Tools TameJs: A JavaScript Extension for Making Event Programming Easier TameJs is an extension to JavaScript created by the OK Cupid team. Its purpose is to make event programming "easier to write, read, and edit." It can be used with Node.js or other V8 projects. According to the site: "Tame is not an attempt to dumb down async programming. It's just a cleaner way to write it." You can find it in GitHub, licensed… Hack Klint Finley View comments
mobile White House Challenges Developers: Build Apps to Prevent Sexual Assault Young women face the highest rate of dating violence and sexual assault, with nearly 19% - one in five - women reporting they have experienced sexual assault while in college. The Obama Administration believes that one way to help combat sexual abuse on college campuses may be through mobile phone apps, and with the Department of Health and… Mobile Audrey Watters View comments
APIs Microsoft Targets Google Health Developers Today Microsoft announced that users of Google Health, scheduled to be shut down on Jan. 1, 2012, can send their data to Microsoft's competing HealthVault service. In the closing paragraph, Microsoft also pitches developers to migrate their Google Health projects to HealthVault. Hack Klint Finley View comments
Cloud Providers Microsoft's Hadoop Alternative Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of a free technology preview of Project Daytona MapReduce Runtime for Windows Azure. Using a set of tools for working with big data based on Google's MapReduce paper, it provides an alternative to Apache Hadoop. Daytona was created by the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research. It's… Klint Finley View comments
How-To How to Raise Investment Capital Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments