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Handling Apache Cordova Events With Ionic Framework

The Polyglot Developer

There will often come a scenario where you need to determine when your application enters the device background and comes back into the foreground. For example, let’s say we wanted to require a password every time the application is shown. We would need to listen for when the application enters the foreground. Lucky for us, we can make use of the Apache Cordova event listeners to accomplish this task.

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Uncomfortably Excited

Alex Russell

Jeremy Keith is wringing his hands about Web Components. I likewise can’t attend the second Extensible Web Summit and so have a bit of time to respond here. Full disclosure: I helped design Web Components and, with Dimitri Glazkov and Alex Komoroske , helped lead the team at Google that brought them from concept to reality. I am, as they say, invested.

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Memory Bandwidth Requirements of the HPL benchmark

John McCalpin

The High Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark is well known for delivering a high fraction of peak floating-point performance. The (historically) excellent scaling of performance as the number of processors is increased and as the frequency is increased suggests that memory bandwidth has not been a performance limiter. But this does not mean that memory bandwidth will *never* be a performance limiter.

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Use Font Awesome Shapes In Pixelmator

The Polyglot Developer

If you’re like me, Font Awesome somehow gets included in all of your projects. The graphics are crisp, and look great in all your artwork and applications. My go-to graphic editor is Pixelmator for Mac , and it lets you use Font Awesome with very little effort. The following will show you how to add re-usable Font Awesome shapes to Pixelmator for use in any project.