Here's how to run Android apps on your PC or Mac

Running Android apps on your PC has long been an option with various hacks, but Google has now legitimized the process, allowing anybody to run their favorite Android apps on a desktop or laptop running either Windows, OS X or Linux - and all you need is the Chrome browser.

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The Typographic Details Behind My 10 Favorite Sites of March 2015

This is the 14th installment of my monthly feature on Typewolf where I share my favorite type-driven websites from the previous month and then write a little about the typographic details behind the designs. You can check out last month’s post for February here.

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Build a Node.js-powered Chatroom Web App: Getting Started

This article is part of a web dev tech series from Microsoft. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. This Node.js tutorial series will help you build a Node.js-powered real-time chatroom web app fully deployed in the cloud.

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A sample Docker workflow with Nginx, Node.js and Redis

In my previous post I wrote about Containers and Docker, how they are influencing PaaS, microservices and the cloud in general. If you are new to Docker or the concept of containers, I would highly recommend reading my previous post first.

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Node.js clustering made easy with PM2

As you would probably know, Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime, gracefully named V8. The V8 engine, and hence Node.js, runs in a single-threaded way, therefore, doesn't take advantage of multi-core systems capabilities. Luckily enough, Node.

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Microsoft isn't selling Kinect for Windows anymore

Given that Microsoft has consolidated so many other parts of how it operates lately, word that it's discontinuing the new Kinect sensor for Windows shouldn't be much of a surprise.

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Production ready apps with Ionic Framework

In this post i will explain how to prepare your project for production. We are going to: For all the previous task we are going to use a mixture between gulp tasks and cordova hooks . Gulp tasks will be “running” all the time after you run ionic serve.

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