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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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eng
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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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eng
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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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Stubbing Web Services with Sinatra: Standing up a quick server for your client application
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joshuarogers.net
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12 years ago
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Introduction The concept of dependencies seems rather straight forward. If “Thing A” depends on “Thing B”, then we can understand that we can't possibly use “Thing A” until we have “Thing B”. It's not even a development principle really, it's more of an “even small kids realize this” kind of principle. It's sort of a universal given, unless you happen to be Gallifreyan. Taking that a step further, if you want me to make an application for y..
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I’m still going with the Laravel port. One thing I’ve found really interesting is custom validators. In Laravel models you can set field rules, such as…
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AdRoll’s customer dashboard is powered by our HBase cluster, populated using both Storm and Hadoop MapReduce . Using Storm allows us to provide real-time statistics to our users, while Hadoop gives us the accuracy guarantees needed for billing. Throughout the day, Storm emits a steady stream of writes to HBase. Our MapReduce jobs however, run once a day over the previous day’s data. This generates a huge spike in write traffic that can....
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Very interesting take on the recent flare up around Disruption Theory, and how Lepore was not necessarily wrong to criticize Christenson and his theory, but that she did point to the wrong permutation of it: it is not necessarily the base theory that is flawed, but rather the watered-down version we find in use so often today. John Kirk then proceeded to delve further into the theory in a great follow up to Ben Thompson’s recent piece , C..
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I have been carrying my Fitbit One for a little over two years with me and it keeps tracking my daily steps. It also tracks my distance covered by multiplying those steps using the stride length which you can either provide explicitly or implicitly setting your heights. In the winter of 2012 I bought my first ~Garmin Forerunner 410~ (replaced by a Garmin Forerunner 920XT) GPS watch to help me track my running (and other outdoor) activities.
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I’ve been using Netezza for a few months now and this post captures my opinions based on my limited experience. For context, I’m populating a Netezza database for a client. The database schema is managed by the client, and Netezza was selected prior to my involvement. Netezza is their data warehouse, but they’re also using it a little like an application database. They’re using a bi-temporal model , but that’s a subject for another post.
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All variants of Driven Development (henceforth the ‘xDDs’) strive to attain focused, minimalistic coding. The premise of lean development is that we should write the minimal amount of code to satisfy our goals. A way to ensure that code is able to solve the given problem and respond to change over time is to articulate the problem in machine-readable form. This allows us to programmatically validate its correctness. For this reason, xDD is ..
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Meaghan Lewis is an imposter, and so are you. If you’re afflicted with Imposter Syndrome, as 70% of successful people are, you might feel like a fraud because your accomplishments are inadequate. Many people with Imposter Syndrome attribute their success to luck or timing, instead of their own hard work. They report “waiting to be found out.” Ironically, imposters are the ones who are most likely to be high achievers.
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FCC Must Reclassify Broadband to Preserve Net Neutrality in the US
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www.thoughtworks.com
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12 years ago
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eng
Today, Thoughtworks joined tens of thousands of citizens and dozens of companies in filing comments with the FCC in opposition to proceeding 14-28, the Open Internet Remand. Add your voice to the growing chorus in defense of the open Internet by submitting a comment here. To Chairman Wheeler and the FCC Commissioners:
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Notice: ** the original version of this post incorrectly specified the property as AppArgs instead of AppArg. This is now fixed. For Android you would probably also want to add the build argument android.xactivity=android:exported="false". A common trick in mobile application development, is communication between two unrelated applications. In Android we have intents which are pretty elaborate and can be used via Display.execute, howe..
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In the process of growing a company there’s several hurdles based on the size of the company. What worked at 5 doesn’t work at 20, what works at 20 doesn’t work at 50, and what worked at 50 doesn’t work at 150. There’s a lot of talk about two pizza teams and scaling development teams out there. One thing I haven’t seen quite enough of is details around scribing and documenting things. Planning At teams of 2 and 3 you get everyon....
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