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Look at that stupid thing. With its silly little drawers and its wooden frame. Pfft. In reality, it’s just a simple four drawer dresser from Ikea, which I definitely needed because I’ve been living out of a suitcase my mother lent me, and I need to return it eventually. This project was my first two-day project, and in total took me about six hours to complete. Nothing went horribly wrong per se, it’s just that Ikea is Satan incarnate, ..
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Look at that stupid thing. With its silly little drawers and its wooden frame. Pfft. In reality, it’s just a simple four drawer dresser from Ikea, which I definitely needed because I’ve been living out of a suitcase my mother lent me, and I need to return it eventually. This project was my first two-day project, and in total took me about six hours to complete. Nothing went horribly wrong per se, it’s just that Ikea is Satan incarnate, ..
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Meta Refresh 2015 Delhi Run-up Event hosted at Wingify
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engineering.wingify.com
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11 years ago
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Giving back to the community has always been a priority at Wingify, be it through open sourcing internal projects or via organizing…
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Do you have a great idea for a product that could make millions? Chances are the answer is yes. Everyone has a great idea up their sleeve. But not everyone has made millions of dollars from them. In fact, far more people have lost money on an idea than have made it. Why is that? Quite simply, ideas are free. Delivering them is expensive and hard.
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A number of years ago in Atlanta, GA my wife and I went to purchase a chair for our living room. We shopped around and ended up at the Chair Warehouse (fictitious company). We wandered around a bit before deciding on a particular chair and found a salesperson to complete the paperwork. After going through the paper shuffling and writing a check (remember checks?), we asked where we could pick up the chair.
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Note: This post was written in 2015. The writing quality is not that great and I won’t try to improve it as well. This was republished from another platform for pure historic value of being my first blog post ever. My opinions and thoughts on the topics shared in this post might have changed. A Recap on the discovery of Openstreetmap and the two days in Mapbox. Maps were something that I was really good at! Or something I didn’t know muc....
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My first two Home Improvement Projects weren’t exactly the highest caliber works of craftsmanship. For example, putting more than two or three articles of clothing on the clothes rack caused it to bend, shake, and warp, and the rope around the bed came undone approximately once a day. So my third Home Improvement Project was setting right what I had previously done so, so wrongly. And it’s the weekend, which means that after my workout and ..
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My first two Home Improvement Projects weren’t exactly the highest caliber works of craftsmanship. For example, putting more than two or three articles of clothing on the clothes rack caused it to bend, shake, and warp, and the rope around the bed came undone approximately once a day. So my third Home Improvement Project was setting right what I had previously done so, so wrongly. And it’s the weekend, which means that after my workout and ..
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For someone who never learned "computers" in school, I'm actually pretty fond of the command line interface. I was one of those kids who was lucky enough to…
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Our website deployment has become even more complex thanks to the demos section . The crux of it is in updating the demos with every small update to the JavaScript build process which is why we implemented a build option based on the work we did for our CI (Jenkins) integration . This work essentially allows to build a Codename One app synchronously which is useful when you want to do things such as continuous integration or relea..
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I’ve survived my first (nearly) whole week of work. Granted, it was mostly filling out forms, hearing about benefits packages and retirement plans, and going to developer workshops to get synced up with various company policies and infrastructure. Not that it wasn’t interesting (it was), but I’m not a fan of how little I’ve gotten to contribute thus far. I understand it’ll take time to get caught up to speed, I’m certainly not unfamiliar wi..
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I’ve survived my first (nearly) whole week of work. Granted, it was mostly filling out forms, hearing about benefits packages and retirement plans, and going to developer workshops to get synced up with various company policies and infrastructure. Not that it wasn’t interesting (it was), but I’m not a fan of how little I’ve gotten to contribute thus far. I understand it’ll take time to get caught up to speed, I’m certainly not unfamiliar wi..
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"Leaving out the best bit" project management anti-pattern
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www.databasesandlife.com
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11 years ago
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eng
When I was at university in the 90s, studying computer science, my final-year bachelor project was a “fractal raytracer”. My idea was to write a program which could produce pictures of those wonderful artificial worlds one saw on posters of the time, hung in every university dorm room. Raytracers render highly realistic images, and fractals produce interesting shapes to render. I set about designing the program, with all the features I ..
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This is a follow on to my original post on using RX with the Band to stream sensor information. Using the RX streams and some maths to detect (roughly) when a user taps on the band. This allows you to send a notification to the band, for example, saying “I think your home, tap band to turn on your heating”. Below is the result, I can really easily “await” tap or shake events! You can grab the code here and see how it all works below..
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Don’t worry, I’m not going to post about every single night I spend in the box truck, but this one was markedly different than the first, and deserves to be noted as such. When it was bed time last night, I wasn’t feeling the same type of anxiousness that pervaded the previous night. I was much more relaxed and confident. I still did my best to be quiet, but I wasn’t stopping every few seconds to make sure that nobody was watching. The over..
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Don’t worry, I’m not going to post about every single night I spend in the box truck, but this one was markedly different than the first, and deserves to be noted as such. When it was bed time last night, I wasn’t feeling the same type of anxiousness that pervaded the previous night. I was much more relaxed and confident. I still did my best to be quiet, but I wasn’t stopping every few seconds to make sure that nobody was watching. The over..
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A seven-part series that will help free you from the chains of jQuery by showing you how to embrace and understand the modern web API and JavaScript.
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Comment on Gary Bernhardt’s “Wat” by [Video 188] Brian Leroux: WTFJS - Daily Tech Video
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dailytechvideo.com
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11 years ago
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eng
talk in the “Wat” style, in which we point to weirdness in a programming language, this talk (given by Brian […]
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Emacs is amazingly alive. New packages are regularly listed on melpa and a new book just came out: Mastering Emacs by Mickey Petersen .
