Facial Detection - Part I

Tom Neumark on Nov 19, 2012

Tags: adaboost, facial-detection, facial-recognition, haar-cascade, violate-jones

This is Part I of a series on facial recognition. This module covers face detection...

Anti-Aliasing and Fonts

Caroline Wizeman on Nov 13, 2012

Tags: typography

Caroline Wizeman presents on Anti-Aliasing and Fonts. Understanding how anti-aliasing works can help you improve...

Vagrant

David Singley on Nov 06, 2012

Tags: puppet, vagrant, virtual

David Singley presents on Vagrant. Abstract: It's great when people are different but less great...

Three Easy Ways to Write a Popular Blog Entry

Caroline Wizeman on Oct 28, 2012

Tags: blog, popular, tips

This is a quick look at three simple ways of driving more traffic to your...

WebSockets

Matt Wizeman on Oct 26, 2012

Tags: html5, node.js, websockets

Matt Wizeman presents a quick introduction to WebSockets. This discussion covers the benefits and capabilities...

ZooKeeper

Scott Leberknight on Aug 29, 2012

Tags: apache, coordination, distributed-computing, zookeeper

Apache ZooKeeper is an open-source server which enables highly reliable distributed coordination. Because coordinating distributed...

Apache Thrift

Andrew Avenoso on Aug 22, 2012

Tags: apache, facebook, hadoop, hive, rpc, thrift

Do you find yourself struggling with incompatible protocols when making RPC calls between different languages...

Node.js Explained

Jeff Kunkle on Jul 17, 2012

Tags: javascript, nodejs, rails, ruby

Rising from non-existence three short years ago, Node.js is already attracting the accolades and disdain...

IPv6

Bryan Weber on Jul 12, 2012

A brief introduction to IPv6....

Five Tips for Optimizing Canvas Applications

Ryan Gimmy on Jun 12, 2012

Tags: animation, canvas, html5, javascript

Writing an HTML5 canvas application can open up many different ways to present information on...

Microprocessor: Arduino

Joe Ferner on Apr 12, 2012

Tags: hardware

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's...

The Art of Searching

Tom Neumark on Dec 16, 2011

Tom Neumark presents on searching. Blur, which is based on Apache Lucene, is a search...

jQuery UI

Jenn Newman on Nov 20, 2011

Tags: javascript

Jennifer Newman presents a lightning talk on jQuery UI. Abstract: jQuery UI is the official...

Presentation Tips

Jeff Kunkle on Aug 15, 2011

Jeff Kunkle discusses his Presentation Tips. There's an endless supply of books, articles, blog posts,...

Static Website Generation

Jeff Kunkle on Mar 27, 2011

Tags: ruby, web

Jeff Kunkle presents on Static Website Generation. With all the tools available today for publishing...