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The web is built of links, of pages linking to other resources on the internet. But making those links manually is tedious. This is another area where modern inline editors could do better. Yesterday on Hacker News, there was a thread about Wikidata , Wikimedia Foundation’s new knowledge base. This comment struck me especially: I was using Wikipedia the other day and it occurred to me how primitive it is to have all the inner lin....
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The web is built of links, of pages linking to other resources on the internet. But making those links manually is tedious. This is another area where modern inline editors could do better. Yesterday on Hacker News, there was a thread about Wikidata , Wikimedia Foundation’s new knowledge base. This comment struck me especially: I was using Wikipedia the other day and it occurred to me how primitive it is to have all the inner lin....
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The web is built of links, of pages linking to other resources on the internet. But making those links manually is tedious. This is another area where modern inline editors could do better. Yesterday on Hacker News, there was a thread about Wikidata , Wikimedia Foundation’s new knowledge base. This comment struck me especially: I was using Wikipedia the other day and it occurred to me how primitive it is to have all the inner lin....
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When jQuery first came out it was a godsend. For most developers, it remains the same indispensable tool without which anything more than mundane cookie management, if even that, would prove an insurmountable obstacle. In the afore linked article along with his companion piece encourage developers to rely more heavily on Javascript’s native functions , Chris Love makes the compelling case against what has become the de-facto Javascript fra..
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CX – Conference Experience (Facilitating Communication)
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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Following up on my earlier post about CX or Conference Experience – I’m going to dig in a bit on how you get good conversation to happen. In the past two years I’ve been to nearly 20 conferences, I’ve been to conferences with great talks, with great parties, with great swag, and hands down my favorite conferences have always been a result of great conversation. With the number of talks that are recorded and immediately available online afte....
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Following up on my earlier post about CX or Conference Experience – I’m going to dig in a bit on getting the right people there. There’s a lot of different ways to approach this from having a good ratio of: Designers to Developers Females to Males Noobs to well known community members Overall lack of suits While this is by no means a how we can solve all of the above problems, theres some bas Talks Quality talks are obviously im....
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CX – Conference Experience (Facilitating Communication)
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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13 years ago
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eng
Following up on my earlier post about CX or Conference Experience – I’m going to dig in a bit on how you get good conversation to happen. In the past two years I’ve been to nearly 20 conferences, I’ve been to conferences with great talks, with great parties, with great swag, and hands down my favorite conferences have always been a result of great conversation. With the number of talks that are recorded and immediately available online afte....
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Following up on my earlier post about CX or Conference Experience – I’m going to dig in a bit on getting the right people there. There’s a lot of different ways to approach this from having a good ratio of: Designers to Developers Females to Males Noobs to well known community members Overall lack of suits While this is by no means a how we can solve all of the above problems, theres some bas Talks Quality talks are obviously im....
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Web frameworks are great, don't get me wrong here. They provide a structure and consistency across projects that will transcend developers over the life of a system while dramatically simplifying the code base amongst other wonderful side effects. But what's the downside?
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Web frameworks are great, don't get me wrong here. They provide a structure and consistency across projects that will transcend developers over the life of a system while dramatically simplifying the code base amongst other wonderful side effects. But what's the downside?
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As a comparatively new blogger I have done my fair share of self-promotion amongst the established writers I respect and strive to emulate, more than once recommending something I wrote by excusing my blatant plea for attention with the words, “I think you will like this” or some other permutation of the phrase. And each time I do I genuinely believe that John Siracusa might have found some interest in my argument for greater gesture suppor..
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Testing emails can sometimes be a bit challenging. smtp4dev is a small program that intercepts all received emails so you can quickly send…
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This piece from the New York Times touches on a subject that I’m passionate about - the challenges of hiring good people. Deep into it, it mentions that: “…the most proven method, Dr. Lewin said, is a referral from someone already working there. Current employees know the culture, he said, and have their reputations and their work environment on the line.” The big data thing is a cool, tech solution, but really it’s referrals that ..
