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The fact that we manage the switches in our data centres differently than any other server is patently absurd, but we do so because we want to harness the power of a tiny bit of silicon which happens to be able to dramatically speed up the switching bandwidth. beware of proprietary silicon, it's absurd! That tiny bit of silicon is known as an ASIC , or an application specific integrated circuit , and one particularly well perfo..
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The fact that we manage the switches in our data centres differently than any other server is patently absurd, but we do so because we want to harness the power of a tiny bit of silicon which happens to be able to dramatically speed up the switching bandwidth. beware of proprietary silicon, it's absurd! That tiny bit of silicon is known as an ASIC , or an application specific integrated circuit , and one particularly well perfo..
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Launching Remote GUIs over SSH: SSH provides a CLI, but sometimes you just need a GUI too
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joshuarogers.net
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11 years ago
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eng
One of the things that I love about living in a Unix environment is that 99% of the time, remote administration only means a quick trip to the console. That's 99% of the time where my desktop can look something like this: Of course, 99% doesn't quite make a whole. There's the matter of the other 1% of the time where a GUI is required. Earlier on in my journey with Linux, I would have tried to setup a VNC server or to work around the need fo..
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This Week in Podcasts may have ended , but I have no intention of ending my monthly Cabin Porn Roundups. For October, then, check out these neat little structures from across the world. Permalink.
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From Ray Wenderlich's tech talk And supercharging Your Xcode Efficiency (by Jack Wu) . Shortcuts ⌘⇧o Fuzzy file search. ⌘⌥j Fuzzy file search (showing in Xcode project hierarchy). ⌘⇧j Show file in Xcode project hierarchy. ⌘⌥0 Show/hide utility area (right panel). ⌘0 Show/hide navigation area (left panel). ⇧⌘Y Show/hide debug area (bottom panel). Ctrli Indent selection. ⌘\ Toggle breakpoint on line. ⌘/ Toggle comment. ⌘[1-8] Select tabs..
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This past weekend I exhibited Lemma at the Ohio Game Dev Expo . It was an awesome time. Extra Life raised over $9,000 for charity (yes, it is in fact over 9000). The Oculus Rift was a huge hit! I worked on various improvements right up to the expo. First, some new textures for moving platforms and doors: This is the first texture I've created that has any kind of directional meaning. The reason is that until this week, I ..
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I know it’s been a while since I’ve blogged last….I’ve just been incredibly busy. This past month, I’ve been teaching a video game class at the college, writing the 4th edition of my Linux+ book for Cengage on an accelerated schedule, and managing four technology faculties……all at the same time! But today, I got a new computer: A Mac Pro (the higher end 6-core Xeon model with dual AMD FirePro D500s). I simply connect it via HDMI to my Al..
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I know it’s been a while since I’ve blogged last….I’ve just been incredibly busy. This past month, I’ve been teaching a video game class at the college, writing the 4th edition of my Linux+ book for Cengage on an accelerated schedule, and managing four technology faculties……all at the same time! But today, I got a new computer: A Mac Pro (the higher end 6-core Xeon model with dual AMD FirePro D500s). I simply connect it via HDMI to my Al..
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Yesterday afternoon I decided to make a concerted effort to stay abreast of world events going forward. Especially given the continued spread of Ebola across America, I could no longer focus solely on happenings within the tech industry as I have for the past two or three years. No sooner had I made this decision, though, than I came across a ponderous and subsequently maddening article over at NBC News titled “New Jersey Releases Nurse Qu..
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At the beginning of this year, we announced that Cerner became a bronze-level sponsor of the non-profit Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Many of the open source projects we use and contribute to are under the ASF umbrella, so supporting the mission and work of the ASF is important to us. We’re happy to announce that Cerner has now increased our sponsorship of the ASF to become a silver-level sponsor. Open source continues to play an integr..
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The keyboard, where our hands are placed most of the time (as developers), is the fastest navigation method by default. Knowing how to navigate yours system via keyboard will really optimize your workflow.
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Want to invite your friend to Inbox by Gmail but have no invites left?
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juri.dev
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11 years ago
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eng
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Exponential backoff is an algorithm that uses feedback to multiplicatively decrease the rate of some process, in order to gradually find an acceptable rate. —- Wikipedia
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A reading list of recommended books on business, technology, fiction, and personal development curated by Nick Hayden
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A reading list of recommended books on business, technology, fiction, and personal development curated by Nick Hayden
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How can we encourage children to code? Linda Liukas is the author and illustrator of Hello Ruby, a children’s book about the whimsical world of computers…
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I’ve wanted a feature in Evolution for a while. It was formally requested in 2002 , and it just recently got fixed in git master . I only started publicly groaning about this missing feature in 2013 , and mcrha finally patched it. I tested the feature and found a small bug, mcrha patched that too , and I finally re-tested it. Now I’m blogging about this process so that you can get involved too! Why Evolution ? Evolution supports ....
