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The author of Appcelerator Titanium: Up and Running describes how Titanium can be used to generate native mobile apps from JavaScript code. He distinguishes the Titanium platform from native API programming and from other popular JavaScript platforms for mobile devices. We look at the way Titanium exploits the expressiveness and flexibility of JavaScript, and some of the directions that the Appcelerator company is taking Titanium."

Building native apps from JavaScript using Titanium - John Anderson

Amye Scavarda and Leslie Hawthorn talk about how to assess where you are and move forward in your career - it includes post its and not starting with what you are worst at.

Growing Your Career

Ken Lunde recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of Understanding Japanese Information Processing and its descendants, the two edition of CJKV Information Processing.  We talked about the challenges in creating these books - the technical difficulties, the regular changes in the underlying tools, and the cultural conversation.

Twenty Years of Life Beyond ASCII

Scott Murray, Assistant Professor of Design at the University of San Francisco and Code Artist, discusses how to create interactive data visualizations. Topics covered include obtaining a clean data set, planning, consistency, accuracy, format issues, and tools you should consider.

Getting Started with Interactive Data Visualizations

Social innovation and open source make a powerful pair to impact the world.

The Power of Code for Social Impact

Neal Ford, the author of The Productive Programmer, discusses the benefits of polyglot programming and the impact it's had on software development.

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