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If you've spent any amount of time on this site you may have noticed that I'm fond of PostgreSQL...and Ruby on Rails...and that I dislike the general trend among Rails developers to ignore all of the amazing features in PostgreSQL that make your application better in favor of risking data integrity just so that all logic can remain in Rails. So here's my top collection of Rails gems to get at all that untapped power in PostgreSQL that you d..
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If you've spent any amount of time on this site you may have noticed that I'm fond of PostgreSQL...and Ruby on Rails...and that I dislike the general trend among Rails developers to ignore all of the amazing features in PostgreSQL that make your application better in favor of risking data integrity just so that all logic can remain in Rails. So here's my top collection of Rails gems to get at all that untapped power in PostgreSQL that you d..
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5 Tips for New iOS Developers Swift is the future of development on Apple’s platforms. Any developer interested in mobile devices would be well-served by learning this exciting new language. For developers new to the iOS ecosystem, this might seem like a godsend. The common sentiment heard throughout the blogosphere is: death to Objective-C!
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Getting to Know Fiddler: Part V: Make Fiddler even more powerful by adding extensions
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joshuarogers.net
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12 years ago
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The more time I spend examining Fiddler, the more and more impressed I am. Not only is it feature rich out of the box, but it includes a number of mechanism to easily extend it. This week we're going to focus on the easiest way to add new functionality: installing new plugins. All of the following plugins are available at Telerik.com. I highly recommend installing them. JavaScript Formatter The first plugin, and my personal favorite, was in..
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As usual, a great post by Joe Steel over at Unauthoritative Pronouncements where he tackles the now-inflammatory issue of Markdown and its numerous variants, and goes on to explain why he cannot get behind Jeff Atwood’s “Standard Markdown” — later renamed to “Common Markdown”, and then finally “CommonMark” — play. I completely agree with every point Joe made. However, I will say that although I do agree with Joe, I cannot get behind the und....
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Possible the only impartial take on the recent Markdown flareup you will find anywhere, Sid O’Neill took this opportunity to make a great work of prose rather than a declaration of support in favor of one side or the other. Take this opportunity to enjoy an article for the excellent craft it contains, rather than the point it attempts to make. Permalink.
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The Stanford Javascript Crypto Library, or simply SJCL , is probably the best option available right now for using cryptography on the client-side: the project started in 2009 as a paper describing how to implement a secure and fast crypto library for web browsers, including, for instance, a CSPRNG algorithm and symmetric encryption. Today, it also has public-key crypto, hashing, and ECC primitives. It’s very small (just 37kb uncompresse....
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In many societies, there is an expectation placed on a woman that once she is married and has children - she must reconsider her career path options. It is considered the natural order of things for her to stop working altogether, or at a minimum work in a profession that is more ‘mother-appropriate’. At least, this is certainly the case in Africa.
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Building software is something that your business needs to do well. You see more revenue moving through digital channels and you’re starting to realise that this trend will continue. Your company’s ability to remain competitive hinges on your use of technology. This same technology gives new competitors the ability to springboard their businesses and scale quickly. Your business needs to have software development as a core competency.
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Every day like clockwork, I copy a small text file out of a staging directory. Shortly thereafter, a Python script pulls the contents of that file out, parses it, and then places each line into a webpage that then gets pushed up to a server managed by a good friend of mine. Within a few seconds of that page going live, the handy Bitly bookmarklet gives me a shortened URL that I then send out to the world thanks to the magic of Tweetbot. ..
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BreastQuest (otherwise known as BQuest or just BQ) is a /co/-created project about a lone well-endow...
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Ten teams of two to four Cerner interns competed in a week-long HackFest this summer, working to solve any problem they put their minds to. This competition cumulated in a presentation and judging of projects, with prizes of Raspberry Pi Kits for each member of the second place team and Leap Motions for each member of the winning team. From mobile apps, to machine learning algorithms, to drones…this year’s Summer Intern HackFest has been on..
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We come into life in a body. We have to take care of our body whether we like it or not. If we don’t take care, we are out of life. Simple. Our bodies are liabilities to us. They demand payment of food, excercise, shower, sex, warmth. If we don’t pay our due in time they enforce-collect it. They control of our mind and drive us crazy until they get their payment. Their demands aren’t the same to every person. Athletes’ body demands much m....
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Pros and Cons There are lots of pros and cons when it comes to WordPress vs Jekyll. After looking through this list you might decide that Jekyll is not for you, and that is fine. Just remember that every tool is used for different tasks and neither WordPress nor Jekyll can be declared “better” as they are both good in different situations. Jekyll Pros Speed : No PHP is called or needs to be executed. A static HTML page is served and that....
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Last week, we announced that Wingify would be sponsoring the JSFoo 2014 conference in Bangalore. We have always been looking out for…
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Coming back from a week without podcasts , I have two great episodes to showcase this time around. Here’s to fantastic podcasts, then, and their continued, well-deserved success. Permalink.
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I was a CS student long ago, but still remember the life. I’ve learned a lot since then and have a successful career. Perhaps I could have evolved much faster with a better initial understanding of this profession. Knowing the lessons I learned will help you avoid some of my mistakes.
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Your quest is at an end for you have reached the home of Peramides 1 . This is a personal blog about things I’ve learnt, discovered, thought, or that I just need to write down somewhere because I always forget them. It’s a spiritual successor of my old WordPress blog. I needed something fresh so I built this using Jekyll/Octopress (I almost chose Hakyll but its documentation was scarce and outdated, and I’m not really proficient in Ha....
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The idea that one could survive and prosper based on their merits alone is a comforting idea. If this story teaches us anything though, it teaches us that increasingly, it is nothing more than that — little more than a comforting notion in a world where mom and dad can open their wallets to make any door spring open before their baby. I signed eight years of my life away in exchange for a four-year education, and while I don’t regret that ..
