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Throwing somebody under the bus ( ref ) is a cowardly act, and one that particularly irks me. Nobody likes to be humiliated in front of others. I’ve seen this happen countless time when a developer will point out a bug or error of another developer and use it as an excuse for not delivering on their own work. “I couldn’t load the data because of a bug in Johnny’s code”. Bullshit. If you were a team player then you would have pulled up ..
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We, at Wingify, handle not just our own traffic, but also the traffic of major websites such as Microsoft, AMD, Groupon, and WWF that…
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Hi, [Update 03/21: Azureite local emulator is a good one to look at in this space too. More details here. ] I recently set about writing a solution that’s heavily reliant on Azure Blob storage. I found my debugging cycle wasn’t nice, I’d spin up the code then spend ages in Azure Storage Explorer to work out what had happened. I also new I’d want some integration tests for the future. So I did some research set about writing a quick..
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July is when Sweden goes on holidays. Businesses are closed for the summer (quite a few of them, anyway), people take time off work, the weather doesn’t suck. Usually people tend to go away to other countries, which to me is ludicrous because after all that snow and cold these months are finally when Sweden gets warm and sunny. I guess I’m kind of fibbing - I get it. You want to get out and see other places during your vacation.
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Regardless of your own personal opinions regarding Christianity and religion in general, I think we can all get behind Sid’s overarching sentiment: it is important to remain true to yourself even when doing so means standing alone alongside an unpopular opinion. For in the end, with what will we find ourselves left? It is to these convictions we hold and must hold strongly that we will return; without them, we have nothing. Stick to your ..
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Nearly a year ago I put together an hour long presentation on PostgreSQL to provide an overview of all of the benefits it provides you over other options in the database space. In hindsight, that wasn't nearly enough time because it has the capability to replace almost your entire application stack outside of the web server. In any case, here is an attempt to summarize all of the amazing functionality that you're cheating yourself out of by..
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Nearly a year ago I put together an hour long presentation on PostgreSQL to provide an overview of all of the benefits it provides you over other options in the database space. In hindsight, that wasn't nearly enough time because it has the capability to replace almost your entire application stack outside of the web server. In any case, here is an attempt to summarize all of the amazing functionality that you're cheating yourself out of by..
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Getting to Know Fiddler: Part I: Capture and debug traffic from a mobile device
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joshuarogers.net
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12 years ago
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If you've done any amount of web development on Windows, you've probably used a program called “Fiddler” a few times. Fiddler is a small proxy server that allows you to see all of the requests made by your system. Sadly, for most people, I'd guess that that is all that Fiddler is. It's a shame because Fiddler offers up so much more power than that. So, let's fix this. For the next several weeks, we're going to explore some of the under noti..
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Debugging Reactive Extensions can sometimes be a bit tricky. When you have a few stream to watch, pinpointing failures is time consuming…
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Absolutely hilarious video, courtesy of John Gruber — with the choice line taken as an excerpt: “Magellan Was an Explorer. Chuck Yeager Was an Explorer. You Guys Have a Fucking Camera on Your Face.” I was rather bullish on the widespread reaction to Google Glass the other day when I wrote Thoughts on Glass , but I can still appreciate some great humor when I see it. Very well done. Permalink.
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We are excited to announce our sponsorship of The Fifth Elephant - a popular conference around the Big Data ecosystem. The conference will…
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Building a Model in Blender From Multiple Photographs
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blog.raymond.burkholder.net
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12 years ago
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Building a Model in Blender From Multiple Photographs
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blog.raymond.burkholder.net
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12 years ago
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Yet another week has come and gone, and here at the end we once again find ourselves with a collection of fantastic podcasts; some new and only just published, while others now have one more chance at enamoring a pair of fresh ears. Some new, some old, and all equally excellent. Permalink.
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Roughly once a week, give or take a few days, Brett Terpstra publishes a new installment in his “ Web Excursions ” series, where he talks about interesting bookmarks from around the internet. In yesterday’s issue, Web Excursions for July 18, 2014 , he featured First Crack 1.0 front and center. That’s pretty cool. Permalink.
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I'm trying to find raw of Freaks' Squeele (http://www.batoto.net/comic/_/comics/freaks-squeele-r2365...
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Since I am still bringing all my content together I thought I would pull in this post from Quora asking what is special about DuckDuckGo . Privacy enabled by default. This certainly helped get traction when the NSA security revelations came around. DDG is not the only privacy conscious search engine but certainly one that pushes it as a feature more then others. See https://duckduckgo.com/privacy !bang syntax. Remember back in th..
