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Behavior Driven Development is best described as taking an “Outside-In” approach, meaning you define your feature from the outset and describe business value, and work your way in a small piece at a time. That being the case, I thought it’d be best to cover one stage of evolution that I’ve had over the years… from Developer Facing Acceptance Tests to Customer Facing Story Level Specifications. The Start: Developer Facing Acceptance Tests Th..
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Product/Portfolio planning is a key activity for the Agile Product Manager, which usually consists of planning and management of existing product sets, as well as defining new products for the portfolio. This kind of product/portfolio planning needs the product manager to develop a roadmap in collaboration with her stakeholders that consists of new upcoming products and also updates to existing products based on the their current status. Th..
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Make and all of its flavours have been here for almost 40 years and it's a tool hard to beat for many things. There are however cases when you do not need the power of Make and are willing to trade the flexibility for something else. In case of Ninja , for its speed.
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This has been a frequent RFE in the groups but it never made its way up because of the complexity involved. A corporate account recently requested support for native Maps so we had to promote the task upwards. We decided to build the native maps as an external cn1lib rather than build them into Codename One itself, the reasoning is two fold: 1. Show how to map a native component – next time someone wants to add a native widget..
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Introduction One of the first things I learned about in Go was using an uppercase or lowercase letter as the first letter when naming a type, variable or function. It was explained that when the first letter was capitalized, the identifier was public to any piece of code that wanted to use it. When the first letter was lowercase, the identifier was private and could only be accessed within the package it was declared.
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The Kickstarter for Lemma launches on Monday! Keep an eye out, and tell your friends! Prepare yourself for tons of giant GIFs. You can click each one to watch a much faster HTML5 version (can't wait until the internet ecosystem finally lets us embed HTML5 gifs...) This week I revamped the materials... again. Check it out: It had some interesting implications for the "snake" enemy:
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Very, very cool project from Josh Worth — both technically, and as a source of perspective for how vast space really is, and how small the earth — and, by extension, we — are. Permalink.
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Nice to finally have some closure on this subject. I never got into Flappy Bird — I never even downloaded the game — but I couldn’t help but get sucked into the “discussion” — and I use that term loosely here — around the game, especially after its creator took Flappy Bird down at the peak of its popularity. I wish him good luck in the future; he has been remarkably blessed, and I have no doubt he will make good use of that good fortune. ..
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After my presentation at UKNOF on SR , Mark Townsley asked me whether I'd be interested in presenting to his class at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, around the thinking (from an ops perspective) of delivering the 5218 concept of "net positive value" through the SR technology, and how the existing protocols that are available might measure up against the criteria that 5218 gives us to consider. We managed to co-ordinate logistics, and ..
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After my presentation at UKNOF on SR , Mark Townsley asked me whether I'd be interested in presenting to his class at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, around the thinking (from an ops perspective) of delivering the 5218 concept of "net positive value" through the SR technology, and how the existing protocols that are available might measure up against the criteria that 5218 gives us to consider. We managed to co-ordinate logistics, and ..
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It's sometimes tempting to dismiss things as the next Fad or Buzzword. There's never enough time to learn everything and some things are…
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It's sometimes tempting to dismiss things as the next Fad or Buzzword. There's never enough time to learn everything and some things are…
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We announce a new open-source web service with a database of coordinates systems used in maps worldwide.
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Hi! Welcome to Part 3 of our series where we interview testers who with their insightful (and disruptive) thoughts challenged and improved the testing practice.
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The Day We Fight Back on 11 February 2014, provided a great opportunity for Australians (and people around the world) to to say no to mass surveillance. Edward Snowden’s revelations have exposed the activities of not only the US National Security Agency but also its security partners around the world. As one of the Five Eyes, Australia participates as a key member of the emerging global super-surveillance state.
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1 Billion Rising is a global movement that highlights a common and daily problem: violence against women. Its message: 1 in 3 women are or will be raped in their lifetime. This number is too big to ignore. In 2013, Thoughtworks joined the first edition of 1 Billion Rising. In 2014 we continued this movement and our Recife, Brazil office participated for the first time. The focus being on the daily small violences women face. (Sometimes ..
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One of the challenges in a large distributed enterprise is "finding stuff". Sure we call it collaboration, knowledge management, or any number of other sophisticated terms but often it boils down to just finding stuff. To compensate the organization reacts by saving multiple copies and versions of a file in many different locations: email, shared file systems, intranets, etc. Of course this compounds the issue and drives the desire to sav..
