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July is when Sweden goes on holidays. Businesses are closed for the summer (quite a few of them, anyway), people take time off work, the weather doesn’t suck. Usually people tend to go away to other countries, which to me is ludicrous because after all that snow and cold these months are finally when Sweden gets warm and sunny. I guess I’m kind of fibbing - I get it. You want to get out and see other places during your vacation.
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Regardless of your own personal opinions regarding Christianity and religion in general, I think we can all get behind Sid’s overarching sentiment: it is important to remain true to yourself even when doing so means standing alone alongside an unpopular opinion. For in the end, with what will we find ourselves left? It is to these convictions we hold and must hold strongly that we will return; without them, we have nothing. Stick to your ..
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In every project, these questions come up - what kind of automated tests should we write? What is the right level of testing? How much of test coverage is “good enough”?
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Nearly a year ago I put together an hour long presentation on PostgreSQL to provide an overview of all of the benefits it provides you over other options in the database space. In hindsight, that wasn't nearly enough time because it has the capability to replace almost your entire application stack outside of the web server. In any case, here is an attempt to summarize all of the amazing functionality that you're cheating yourself out of by..
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Nearly a year ago I put together an hour long presentation on PostgreSQL to provide an overview of all of the benefits it provides you over other options in the database space. In hindsight, that wasn't nearly enough time because it has the capability to replace almost your entire application stack outside of the web server. In any case, here is an attempt to summarize all of the amazing functionality that you're cheating yourself out of by..
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Getting to Know Fiddler: Part I: Capture and debug traffic from a mobile device
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joshuarogers.net
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12 years ago
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If you've done any amount of web development on Windows, you've probably used a program called “Fiddler” a few times. Fiddler is a small proxy server that allows you to see all of the requests made by your system. Sadly, for most people, I'd guess that that is all that Fiddler is. It's a shame because Fiddler offers up so much more power than that. So, let's fix this. For the next several weeks, we're going to explore some of the under noti..
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Debugging Reactive Extensions can sometimes be a bit tricky. When you have a few stream to watch, pinpointing failures is time consuming…
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Debugging Reactive Extensions can sometimes be a bit tricky. When you have a few stream to watch, pinpointing failures is time consuming…
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Absolutely hilarious video, courtesy of John Gruber — with the choice line taken as an excerpt: “Magellan Was an Explorer. Chuck Yeager Was an Explorer. You Guys Have a Fucking Camera on Your Face.” I was rather bullish on the widespread reaction to Google Glass the other day when I wrote Thoughts on Glass , but I can still appreciate some great humor when I see it. Very well done. Permalink.
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We are excited to announce our sponsorship of The Fifth Elephant - a popular conference around the Big Data ecosystem. The conference will…
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Charity Website Refreshed with Lean UX Approach, Embedded Analytics
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www.thoughtworks.com
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12 years ago
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In the Charity sector, a website’s improved user experience aimed at the target audience can dramatically boost online fundraising, recruit support, and share the charity’s message more effectively. Combining this with embedded analytics, to provide evidence based on real users to drive any website improvements, can have a huge impact - as Mustard Tree, a local Manchester-based charity, is discovering.
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5 Ways to Analyse and Optimize IT Expenditure in an Organization
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www.thoughtworks.com
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12 years ago
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We all use technology in our lives today. For some, it’s a lot more than the others. As we find new ways for technology to enhance our lives and businesses, we also accumulate multiple types of physical devices and media to access technology. Newer and updated versions of existing products enter the market every few months and the fast pace of evolving products has meant that users keep buying technologies without evaluating if they really ..
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A view into how most IT organisations structure their teams to deal with business demands and possible inefficiencies that emerge as a result. An alternate to the traditional project team composition is a way to deliver end to end features to the business, using what is known as feature teams.
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Building a Model in Blender From Multiple Photographs
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blog.raymond.burkholder.net
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12 years ago
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Building a Model in Blender From Multiple Photographs
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blog.raymond.burkholder.net
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12 years ago
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Yet another week has come and gone, and here at the end we once again find ourselves with a collection of fantastic podcasts; some new and only just published, while others now have one more chance at enamoring a pair of fresh ears. Some new, some old, and all equally excellent. Permalink.
