improve efficiency during this long recession are finding the many benefits of Internet-based software and services increasingly attractive. In fact, companies with 100 or fewer employees are expected to spend $2.4 billion on cloud computing services in 2010, up from $1.7 billion in 2009, according to Ray Boggs, vice president of SMB research for IDC.

Here’s what you need to know about cloud computing: what it is, pros and cons, suggested services, and tips for applying it to your business.

"A significant constraint on realizing value from Big Data will be a shortage of talent, particularly of people with deep expertise in statistics and machine learning, and the managers and analysts who know how to operate companies by using insights from Big Data," the report said. "We project a need for 1.5 million additional managers and analysts in the United States who can ask the right questions and consume the results of the analysis of Big Data effectively." What the industry needs is a new type of person: the data scientist.

Sometimes search engine optimization gets a bad rap because so many people abuse it.
That’s too bad, because SEO copywriting is a great (and smart) way to drive traffic to your site or blog.
It will help you get more visitors through organic search, and when it’s done properly, it can even attract links, since your search-optimized content will be compelling, useful, and authoritative.
I’ve been working in this field for the last ten years — writing copy myself and helping clients tweak theirs — and I want to share with you the five tried-and-true SEO lessons I’ve learned that will drive more traffic to your site.
Of course, there are no tricks or cheats here. Just good common sense, strategically deployed.

This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel. Over a few years, she reviewed all the published data about browser internals (see Resources) and spent a lot of time reading web browser source code.

Collaborative consumption includes all the forms of bartering, trading, sharing and renting that we are re-inventing through online platforms. It includes renting a room on Airbnb, finding someone to carpool with on Uniiverse and asking a stranger to assemble that IKEA shelf you can’t quite figure out on TaskRabbit. We have started to trade our personal goods or assets with strangers we have never met, or even spoken to before. It would seem like a bit of a crazy idea, but what we’re just returning to the innate sharing behaviour that made us human – and technology is taking us there.

Last Sunday, I taught six kids of ages 5 to 7 how to program. “In what programming language?” you may ask. Well…I didn’t use a programming language, at least none that you know of. In fact, I didn’t even use a computer. Instead, I devised a game called “How To Train Your Robot”. Before I explain how the game works, let me tell my motivation.

In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now. I won’t talk about any of the projects’ details, merely about the branching strategy and release management.

Have your own startup blog, learn to tell stories
Yes, I can't stress this first point enough. Especially as it seems quite unclear at first. A lot of the success I have had with getting covered comes down to us having a very active blog.

Near the end of December 2011, we ran a survey on this blog asking consultants and agencies of all sizes and geographies to contribute their pricing models and cost structures. I'm pleased to share the results of that survey in the hopes that it will give everyone in the search industry a better idea of the range of fees and the services provided.

Case #1: The Authority
70% On-page, 30% Link-building

The Authority is an established site with a solid, trusted link profile and usually a good base of content. In many cases, it’s a site that’s evolved “organically”, which is a fancy word for “without a plan”.

Companies like Apple are making design impossible for startups to ignore. Startups like Path, Airbnb, Square, and Massive Health have design at the core of their business, and they're doing phenomenal work. But what is ‘design’ actually? Is it a logo? A Wordpress theme? An innovative UI? It’s so much more than that. It’s a state of mind. It’s an approach to a problem. It’s how you’re going to kick your competitor’s ass. This handy guide will help you understand design and provide resources to help you find awesome design talent.

You've graduated from college, diploma in hand (or in the mail), and you have a couple of job offers on the table. Other than being one of the lucky graduates in a weak economy, you have a choice to make. On one hand is a high-paying entry level position at a reputable brand in your field. On the other hand is a job offer from a small startup that is just kicking off. You've seen their product, believe in their mission, and like their approach, but aren't sure you want to take on the risk of working at a startup. You're leaning toward that corporate job and good pay with nice benefits. The smart choice.
Or is it? 

As Apple CEO Tim Cook reminds everyone as often as he can, we’re still in the infancy of this mobile computing revolution. There are billions of people around the world who have yet to fire up their first smartphone, and over the rest of this decade we can be sure that those people will have at least two choices: iOS and Android.

Android fragmentation is a huge problem. The fact that there are hundreds of different hardware devices running over half a dozen different versions of Google’s OS makes it annoying for users, but makes it an especially devastating issue for developers trying to make a business out of the Android ecosystem.

Follow the 10-4-1 Rule. According to the B2B Social Media Book by Kipp Bodnar and Jeffrey L. Cohen, the 10-4-1 Rule is a ratio that serves as a guideline for the right balance of content to publish in social media. For every 15 of your social media updates, 10 should be pieces of other people's content, 4 should be your own blog articles, and 1 should be a landing page. Make that a rule, follow that ratio no matter how much you post, and it will help you grow your reach (by promoting other people's content), send traffic to your website, and generate leads! If you're a HubSpot customer, it's now really easy to share other peoples' content with the new social bookmarklet. While you browse the web, you can select content you like to be published to your various social networks.