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Hi All, I set about to put together a new app and challenged myself to do the whole architecture on azure without spending a penny. The only caveat I set was that I should be able to scale if everything goes really well. So the basic components I’m using are: MongoDB - 500mb db offered on Azure Store by MongoLabs (having not played with mongo wanted to give it a go, you could also use SQL Azure free db or others) SendGrid - 20k emails..
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Code modularization, achieved in one way or another, is a technique a good developer must aim for because it helps keeping things small, well-tested and organized. And of course, it follows the DRY directive. So as a Node.js developer (and maybe contributor to the Open Source), creating and publishing an NPM module is one of those steps you will eventually face. Probably if any Node.js developer would have to pick an indispensable tool ....
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Back when I was first exposed to programming language design, I decided it would be really cool if there were a language that let you define your own number types and then do all your programming within those number types. And since I get excited about math, I think of really exotic number types (Boolean rings, Gaussian integers, Octonions, oh my!). I imagined it would be a language feature, so I could do something like this:
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Back when I was first exposed to programming language design, I decided it would be really cool if there were a language that let you define your own number types and then do all your programming within those number types. And since I get excited about math, I think of really exotic number types (Boolean rings, Gaussian integers, Octonions, oh my!). I imagined it would be a language feature, so I could do something like this:
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Back when I was first exposed to programming language design, I decided it would be really cool if there were a language that let you define your own number types and then do all your programming within those number types. And since I get excited about math, I think of really exotic number types (Boolean rings, Gaussian integers, Octonions, oh my!). I imagined it would be a language feature, so I could do something like this:
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In what situations should a template be used for writing stories? When would the lack of templates cause issues? In this blog, I wanted to put out the case both for and against creating and using a story template. In particular, stressing the importance of creating a balanced view. Feel free to join in and add your own.
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So I was recently scheduled to do an AirPair pair programming session to help someone understand the various javascript functions available for asynchronous programming. This topic is key to writing correct code both in node.js and the browser, but it is indeed easy to see how things can be quite confusing when first encountering a myriad of functions that all seem to basically do the same thing. setTimeout, setImmediate, process.next....
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So I was recently scheduled to do an AirPair pair programming session to help someone understand the various javascript functions available for asynchronous programming. This topic is key to writing correct code both in node.js and the browser, but it is indeed easy to see how things can be quite confusing when first encountering a myriad of functions that all seem to basically do the same thing. setTimeout, setImmediate, process.next....
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Algorithm: Recognizing URLs within plain text, and displaying them as clickable links in HTML, in Wicket
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I have just, out of necessity for a customer project, written code which takes user-entered plain text, and creates out of that HTML with URLs marked up as clickable links. Although marking up links in user-entered text is standard functionality, Stack Overflow would have you believe that it’s not something that should not be attempted, as it cannot be done perfectly. This is technically correct, however, users are accustomed to softwar..
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A group of us got together at the North American Away Day in 2011 to record a video for the "It Gets Better" project. This video is the result.
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As you may have heard, Testflight is pulling down its support to Android on March 21. But don't worry, we will show you some alternatives so you can choose the tool that best suits your needs. First, we will define the criteria for the tools:
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Have you ever noticed how iOS apps start almost instantly in comparison to Android apps? There is a trick to that. iOS applications have a file traditionally called Default.png that includes a 320×480 pixel image of the first screen of the application. So you are treated to an “illusion” of the application instantly coming to life and filling up with data, this is pretty cool on the surface but is a source to no end of trouble in iOS and ..
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We are passionate about creating an IT environment that is a more welcoming place for minorities and underrepresented groups. One way we do that is by working hard to bring more women into technology. You know what happens when we succeed? A revolution!
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1. What is a Java program? a) A collection of classes b) A collection of objects talking to other objects by invoking each others methods c) A template that describes the kinds of state and behavior that objects of its type support 2. Java components are: a) types b) classes c) variables d) objects e) instances f) methods 3. What is inheritance? a) Code defined in one class can not be reused in other classes ..
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Cloud files are a great pro feature that we didn’t emphasize enough, its remarkably useful. It allows you to upload a file into the cloud which you can then transfer to anyone thru a simple “obfuscated” URL. The URL is long so the probability of someone guessing it is low, hence its pretty secure for private file transfer (if its really private you should use bouncy castle ). The API couldn’t be simpler:
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