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I’ve wanted a feature in Evolution for a while. It was formally requested in 2002 , and it just recently got fixed in git master . I only started publicly groaning about this missing feature in 2013 , and mcrha finally patched it. I tested the feature and found a small bug, mcrha patched that too , and I finally re-tested it. Now I’m blogging about this process so that you can get involved too! Why Evolution ? Evolution supports ....
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During last year, I had the chance to work as CTO of a startup, working mainly within MEAN stack. I was happy, the technology I was working with was in a great hype and its community grew bigger and bigger with lots of projects popping up everywhere. But life is continuously changing, and I started to work in a new company within Java/JEE technologies. I was back to my first days as a professional computer engineer. Java ecosystem is hug....
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An incredible video from a group of hunters who make no excuses for their chosen profession, but who also approach it with the extreme respect that nature deserves. I personally have never had a particularly strong desire to take up hunting, but hearing Donnie Vincent talk about nature with such reverence showed me a side of this lifestyle — for to call it a “sport” would be to do the lifestyle Donnie and his companions devoted themselves a..
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A couple of days ago, TechCrunch ran a column about Developaralysis that hit a little close to home. Developaralysis is defined as "the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly keep up." This results in otherwise accomplished developers freezing up when trying to make decisions about the best language / framework / cloud platform to use for their project. There is a cure and it involves ..
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pNot sure if you#39;re a toiling programmer? Ask yourself these questions:/p ul liDo you feel like you#39;re drowning, that there#39;s no end in sight?/li liDo you get stuck on long running problems (1 or more days long)?/li liAre you unsure what needs to be done on a a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_tracking_system#Issuesticket/a, and yet you continue to work on it?/li liDo you often get feedback that functionality is missing afte....
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OS X Yosemite: If This Doesn't Make You An Apple Guy, Nothing Will
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www.instash.com
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11 years ago
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eng
I’ve been moving further and further from the tech space lately, but this article still caught my eye from Aric Mitchell over at inStash. Here, Aric takes a short minute to chronicle his journey with Apple’s products, and then talk about the experiential side of the company’s latest desktop operating system, OS X Yosemite. This is by far and away the best piece of tech-focused writing I have read in quite some time. Permalink.
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Last week I was speaking at an Open Source panel at Better Software 2014 , and one of the topics that we touched was code responsibility. This is an important topic for anyone who is maintaining an open source project, especially when it comes to the process of reviewing and accepting code contributions. At some point during the debate, I argued that when a maintainer merges a pull request, he (or she) implicitly agrees on being responsi....
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One cool thing about Stockholm is how easy it is to get to both a central location and a green/forested area.
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For just shy of the past seven months, I have written weekly roundup posts talking about my favorite medium — podcasts — and the episodes I considered the best released during that time span. Although the number of shows in each issue varied from week to week, I like to think that the quality remained constant, along with my rate of publication: with the exception of a lengthy trip to Canada’s backwoods, I have not missed a single week. It ..
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A couple of days ago I read an interesting article by Pierre-Yves Ricau, an Android Software Engineer for Square, where he listed reasons for why Square has moved away from using Fragments in their Android products. In it he mentioned the ridiculous life cycle of Fragments, how it makes them at times hard to handle and even harder to test against. And I agree with him. Fragments are easy to use in smaller projects, but in my experience don’..
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A couple of days ago I read an interesting article by Pierre-Yves Ricau, an Android Software Engineer for Square, where he listed reasons for why Square has moved away from using Fragments in their Android products. In it he mentioned the ridiculous life cycle of Fragments, how it makes them at times hard to handle and even harder to test against. And I agree with him. Fragments are easy to use in smaller projects, but in my experience don’..
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Background Processing: Use Einhorn to Spawn and Manage Worker Processes
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techblog.thescore.com
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11 years ago
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eng
pMost modern web applications have a background processing subsystem. In other words, whenever something does not need to be done in the web request (i.e. sending a welcome email when a new user signs up), it can be queued up and processed later outside of the request-response cycle. This allows the web requests to be fast and responsive./p h2Anatomy of a Background Processing System/h2 pA background processing system usually consists of th....
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About a week ago an instructor at university was asking why most students did not try the step-by-step tutorials at home, or why they didn't at least read it. He then started a speech, trying to understand us and saying that we would not be able to enter the work world easily with this mindset, and asking students what they thought of it.
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Honeypots are rad. Their uses are varied, but I've used my own mostly for research (and entertainment.) It's been running for over a year now, and I thought it would be worthwhile (and interesting) to summarize my findings. This honeypot is running on one of my non-critical servers with relatively minimal exposure, so the findings contained herein could be considered a good snapshot of internet background noise – no particular reason ....
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I had an itch to scratch , and I wanted to get a bit more familiar with Openshift . I had used it in the past, but it was time to have another go. The app and the code are now available. Feel free to check out: https://pdfdoc-purpleidea.rhcloud.com/ This is a simple app that takes the URL of a markdown file on GitHub, and outputs a pandoc converted PDF. I wanted to use pandoc specifically, because it produces PDF's that were b..
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