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I'm going to try using MathJax for displaying LaTeX maths in my blog posts. It seems to work pretty well. The only significant problem is the flash of unrendered latex code for 200ms or so when viewing a post. $$x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}$$
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The (Berkeley) sockets API should really have a function call to tell the implementation to do a local flush if possible, e.g. to stop buffering data and send the current packet. Let's say you are writing a webserver. Your webserver has received an HTTP request. You have read it in, decided on what page to return in response, and are now piecing the page together out of pieces of data and HTML. After each bit of HTML has been created y....
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Try my flickr date fixer app ! So the startup/solopreneur community really likes little mantras and axioms. I wrote a little web application that follows mantras such as: solve a problem focus on a small problem in a niche market scratch your own itch build the minimum viable product and ship quickly I have built and released a web app that focuses on an itch I have and may serve a small niche market consisting of only myself, but wit....
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I'm obsessed with performance tuning. It's an itch that can never fully be scratched. A sickness that can never be cured. Here's the story of how I caught the bug.
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I'm obsessed with performance tuning. It's an itch that can never fully be scratched. A sickness that can never be cured. Here's the story of how I caught the bug.
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A couple of weekends ago I had the great opportunity to attend lessconf . It was an all around great conference, and as a result of the greatness I ended up having a conversation with a few people around conference experience. I must give much of the credit to Swift , as he mentioned he’d already been thinking alot about this since Waza . In general it feels like there’s a few key themes that any conference should focus on, then a lot of....
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A couple of weekends ago I had the great opportunity to attend lessconf . It was an all around great conference, and as a result of the greatness I ended up having a conversation with a few people around conference experience. I must give much of the credit to Swift , as he mentioned he’d already been thinking alot about this since Waza . In general it feels like there’s a few key themes that any conference should focus on, then a lot of....
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I’ve been meaning to consolidate my personal websites onto this domain for a long, long time. My original personal website, dflock.co.uk , started in the late nineties - and has been getting a bit long in the tooth of late. Figure 1. Static text files - the gift that keeps on giving. That site has been up, looking mostly like that, for ~15 years - with zero maintenance or downtime. Nice to know it’s still valid CSS 1.0 :) When I c....
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Today I tested the new plugin for nginx developed Google: ngx_pagespeed . It’s the equivalent for nginx to apache’s mod_pagespeed. Installation Just go to the github page for ngx_pagespeed and the follow the instructions there.I used the alpha-r2748-build. Sidenote: With it I ran into a problem with the wp-admin dashboard when trying to write this post. If you’re interested, check out the issue on Github. Test scenario For testi....
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As I tweaked some last bits of code and added a few comments here and there, I realized I was getting excited. This project I had been working on for the last few days was almost done. I was happy about the code I had written and started prepping for a code review. My co-workers had been asking how it's going and wanted to give me feedback, so I pushed and deployed my changes to a staging server. What immediately followed was a humbling exp..
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As I tweaked some last bits of code and added a few comments here and there, I realized I was getting excited. This project I had been working on for the last few days was almost done. I was happy about the code I had written and started prepping for a code review. My co-workers had been asking how it's going and wanted to give me feedback, so I pushed and deployed my changes to a staging server. What immediately followed was a humbling exp..
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I had the opportunity to visit the class of one of my legendary former professors yesterday and got to share a classic story about him...the time he gave us an impossible assignment.
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I had the opportunity to visit the class of one of my legendary former professors yesterday and got to share a classic story about him...the time he gave us an impossible assignment.
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I feel almost guilty when I post non game or tech-related posts to this blog because I know the majority of people who come here tend to do so for the game/Impact/JS posts. However, this is a personal site and I do more than sit at a keyboard all day, so posts about running, Sweden, travel, etc are going to happen. Running and exercise is probably the category that’ll be popping up the most (after games) over the next few months as Stockhol..
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In case you upgrade your CentOS 6.x box to version 6.4, the shorewall service might complain. With a scary message: ERROR: Your kernel/iptables do not include state match support. No version of Shorewall will run on this system This is selinux at work, and the problem can easily be solved by running: # restorecon -Rv /sbin Thanks shorewall-users and Happy hacking, James You can hire James and his team at m9rx..
