Exponential backoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
on 05/18/2013
Excerpt: In a variety of computer networks, binary exponential backoff or truncated binary exponential backoff refers to an algorithm used to space out repeated retransmissions of the same block of data, often as part of network congestion avoidance. Examples are the retransmission of frames in carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) and carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) networks, where this algorithm is part of the channel access method used to send data on these network. In Ethernet networks, the algorithm is commonly used to schedule retransmissions after collisions. The retransmission is delayed by an amount of time derived from the slot time and the number of attempts to retransmit.... read the full post.
Tags: , Algorithm, API, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Story
Beer Viz Suggests New Beers to Try Based on What You Already Like
lifehacker.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: If you're looking for a new brew to try, or just want to expand your palate a little bit, Beer Viz asks you a couple of questions about the beer you already enjoy and presents you with a plethora of alternatives that might suit you nicely. It's kind of like Pandora for beer. To get started, select the strength of beer you're interested in (light, medium, dark), and select whether you'd like to explore similar beers by aroma, taste, appearance, or overall (selected by default, and takes them all into consideration).... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, IPA Evangelist
AustinApi.com meetup - Austin Homegrown API (Austin, TX) - Meetup
www.meetup.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: I'm here to learn how my local peeps are using API's to better the community of Austin. This will be the first meetup I attend that actually overlaps with my day job. ;)
Hi, I work with Jason at uShip and want to learn and share knowledge about API design and implementation. I'm a. Net developer and am interested in learning more about best practices for building API's and have.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Meetup
Pebble receives $15 mil in funding, releases SDK and Sports API | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
www.tuaw.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: The company behind the Pebble smartwatch, which not only looks awesome but connects up to your iPhone, has picked up US$15 million in funding from venture capitalists, and has released yet another version of its SDK. The funding is obviously a solid chunk of change, and should help Pebble not only fulfill its current orders (the company is still aiming to get watches out to all of its supporters from a successful Kickstarter bid), but push the company on into the future as well. This latest SDK release, called the PebbleKit, allows for two-way communication back and forth between the watch and your smartphone, which means there are lots of new options for apps to work with the watch as a display or even a remote control.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Internet-of-Things, Investment, Pebble, Wearable Computing
Welcome to Google Island | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
www.wired.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: Google IO attendees visit Google’s virtual island Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired
I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session. My last recollection was of Google CEO Larry Page taking questions from the audience and promoting a vision of a utopia where society could be free to innovate and experiment, unencumbered by government regulations or social norms. “I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out,” he had said. “What is the effect on society? What’s the effect on people?... read the full post.
Tags: , Google Glasses
Open data executive order is the best thing Obama’s done this month. - Slate Magazine
www.slate.com
on 05/16/2013
Excerpt: Long before steam engines and turbines carried us swiftly over the oceans, a disabled sailor who could no longer serve on a ship found something to do ashore: aggregate the data from shipping logs. When Matthew Fontaine Maury started analyzing those logs and mapping them onto charts, he found previously invisible patterns in the data that showed patterns in weather, winds, and currents. In 1855, he published this knowledge in a book, The Physical Geography of the Sea.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Voice, Federal Government, Open Data
Open data: A new goldmine | The Economist
www.economist.com
on 05/16/2013
Excerpt: Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details.... read the full post.
Tags: , Data
Pebble releases updated Pebblekit SDK & Sports API with full support for iOS & Android apps | 9to5Mac
9to5mac.com
on 05/16/2013
Excerpt: Pebble, the popular bluetooth smartwatch that raised over $10M on Kickstarter before shipping to backers in January, today announced the release of an updated SDK and APIs that will allow iOS and Android developers to create apps for the platform. Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky had this to say about the updates:
“The tremendous response we received from Kickstarter backers validated our belief in the value of a smart watch as a wearable computer, but also in the value an open platform brings to truly personalizing the watch to their daily activities”, said Eric Migicovsky, Pebble’s founder. “This new investment will help us build out the Pebble development ecosystem and deliver on Pebble’s extraordinary potential.... read the full post.
