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Are API’s the New Open Source?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:10:55 -0800

Are API’s the New Open Source?
Image by herzogbr via Flickr It’s amazing to me the amount of innovation brought on by comapnies opening API’s for developers to tap into. Everything from allowing 3rd party applications to run within your site to API’s that let developers...
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hatful of hollow - Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:03:03 -0800

hatful of hollow - Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty
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The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah [Architecture]

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:40:35 -0800

The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah [Architecture]
There's not much to say about these images of the Hoover Dam Bypass except expletives mixed with a dozen shades of amazement. It's not the longest or the tallest or the biggest or the complexest, and still, it's stunning: These images of the...
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Check In, Check Out - Hotel Review - Commune by the Great Wall, Near Beijing - NYTimes.com

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:21:52 -0800

Check In, Check Out - Hotel Review - Commune by the Great Wall, Near Beijing - NYTimes.com
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Skype Journal: Can they turn Skype Lite into a Skype Platform?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:39:59 -0800

Skype Journal: Can they turn Skype Lite into a Skype Platform?
We've been wishing for a web platform so we can build Skype into apps. Here's how it can happen.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:35:29 -0800

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes
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Dependency injection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:34:52 -0800

Dependency injection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dependency injection (DI) in computer programming refers to the process of supplying an external dependency to a software component. It is a specific form of inversion of control where the concern being inverted is the process of obtaining the needed...
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Rahul Jadhav posted a tweet

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:33:40 -0800

The Hover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah [Architecture] http://bit.ly/3lMuOE
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Hanz posted a tweet

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:28:43 -0800

The Hover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah [Architecture] http://bit.ly/2hsUE
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The Hoover Dam Bypass Will Make You Ooooh and Aaaah [Architecture]

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:25:00 -0800

Paharpur Buddhist Bihar of Bangladesh - UNESCO World Heritage spot.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:06:54 -0800

Paharpur Buddhist Bihar of Bangladesh - UNESCO World Heritage spot.
Somapura Mahavihara in Paharpur, Naogaon, Bangladesh is among the best known Buddhist viharas in the Subcontinent and is one of the most important archeological sites in the country.
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Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting | NoSQL Ecosystem

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:02:20 -0800

Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting | NoSQL Ecosystem
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Experimental Urb-ART-ecture

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:52:00 -0800

Experimental Urb-ART-ecture
Experimenting with colors, layers, architecture and transparency. Ongoing work. Photo by lilypenelope.
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FUQ Sky

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:22:05 -0800

FUQ Sky

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Falk posted a tweet

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:47:42 -0800

TED: "Architecture that repairs itself" really made me think in a direction I have never really looked before. The future of engineering?
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active social plastic

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:38:02 -0800

active social plastic
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Allen B posted a tweet

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:21:55 -0800

@Mommentator Reminds me of Phillip Johnson's architecture. Pretty, but please don't make me live in it...
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Audiochmura (Audiocloud) | mode:lina architektura & consulting

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:14:58 -0800

Audiochmura (Audiocloud) | mode:lina architektura & consulting
Audioarchitektura (Sonicarchitecture) is a utopian vision of a city that cannot be heard. An innovative system of sound emission, which isolates people from the unbearable audiosphere of crowded streets, traffic and all the noise that unnaturally has...
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Why ‘SAYING IT’ is important

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:47:15 -0800

Why ‘SAYING IT’ is important
Ever had someone offend you and he/she doesn’t want to say sorry? Sometimes we see that the person is indeed sorry for what he/she has done but he/she is having a hard time saying it.
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home building technical information resources builders construction remodeling innovations

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:43:38 -0800

home building technical information resources builders construction remodeling innovations
Toolbase is the home building industry's technical information resource. Visit our site for information on building systems, home building topics, remodeling best practices, innovative home construction technologies, home construction information...
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Career Planning for Introverts

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:35:37 -0800

Career Planning for Introverts
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Woerth Castle in Bavaria, Germany

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:51:00 -0800

Woerth Castle in Bavaria, Germany
Wörth or Woerth as written in English is a town located near Regensburg in Bavaria, Germany. We happened to go inside this...
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Litl Webbook Ships Today

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:36:58 -0800

Litl Webbook Ships Today
The Litl Webbook, a new home media computer unveiled by Boston-based Litl last week, officially ships to buyers starting today....
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bbclarke97 posted a tweet

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:19:01 -0800

New greenliving post Refract House Wins Architecture Honors At Solar Decathalon: A Gallery .. http://bit.ly/2viM0c
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Between Mission Statement and Parametric Model: Places: Design Observer

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:05:42 -0800

Between Mission Statement and Parametric Model: Places: Design Observer
A crisis in architectural education is brewing. I refer to the increasingly contentious divide between that cadre of junior faculty who espouse the gee-whiz form-making made possible by speculative parametric modeling and an Inconvenient Truth-influenced...
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