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I’ve been over the high-level requirements and think it’ll probably take 8 weeks with 2 developers, so you should be able to deliver this by X. Well, that’s great. Can I presume that you’re one of the two developers working on it? I didn’t think so. Nothing irks me more than being handed a batch of work along with the timeline for delivering it. If you want to estimate my work for me, then you can also go ahead and build it.
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The Facebook native SDK for iOS and Android is difficult. It layers a great deal of complex permissions and concepts that seem obvious for engineers in Facebook but not so obvious for the casual observer. In the past Facebook allowed you to just request a write permission and you would receive such a permission, however recent SDK’s force you to request a read only permission which you then need to elevate to a write permission.
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On our journey to allow for faster delivery times, wowing customers with new features and allowing for quicker support, we made a decision to move Mingle to a 'Software as a Service' on the cloud. We spent a few months architecting Mingle to suit the features and limitations of the cloud and this is the story about that effort.
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Big update this week! First, I updated the logo. I rotated the cubes 45 degrees to try and convey a better sense of speed and movement. What do you think? Next, I added support for 4K screenshots. Now I can hit Alt-S and my renderer resizes all of its buffers to 4096x2304 (biggest 16:9 resolution supported by XNA), renders the scene, saves it to a PNG, then resizes everything back to normal.
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A curated collection of personal reminders, quotes, and principles on leadership, technology, and living well
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A curated collection of personal reminders, quotes, and principles on leadership, technology, and living well
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Like Josh, I prefer to navigate with swipes rather than taps. However, unlike him, I prefer tidy swiping — that is, I prefer my apps not to register my gestures unless I begin them in certain areas, such as the extreme left side of the screen: whenever I want to go back in an app’s visual hierarchy, for example, I put my finger up against my case’s left bumper and swipe across; it would be confusing and annoying if I made an accidental righ..
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Lost in the shiny new features (see: namespaces and closures ) PHP 5.3 also added the __invoke method. While not plainly apparent, it is secretly an amazingly useful 'magic method' . If you're not taking advantage of __invoke, you should be . Why? It provides a uniform execution points for objects that have a doPrimaryAction() style method. What do I mean by this? Many simple, single responsibility objects have a usage that goes ....
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Lost in the shiny new features (see: namespaces and closures ) PHP 5.3 also added the __invoke method. While not plainly apparent, it is secretly an amazingly useful 'magic method' . If you're not taking advantage of __invoke, you should be . Why? It provides a uniform execution points for objects that have a doPrimaryAction() style method. What do I mean by this? Many simple, single responsibility objects have a usage that goes ....
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pAt theScore, we have a big JSON API with hundreds of end-points that expose sports data. Since sports data is very rich, the JSON representation of most of the resources on our API tend to be complex. As a result, a lot of time is spent on generating JSON in our Rails application./p pAt the time we wrote the API, a href=https://github.com/nesquena/rablRABL/a was a great choice. When a href=https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializ....
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Over a year of presenting agile fundamentals to teams has taught me that the topic of estimation seems to strike fear and horror into people. The process of estimating seems to go something like this:
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Lean product design is a software development process for creating innovative new products. It enables businesses to get their product to market fast, validate it frequently with users, and continuously respond to feedback. The process involves interweaving lightweight design and user research throughout an agile development process, rather than relying on most of the product design and research to be done up front.
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Connection pooling is quickly becoming one of the more frequent questions I hear. So here’s a primer on it. If there’s enough demand I’ll follow up a bit further with some detail on specific Postgres connection poolers and setting them up. The basics For those unfamiliar, a connection pool is a group of database connections sitting around that are waiting to be handed out and used. This means when a request comes in a connection is ....
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Connection pooling is quickly becoming one of the more frequent questions I hear. So here’s a primer on it. If there’s enough demand I’ll follow up a bit further with some detail on specific Postgres connection poolers and setting them up. The basics For those unfamiliar, a connection pool is a group of database connections sitting around that are waiting to be handed out and used. This means when a request comes in a connection is ....
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Corporate Graffiti - Being Disruptive With Visual Thinking
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www.thoughtworks.com
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12 years ago
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eng
Disruptive thinking, done visually. It’s about making your thought process visible to others to affect change. It’s about corporate graffiti as an influencing technique.
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