Tags: , Internet-of-Things, Wearable Tech
A New 'Smart Rifle' Decides When To Shoot And Rarely Misses : All Tech Considered : NPR
www.npr.org
on 05/15/2013
Excerpt: A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it's not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate. A startup gun company in Texas developed the rifle, which is so effective that some in the shooting community say it should not be sold to the public. It's called the TrackingPoint rifle. On a firing range just outside Austin in the city of Liberty Hill, a novice shooter holds one and takes aim at a target 500 yards away. Normally it takes years of practice to hit something at that distance. But this shooter nails it on the first try. The rifle's scope features a sophisticated color graphics display. The shooter locks a laser on the target by pushing a small button by the trigger. It's like a video game.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Voice, Guns, Military
mnot’s blog: Indicating Problems in HTTP APIs
www.mnot.net
on 05/15/2013
Excerpt: Hi, I’m Mark Nottingham. I currently chair the IETF HTTPbis Working Group. I usually write here about the Web, protocol design, HTTP, and caching. Once in a while, I’ll write about economics, travel or living in Australia. Find out more. A common part of HTTP-based APIs is telling the client that something has gone wrong. Most APIs do this in some fashion, whether they call it a “Fault” (very SOAP-y), “Error” or whatever. Most of them define a new format for just this purpose; for examples, see Amazon’s, OpenStack’s, Twitter’s, Facebook’s, and SalesForce’s. Twitter's is fairly representative:
Here, they associate a human-readable message and an error code with the error.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, HTTP, Monitoring, Testing
Excerpt: If you're looking for a new brew to try, or just want to expand your palate a little bit, Beer Viz asks you a couple of questions about the beer you already enjoy and presents you with a plethora of alternatives that might suit you nicely. It's kind of like Pandora for beer. To get started, select the strength of beer you're interested in (light, medium, dark), and select whether you'd like to explore similar beers by aroma, taste, appearance, or overall (selected by default, and takes them all into consideration).... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, IPA Evangelist
AustinApi.com meetup - Austin Homegrown API (Austin, TX) - Meetup
www.meetup.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: I'm here to learn how my local peeps are using API's to better the community of Austin. This will be the first meetup I attend that actually overlaps with my day job. ;)
Hi, I work with Jason at uShip and want to learn and share knowledge about API design and implementation. I'm a. Net developer and am interested in learning more about best practices for building API's and have.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Meetup
Pebble receives $15 mil in funding, releases SDK and Sports API | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
www.tuaw.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: The company behind the Pebble smartwatch, which not only looks awesome but connects up to your iPhone, has picked up US$15 million in funding from venture capitalists, and has released yet another version of its SDK. The funding is obviously a solid chunk of change, and should help Pebble not only fulfill its current orders (the company is still aiming to get watches out to all of its supporters from a successful Kickstarter bid), but push the company on into the future as well. This latest SDK release, called the PebbleKit, allows for two-way communication back and forth between the watch and your smartphone, which means there are lots of new options for apps to work with the watch as a display or even a remote control.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Internet-of-Things, Investment, Pebble, Wearable Computing
Welcome to Google Island | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
www.wired.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: Google IO attendees visit Google’s virtual island Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired
I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session. My last recollection was of Google CEO Larry Page taking questions from the audience and promoting a vision of a utopia where society could be free to innovate and experiment, unencumbered by government regulations or social norms. “I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out,” he had said. “What is the effect on society? What’s the effect on people?... read the full post.
Tags: , Google Glasses
Open data executive order is the best thing Obama’s done this month. - Slate Magazine
www.slate.com
on 05/16/2013
Excerpt: Long before steam engines and turbines carried us swiftly over the oceans, a disabled sailor who could no longer serve on a ship found something to do ashore: aggregate the data from shipping logs. When Matthew Fontaine Maury started analyzing those logs and mapping them onto charts, he found previously invisible patterns in the data that showed patterns in weather, winds, and currents. In 1855, he published this knowledge in a book, The Physical Geography of the Sea.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Voice, Federal Government, Open Data
Open data: A new goldmine | The Economist
www.economist.com
on 05/16/2013
Excerpt: Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details.... read the full post.
