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Diamond asked us about an easy way to do dropshadows in Codename One to which I answered that it’s pretty easy thanks to our Gaussian blur support … We ended up with this code which is usable but probably not as intuitive for most: Form hi = new Form("Drop Shadow", new BorderLayout(BorderLayout.CENTER_BEHAVIOR_CENTER)); FontImage mm = FontImage.createMaterial(FontImage.MATERIAL_PERSON, "Button", 30); int[] rgb = mm.toImage().getRGB();....
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I’ve gotten into this wonderful rhythm of publishing posts that are tragically untimely. My Spring Cleaning post was five days too late, I’d had the insulation and skylight for weeks before I’d recounted the tale , and I’d successfully picked up and put down my weight goals way before I picked up the pen and put down a post. So it’s only fitting that I’m just getting around to talking about a feature I added to the site over eight mont..
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I’ve gotten into this wonderful rhythm of publishing posts that are tragically untimely. My Spring Cleaning post was five days too late, I’d had the insulation and skylight for weeks before I’d recounted the tale , and I’d successfully picked up and put down my weight goals way before I picked up the pen and put down a post. So it’s only fitting that I’m just getting around to talking about a feature I added to the site over eight mont..
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Platforms for Growth: Connecting Digital Strategy to Technology
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www.thoughtworks.com
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10 years ago
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Over 60 retail technology executives attended the Thoughtworks Retail Roadshow in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney on the topic ‘Platforms for Growth’.
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I stumbled upon this video the other day. Some ex navy seal guy, they do army-style training programs for people who like to get their butt kicked. But also, they happen to have very good content on psychology of motivation (which actually make sense given what they do as a job.) The following video is about the reasons behind lack of motivation, lazy-style, I’ll do it tomorrow approach. TL;DW: Lazy is incompetence-driven.
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In a previous series of blog posts, we covered our decision to move away from a monolithic architecture, replacing it with microservices, interacting synchronously with each other over HTTP, and asynchronously using events. In this post, we review our progress toward this goal, and talk about the conditions and strategy required to decommission our monolith.
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When thinking about design patterns and architectures in iOS development, MVC might be the first thing that comes to mind for most of you. But throughout the last years, MVC got a really bad reputation. Probably a lot of you heard about MVC as the massive view controller.
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In a previous series of blog posts, we covered our decision to move away from a monolithic architecture, replacing it with microservices, interacting synchronously with each other over HTTP, and asynchronously using events. In this post, we review our progress toward this goal, and talk about the conditions and strategy required to decommission our monolith.
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When thinking about design patterns and architectures in iOS development, MVC might be the first thing that comes to mind for most of you. But throughout the last years, MVC got a really bad reputation. Probably a lot of you heard about MVC as the massive view controller.
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I stumbled upon this video the other day. Some ex navy seal guy, they do army-style training programs for people who like to get their butt kicked. But also, they happen to have very good content on psychology of motivation (which actually make sense given what they do as a job.) The following video is about the reasons behind lack of motivation, lazy-style, I’ll do it tomorrow approach. TL;DW: Lazy is incompetence-driven.
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From Javascript Callbacks to Promises to Generators and Coroutines
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cscrunch.com
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10 years ago
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eng
JavaScript has always been a powerful language, but it is not always pretty to look at. ES6 has also greatly improved the syntax of the language, and although it's not perfect, it's not that bad, either. Some of JavaScript's limitations are also its strengths, which is what we will see when we examine the JavaScript coroutine pattern. Javascript is single-threaded. It is also event-driven, so that many of its functions use a callback p....
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From Javascript Callbacks to Promises to Generators and Coroutines
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cscrunch.com
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10 years ago
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eng
JavaScript has always been a powerful language, but it is not always pretty to look at. ES6 has also greatly improved the syntax of the language, and although it's not perfect, it's not that bad, either. Some of JavaScript's limitations are also its strengths, which is what we will see when we examine the JavaScript coroutine pattern. Javascript is single-threaded. It is also event-driven, so that many of its functions use a callback p....
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From Javascript Callbacks to Promises to Generators and Coroutines
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cscrunch.com
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10 years ago
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eng
JavaScript has always been a powerful language, but it is not always pretty to look at. ES6 has also greatly improved the syntax of the language, and although it's not perfect, it's not that bad, either. Some of JavaScript's limitations are also its strengths, which is what we will see when we examine the JavaScript coroutine pattern. Javascript is single-threaded. It is also event-driven, so that many of its functions use a callback p....
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From Javascript Callbacks to Promises to Generators and Coroutines
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cscrunch.com
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10 years ago
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eng
JavaScript has always been a powerful language, but it is not always pretty to look at. ES6 has also greatly improved the syntax of the language, and although it's not perfect, it's not that bad, either. Some of JavaScript's limitations are also its strengths, which is what we will see when we examine the JavaScript coroutine pattern. Javascript is single-threaded. It is also event-driven, so that many of its functions use a callback p....
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Linux operating system! More specifically, it marks the day that Linus Torvalds announced his new operating system (that was later called Linux) in a newsgroup post: From:torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroup: comp.os.minix Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? Summary: small poll for my new operating system Message-ID: 1991Aug25, 20578.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI....
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Linux operating system! More specifically, it marks the day that Linus Torvalds announced his new operating system (that was later called Linux) in a newsgroup post: From:torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroup: comp.os.minix Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? Summary: small poll for my new operating system Message-ID: 1991Aug25, 20578.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI....
