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As some of you might know, we had an outage yesterday. We believe that in every mistake there is something to learn from, so after each…
As some of you might know, we had an outage yesterday. We believe that in every mistake there is something to learn from, so after each…
For those who don’t know, GWT-Bootstrap wants to port the Twitter Bootstrap widgets to GWT compatible and easy to use components/widgets.
There is no Agility for Dummies. Agility isn’t a silver bullet. You don’t achieve it in five easy steps. So what is it? For myself, I’ve characterized agility in two statements: Agility is the ability to both create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent business environment.
Scope creep, for those of you reading this blog purely for the joy of it, is when a team has agreed to build a piece of software for a given price in a given time frame, and then the person who wants the software changes their mind about what they want, and they ask the team to do something outside the initial agreement, often without concomitant adjustments to the budget or the time frame.  Scope creep is nasty, and left unchecked may caus..
Edit: This code is now on PyPi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-choice-object tl;dr Metaclasses are awesome When using Django’s Model or Form frameworks you can define a fixed set of choices for fields which are list of tuples containing a value and some text to associate with that value. The do...
Edit: This code is now on PyPi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-choice-object tl;dr Metaclasses are awesome When using Django’s Model or Form frameworks you can define a fixed set of choices for fields which are list of tuples containing a value and some text to associate with that value. The do...
On any long running project of consequence, refactoring will happen. While usually this is a good thing, it can sometimes lead to the case where all references to a file are removed, but the file itself still sits in the codebase. Though not technically a problem in itself, this can cause a bit of unnecessarily bloat and confusion, not to mention unnecessary time spent updating these orphaned files to support future refactoring efforts.
Today we’re featuring a guest post from our friends at Retronyms. They’ve built some amazing community features into their app Tabletop using the SoundCloud API and have open sourced their CloudSeeder Devkit. This post was written for us by David Shu. David is a software engineer at the Retronyms and has worked on a number of iOS apps, including Tabletop and Dokobots. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA. We recently built a SoundClou..
Today we’re featuring a guest post from our friends at Retronyms. They’ve built some amazing community features into their app Tabletop using the SoundCloud API and have open sourced their CloudSeeder Devkit. This post was written for us by David Shu. David is a software engineer at the Retronyms and has worked on a number of iOS apps, including Tabletop and Dokobots. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA. We recently built a SoundClou..
Today I learned that npm (the node.js package manager) has support for arbitrary commands and chained commands. I guess I always knew this…
In my previous post I talked about making a laser beam using the HTML5 canvas stroke() method. I mentioned the next thing I wanted to do being adding a curve to the beam to make it look more fluid as it moves (and yes, I know lasers do not curve. Mine does. Shut up. It’s a magic laser. Or it may not even be a “laser” when I’m done with it)
Over the past two days I’ve been working on lasers. It seemed like this would be an easy thing to put in before I started. I mean I already have bullets that you can shoot at will, so a laser is just like a big…bullet…uh…right?
According to the project site on GitHub , The Guava project contains several of Google’s core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based projects: collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.
Yesterday, I wrote a small article talking about Guice and JUnit, so, this time, I’ll just say how to use the small lib that I build (not big deal, one class, one annotation =] )
Guice and JUnit - carlosbecker.com - 14 years ago - eng
Today I experimented with positioning entities on top of each other to make a boss with specific areas that you have to target in order to kill. Hitting the rest of the body does little to no damage, but hitting specific areas with the right weapons increases damage dealt to the boss. These could also be used to customize other properties, like having different hit areas be different sizes, types, etc.
A Series on Machine Learning These days an absolutely staggering amount of research and development work goes into the very coarsely defined field of “machine learning.” Part of the reason why it’s so coarsely defined is because it borrows techniques from so many different fields. Many problems in machine learning can be phrased in different but equivalent ways. While they are often purely optimization problems, such techniques can be expre..
A Series on Machine Learning These days an absolutely staggering amount of research and development work goes into the very coarsely defined field of “machine learning.” Part of the reason why it’s so coarsely defined is because it borrows techniques from so many different fields. Many problems in machine learning can be phrased in different but equivalent ways. While they are often purely optimization problems, such techniques can be expre..
A Series on Machine Learning These days an absolutely staggering amount of research and development work goes into the very coarsely defined field of “machine learning.” Part of the reason why it’s so coarsely defined is because it borrows techniques from so many different fields. Many problems in machine learning can be phrased in different but equivalent ways. While they are often purely optimization problems, such techniques can be expre..
Email fraud - connortumbleson.com - 14 years ago - eng
So I've come across another email case. A friend of mine got their email password stolen for their Yahoo account. Within minutes their Gmail account was also compromised and the password on both accounts were changed. Hope seemed lost, and this post details the outline of my procedure
It’s a well known fact that the cursor_sharing parameter can be set to FORCE for making Oracle replace any literals with system-generated bind variable placeholders and then calculating the SQL hash value for looking up an existing cursor in library cache. This should reduce the amount of hard parsing and shared pool garbage. Also, the same mechanism (of replacing literal values with bind variable placeholders before calculating the S..
It’s a well known fact that the cursor_sharing parameter can be set to FORCE for making Oracle replace any literals with system-generated bind variable placeholders and then calculating the SQL hash value for looking up an existing cursor in library cache. This should reduce the amount of hard parsing and shared pool garbage. Also, the same mechanism (of replacing literal values with bind variable placeholders before calculating the S..
I don’t know if you share my point of view, but I have a confession to make: I hate issue trackers. I usually work on small projects with small teams, and I find monsters like Bugzilla or Redmine an overkill. Another thing is that in my head the word “issue” has a bitter taste. I prefer the word “task” instead, because it doesn’t make much difference to me when I’m implementing a new long-expected feature or fixing an annoying bug.