Tags: , Data
Pebble releases updated Pebblekit SDK & Sports API with full support for iOS & Android apps | 9to5Mac
9to5mac.com
on 05/16/2013
Excerpt: Pebble, the popular bluetooth smartwatch that raised over $10M on Kickstarter before shipping to backers in January, today announced the release of an updated SDK and APIs that will allow iOS and Android developers to create apps for the platform. Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky had this to say about the updates:
“The tremendous response we received from Kickstarter backers validated our belief in the value of a smart watch as a wearable computer, but also in the value an open platform brings to truly personalizing the watch to their daily activities”, said Eric Migicovsky, Pebble’s founder. “This new investment will help us build out the Pebble development ecosystem and deliver on Pebble’s extraordinary potential.... read the full post.
Tags: , Internet-of-Things, Wearable Tech
A New 'Smart Rifle' Decides When To Shoot And Rarely Misses : All Tech Considered : NPR
www.npr.org
on 05/15/2013
Excerpt: A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it's not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate. A startup gun company in Texas developed the rifle, which is so effective that some in the shooting community say it should not be sold to the public. It's called the TrackingPoint rifle. On a firing range just outside Austin in the city of Liberty Hill, a novice shooter holds one and takes aim at a target 500 yards away. Normally it takes years of practice to hit something at that distance. But this shooter nails it on the first try. The rifle's scope features a sophisticated color graphics display. The shooter locks a laser on the target by pushing a small button by the trigger. It's like a video game.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Voice, Guns, Military
mnot’s blog: Indicating Problems in HTTP APIs
www.mnot.net
on 05/15/2013
Excerpt: Hi, I’m Mark Nottingham. I currently chair the IETF HTTPbis Working Group. I usually write here about the Web, protocol design, HTTP, and caching. Once in a while, I’ll write about economics, travel or living in Australia. Find out more. A common part of HTTP-based APIs is telling the client that something has gone wrong. Most APIs do this in some fashion, whether they call it a “Fault” (very SOAP-y), “Error” or whatever. Most of them define a new format for just this purpose; for examples, see Amazon’s, OpenStack’s, Twitter’s, Facebook’s, and SalesForce’s. Twitter's is fairly representative:
Here, they associate a human-readable message and an error code with the error.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, HTTP, Monitoring, Testing
Excerpt: The company behind the Pebble smartwatch, which not only looks awesome but connects up to your iPhone, has picked up US$15 million in funding from venture capitalists, and has released yet another version of its SDK. The funding is obviously a solid chunk of change, and should help Pebble not only fulfill its current orders (the company is still aiming to get watches out to all of its supporters from a successful Kickstarter bid), but push the company on into the future as well. This latest SDK release, called the PebbleKit, allows for two-way communication back and forth between the watch and your smartphone, which means there are lots of new options for apps to work with the watch as a display or even a remote control.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Internet-of-Things, Investment, Pebble, Wearable Computing
Welcome to Google Island | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
www.wired.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: Google IO attendees visit Google’s virtual island Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired
I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session. My last recollection was of Google CEO Larry Page taking questions from the audience and promoting a vision of a utopia where society could be free to innovate and experiment, unencumbered by government regulations or social norms. “I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out,” he had said. “What is the effect on society? What’s the effect on people?... read the full post.
Tags: , Google Glasses
Open data executive order is the best thing Obama’s done this month. - Slate Magazine
www.slate.com
on 05/16/2013
Excerpt: Long before steam engines and turbines carried us swiftly over the oceans, a disabled sailor who could no longer serve on a ship found something to do ashore: aggregate the data from shipping logs. When Matthew Fontaine Maury started analyzing those logs and mapping them onto charts, he found previously invisible patterns in the data that showed patterns in weather, winds, and currents. In 1855, he published this knowledge in a book, The Physical Geography of the Sea.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Voice, Federal Government, Open Data
Open data: A new goldmine | The Economist
www.economist.com
on 05/16/2013
Excerpt: Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details.... read the full post.
