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Play interactively with Apache Arrow C++ in xeus-cling
·Often, we use
pyarrow
in a Jupyter Notebook during work. With thexeus-cling
kernel, we can also use the C++ APIs directly in an interactive fashion in Jupyter. -
Akka Streams for extracting Wikipedia Articles
·Use Akka Streams as a new technique to extract specific articles from the Wikipedia xml dump into single files without the need to fit all data into RAM.
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Beats Music Support in Tomahawk (and the long journey on how we got there)
·tl;dr: With the latest nightlies (Win, Mac) you can now use your Beats Music Subscription in Tomahawk. To use it just install the Beats Music Resolver. Although Beats has a nice API, supporting it was a though cruise through our underlying multimedia stack.
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How to get global media keys support for Tomahawk in XFCE4
·Although there seems to be no native support for controlling a media player via the MPRIS specification in XFCE, you can still set up global shortcuts to use the media keys on your keyboard to control Tomahawk regardless of which application currently has focus.
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Replace QJson with Qt's own JSON handling in Qt5
·tl;dr: A simple wrapper to use QJson for Qt4 and the built-in JSON parser for Qt5 so that QJson is not required if built with Qt5: qjson-qt5json-wrapper (MIT-licensed, no
#ifdef
in your code).