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Nov. 17, 2011 11:39 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Summer Camp from the A4 wing Just helped form a human chain to bring the mail into the Station, brought to Destination Zulu by a snowmobile/sled combo and a front loader from Cargo, and swapped hand-to-hand up the stairs into the airlock to the Post Office. Mail is a big deal here, and I’ve enjoyed getting it in the past, so it’s fun to be a part of that, even ....
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Nov. 17, 2011 11:39 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Summer Camp from the A4 wing Just helped form a human chain to bring the mail into the Station, brought to Destination Zulu by a snowmobile/sled combo and a front loader from Cargo, and swapped hand-to-hand up the stairs into the airlock to the Post Office. Mail is a big deal here, and I’ve enjoyed getting it in the past, so it’s fun to be a part of that, even ....
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Qt 5 is bringing JS at the same level of support as C++ — Quim Gil , Nokia Great news for mobile developers, as with this you can combine declarative user interfaces with the universal runtime
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Qt 5 is bringing JS at the same level of support as C++ — Quim Gil , Nokia Great news for mobile developers, as with this you can combine declarative user interfaces with the universal runtime
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It’s more a reminder to myself, gevent depends on libevent2 but the setup.py doesn’t correcty look for it, a simple solution: export CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib pip install gevent change it for /opt/local/… if you are on OSX or you will get a bunch of errors /Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -pipe -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/opt/local/Librar..
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I remember debating about this with Ellen months ago at her house. I haven’t yet decided what my stance is on gamification, although I’ve definitely been leaning toward the positive. If there’s something that can make things we don’t particularly enjoy doing fun (or even make things that we already enjoy doing even more fun), that’s awesome. This is already happening with apps like EpicWin and Zombies Run (which is in development afte..
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How BDD and Feature Injection can help you be a better...
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www.thoughtworks.com
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14 years ago
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Product Ownership is very difficult. Take a big step away from the Agile Manifesto and think for a moment about project stakeholders, user stories, and how they don't fit together as neatly in real life as they do in Mike Cohn's User Stories Applied, as awesome as that book is. How in the world is it possible for there to be a single person standing in for all project stakeholders in negotiating with the team?
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Profiling trace files with preprocessor external tables in 11g and some parallel execution hacking
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tanelpoder.com
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14 years ago
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If you work with SQL Trace files (and profile them) then you should check out the awesome novel use of the “external table preprocessor” feature explained by Adrian Billington here: http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=516 Ironically just a day after writing my “ Evil things ” article, I noticed a note in MOS about how to enable an event 10384 at level 16384 to get a parallel plan to be executed in serial: How to force t..
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Profiling trace files with preprocessor external tables in 11g and some parallel execution hacking
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tanelpoder.com
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14 years ago
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If you work with SQL Trace files (and profile them) then you should check out the awesome novel use of the “external table preprocessor” feature explained by Adrian Billington here: http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=516 Ironically just a day after writing my “ Evil things ” article, I noticed a note in MOS about how to enable an event 10384 at level 16384 to get a parallel plan to be executed in serial: How to force t..
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Nov. 15, 2011 05:36 NZDT Berthing A4-209, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Fire sled next to refueling pit Well, that’ll wake you up nice and quick. We just had a fire alarm which went on for long enough to get everyone out of bed and the fire team half-dressed for action. False alarm, apparently. I’ve had a checkered history with fire alarms here. A few years ago when they were testing out the system, I was on night shift. Of....
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Competition App - Host a contest, powered by SoundCloud
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developers.soundcloud.com
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14 years ago
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Competitions are a great way to get your fans involved around a particular theme or release. They encourage original content creation and tend to be extremely viral due to the high level of self-promotion involved with participating. The infrastructure you choose to throw these contests on should be accessible from any device while also providing a nice aesthetic backdrop to apply your branding. Users should be able to submit, vote, and com..
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Today we’re excited to announce a big update to our JavaScript SDK. Aside from improving the existing functionality like authentication, API…
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Nov. 15, 2011 05:36 NZDT Berthing A4-209, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Fire sled next to refueling pit Well, that’ll wake you up nice and quick. We just had a fire alarm which went on for long enough to get everyone out of bed and the fire team half-dressed for action. False alarm, apparently. I’ve had a checkered history with fire alarms here. A few years ago when they were testing out the system, I was on night shift. Of....
