FREE eBook: Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook (a $24 value)

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A new deal for all you coding geeks this week: The Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook. This eBook is usually priced at $24, but it is now free for a limited time!

Realistic, simple code examples to solve problems at scale with Hadoop and related technologies.

Ever felt you could use some no-nonsense, practical help when developing applications with Hadoop? Well, you’ve just found it. This real-world solutions cookbook is packed with handy recipes you can apply to your own everyday issues.

[FREE eBook: Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook (a $24 value)]


D20 Dice Slide [Video]

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Thanks to GaS reader Conrad from Empirical Innovation for sharing his dice slide tool for tabletop gaming. It’s designed to make it easy to roll all the dice in the D20 system and get random results without worrying about dice going off the table or knocking over game components.

Check out the Empirical Innovation page for some more cool 3D printed gaming tools.

Handpainted Justice League Soccer Figures

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The Fantasy Flicker blog details the writers producing hand-painted and customized figures, each around an inch high, from the football (soccer) game Subbuteo. Past work includes Doctor Who and James Bond teams and the latest set is of the Justice League of America: the seven original members and four extra characters to round out the team.

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Check out more at Fantasy Flicker.

Top 10 Monty Python Characters

No geeks should walk on this earth calling themselves a geek if they have not seen nor appreciated the brilliant humor of Monty Python. For most of us, our love for Monty Python began when we saw the Holy Grail, and just never stopped from there. To pick a TOP character from Monty Python is as difficult as picking your starter Pokemon, so we are just grateful WatchMojo came up with this list and not us.

But we we don’t thumb our nose in this list’s general direction, so that is a good sign.

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Top 10 Souls Series Bosses

The bosses in video games are often some of the most memorable (and often most frustrating and most rewarding at same time) parts of video games. We never forget the way they lumber on-screen and freak us out. But no game strikes up sweaty horror in nerds when it comes to video game bosses quite like the Souls series.

Here are the ten best, via WatchMojo

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