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Secure Your Web Application @JSChannel Conference ’16
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engineering.wingify.com
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10 years ago
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eng
Recently, I spoke about securing Web Applications at JSChannel Conference ’16. The conference venue was The Ritz-Carlton, Bangalore…
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We will make another attempt to migrate to the new xcode 7.x build servers this Sunday. This might introduce some disruptions to your iOS builds but those should be fixable. One of the stackoverflow discussions below sparked an interesting group discussion about improving the UI design of a Codename One app. If you feel your app could use a design/UX improvement feel free to post it to the forum. We are no substitute to a proper UX/UI..
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A very quick blog today. I have released searchcode server under the fair source licence . This means that as of a few days ago you can view the source, change it modify it and run it as you see fit so long as you have less than 5 users. The source is hosted on github (I may move this to GitLab sometime in the future) and you can view it here . So what does this mean? Well the community edition still exists (run searchcode with as m..
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I was recently working on some code in which I wanted to use Promises, but all that I had was callback-centric code. In the past, I have imported libraries such as bluebird for this particular problem, but now that seems like a bit of overkill to get just one function. I'm already using ES6, so I don't need a polyfill in order to use Promises; all that I want is a simple promisify() function. Importing an entire library for one functio....
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I was recently working on some code in which I wanted to use Promises, but all that I had was callback-centric code. In the past, I have imported libraries such as bluebird for this particular problem, but now that seems like a bit of overkill to get just one function. I'm already using ES6, so I don't need a polyfill in order to use Promises; all that I want is a simple promisify() function. Importing an entire library for one functio....
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I was recently working on some code in which I wanted to use Promises, but all that I had was callback-centric code. In the past, I have imported libraries such as bluebird for this particular problem, but now that seems like a bit of overkill to get just one function. I'm already using ES6, so I don't need a polyfill in order to use Promises; all that I want is a simple promisify() function. Importing an entire library for one functio....
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I was recently working on some code in which I wanted to use Promises, but all that I had was callback-centric code. In the past, I have imported libraries such as bluebird for this particular problem, but now that seems like a bit of overkill to get just one function. I'm already using ES6, so I don't need a polyfill in order to use Promises; all that I want is a simple promisify() function. Importing an entire library for one functio....
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We had almost everything ready for the release of the kitchen sink demo this week until one of our fixes broke the build and we couldn’t get everything out in time. It’s disappointing but this means one more week to refine the demo. During our debugging of the contacts demo that is a part of the new kitchen sink we noticed its performance was sub par. I assumed this was due to the implementation of getAllContacts & that there is nothing t..
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A discussion for JS developers about how to have some fun with the useful ECMAScript 2015 "Proxy" feature, which enables you to create a proxy for another object.
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Taken from a comment I posted on HN in a thread about a Soccer Con Man . Not actually a programmer. The guy was hired to be a project manager. After joining things were as expected but after a few weeks we noticed that he was rarely around after lunch and never around after lunch on a Friday. We would email him at those times deliberately to catch him out and I recall starting to put sticky notes on his laptop “Came to see you a X ti..
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Steven Pressfield has really coined the term *resistance in his famous book The War of Art amongts some other books he dedicated to it, and his words are so accurate that it is a must read for everyone in the business of making shit happen. TL;DR The resistance is a phenomenon well known to creative people, entrepreneurs and anybody trying to make something different and/or new happen – to some extent it is like a force of nature that manif..
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On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee created a post detailing his World Wide Web project on a newsgroup called alt.hypertext in order to entice others to collaborate with him and create and host Web pages for the World Wide Web. However, it wasn’t until August 23, 1991 that it was made publicly accessible for the world to see. You could argue that August 6 is the real birth of the World Wide Web, but most websites and news aggregators ackno..
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On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee created a post detailing his World Wide Web project on a newsgroup called alt.hypertext in order to entice others to collaborate with him and create and host Web pages for the World Wide Web. However, it wasn’t until August 23, 1991 that it was made publicly accessible for the world to see. You could argue that August 6 is the real birth of the World Wide Web, but most websites and news aggregators ackno..
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Klokan Technologies is behind a new implementation of PDFium in GDAL. It allows efficient reading of PDF and GeoPDF file formats.
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Scott Belsky joins us to highlight his journey from Fortune 500 MBA grad to the creative chaos of the design world.
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Steven Pressfield has really coined the term *resistance in his famous book The War of Art amongts some other books he dedicated to it, and his words are so accurate that it is a must read for everyone in the business of making shit happen. TL;DR The resistance is a phenomenon well known to creative people, entrepreneurs and anybody trying to make something different and/or new happen – to some extent it is like a force of nature that manif..
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In “Analysing the DevOps Silo”, I made an assertion that the whole team can and should get involved in all types of work. This might mean we lose the pretty colour-coding of our favourite story-management tool, but in turn we gain a way to acknowledge all the work we are doing—whether traditional feature stories, defect fixes, tech tasks or DevOps tasks—as valuable to the business.
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One of the first Codename One performance tips is: “Don’t use gradients”. We already wrote about improved performance to gradients in the past but that covered linear gradients and didn’t cover radials on iOS. With recent commits radial gradients are now performant on iOS/Android and elsewhere. On iOS Steve implemented gradients as a shader which should deliver great performance. I’m not sure if this is good enough to deliver the leve..
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Drinks and deserts bring me a kick of happiness. I like the rush and excitement I get after a good Old Fashioned, and I like the content that I feel after eating a Tiramisu. For a while, I feel happier. I smile, and I forgive, and I relax. Yet, whenever I have a drink or a desert - it takes from my health. Just like the damage an avatar would sustain in a 3D shooter game, I lose a few precious percent of health. And I’m not speaking about....
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