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I'm taking September off to work for some clients, so Lemma is temporarily on the back-burner. HOWEVER. Wednesday night a certain something arrived in the mail. I immediately tried it out with Half-Life 2 and was shocked at the massive improvement over DK1. I was so impressed that I've spent pretty much every waking minute since then trying to get it working in Lemma. Current status? It's very, very close. The VR itself is 1..
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How can I learn to code? It’s a question I get a fair amount. The obvious answers are to checkout codecademey and Treehouse.
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Conway's Law states that "organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations". Melvin Conway coined this aphorism in his paper "How Do Committees Invent?" in 1968.[1]
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This represents JavaZone to me I’ll be flying to Oslo this morning to speak at JavaZone and meet with some local community members, I’m very excited about this! If you are attending JavaZone and haven’t yet signed up for the workshop please do so now. We also updated our home page and gallery with some up to date statistics We just pushed out new build servers for Android/Blackberry & J2ME that
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I first came across Rohan Anderson and his writing through a video titled “ The Smokehouse ”, where he talked about and demonstrated his efforts to construct a smokehouse completely by hand. Since that cool winter night almost a year ago now, I have continued following Rohan’s activities through his excellent blog, Whole Larder Love , and have linked to a number of his articles in the weeks and months since then. If my implicit endorseme..
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Sometimes those little side projects that take nights and weekends to build can bloom into something much bigger.
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Working with a distributed agile team was a first time experience for me, and one that came with very interesting challenges. The most obvious of these challenges was of course, communication. The other was related to keeping good practices like pair programming still feasible. Even something as simple as recognizing my own teammates in person, after having worked virtually with them for several months, was a unique challenge. Despite these..
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When I was 18 years old, I started taking driving lessons. I practiced on an old Opel Astra, that was running on propane instead of normal gas, to save money. On my first lesson, we spent a large portion of the time going over the different tools and instruments available in the car. We covered many things at once. How to turn the signals, which pedal is the throttle, the break, and the clutch, how to use them to switch gears, how to turn l....
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It was a sunny Thursday afternoon. An intrigued, but slightly dubious Technical Architect, Dan, left our Thoughtworks presentation. Could Clojure be used to build the bespoke CMS? Is it too bleeding edge? Would his team get it? But let's take a step back. Why would a large organisation with a mix of technologies and legacy systems want to muddy the waters with a completely new language?
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In July, the third edition of Recife's Campus Party took place over two days, giving the local tech community an opportunity to interact with Thoughtworkers and discuss the ideas that were featured in the Technology Radar.
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If you’re a reader of my code or of this blog , it’s no secret that I hack on a lot of puppet and vagrant . Recently I’ve fooled around with a bit of docker , too. I realized that the vagrant , environments I built for puppet-gluster and puppet-ipa needed to be generalized, and they needed new features too. Therefore… Introducing: Oh My Vagrant! Oh My Vagrant is an attempt to provide an easy to use development enviro..
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If you’re a reader of my code or of this blog , it’s no secret that I hack on a lot of puppet and vagrant . Recently I’ve fooled around with a bit of docker , too. I realized that the vagrant , environments I built for puppet-gluster and puppet-ipa needed to be generalized, and they needed new features too. Therefore… Introducing: Oh My Vagrant! Oh My Vagrant is an attempt to provide an easy to use development enviro..
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After Ben Hewitt’s recent essay on his approach to and the benefits of unschooling, Outside Online has another great article on the subject, this time offering some helpful suggestions to those looking to differ from the norm. Again, not the time to share my thoughts on this subject quite yet, but keep this one, too, in the back of your mind when I do. Permalink.
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I use Google Analytics to collect some usage information in Wish ‘N U.This post is to explain what do I collect and why.
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I use Google Analytics to collect some usage information in Wish ‘N U.This post is to explain what do I collect and why.
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Playing with WebSockets for Fun and Profit: Debugging Remote Machines
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www.thoughtworks.com
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12 years ago
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The web has come far from the days of AJAX polling to where the browser constantly polled the server for updates. In general there are a few ways to get a message from a server to a browser, each of these has their benefits and drawbacks.
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Governments collect and publish enormous amounts of data, but much of that data isn't accessible or promoted openly to the general public. This is often because governments have limited resources with which to engage the citizens and demonstrate the power and impact this data can have. As Australian governments shift further and further towards opening their data, the power of the crowd has meant that amazing ideas can come from anywhere an..
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In July, we hosted the second event in the Women’s DIY Series: Learn Together, Develop it Yourself. We were thrilled that more than 30 women from all different professions and various levels of programming experience come together in Chicago during this seven-hour workshop to learn AngularJS.
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Steve Hannah of new iOS pipeline fame (as well as a ton of open source Codename One libraries and projects you can see here ), has just announced one of his more ambitious undertakings: Mirah support for Codename One . Mirah is effectively Ruby without the performance penalty of an overly dynamic language, it’s compiled to bytecode and can thus be compiled with the Codename One build servers.
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How we built The Coworking Sociatea at the Unleashed open data competition and won three awards including a pre-accelerator spot
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How we built The Coworking Sociatea at the Unleashed open data competition and won three awards including a pre-accelerator spot
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How we built The Coworking Sociatea at the Unleashed open data competition and won three awards including a pre-accelerator spot
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Over the last few years I've grown rather accustomed to listening to my Pandora while working, even upgrading to PandoraOne so that I can enjoy my music without interruptions 1. However, I found myself avoiding Pandora earlier this year. Why? Pandora uses Flash for the web and Air for the desktop, presumably in order to annihilate the battery on my laptop. 2 The problem isn't Pandora though, it's Flash. What if I could use Pandora without F..
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