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January 2015 Blog Posts (6)
Phone Software Entrepreneurs? Under 30 Forbes List
Forbes published an under 30 tech list featuring entrepreneurs who've made it big. Read about it …
Added by Michael Levin on January 27, 2015 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Getting Started With Android
Interested in Android programming? Here's a nice, recent article at Lifehacker outlining good, free resources to get you going. http://lifehacker.com/i-want-to-write-android-apps-where-do-i-start-1643818268 ;
Added by Michael Levin on January 22, 2015 at 11:05am — No Comments
Pay What You Want: Back-End Developer Course Bundle
Added by Michael Levin on January 20, 2015 at 10:23am — No Comments
Speak at OSCON!
Here's a message from O'Relly about OSCON 2015:
We're deep into planning OSCON 2015 and we've got some exciting news: OSCON is changing. We're no longer beating the drum and…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 11:47am — No Comments
O'Reilly Solid Conference CFP closes 1/20!
The O'Reilly Solid conference is in San Diego in June and it's all about the merging of HW/SW for the IoT. Want to get involved? The Call for Papers is open and there are loads of benefits in giving a presentation for an O'Reilly conference., Take it from me! It's a great thing to do for the community and you learn a ton…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments
How to Use SQL, Hadoop, Drill, REST, JSON, NoSQL, and HBase in a Simple REST Client
Our friend Carol just published this article.
SQL will become one of the most prolific use cases in the Hadoop ecosystem, according to Forrester Research. Apache Drill is an open source SQL query engine for big data exploration. REST services and clients have emerged as popular technologies on the Internet. Apache HBase is a hugely popular Hadoop NoSQL…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on January 7, 2015 at 1:45pm — No Comments
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