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Learn how we introduced webpack to build our JavaScript assets. One of the main challenges was to run both Assetic and webpack in parallel for some time, in order to run tests and to make sure nothing was broken. This was achieved without any code or configuration duplication by developing a custom webpack loader.
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Learn how we introduced webpack to build our JavaScript assets. One of the main challenges was to run both Assetic and webpack in parallel for some time, in order to run tests and to make sure nothing was broken. This was achieved without any code or configuration duplication by developing a custom webpack loader.
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Hello fellow readers, The last two months I've been extremely interested in evolutionary programming and group dynamics. In this post I'll try to gather some important factors I've noticed repeating themselves across the multiple opinions and examples, and the ones that just seemed noticeably important.
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Nice and quick post here, mainly so I remember when I need it again, this is a quick sample which shows how to make a web call from PowerShell including a cookie. Most old methods will suggest using the WebClient object but the new (well newer than the WebClient) Invoke-WebRequest commandlet is a much nicer, in my opinion. It takes a bit of fooling around to get this up and running so wanted to share.
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I did it. And by it I mean sleeping in the box truck for the first time. I still have a corporate apartment until Sunday, but I wanted to try out living in the box truck, because at least I still have the flexibility of normal human housing, and this way, I could work out any potential kinks. A Whole New World Okay, maybe that’s a little bit dramatic, once I was in there, it really just felt like being home, in my own bed. ..
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I did it. And by it I mean sleeping in the box truck for the first time. I still have a corporate apartment until Sunday, but I wanted to try out living in the box truck, because at least I still have the flexibility of normal human housing, and this way, I could work out any potential kinks. A Whole New World Okay, maybe that’s a little bit dramatic, once I was in there, it really just felt like being home, in my own bed. ..
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Here's my talk for the node.js Boulder meetup group about 12-Factor apps in node.js. Slides are here
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Here's my talk for the node.js Boulder meetup group about 12-Factor apps in node.js. Slides are here
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After finishing yesterday’s post about generating images for user-combined substrate items I realized that I never really provided an explanation about how items work in general (or how they work for now, anyway).
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3.5/5 As a reader I scoffed at moments that Maria made decisions that were obviously for the detriment of herself, but having realised…
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Gradle is too slow, Ant is too basic. Buck is fast and super-configurable and I’d like to tell you how I use it for Android development. I own a pretty old thinkpad laptop so I don’t expect the builds to be too fast. Ant used to spend 10..40 seconds for each build on my laptop depending on how large the project is. Gradle takes about a minute in average and that’s too long for me - I just lose focus when I just sit and wait for the build re..
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Gradle is too slow, Ant is too basic. Buck is fast and super-configurable and I’d like to tell you how I use it for Android development. I own a pretty old thinkpad laptop so I don’t expect the builds to be too fast. Ant used to spend 10..40 seconds for each build on my laptop depending on how large the project is. Gradle takes about a minute in average and that’s too long for me - I just lose focus when I just sit and wait for the build re..
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The Laravel 5 migration is complete and I’m back to substrate mixing and brain bug fixing! Actually, I think now that basic mixing is done I’m going to do a few weeks of just bug fixing. The substrate has no effect on snails’ attributes or behaviour yet, but it will. For now you can just mix different substrate items together into new substrate items.
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Steven Lowe piece on Composition vs. Inheritance is a must read. Just to wet your appetite, let me quote the opening paragraph: In the beginning, there was no inheritance and no composition, only code. And the code was unwieldy, repetitive, blocky, unhappy, verbose, and tired. Copy and Paste were the primary mechanisms of code reuse. Procedures and functions were rare, newfangled gadgets viewed with suspicion. Calling a procedure was ..
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Rust has some powerful tricks to model properties of aggregate types via unsafe traits with default and negative implementations. These features motivated by offering flexible concurrency/parallelism, and allow powerful closure-based APIs without losing any thread-safety (or memory-safety) guarantees at all. I realised that my recent post on the low-level details of closures missed an important aspect: how they interact with threading. ....
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The Future of Investment Management: Automated and Human
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www.thoughtworks.com
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11 years ago
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eng
Wealth, asset and investment management firms are experiencing record results. In 2013, assets under management grew to a record $68.7 trillion, while operating margins grew 39%. Things couldn’t be brighter for the industry. But as we all know, current performance is not indicative of future results.
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Nearly a quarter of American workers work from home at least once a week, and that number is expected to continue rising. But is working from home actually productive? Definitely, say many studies: it not only increases productivity, it also increases employee retention and reduces absenteeism. And with project management tools like Mingle and Trello, location is no barrier to collaborating with coworkers on group projects.
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In my previous post, I argued how IT has become strategic owing to the demands of a digital business. Strategic IT cannot justify itself with IT metrics such as velocity or even with delivering to plan. It has to make a difference to business outcomes.
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As the JavaScript port has matured we started adding new demos specifically for the clock demo , charts & GeoViz . You can now see all of them live on the web and also try the Android or desktop versions of these demos to get a better grasp of what Codename One can do and how far has the JavaScript build advanced since our 3.0 release. Plugin Update We wanted to release the plugin update this week but we ended up postponing ..
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With the bed out of the way, I was ready to try bigger and better things. The next thing on my list was a place to hang my dress shirts and pants. In a real-world setting, this would be called a “clothes rack”. So I took another trip down to Home Depot , which is quickly becoming the most important place in my life, and I picked up some screws, a screwdriver, some clothes hangers, two mounting brackets, and a 6 foot long wooden rod. If I..
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