When it comes to competing with piracy, one of the talking points of copyright maximalists is that content creators "can't compete with free." These people complain that because pirates don't have to cover production costs, competing with them is a losing venture. What these people have not learned, despite our many attempts to teach them, is that price is not the only cost considered when consumers choose between buying legally and pirating. Over at Gamasutra, one expert blogger, Lars Doucet, has shared a very profound look at four "currencies" people consider when making such a choice.
The problem with most piracy debates is that the only "cost" they discuss is money-dollars.

This is wrong because there are at least four currencies involved here, not just one (money-dollars).

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

Social media can be a huge contributor to a company's lead generation efforts in both B2B and B2C. But how efficient are the various different social channels in directly driving leads? In a recent study of over 5,000 businesses, HubSpot found that traffic from LinkedIn generated the highest visitor-to-lead conversion rate at 2.74%, almost 3 times higher (277%) than both Twitter (.69%) and Facebook (.77%).

Too many entrepreneurs focus their time on building things they think are cool or could be the next startup homerun. Stop building to get covered by TechCrunch or get an investment by Fred Wilson.

What are your problems? That’s what you should be working on. Businesses are solutions to problems. Solutions come from ideas. Ideas are hypotheses. These hypotheses need to come from a defined problem. Humans have problems.

For designers, it’s easy to jump right into the design phase of a website before giving the user experience the consideration it deserves. Too often, we prematurely turn our focus to page design and information architecture, when we should focus on the user flows that need to be supported by our designs. It’s time to make the user flows a bigger priority in our design process.

Have you ever noticed how few successful startups were founded by just one person? Even companies you think of as having one founder, like Oracle, usually turn out to have more. It seems unlikely this is a coincidence.

What's wrong with having one founder? To start with, it's a vote of no confidence. It probably means the founder couldn't talk any of his friends into starting the company with him. That's pretty alarming, because his friends are the ones who know him best.

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill

71 Good Ways to Build Links

Love for Lists

1. Build a "101 list". These get Dugg all the time, and often become "authority documents". People can't resist linking to these (hint, hint).
2. Create 10 easy tips to help you [insert topic here] articles. Again, these are exceptionally easy to link to.
3. Create extensive resource lists for a specific topic (see Mr Ploppy for inspiration).
4. Create a list of the top 10 myths for a specific category.
5. Create a list of gurus/experts. If you impress the people listed well enough, or find a way to make your project look somewhat official, the gurus may end up linking to your site or saying thanks. (Sometimes flattery is the easiest way to strike up a good relationship with an "authority".)

We were going through some tough growing pains, and I thought that a lack of cash would make it extremely difficult to improve the company morale.

I was wrong.

With his help and the help of the great team leaders he put in place, Josh not only rebuilt the culture, but also created a passionate, hard-working team that is as committed to growing and improving the company as I am. 

Here are nine things I learned from him

If people don’t know about your great product, then they can’t buy your great product. It’s that simple.

You could be the biggest and most well-paid social media consultant out there, but if you don’t know what the specific goals are for the client project, you should never sign an agreement with the prospective company.

In the hope of avoiding competition, very often entrepreneurs get stuck with ideas that are simply not viable businesses. Trying to be unique, they target so small, so obscure niches that are not a business opportunity at all. This is what Graham points out as a common problem among groups that apply to Y Combinator. He says:” If you watch little kids playing sports, you notice that below a certain age they’re afraid of the ball. When the ball comes near them their instinct is to avoid it. I didn’t make a lot of catches as an eight year old outfielder, because whenever a fly ball came my way, I used to close my eyes and hold my glove up more for protection than in the hope of catching it. Choosing a marginal project is the startup equivalent of my eight year old strategy for dealing with fly balls”. In other words he is saying that great things have competition. Thus you cannot avoid the battle unless you avoid great ideas and focus on something irrelevant.

we award proficiency to a user who has answered at least 10 problems in a row correctly — known as a streak. Proficiency manifests itself as a gold star, a green patch on teachers’ dashboards, a requirement for some badges (eg. gain 3 proficiencies), and a bounty of “energy” points. Basically, it means we think you’ve mastered the concept and can move on in your quest to know everything.

It turns out that the streak model has serious flaws.

Success is incremental; its small gains made through ongoing intelligence-gathering leading to informed decisions. It’s calculated risk and passion, a framework that supports smart failure, and a curious culture. Success looks different for every company. And it comes to no company that waits for a silver bullet.

Every ecommerce manager already knows that having a poor website is a major problem. And it can really bite during the critical holiday season which represents anywhere between 20–40% of annual sales.

But for those who need a little numerical validation, here are a few stats that make it crystal clear why your brand’s online presence is more important than ever

Build powerful concurrent & distributed applications
more easily. Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications on the JVM.

Why spend thousands or even hundreds or thousands of dollars on a closed source application when you can get a comparable open source app for free? Even if you need commercial support, many open source programs now offer paid support that costs much less than the alternatives.

Do you do Shadow Work? #business #work #people #economy

The difference between a Republic (like Mauritius) and a Democracy (the UK)

Heroku’s early history: 4 home pages that made $212 million

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