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In case you upgrade your CentOS 6.x box to version 6.4, the shorewall service might complain. With a scary message: ERROR: Your kernel/iptables do not include state match support. No version of Shorewall will run on this system This is selinux at work, and the problem can easily be solved by running: # restorecon -Rv /sbin Thanks shorewall-users and Happy hacking, James You can hire James and his team at m9rx..
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Late last year, six women crowded in to a Mitte cafe booth and listened to Berlin Geekettes founder Jess Erickson share her idea: Berlin’s first all-women hackathon. With SoundCloud’s Amelie Anglade the then newly-appointed the Berlin Geekettes Tech Ambassador, we agreed that it was a great idea to produce the hackathon as a partnership between the Geekettes and the women developers of SoundCloud. Fast forward to the first weekend of March..
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Late last year, six women crowded in to a Mitte cafe booth and listened to Berlin Geekettes founder Jess Erickson share her idea: Berlin’s first all-women hackathon. With SoundCloud’s Amelie Anglade the then newly-appointed the Berlin Geekettes Tech Ambassador, we agreed that it was a great idea to produce the hackathon as a partnership between the Geekettes and the women developers of SoundCloud. Fast forward to the first weekend of March..
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After my [Enhance your Python](http://blog.nobugware.com/post/2011/08/16 /enhance-your-python) post, which is my Python bible reference, I wanted the same for Golang: Effective Go, write effective Go Go by examples, simple but useful examples in Go The Go memory model, Goroutines lock or not ? Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Go Go Object Oriented Design The sources for the standard packages are gold mine for best practices Race dete..
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As I’m working with smaller and more agile projects, I’m increasingly seeing the classic way that Scrum is executed as more of an impediment to agility than a helper. This is especially the case when it comes to the classic Sprint Planning as described in [the Scrum Guide](http://www.scrum.org/Portals/0/Documents/Scrum Guides/Scrum_Guide.pdf): “For example, two-week Sprints have four-hour Sprint Planning Meetings” In the Sprint Planning Mee..
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For a list of all the posts on Category Theory, see the Main Content page. It is time for us to formally define what a category is, to see a wealth of examples. In our next post we’ll see how the definitions laid out here translate to programming constructs. As we’ve said in our soft motivational post on categories, the point of category theory is to organize mathematical structures across various disciplines into a unified language.
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For a list of all the posts on Category Theory, see the Main Content page. It is time for us to formally define what a category is, to see a wealth of examples. In our next post we’ll see how the definitions laid out here translate to programming constructs. As we’ve said in our soft motivational post on categories, the point of category theory is to organize mathematical structures across various disciplines into a unified language.
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For a list of all the posts on Category Theory, see the Main Content page. It is time for us to formally define what a category is, to see a wealth of examples. In our next post we’ll see how the definitions laid out here translate to programming constructs. As we’ve said in our soft motivational post on categories, the point of category theory is to organize mathematical structures across various disciplines into a unified language.
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Cerner places a high value on talent development programs offering students the experience to build practical and tangible skills for the modern work environment. As part of this focus, Cerner supports FIRST Robotics, a competition providing experience in software engineering, where students learn to deal with complexity, time constraints, quality, and technical communications. Sound familiar? I wish they had this program when I was a kid! ..
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This is my little how-to on installing and configuring Wordpress on Arch Linux with nginx+php-fpm. It is by no means the best way to do it or even complete, but it helped me get my blog out in minutes. Assuming your already installed MySQL(or MariaDB), nginx via pacman and php-fpm from the AUR . First configure php-fpm. [www] # The user nginx and php-fpm does run under. user = nginx group = nginx # listen on a sock-file instead o....
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If any of you have been following me on Twitter over the weekend you may have seen my epic battle with node.js, MongoDB, socket.IO, Expess, and ImpactJS. It was like one of those jelly wrestling matches you see with drunk people fighting in kiddie pools, except instead it was me wearing pajama pants and a hoodie against a gang of five web technologies/libraries opening a can of whoop-ass on me.
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Back when John Siracusa published Annoyance-Driven Development in the tail-end of February, and amidst the discussion that ensued , I felt that I had nothing to add to the conversation and thus had no need to link to the piece. I still feel that way, but the idea that annoyance could affect change in the world — whether in the form of the development of a particular technology or, as in the case of this article, the advent of a blog ..
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