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At some point, you may come across a trusted command-line utility prompting you for a password, and Emacs shell happily displaying each typed character to the nearby-world to see. Luckily, you can train Emacs to recognize new password prompts and hide the typed characters in modes deriving from comint. Append the password prompt REGEXP: (setq comint-password-prompt-regexp (concat comint-password-prompt-regexp "\\|" "Password for red aler..
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Coding has become the new black. Cliche as this may sound, we cannot discount the fact that in this day and age, the tech industry is worth billions of…
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Recently, I attended a talk on Enterprise Microservices Architecture by Darren Smith, a general manager for Thoughtworks, Sydney. The talk helped address questions I had about microservices architecture in large enterprises. Here’s a quick recap to help you as you explore the pros and cons for your team.
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Eerily sinister, yet exquisitely beautiful. One cannot explain via words the feelings Murakami struck with this remarkable story.…
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What is transcendental meditation? Transcendental meditation is the most commonly practiced form of meditation in the world. People who practice it often listen to, or repeat, a particular sound or mantra in order to reach a relaxed state of consciousness. It’s been praised by many for decades as a means of lowering stress and anxiety. What is a “flow state” within a video game? Video games that require quick thinking, fast reflexes an..
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What is transcendental meditation? Transcendental meditation is the most commonly practiced form of meditation in the world. People who practice it often listen to, or repeat, a particular sound or mantra in order to reach a relaxed state of consciousness. It’s been praised by many for decades as a means of lowering stress and anxiety. What is a “flow state” within a video game? Video games that require quick thinking, fast reflexes an..
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How It All Began for Me It is hard to believe that I have worked for the same company for 23 years. A situation that is nearly unheard of in 2015 and nearly never in the technology industry. I am both proud and at times embarrassed by this fact.
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It’s been a busy month and getting busier by the moment, we are preparing for App Engine’s suspension of its blobstore service which will be coming around soon. This effectively means older crash report email functionality will be stopped for older apps (just rebuild the app for the emails to work again). We are also getting ready for Codename One 3.1 which we have tentatively scheduled for July 27th. This release will include a wee..
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I recently used systemd , HandBrake , and some simple scripts to digitize a large collection of physical media (for personal, archival use.) In this post I'll go through systemd features that made this easier and cover all the components that make the automated pipeline work. If systemd, automation, or digital archiving sounds interesting to you, then read on! Table of Contents The Problem Hardware systemd Devices Th....
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Skellig Michael . Fishy Fishy in Kinsale: beautiful town on the water. Belfast. Giant's Causeway. Greyhound dog races at Shelbourne Park. Old library chamber, Trinity College, Dublin .
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Azure API Management: PowerShell Reporting & Cache Hit Ratio
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I was recently working with a customer who needed to view the cache hit ratio of an Azure API Management instance. Currently the UI dashboard doesn’t report this information, however there is a lovely API which you can call. As we needed something up and running fast PowerShell seemed like the perfect way to quickly retrieve the JSON and convert it into an object then format it nicely. The script also stores the results to disk so we have..
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HTTPS, HTTP over TLS, has been around since 1994, and has been well adopted by the security sensitive web — online banking, shopping, taxes and more. However, the vast majority of websites (est. 81% to 97%) continue to communicate using clear (unencrypted) HTTP — no matter how insecure that is.
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When you are running test agents on AWS knowing what instance type to run as test agents (for TeamCity or otherwise) can involve a lot of trial and error. Not only can there be great savings to be made by picking the correct instance type you can speed up your builds and get test feedback back faster which can be far more valuable the cost of a few additional cents an hour.
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I’m currently in San Francisco doing an internship at Mozilla Research, working on creating functionality for SIMD in the Rust programming language. (This post is designed to describe what I’m doing for people not necessarily familiar with programming or SIMD.) What is SIMD? SIMD stands for “Single Instruction, Multiple Data”, and refers to functionality that a lot of computer hardware has for operating on multiple numbers at once. (Ess....
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Not tried these yet. Taking note: Bravi Ragazzi (Streatham). Homeslice (Covent Garden). Lord Morpeth (Hackney). Santa Maria (Ealing). Voodoo Ray's (Dalston). Well Kneaded Wagon (Date-dependent location).
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Converting mp4 to gif is handy for posting short screencasts. You can convert to gif using ffmpeg and optimize with imagemagick. To install: apt-get install ffmpeg imagemagick (linux) brew install ffmpeg imagemagick (Mac) Convert to gif: ffmpeg -i my.mp4 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 5 my.gif Optimize with: convert -dither none -layers Optimize my.gif my_optimized.gif UPDATE: There's also licecap and subsequently optimize with: cat source.gif..
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Building an application with a microservice architecture is an excellent long-term decision if you can afford the increase in upfront time investment to do it properly. Heroku provides a platform that most developers know for simple deployment, but it also dramatically simplifies microservices architecture.
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Building an application with a microservice architecture is an excellent long-term decision if you can afford the increase in upfront time investment to do it properly. Heroku provides a platform that most developers know for simple deployment, but it also dramatically simplifies microservices architecture.
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I loved every single second of the book! While this book serves to continue the storyline, it does so wonderfully.
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December 2011 the Google Engineering team published a blog post about bug prediction at Google . The topic caused quite a lot of discussion at the time over the internet on forums such as Hacker News and the Reddit programming sub-reddit. How bug prediction works In a nutshell the prediction works by ranking files against checking the file commit history and seeing how many changes have been flagged as bug fixes. Of course this means t..
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Making Oh-My-Vagrant (OMV) more developer accessible and easy to install (from a distribution package like RPM) has always been a goal, but was previously never a priority. This is all sorted out now. In this article, I’ll explain how “mainstream” mode works, and how the RPM work was done. (I promise this will be somewhat interesting!) Prerequisites : If you haven’t read any of the previous articles about Oh-My-Vagrant , I’d recom..
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Making Oh-My-Vagrant (OMV) more developer accessible and easy to install (from a distribution package like RPM) has always been a goal, but was previously never a priority. This is all sorted out now. In this article, I’ll explain how “mainstream” mode works, and how the RPM work was done. (I promise this will be somewhat interesting!) Prerequisites : If you haven’t read any of the previous articles about Oh-My-Vagrant , I’d recom..
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Many executives are getting tired of the “D” word. Yet, even longtime market leaders with a reputation for innovation-led growth are stumbling in the face of fast-changing customer expectations. Importantly, this is not a technology industry issue. It’s a business issue that is cutting across industries and geographies. Here are a few examples.
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Okay, that’s definitely a bit of a dramatic title, but I am definitely not happy with this turn of events. This actually happened two weeks ago, but I’ve been busy vacationing in LA (staying in a hotel, with a real room!) and haven’t been posting. Anyway, as you can see, someone has hit and damaged my front-left blinker, dislodging it from its socket and ruining a perfectly pleasant afternoon. They didn’t leave a note, not that I should b..
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Okay, that’s definitely a bit of a dramatic title, but I am definitely not happy with this turn of events. This actually happened two weeks ago, but I’ve been busy vacationing in LA (staying in a hotel, with a real room!) and haven’t been posting. Anyway, as you can see, someone has hit and damaged my front-left blinker, dislodging it from its socket and ruining a perfectly pleasant afternoon. They didn’t leave a note, not that I should b..
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