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Huckberry takes us on a nostalgic trip to a bygone era I fear we will never experience again. Aspiration, decency, and pride are all vanishing from America at much too rapid a pace these days, and that rate has only continue to increase in recent years; Nicholas Pell is right to be saddened by their untimely and unfortunate passing, for once our society loses these values I doubt we will ever see them come back. Permalink.

Colleen Kong wrote a guest post on one of the few websites I follow unrelated to technology, Financial Samurai, detailing how she measures success in her life outside of her wallet’s size, with some great advice for everyone regardless of their lot in life. I wish her the best of luck. Permalink.

Earspeakers - vintagezen.com - 12 years ago - eng
After Marco Arment posted his great article on fancy headphones and fussy coffee back in February, I strongly considered dropping $180 that I — to be brutally honest — didn’t have on a pair of Beyerdynamic DT-770-PRO 32ohm closed dynamic headphones . Whether fortunately or unfortunately, I still cannot say, sanity won out though, and I abstained from blowing a week’s salary on what I have no doubt would have been a fantastic listening ex..

Paths - mattgemmell.com - 12 years ago - eng
I think The Typist put it best when he posted a tweet linking to this piece by Matt Gemmell, where he said, “I am wary of superlatives but @mattgemmell’s latest is the best piece of text I’ve read in the last 5 years; at least”. This truly is a phenomenal work of prose, simultaneously remarkably sad, hopeful, and intensely inspirational; better words of advice than those at the end of Matt’s article have never been said. Permalink.

OkCupid Revisited - zacs.site - 12 years ago - eng
In scene reminiscent of Steve Jobs’ dismissal from Apple at the behest of John Sculley, Brendan Eich lost his job as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation a few weeks ago over a political donation made roughly six years prior in support of California’s Proposition 8. A bill that sought to ban gay marriage in the state, it’s easy to see why Eich took such flack for that move in today’s hyper-sensitive political landscape permeated by the rantings o..

It's one of the most confusing industry terms at the moment... 'big data' what does that really mean? Is there a classification model? What happens if it's big but not quite big enough...is that not-so-big-data?


Ok, so what is it? It's a proximity system. It means that apps on your smartphone, tablet, wearable or other computing device can respond to fine-grained distance readings from 'beacons'. Beacons are small, cheap physical devices that you can place around some location to represent the things you want to read distance from.

All versions of Internet Explorer (version 5.5 all the way to version 11) will discard all cookies if the domain has an underscore in it…

All versions of Internet Explorer (version 5.5 all the way to version 11) will discard all cookies if the domain has an underscore in it…

Impersonal, cold, and calculating, perhaps, but pragmatic, practical, and logically sound? Yes again. Milo Yiannopoulos has a very interesting approach to relationships. And today, in an age where anything less than four digits worth of Facebook “friends” has somehow become strange, it might not be such a bad idea. Food for thought, anyway. Permalink.

Turns out you are not the only one battling with a lack of conviction in your own self worth and the value of the things you create, and struggling with the fear that at any moment someone might discover that you are, in fact, the fraud you so strongly believe yourself to be. In reality, we all struggle with these complicated feelings — you, me, and I would bet anything your role model does as well. In the somber words of Raymond Reddingto..

I purchased nearly all Humble Indie Bundles from the HumbleBundle -guys. I also do not want to manually download and install the games from the site, because after all, I use Linux and a decent package-manager, pacman . Luckily, there’s the AUR and the hib-dlagent , which lets me install and update games via pacman. The hib-dlagent is a “Tool to download Humble Indie Bundle binaries by file name”. It is integrated with the packag....

Fascinating article from Silviu Tantos of Iconfinder on developing an algorithm to detect duplicate images using just a few lines of Python. Having written the back-end for this site myself, completely in Python, I plan on using some of these tactics extensively in version 1.0 to streamline and improve my process for determining when and how often to re-build this site. Permalink.

Reconciling Microsoft - zacs.site - 12 years ago - eng
Following the BUILD conference, there has been a great deal of uncharacteristically positive talk within the Apple sphere with regards to the products and services Microsoft recently unveiled there, as well as the new direction these announcements seem to indicate. In particular, Myke Hurley, Stephen Hacket, and Federico Viticci of The Prompt had an interesting discussions on these topics in the forty-second episode of their podcast, Beaut..

In dieser Folge lernst du ein Handwerk mit den Jungs von EINSHOCH6. Was ist Holzschnitzerei? Welche Materialien und Werkzeuge gibt es in einer Werkstatt?

Wie findest du Ferien auf dem Campingplatz? Schläfst du gerne in einem Zelt und machst abends Lagerfeuer? Alles rund ums Camping lernst du in dieser Folge.

Ein heißer Sommertag: Das perfekte Wetter zum Grillen! Aber wohin geht man, was packt man ein und was gibt es zu essen? Dieses Video liefert die Antworten.

Manege frei: Die Jungs von EINSHOCH6 besuchen einen Zirkus. Welche Kunststücke führen die Clowns und Akrobaten auf? Wie sieht es hinter den Kulissen aus?

Welche Bräuche und Traditionen werden in Bayern gepflegt? Welche Wörter werden im bairischen Dialekt verwendet? Das Bandtagebuch – diesmal im Alpenvorland.

Deutsches Bier ist weltbekannt, aber wie genau wird es gebraut? Welche Zutaten dürfen verwendet werden? Diesmal sind wir zu Besuch in einer Brauerei. Prost!

Over the weekend I went to a talk on Scala. The speaker said variety of harsh , inflammatory, and mostly wrong things about PHP and the PHP community. One such example: The PHP community doesn't care about things like lambdas, they just care about getting a site up as fast as possible. This is just rubbish. PHP got the lambda treatment in 2009, while Java received it only months ago . The speaker is a Java developer who walked....