Tags: , Data
Pebble releases updated Pebblekit SDK & Sports API with full support for iOS & Android apps | 9to5Mac
9to5mac.com
on 05/16/2013
Excerpt: Pebble, the popular bluetooth smartwatch that raised over $10M on Kickstarter before shipping to backers in January, today announced the release of an updated SDK and APIs that will allow iOS and Android developers to create apps for the platform. Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky had this to say about the updates:
“The tremendous response we received from Kickstarter backers validated our belief in the value of a smart watch as a wearable computer, but also in the value an open platform brings to truly personalizing the watch to their daily activities”, said Eric Migicovsky, Pebble’s founder. “This new investment will help us build out the Pebble development ecosystem and deliver on Pebble’s extraordinary potential.... read the full post.
Tags: , Internet-of-Things, Wearable Tech
A New 'Smart Rifle' Decides When To Shoot And Rarely Misses : All Tech Considered : NPR
www.npr.org
on 05/15/2013
Excerpt: A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it's not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate. A startup gun company in Texas developed the rifle, which is so effective that some in the shooting community say it should not be sold to the public. It's called the TrackingPoint rifle. On a firing range just outside Austin in the city of Liberty Hill, a novice shooter holds one and takes aim at a target 500 yards away. Normally it takes years of practice to hit something at that distance. But this shooter nails it on the first try. The rifle's scope features a sophisticated color graphics display. The shooter locks a laser on the target by pushing a small button by the trigger. It's like a video game.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Voice, Guns, Military
mnot’s blog: Indicating Problems in HTTP APIs
www.mnot.net
on 05/15/2013
Excerpt: Hi, I’m Mark Nottingham. I currently chair the IETF HTTPbis Working Group. I usually write here about the Web, protocol design, HTTP, and caching. Once in a while, I’ll write about economics, travel or living in Australia. Find out more. A common part of HTTP-based APIs is telling the client that something has gone wrong. Most APIs do this in some fashion, whether they call it a “Fault” (very SOAP-y), “Error” or whatever. Most of them define a new format for just this purpose; for examples, see Amazon’s, OpenStack’s, Twitter’s, Facebook’s, and SalesForce’s. Twitter's is fairly representative:
Here, they associate a human-readable message and an error code with the error.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, HTTP, Monitoring, Testing
Excerpt: Long before steam engines and turbines carried us swiftly over the oceans, a disabled sailor who could no longer serve on a ship found something to do ashore: aggregate the data from shipping logs. When Matthew Fontaine Maury started analyzing those logs and mapping them onto charts, he found previously invisible patterns in the data that showed patterns in weather, winds, and currents. In 1855, he published this knowledge in a book, The Physical Geography of the Sea.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Voice, Federal Government, Open Data
Open data: A new goldmine | The Economist
www.economist.com
on 05/16/2013
Excerpt: Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies policy has changed. Review our cookies information for more details.... read the full post.
Tags: , Data
Pebble releases updated Pebblekit SDK & Sports API with full support for iOS & Android apps | 9to5Mac
9to5mac.com
on 05/16/2013
Excerpt: Pebble, the popular bluetooth smartwatch that raised over $10M on Kickstarter before shipping to backers in January, today announced the release of an updated SDK and APIs that will allow iOS and Android developers to create apps for the platform. Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky had this to say about the updates:
“The tremendous response we received from Kickstarter backers validated our belief in the value of a smart watch as a wearable computer, but also in the value an open platform brings to truly personalizing the watch to their daily activities”, said Eric Migicovsky, Pebble’s founder. “This new investment will help us build out the Pebble development ecosystem and deliver on Pebble’s extraordinary potential.... read the full post.
