Month: November 2016

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Crimetown - S1 E03: The Making of a Mayor

Buddy Cianci runs for mayor as the anti-corruption candidate, promising to change Providence. He’s a novice Republican politician in a city ruled by Democrats and mobbed-up unions. As he struggles to get elected, he faces an impossible choice: stay clean and lose, or get a little dirty and win.

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PHPUgly - 38:The Turkey Episode

Show notes: https://github.com/PHPUgly/podcast/blob/master/shows/ep38.md recorded November 24th, 2016 Topics Thanksgiving! Great github resources @Mattylantz on twitter points me to labs.receptiviti.com @snipeyhead on twitter published DEMYSTIFYING CUSTOM AUTH IN LARAVEL 5 Getting started with Watson Personality Insights Karoly Négyesi (chx) ousted from the Drupal community Laravel 5.4: JSON Based Language Files How to deploy Laravel @CalEvans on Twitter posted Pay the Price for Open Source @pmjones on twitter The PHP 7 “Request” Extension 27% of the internet HACKED The hosts Eric Van Johnson Twitter / Github / Blog / About.me Tom Rideout Twitter / Github / About.me John Congdon Twitter / Github Follow us on Twitter @PHPUgly Email us at Podcast@phpugly.com Sponsor of this show: The DiegoDev Group

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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - Concrete

It's improved health, school attendance, agricultural productivity and farm worker wages, but concrete has a poor reputation. It takes a lot of energy to produce and releases a great deal of CO2 in the process. However, architects appreciate its versatility and there are few more important inventions. Tim Harford tells the remarkable hidden story of a ubiquitous, unloved material. (Image: Masons hands spread concrete, Credit: APGuide/Shutterstock)
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - What is Project Iceworm?

How many secret military bases exist around the world? How many of those are active, and how many abandoned? Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they explore both the specific discovery of Project Iceworm and the larger practice of building top-secret bases around the globe.

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