Over the weekend I went to a talk on Scala. The speaker said variety of harsh , inflammatory, and mostly wrong things about PHP and the PHP community. One such example: The PHP community doesn't care about things like lambdas, they just care about getting a site up as fast as possible. This is just rubbish. PHP got the lambda treatment in 2009, while Java received it only months ago . The speaker is a Java developer who walked....

Java - www.craigpardey.com - 12 years ago - eng

Spring - www.craigpardey.com - 12 years ago - eng

Spring’s gotcha-of-the-day is around using @Value to resolve property placeholders in combination with @PropertySource. I had the following Spring Java configuration: @Configuration @PropertySource("classpath:/test.properties") public class TestAppConfig { @Value("${queue.name}") private String queue; @Bean(name="queue") public String getQueue() { return queue; } } But the value in “queue” was not resolving - it returned “${q..


At the beginning of Thoughtworks University we were told to establish four goals. One of my goals was to find out how Thoughtworks can be so different from other IT and software development companies, yet still be able to maintain a very successful business. The purpose of this blog is to answer that question. I will, as briefly as possible, describe how I arrived at my conclusion.

If continuous delivery and Lean enterprise practices are going to be adopted in the large, then we need to bring those techniques to all parts of our enterprise footprint, not just the greenfield systems.

I’m sure this situation sounds familiar. Well-known bank has to replace your cash card. They don’t schedule the delivery, despite giving clear instructions repeatedly to the customer support representative. Thus you miss the delivery and have to make a fresh request that takes 4 working days to process. You then try the IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system to change the PIN. After entering all your personal information, card information,..

Our Thoughtworks San Francisco office kicked off a series of quarterly Technology Radar events to bring together technologists, decision makers, and practitioners. The Technology Radar San Francisco Events are an informal conference for professional software developers, technologists, and practitioners organized by key leadership within Thoughtworks.

At the Thoughtworks San Francisco office, we have a deep commitment to support humanitarian causes and be a force for good in the Social Justice arena. We hosted the first Hack for Democracy hackathon to support technologists who seek openly to build technology for nonpartisan political oriented projects and initiatives.

If you run a Linux server alongside Windows servers long enough, you'll eventually have the need (or request) to add that machine to a Windows domain. Thankfully, it's a rather easy process. Assuming you run Ubuntu, you can simply run the following commands, substituting the domain and a domain admin in place of EXAMPLE.COM and jsmith, respectively. sudo apt-get install likewise-open sudo domainjoin-cli join EXAMPLE.COM jsmith sudo lwconfig..

Last time we saw the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, and discussed the discrete logarithm problem and the related Diffie-Hellman problem, which form the foundation for the security of most protocols that use elliptic curves. Let’s continue our journey to investigate some more protocols. Just as a reminder, the Python implementations of these protocols are not at all meant for practical use, but for learning purposes. We provide the co..

Last time we saw the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, and discussed the discrete logarithm problem and the related Diffie-Hellman problem, which form the foundation for the security of most protocols that use elliptic curves. Let’s continue our journey to investigate some more protocols. Just as a reminder, the Python implementations of these protocols are not at all meant for practical use, but for learning purposes. We provide the co..

Last time we saw the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, and discussed the discrete logarithm problem and the related Diffie-Hellman problem, which form the foundation for the security of most protocols that use elliptic curves. Let’s continue our journey to investigate some more protocols. Just as a reminder, the Python implementations of these protocols are not at all meant for practical use, but for learning purposes. We provide the co..

This Week in Podcasts - zacs.site - 12 years ago - eng
Unfortunately, the past week was relatively light in terms of new podcasts, and even more sparse with regards to great episodes. There are always a few, though, and this week was no different. Permalink.

Overview This last week I was lucky enough to step onto Facebook’s campus for their first ever Hack Developer Day. Throughout the day developers and project managers gave talks about HHVM and Hack. From overviews to the nitty gritty details, each talk brought more insight into why this language was created. Below are a few of the talks that I thought were the best of the bunch. Hack Language and Library Features This talk walks thro..

Installing Phindex - boyter.org - 12 years ago - eng
This is a follow on piece to my 5 part series about writing a search engine from scratch in PHP which you can read at http://www.boyter.org/2013/01/code-for-a-search-engine-in-php-part-1/ I get a lot of email requests asking how to setup Phindex on a new machine and start indexing the web. Since the article and code was written aimed at someone with a degree of knowledge of PHP this is somewhat understandable. What follows is how to set..

2014-04-13 - ho.dges.online - 12 years ago - eng

Placing - www.codenameone.com - 12 years ago - eng
Up until now debugging location oriented applications in the simulator was a bit painful, there was no real way other than coding to a specific location and if you relied on specific GIS data you couldn’t easily debug that case. Chen was working with an enterprise customer and got fed up with that so he built a UI which you should be able to access via the Simulator menu in the next update. This UI allows you to drag a Map to determine yo..

Jill I’ve been working on “Jill” for the past few weeks. Figuring the best way to do the parts-gathering part of the game (specifically as relating to animation) is doing my head in. I’m trying a few different things as I go, seeing what seems to work the best. The general gist of what it has to do is:

FINAL WEEK! - etodd.io - 12 years ago - eng
We are now in the midst of the final week of Kickstarter funding! With the campaign nearing the end, I thought I would give you another development update. First, I spent a few days completely rewriting every bit of text in the game to support multiple languages. You can now change the language from this nifty selector on the main menu, and the whole game instantly switches: Now all we have to do is translate ALL the things!

This series was incredible, and I loved all the twists and turns. But I was surprised to see that this particular book didn’t…

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