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Chef brings the power of DevOps to web-scale IT automation
DevOps automation tool leader Chef Software, Inc. has announced today a strong business trend towards DevOps tools amid the rise of web-scale IT—an architectural approach pioneered by web innovators such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Chef Software is also releasing a series of new enterprise product features and commercial services designed to help enterprise customers ...
Raspberry Pi B+ model takes the original and makes everything better
Developers and Makers rejoice now because the best hobby-embedded platform for easy prototyping and design, the Raspberry Pi, has released a new model. The Raspberry Pi B+ is essentially an iteration on the previous model that enhances a lot of previous features while keeping the unit at the same price. Most of the basic specs ...
Judge knocks down ‘Bitcoin is not money’ argument in Silk Road trial
Virtual currencies still exist in a strange regulatory and legal fog where how they’re use is defined seems a bit up in the air. The popularity of Bitcoin in particular has raised questions about its legitimacy as money—especially noting that more and more businesses are now accepting bitcoin in place of dollars. So, as a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 9: France shuts down illegal exchange confiscates coins, Spendabit launches, Xapo raises $40m
With so many e-retail sites starting to take bitcoins—from 1-800-Flowers to Newegg—Spendabit, a search engine, has stepped up to let people look for product they can buy with BTC. A wallet service, Xapo, just made Bitcoin history with the biggest total investment so far at $40 million. France has joined the US as the second ...
IEEE Spectrum’s 2014 ranking crowns Java king with interactive web app
Interested in learning what tops the charts for programming languages devs are using? Check out IEEE Spectrum’s 2014 ranked listing web app—best part: it’s interactive and you can vote. Recently IEEE Spectrum released a list of the top ranked programming languages developers are using in the field to do their jobs. The list grabs from ...
The next mission to Mars will be funded by selfies
The first generation of space exploration had us glued to our TV screens watching the fruits of billions of dollars in government investment and the work of some of the world’s finest scientific minds. The second generation may be funded by selfies. To fund a spaceship to Mars the Time Capsule to Mars (TC2M) mission ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 2: California updates law to allow Bitcoin, Newgg.com and 1-800-Flowers.com join the flock, Tim Draper wins the US Marshals BTC auction
It’s been an exciting week for the Bitcoin community with the Silk Road auction completion (and the anonymous bidder revealed as Tim Draper, see below.) The market value for BTC jumped from around $600 on Sunday, before the announcement, to over $650 today. California has repealed language from state law that could have been an ...
California clears legal obstacles to Bitcoin’s use as money
The LA Times reports that Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that removes obstacles to businesses legally accepting and trading in bitcoins in California. Assembly Bill 129 repeals part of California’s Corporations Code (Section 107) that restricted the use of bitcoins and other digital currencies as money in the state. The bill strikes language ...
Logentries boosts DevOps log analysis with real-time team annotation
DevOps teams live and thrive not just on their tools but their capability to communicate discoveries in a timely fashion. To do this, a multitude of DevOps tools are on the market, but Logentries, producer of a SaaS cloud-based log analysis tool, has added a few team-based features to their product that DevOps teams will ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 25: Swarm redefines crypto-crowdfunding, Just-Dice suspends betting, one year of BitcoinAverage
This week’s Bitcoin Weekly has something for everyone. First, a new crypto-crowdfunding platform arrived earlier this month seeking to redefine how people raise funds with cryptocurrencies. Canada’s new Bitcoin-as-money regulations have already caused some casualties with Just-Dice and Doge-Dice suspending service to bring themselves in line with the upcoming law. BitcoinAverage is fast coming up on ...