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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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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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Twist execution hooks and customizable HTML reports - Part 1
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www.thoughtworks.com
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13 years ago
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This blog post talks about measuring the execution time for each step and reporting it in Twist HTML reports. This is very helpful to analyze application performance and it also makes it easy to spot parts of the application that aren't performing well. This is the first part of a two-part blog series. The second part talks about consuming this data and drawing a little graph in the HTML report.
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The Journey from Doing Agile to Being Agile Being agile is much more than applying some techniques to run software projects - it requires a commitment to adaptive leadership, a focus on delivering value fast, and a different understanding of what your organizations' portfolio should look like. This webinar will investigate some of the key changes to becoming agile, with points learned from Thoughtworks' own journey, and the work we have don..
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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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13 years ago
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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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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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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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Working with the Cloud Object API can sometimes be difficult. The data isn’t tabular and understanding the concepts such as indexes and scopes for such objects is pretty hard. To help alleviate this difficulty Chen built a tool right into the Codename One simulator that allows you to query the cloud storage for the current application and helps you review some of the complexities involved. You can query various application s..
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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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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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We have many interesting ways for you to make money using Codename One and pingjam is one of the most innovative ways we ran into. Pingjam ads are placed within the dialer window based on the number you are dialing to, e.g. you dial to purchase a pizza you might get an ad offering a discount for purchasing over the web! This means
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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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