Geoffrey Canada and Capella University livestream panel on education reform

Geoffrey Canada and Capella University livestream panel on education reform: One person can make a difference. Just ask Geoffrey Canada, an education reform advocate whose groundbreaking work in Harlem schools set a precedent across the United States. It’s even inspired U.S. President Barack Obama to apply his model to cities across America.

On December 28 at 3:00pm PT, Geoffrey Canada will deliver a keynote speech about education reform, hosted by Capella University and streamed live on YouTube. The keynote presentation will be followed by a 

Watch out for XmlPullParser.nextText()

Watch out for XmlPullParser.nextText():
[This post is by Jesse Wilson from the Dalvik team. —Tim Bray]
Using XmlPullParser is an efficient and maintainable way to parse XML on Android. Historically Android has had two implementations of this interface:

• KXmlParser, via XmlPullParserFactory.newPullParser().
• ExpatPullParser, via Xml.newPullParser().

The implementation from Xml.newPullParser() had a bug where calls to nextText() didn’t always advance to the END_TAG as the documentation promised it would. As a consequence, some apps may be working around the bug with extra calls to next() or nextTag():

Qibla Mosque Straightening Using Google Map

Qibla Mosque Straightening Using Google Map: It is endless when we discuss about the Google map. Well, in this article, we will make a straight line from two different locations. The method is called with a polyline. To make the line on the Google map, we still use the basic coding to display the Google map on our personal website. Once you open the page, now make a folder on your personal web page by following the steps in the article. Once the folder is successfully created, then we proceed to the next step.

Next step, type the code below which serves to show the line polyline.

var polyline = new GPolyline([
new GLatLng(-7.919536103992129, 112.59542226791382),
new GLatLng(-7.930529082052441, 112.61073231697083)
], "#ff0000", 10);
map.addOverlay(polyline);

Put the code above under the code below.

Cisco: IT Security Policies are Too Soft for Gen Y

Cisco: IT Security Policies are Too Soft for Gen Y:
Young employees determined to log onto Facebook or bounce around the Web are going to do so, in part because they're motivated to get online and frequently ignore IT policies, and also because the policies in place simply aren't tough enough, according to a global study from Cisco. Seven out of 10 young employees outright ignore IT policies on a frequent basis, and one in four is a victim of identity theft before the age

Open Source Datamining for Social Media Accounts with ThinkUp

Open Source Datamining for Social Media Accounts with ThinkUp: Proprietary social networking platforms have a few distinct issues for free software users, but one of the biggest is that it is often hard — if not impossible — to extract your information from them. With Twitter, for example, you can scroll down to the bottom of the page and wait for more tweets to load via JavaScript, but you can't sort and analyze them yourself. But that's exactly what the open source application ThinkUp does for you.

Proprietary social networking platforms have a few distinct issues for free software users, but one of the biggest is that it is often hard — if not impossible — to extract your information from them. With Twitter, for example, you can scroll down to the bottom of the page and wait for more tweets to load via JavaScript, but you can't sort and analyze them yourself. But that's exactly what the open source application ThinkUp does