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Amazon.com Inc. AMZN +2.10% kindled a price war in the tablet-computer market, unveiling a new slate of the devices that pack in more features at lower prices than Apple Inc.'s AAPL +0.90% dominant iPad.

At an event in an airplane hangar Thursday, Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos introduced a family of new Kindle Fire tablets. While the devices included technologies that are already...

A story on why Ryne Sandberg, former Cubs player and Hall of Fame baseball player, isn't managing in the major leagues.

With today and tomorrow’s technology, it’s easily possible to automate your home like one you’d see in a sci-fi film. Only 18 days to go, at the time this article was written, and SmartThings has already reached its Kickstarter goal twice over. It promises to turn virtually any physical object and switches into remotely usable interfaces. Its slogan is “Adding...

Mike Martz was watching the Broncos practice, not like the television commentator he's practicing to be but as the offensive coordinator he had been. Specifically, Martz was observing quarterback Peyton Manning, who is new to the Broncos but not to the NFL. Because anticipation is one of Manning's greatest qualities, Martz explained, his greatest adjustment with the Broncos would be becoming...

While shoe-horning these into conversation today might prove difficult, these 17 synonyms for sex were used often enough in 19th-century England to earn a place in the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, a book for upper-crust Britons who had no idea what the proles were talking about. They include "Amorous congress", "Basket-making", "Face-making", and others...

A blog about the tools, methods and thinking of successful software development and developers. Viktor Klang is a code connoisseur and pragmatic software professional currently residing in the exotic Helsingborg and working as Akka Tech Lead at Typesafe Inc.

When precisely the strange events began happening at the Stanley Hotel has never been documented, but interesting occurrences are a part of the history of this beautiful hotel.

Miss Elizabeth Wilson was the chief housekeeper at the Stanley Hotel in its very early days. On the evening of June 25, 1911, during a storm, she was involved in an explosion that took place as she waslighting...

As one of the first Boulder hotels, our location in the heart of downtown is perfect for all types of vacations. The hotel's name comes from the words "Boulder" and "Colorado" so no guest would forget where they had stayed. The hotel has become a National Register Landmark and is a member of the National Trust's Historic Hotels of America as well as Stash Hotel Rewards....

An "Effective Scala" document from Marius Eriksen at Twitter. Current Table of Contents:

Introduction
Formatting: Whitespace, Naming, Imports, Braces, Pattern matching, Comments
Types and Generics: Return type annotations, Variance, Type aliases, Implicits
Collections: Hierarchy, Use, Style, Performance, Java Collections
Concurrency: Futures,...

As Election Day approaches, President Obama is sharing a few important things about himself. He has mentioned more than once in recent weeks that he cooks “a really mean chili.” He has impressive musical pitch, he told an Iowa audience. He is “a surprisingly good pool player,” he informed an interviewer — not to mention (though he does) a doodler of unusual skill...

You may have remarked that Play2 provides an intriguing feature called Iteratee (and its counterparts Enumerator and Enumeratee). The main aim of this article is (to try) to make the Iteratee concept understandable for most of us with reasonably simple arguments and without functional/math theory.

This article is not meant to explain everything about Iteratee / Enumerator / Enumeratee...

The foreman in the Apple v. Samsung trial has now done an interview with Bloomberg News, giving him an opportunity to answer some of the criticisms of the verdict. It's a video on YouTube, titled "Apple Jury Foreman: Here's How We Reached a Verdict", and while he answers the criticisms, he describes how the jury, under his instructions, decided that the Samsung prior art didn't...

Scala is a bit of a chameleon. It makes many programming tasks refreshingly easy and at the same time contains some pretty intricate constructs that allow experts to design truly advanced typesafe libraries. This means that, depending at what piece of code you look at, Scala might look very simple or very complex. But which pieces exactly are easy for beginners and which are more advanced? In...

The URL I've linked to shows many examples of the Scala SBT build.sbt syntax. Here's a short clip from some of the examples:

name := "My Project"

version := "1.0"

organization := "org.myproject"

// set the Scala version used for the project
scalaVersion := "2.9.0-SNAPSHOT"

// add compile dependencies on some dispatch modules...

The URL I've linked to shows the Build.scala file for the scalaz project. It shows many examples of how to use the Scala SBT Build.scala syntax.

The URL I've linked to shows a great, large SBT Build.scala example. For my own reference:

import sbt._
import Keys._

object BuildSettings {
  val buildOrganization = "odp"
  val buildVersion      = "2.0.29"
  val buildScalaVersion = "2.9.0-1"

  val buildSettings = Defaults.defaultSettings ++ Seq (
    organization := buildOrganization,
    version...

The URL I've linked to shows how to set dependencies in a Scala SBT Build.scala file, specifically:

import sbt._
import Keys._

object MyBuild extends Build {
  val grizzled = "org.clapper" %% "grizzled-slf4j" % "0.5"

  lazy val core : Project = Project("core", file("core"), delegates = root :: Nil) settings(
    name := "foo-...

"I never forget it. And if you never forget it, then your motivation never stops. Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room. Any time I feel like I don't want to get up or whatever, it just clicks in."

Becoming somebody else on gameday is, to Lewis's mind,...