NFC - Near field communication

RFID vs NFC

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a tagging technology that is gaining widespread attention due to the great number of advantages that it offers compared to the current tagging technologies being used today; like barcodes. Near Field Communication, or more commonly known as NFC, is a subset of RFID that limits the range of communication to within 10 centimeters or 4 inches.

RFID uses radio frequency waves that are either passive, active, or a combination of both. Active RFID tags have a power source that helps extend their range even further while passive devices rely on the energy that it receives from the interrogating device to send its own information. Among the advantages of RFID is the very small size of the tag that made it possible to be used with small products or to be hidden away neatly. Another excellent advantage is that it doesn’t need a direct line of sight for the information to be read. This is very desirable in baggage tracking application where speed is very essential.

10gen, a company which offers enterprises a big data database built off of MongoDB, has raised $20 million in financing, led by Sequoia Capital and with participation from 10gen’s other existing investors Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures. This brings the company’s total funding to over $30 million.

Similar to the way Cloudera commercializes Apache Hadoop, 10gen offers a commercialized version of, and training and support for the open source database hosting NoSQL platform MongoDB. MongoDB is an open source, document-oriented database designed with both scalability and developer agility in mind.

BLK71 is an incubation programme set up by the Media Development Authority, SingTel Innov8 and NUS Enterprise, Blk71 is based in the west of Singapore at the new media hub, Mediapolis Phase 0. They provide free space for individuals and companies who are following the best of their dreams in the start-up world.

“Blk71” gets its name literally from the address of its base at Mediapolis Phase 0, located at Block 71 Ayer Rajah Industrial Estate, where SingTel Innov8 and NUS Enterprise are already anchor tenants there.

In their words:

Plug-in@Blk71

Plug into the Blk 71 network – where people meet, match and connect; where ideas turn into businesses. @ Blk 71, we allow you to define your own space because we are excited to see how freedom breeds creativity, how connections push past boundaries. Use this space as a platform to hack, ideate, or collaborate as you meet with business heros who have been there done that.

Connect yourself with like-minded souls and get the excitement brewing

It is simple. It is free.

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- Blk 71 Crew

Blk71 - startup @ Singapore

Blk71 - startup @ Singapore

Blk71 - startup @ Singapore

Blk71 - startup @ Singapore

It’s fantastic to know how smart people saying nice things about Ruby on Rails. I love to share them with you guys:

“Rails is the most well thought-out web development framework I’ve ever used. And that’s in a decade of doing web applications for a living. I’ve built my own frameworks, helped develop the Servlet API, and have created more than a few web servers from scratch. Nobody has done it like this before.”

-James Duncan Davidson, Creator of Tomcat and Ant

“Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days.”

-Tim O’Reilly, Founder of O’Reilly Media

“It is impossible not to notice Ruby on Rails. It has had a huge effect both in and outside the Ruby community… Rails has become a standard to which even well-established tools are comparing themselves to.”

-Martin Fowler, Author of Refactoring, PoEAA, XP Explained

“What sets this framework apart from all of the others is the preference for convention over configuration making applications easier to develop and understand.”

-Sam Ruby, ASF board of directors

“Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive and effective in their work.”

-Bruce Perens, Open Source Luminary

“After researching the market, Ruby on Rails stood out as the best choice. We have been very happy with that decision. We will continue building on Rails and consider it a key business advantage.”

-Evan Williams, Creator of Blogger, ODEO, and Twitter

“Ruby on Rails is astounding. Using it is like watching a kung-fu movie, where a dozen bad-ass frameworks prepare to beat up the little newcomer only to be handed their asses in a variety of imaginative ways.”

-Nathan Torkington, O’Reilly Program Chair for OSCON

“Rails is the killer app for Ruby.”

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Creator of Ruby

Guys, Ruby on Rails 3.1 has just been released! Feel really good after a long long wait (3 Months since RailsConf).

Highlights in Rails 3.1:

• Streaming
• Reversible Migrations
• Assets Pipeline
• jQuery as the default JavaScript library

ruby on rails is love

Artsine.com – Personalized Original Artwork – Make Easy

We’re constantly amazed – there are more artists than musicians and yet the online tools for artists are so much more limited. We’d like to change that a little for the benefit of both artists and their customers. Welcome to Artsine – original art made easy.

At its simplest, Artsine is a matching service. If you’ve got an empty space, or are redecorating, or fancy a change, or want to remember a special event or need a great gift – then we’d like to help by finding you some easy, original, and affordable artwork – that is customised exactly to your needs.

It’s an easy way to find artists, both local and abroad, that want to do artwork for you – customized to your own specification. Big, small, painting, drawing, sculpture, modern, traditional, abstract, red, yellow, green, blue, dark or light, landscape, portrait, family, logo, photography, digital, contemporary……whatever suits, you will find an artist that can help.

Perhaps you want to remember a new or past family member, house, event, celebration. Original artwork is a great way to do that, and because it can now be personalised you will treasure it for a lifetime.

 

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