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Roughly once a week, give or take a few days, Brett Terpstra publishes a new installment in his “ Web Excursions ” series, where he talks about interesting bookmarks from around the internet. In yesterday’s issue, Web Excursions for July 18, 2014 , he featured First Crack 1.0 front and center. That’s pretty cool. Permalink.
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I'm trying to find raw of Freaks' Squeele (http://www.batoto.net/comic/_/comics/freaks-squeele-r2365...
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Since I am still bringing all my content together I thought I would pull in this post from Quora asking what is special about DuckDuckGo . Privacy enabled by default. This certainly helped get traction when the NSA security revelations came around. DDG is not the only privacy conscious search engine but certainly one that pushes it as a feature more then others. See https://duckduckgo.com/privacy !bang syntax. Remember back in th..
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I like refactoring. No, I love refactoring. No, not even like this. I awfully love refactoring. I hate bad code and bad architecture. I feel quite creepy when I design a new feature and the near-by class contains absolute mess. I just can’t look at the sadly-looking variables. Sometimes before falling asleep I close my eyes and imagine what could be improved in the project. Sometimes I wake up at 3:00AM and go to my computer to improve so....
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I like refactoring. No, I love refactoring. No, not even like this. I awfully love refactoring. I hate bad code and bad architecture. I feel quite creepy when I design a new feature and the near-by class contains absolute mess. I just can’t look at the sadly-looking variables. Sometimes before falling asleep I close my eyes and imagine what could be improved in the project. Sometimes I wake up at 3:00AM and go to my computer to improve so....
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pClasses are a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_citizenfirst-class objects/a in Ruby. All classes happen to be instances of codeClass/code. In other words, classes are codeClass/code objects just like code#39;hello#39;/code and code#39;world#39;/code are codeString/code objects./p pOut of the box, there are 3 ways to create classes in Ruby./p h2Use the codeclass/code Keyword/h2 pIn the vast majority of the cases, you would use ....
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You cannot — ought not — judge the Fire phone by the traditional standards against which we have come to judge all devices these days, but rather from the perspective of a goods and services company that seeks to facilitate streamlined access to its storefront for its most loyal and devoted customers by offering them a device integrated with its own services to a degree made impossible through third-party integration alone on another device..
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Thoughtworks shares concerns expressed by legal scholars, civil liberties advocates and companies about the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (DRIP) being rushed through the UK Parliament. The DRIP Bill authorises blanket communications data retention which the European Court of Justice found in April to violate the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Court stated that data retention was a "serious interference with … the right ..
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Backport iOS 8's convenient NSString containsString: method to iOS 7 using runtime patching that won't conflict with Apple's implementation.
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In a style made popular by Benedict Evans in his hallmark Twitter postulations, posit: computers were created for writers. As such, the next iteration of computing devices will cater to the needs of others: creators and designers will have Jarvis-like artificial intelligence systems to converse with and holographic interfaces to involve their entire bodies in the creation process. The current model involves the two tools of the writer’s tra..
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In the race to making data consumable, we’re experiencing an explosion of highly effective, engaging and creative visualizations that connect with consumers in unique and interesting ways.
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Every so often an article crosses my path wherein the author drools over a custom shop’s awesome modifications to an already awesome vehicle, and then I invariably spend a good long while extricating myself from the inevitable rabbit hole that ensues. As of this writing, nearly four months have passed since I have gone down that path , continuing my trend of leaving roughly three months between each of these articles. Today, I’m back for..
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How do women leaders in the tech industry start their workday? On the best days, with a tasty breakfast, juicy fruit, strong coffee and stimulating conversation with other tech leaders. This is exactly how Thoughtworks welcomed the newly formed social group Women of Color in Tech on Friday, June 20, 2014.
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Beginning August 18th I will be offering a three week evening class aimed at professional programmers who want to learn Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, with the goal of becoming proficient with both in a very short time.
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Beginning August 18th I will be offering a three week evening class aimed at professional programmers who want to learn Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, with the goal of becoming proficient with both in a very short time.
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Since starting this website nearly two years ago, I have written specifically about the engine that runs it exactly four times: in Introducing First Crack , I detailed my long journey to the realization that I needed to build something completely my own, from the ground up; later, I talked about some of my creation’s niceties in First Crack in Practice , before outlining the changes an innocuous redesign brought about in First Crack’s Co..
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