Tags: , Internet-of-Things, Wearable Tech
A New 'Smart Rifle' Decides When To Shoot And Rarely Misses : All Tech Considered : NPR
www.npr.org
on 05/15/2013
Excerpt: A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it's not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate. A startup gun company in Texas developed the rifle, which is so effective that some in the shooting community say it should not be sold to the public. It's called the TrackingPoint rifle. On a firing range just outside Austin in the city of Liberty Hill, a novice shooter holds one and takes aim at a target 500 yards away. Normally it takes years of practice to hit something at that distance. But this shooter nails it on the first try. The rifle's scope features a sophisticated color graphics display. The shooter locks a laser on the target by pushing a small button by the trigger. It's like a video game.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Voice, Guns, Military
mnot’s blog: Indicating Problems in HTTP APIs
www.mnot.net
on 05/15/2013
Excerpt: Hi, I’m Mark Nottingham. I currently chair the IETF HTTPbis Working Group. I usually write here about the Web, protocol design, HTTP, and caching. Once in a while, I’ll write about economics, travel or living in Australia. Find out more. A common part of HTTP-based APIs is telling the client that something has gone wrong. Most APIs do this in some fashion, whether they call it a “Fault” (very SOAP-y), “Error” or whatever. Most of them define a new format for just this purpose; for examples, see Amazon’s, OpenStack’s, Twitter’s, Facebook’s, and SalesForce’s. Twitter's is fairly representative:
Here, they associate a human-readable message and an error code with the error.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, HTTP, Monitoring, Testing
Excerpt: Pebble, the popular bluetooth smartwatch that raised over $10M on Kickstarter before shipping to backers in January, today announced the release of an updated SDK and APIs that will allow iOS and Android developers to create apps for the platform. Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky had this to say about the updates: “The tremendous response we received from Kickstarter backers validated our belief in the value of a smart watch as a wearable computer, but also in the value an open platform brings to truly personalizing the watch to their daily activities”, said Eric Migicovsky, Pebble’s founder. “This new investment will help us build out the Pebble development ecosystem and deliver on Pebble’s extraordinary potential.... read the full post.
Tags: , Internet-of-Things, Wearable Tech
A New 'Smart Rifle' Decides When To Shoot And Rarely Misses : All Tech Considered : NPR
www.npr.org
on 05/15/2013
Excerpt: A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it's not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate. A startup gun company in Texas developed the rifle, which is so effective that some in the shooting community say it should not be sold to the public. It's called the TrackingPoint rifle. On a firing range just outside Austin in the city of Liberty Hill, a novice shooter holds one and takes aim at a target 500 yards away. Normally it takes years of practice to hit something at that distance. But this shooter nails it on the first try. The rifle's scope features a sophisticated color graphics display. The shooter locks a laser on the target by pushing a small button by the trigger. It's like a video game.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Voice, Guns, Military
mnot’s blog: Indicating Problems in HTTP APIs
www.mnot.net
on 05/15/2013
Excerpt: Hi, I’m Mark Nottingham. I currently chair the IETF HTTPbis Working Group. I usually write here about the Web, protocol design, HTTP, and caching. Once in a while, I’ll write about economics, travel or living in Australia. Find out more. A common part of HTTP-based APIs is telling the client that something has gone wrong. Most APIs do this in some fashion, whether they call it a “Fault” (very SOAP-y), “Error” or whatever. Most of them define a new format for just this purpose; for examples, see Amazon’s, OpenStack’s, Twitter’s, Facebook’s, and SalesForce’s. Twitter's is fairly representative:
Here, they associate a human-readable message and an error code with the error.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, HTTP, Monitoring, Testing
Excerpt: Hi, I’m Mark Nottingham. I currently chair the IETF HTTPbis Working Group. I usually write here about the Web, protocol design, HTTP, and caching. Once in a while, I’ll write about economics, travel or living in Australia. Find out more. A common part of HTTP-based APIs is telling the client that something has gone wrong. Most APIs do this in some fashion, whether they call it a “Fault” (very SOAP-y), “Error” or whatever. Most of them define a new format for just this purpose; for examples, see Amazon’s, OpenStack’s, Twitter’s, Facebook’s, and SalesForce’s. Twitter's is fairly representative: Here, they associate a human-readable message and an error code with the error.... read the full post.
Tags: , API-Evangelist, API-Stack, HTTP, Monitoring, Testing
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