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I like refactoring. No, I love refactoring. No, not even like this. I awfully love refactoring. I hate bad code and bad architecture. I feel quite creepy when I design a new feature and the near-by class contains absolute mess. I just can’t look at the sadly-looking variables. Sometimes before falling asleep I close my eyes and imagine what could be improved in the project. Sometimes I wake up at 3:00AM and go to my computer to improve so....
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I like refactoring. No, I love refactoring. No, not even like this. I awfully love refactoring. I hate bad code and bad architecture. I feel quite creepy when I design a new feature and the near-by class contains absolute mess. I just can’t look at the sadly-looking variables. Sometimes before falling asleep I close my eyes and imagine what could be improved in the project. Sometimes I wake up at 3:00AM and go to my computer to improve so....
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pClasses are a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_citizenfirst-class objects/a in Ruby. All classes happen to be instances of codeClass/code. In other words, classes are codeClass/code objects just like code#39;hello#39;/code and code#39;world#39;/code are codeString/code objects./p pOut of the box, there are 3 ways to create classes in Ruby./p h2Use the codeclass/code Keyword/h2 pIn the vast majority of the cases, you would use ....
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You cannot — ought not — judge the Fire phone by the traditional standards against which we have come to judge all devices these days, but rather from the perspective of a goods and services company that seeks to facilitate streamlined access to its storefront for its most loyal and devoted customers by offering them a device integrated with its own services to a degree made impossible through third-party integration alone on another device..
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Backport iOS 8's convenient NSString containsString: method to iOS 7 using runtime patching that won't conflict with Apple's implementation.
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In a style made popular by Benedict Evans in his hallmark Twitter postulations, posit: computers were created for writers. As such, the next iteration of computing devices will cater to the needs of others: creators and designers will have Jarvis-like artificial intelligence systems to converse with and holographic interfaces to involve their entire bodies in the creation process. The current model involves the two tools of the writer’s tra..
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Every so often an article crosses my path wherein the author drools over a custom shop’s awesome modifications to an already awesome vehicle, and then I invariably spend a good long while extricating myself from the inevitable rabbit hole that ensues. As of this writing, nearly four months have passed since I have gone down that path , continuing my trend of leaving roughly three months between each of these articles. Today, I’m back for..
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Beginning August 18th I will be offering a three week evening class aimed at professional programmers who want to learn Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, with the goal of becoming proficient with both in a very short time.
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Beginning August 18th I will be offering a three week evening class aimed at professional programmers who want to learn Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, with the goal of becoming proficient with both in a very short time.
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Since starting this website nearly two years ago, I have written specifically about the engine that runs it exactly four times: in Introducing First Crack , I detailed my long journey to the realization that I needed to build something completely my own, from the ground up; later, I talked about some of my creation’s niceties in First Crack in Practice , before outlining the changes an innocuous redesign brought about in First Crack’s Co..
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Stubbing Web Services with Sinatra: Standing up a quick server for your client application
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joshuarogers.net
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12 years ago
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Introduction The concept of dependencies seems rather straight forward. If “Thing A” depends on “Thing B”, then we can understand that we can't possibly use “Thing A” until we have “Thing B”. It's not even a development principle really, it's more of an “even small kids realize this” kind of principle. It's sort of a universal given, unless you happen to be Gallifreyan. Taking that a step further, if you want me to make an application for y..
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I’m still going with the Laravel port. One thing I’ve found really interesting is custom validators. In Laravel models you can set field rules, such as…
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AdRoll’s customer dashboard is powered by our HBase cluster, populated using both Storm and Hadoop MapReduce . Using Storm allows us to provide real-time statistics to our users, while Hadoop gives us the accuracy guarantees needed for billing. Throughout the day, Storm emits a steady stream of writes to HBase. Our MapReduce jobs however, run once a day over the previous day’s data. This generates a huge spike in write traffic that can....
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Very interesting take on the recent flare up around Disruption Theory, and how Lepore was not necessarily wrong to criticize Christenson and his theory, but that she did point to the wrong permutation of it: it is not necessarily the base theory that is flawed, but rather the watered-down version we find in use so often today. John Kirk then proceeded to delve further into the theory in a great follow up to Ben Thompson’s recent piece , C..
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I have been carrying my Fitbit One for a little over two years with me and it keeps tracking my daily steps. It also tracks my distance covered by multiplying those steps using the stride length which you can either provide explicitly or implicitly setting your heights. In the winter of 2012 I bought my first ~Garmin Forerunner 410~ (replaced by a Garmin Forerunner 920XT) GPS watch to help me track my running (and other outdoor) activities.
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