I don’t know if you share my point of view, but I have a confession to make: I hate issue trackers. I usually work on small projects with small teams, and I find monsters like Bugzilla or Redmine an overkill. Another thing is that in my head the word “issue” has a bitter taste. I prefer the word “task” instead, because it doesn’t make much difference to me when I’m implementing a new long-expected feature or fixing an annoying bug.
We are pleased to announce that Mingle 12.2 is now available in two flavors: Mingle and Mingle Plus. Mingle Plus contains all of the features of Mingle and opens up a new realm of capabilities to our customers. The first of these new capabilities is called Planner and it is intended to encourage collaboration and transparency for multiple teams working toward a shared goal within a program of work. Some of the highlights include: Planning w..
There’s a lot of dogma in the religious wars around software development practices and methodologies. Are phase-gate methodologies effective at managing the risk of software development, or just risk management kabuki? Does TDD really make for higher quality software? Is pair programming a superior replacement for code review or just a way to inflate consulting rates?
the first post - zserge.com - 14 years ago - eng
Normally, people don’t read ‘hello’ posts. I consider them useless, they teach nothing, mean nothing but still take time to write and to read. So, I strongly hope that I will be the only person who read this. I started another blog. I already have one (in Russian), but I hope they both will co-exists in future. Some posts will be translated, some will be adopted, others will not. Anyway, I can’t promise too much, but the idea of this site/b..
the first post - zserge.com - 14 years ago - eng
Normally, people don’t read ‘hello’ posts. I consider them useless, they teach nothing, mean nothing but still take time to write and to read. So, I strongly hope that I will be the only person who read this. I started another blog. I already have one (in Russian), but I hope they both will co-exists in future. Some posts will be translated, some will be adopted, others will not. Anyway, I can’t promise too much, but the idea of this site/b..
Di Codecademy avevo già scritto tempo fa  in occasione dei loro primi corsi giocoso-interattivi su HTML, CSS  e JavaScript. E’ di ieri l’annuncio del nuovo corso Python per principianti. Se volete rompere il ghiaccio con questo bellissimo linguaggio l’approccio di Codecademy (imparare divertendosi, anche grazie a collaudati meccanismi incentivanti come i punteggi e i trofei) potrebbe fare per voi.
Di Codecademy avevo già scritto tempo fa  in occasione dei loro primi corsi giocoso-interattivi su HTML, CSS  e JavaScript. E’ di ieri l’annuncio del nuovo corso Python per principianti. Se volete rompere il ghiaccio con questo bellissimo linguaggio l’approccio di Codecademy (imparare divertendosi, anche grazie a collaudati meccanismi incentivanti come i punteggi e i trofei) potrebbe fare per voi.
I am a nerd - www.evantahler.com - 14 years ago - eng
I received some stickers at work today from Joyent and, like I have been doing for the past many years, I stuck them to the back of my…
Di Codecademy avevo già scritto tempo fa  in occasione dei loro primi corsi giocoso-interattivi su HTML, CSS  e JavaScript. E’ di ieri l’annuncio del nuovo corso Python per principianti. Se volete rompere il ghiaccio con questo bellissimo linguaggio l’approccio di Codecademy (imparare divertendosi, anche grazie a collaudati meccanismi incentivanti come i punteggi e i trofei) potrebbe fare per voi.
The purpose of the single user story gets lost in the flow of work As most Agile and Kanban teams know, user stories can help teams collaborate around bite-sized chunks of work. The single, trackable user story allows teams to measure and sustain a constant flow of work. And yet, I have noticed that as teams become more proficient at establishing a flow, the usefulness of the user story as a way to communicate customer value diminishes seve..
Too many tiny functions? - liza.io - 14 years ago - eng
When do you have too many functions? For me breaking things down into functions makes it easier to read in many cases, but I’ve been hesitant to separate out everything into tiny bits and pieces. Let’s say someone else is looking at my code - does it get to a point where generally it’s just too much? For example, what would generally be considered better, this:
Dear reader, this post has an interactive simulation! We encourage you to play with it as you read the article below. In our series of posts on cellular automata, we explored Conway’s classic Game of Life and discovered some interesting patterns therein. And then in our primers on computing theory, we built up a theoretical foundation for similar kinds of machines, including a discussion of Turing machines and the various computational comp..
Dear reader, this post has an interactive simulation! We encourage you to play with it as you read the article below. In our series of posts on cellular automata, we explored Conway’s classic Game of Life and discovered some interesting patterns therein. And then in our primers on computing theory, we built up a theoretical foundation for similar kinds of machines, including a discussion of Turing machines and the various computational comp..
Dear reader, this post has an interactive simulation! We encourage you to play with it as you read the article below. In our series of posts on cellular automata, we explored Conway’s classic Game of Life and discovered some interesting patterns therein. And then in our primers on computing theory, we built up a theoretical foundation for similar kinds of machines, including a discussion of Turing machines and the various computational comp..
A while ago I listened to a talk by Jonathan Blow that covered optimization and talked about how most people worry about it too early and how they should just focus on making things work. I know there was much more said in this talk (it’s long and very interesting), but this is the general message that has stuck with me after listening to it - possibly because many other people already express the same opinions on optimization. It makes s..
All we ever talk of is light— let there be light, there was light then, good light—but what I consider dawn is darker than all that. So many hours between the day receding and what we recognize as morning, the sun cresting like a wave that won’t break over us—as if  light were protective, as if  no hearts were flayed, no bodies broken on a day like today. In any film,
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