Just some thoughts: Environmental Datasets As stated by the other comment, have a look to weather, forecast (or similar services). Space data What about data from the Universe? Flights Here’s some real time flight tracking data: the evaluation plan is limited but free. Social Networks Twitter Streaming API, Facebook RealTime Updates API (in case you … Read more
This is a web proxy I wrote to provide unauthenticated access to a web service that required HTTP basic auth. I needed it for an internal thingy (and still use it): package main import ( “flag” “log” “net/http” “net/url” ) var target = flag.String(“target”, “http://www.google.com/”, “Where to go.”) var addr = flag.String(“listen”, “:12345”, “Address/port on … Read more
If you compile your code with -nostdlib, you won’t be able to call any C library functions (of course), but you also don’t get the regular C bootstrap code. In particular, the real entry point of a program on Linux is not main(), but rather a function called _start(). The standard libraries normally provide a … Read more
Who does it You will find a lot interesting things in the React and ELM communities, and in frontend functional programming communities in general. Some recent full-stack platforms that are somehow trying to provide a development environment of this kind are: Eve: A Andreessen Horowitz / Y-Combinator startup, 2.3 million funded, from Chris Granger, an … Read more
Put your demo info in a different activity and give it the following theme. <style name=”Transparent” parent=”@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar”> <item name=”android:windowContentOverlay”>@null</item> <item name=”android:windowIsTranslucent”>true</item> <item name=”android:windowBackground”>@android:color/transparent</item> <item name=”android:windowNoTitle”>true</item> <item name=”android:backgroundDimEnabled”>false</item> </style> If you’re using ActionBarSherlock change parent to @style/Theme.Sherlock. This will give you a transparent activity, so you will be able to see the activity below it. Now … Read more