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Competition App - Host a contest, powered by SoundCloud
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developers.soundcloud.com
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14 years ago
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Competitions are a great way to get your fans involved around a particular theme or release. They encourage original content creation and tend to be extremely viral due to the high level of self-promotion involved with participating. The infrastructure you choose to throw these contests on should be accessible from any device while also providing a nice aesthetic backdrop to apply your branding. Users should be able to submit, vote, and com..
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Today we’re excited to announce a big update to our JavaScript SDK. Aside from improving the existing functionality like authentication, API…
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Nov. 15, 2011 05:36 NZDT Berthing A4-209, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Fire sled next to refueling pit Well, that’ll wake you up nice and quick. We just had a fire alarm which went on for long enough to get everyone out of bed and the fire team half-dressed for action. False alarm, apparently. I’ve had a checkered history with fire alarms here. A few years ago when they were testing out the system, I was on night shift. Of....
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Relax, I’m talking about the Oracle Database kernel here, not the corporation ;-) Here’s a couple of more reasons why not to play around with undocumented debug events unless you’re really sure why and how would they help to solve your specific problem (and you’ve gotten a blessing in some form from Oracle support too): $ oerr ora 10665 10665, 00000, "Inject Evil Literals" // *Cause: Event 10665 is set to some number > 0, causing 1/(v....
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Relax, I’m talking about the Oracle Database kernel here, not the corporation ;-) Here’s a couple of more reasons why not to play around with undocumented debug events unless you’re really sure why and how would they help to solve your specific problem (and you’ve gotten a blessing in some form from Oracle support too): $ oerr ora 10665 10665, 00000, "Inject Evil Literals" // *Cause: Event 10665 is set to some number > 0, causing 1/(v....
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What an awesome weekend. New keyboard and mouse, Fremantle, and a great run.
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liza.io
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14 years ago
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It’s been quite a fricking awesome weekend - full of work, PC peripherals, and distractions. And I just finished my first 5km run under 25 minutes since my fracture, so the endorphins are going and I feel like writing. Oh, what? You want handy anchor links? Here you go:
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For those completely new to web development, Django is a web framework that makes it easier to build web applications with Python. For those that have some knowledge of other web frameworks and Django you may be able to fly through much of the following. Django is a slight modification on the MVC construct which views itself as a MVT Model, View, Template. Django views a website as a project and within it smaller apps are contained. E....
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For those completely new to web development, Django is a web framework that makes it easier to build web applications with Python. For those that have some knowledge of other web frameworks and Django you may be able to fly through much of the following. Django is a slight modification on the MVC construct which views itself as a MVT Model, View, Template. Django views a website as a project and within it smaller apps are contained. E....
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Feeling a bit run down this afternoon. Got up and decided it was my first “workout” day, working out consisting of twenty minutes of walking since this is still just my fourth day here. Had a nice walk and a bit of a stretch, and then a SHOWER, my first since McMurdo. Feeling pretty peppy, I had decided today would mostly be a day off, to rejuvenate and prepare for the week ahead. I was headed back to my room to practice, and ran into WO Ca....
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Feeling a bit run down this afternoon. Got up and decided it was my first “workout” day, working out consisting of twenty minutes of walking since this is still just my fourth day here. Had a nice walk and a bit of a stretch, and then a SHOWER, my first since McMurdo. Feeling pretty peppy, I had decided today would mostly be a day off, to rejuvenate and prepare for the week ahead. I was headed back to my room to practice, and ran into WO Ca....
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Feeling a bit run down this afternoon. Got up and decided it was my first “workout” day, working out consisting of twenty minutes of walking since this is still just my fourth day here. Had a nice walk and a bit of a stretch, and then a SHOWER, my first since McMurdo. Feeling pretty peppy, I had decided today would mostly be a day off, to rejuvenate and prepare for the week ahead. I was headed back to my room to practice, and ran into WO Ca....
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Yesterday, Mozilla announced the availability of Firefox 10 beta, named Aurora. The version introduces a bunch of new HTML5 features and some of them sound very interesting.
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Yesterday, Mozilla announced the availability of Firefox 10 beta, named Aurora. The version introduces a bunch of new HTML5 features and some of them sound very interesting.
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Nov. 12, 2011 11:46 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Jens and Freija departing South Pole after 12 months Just said farewell to IceCube winter-overs Freija and Jens on the “flight deck” (outdoor waiting area near the plane… wind chill -65 F). Bittersweet partings for all concerned, I’d say. Their plane is taxiing as I write this. Carlos and Sven take over now as winter-overs for the coming year. This was the f..
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Nov. 12, 2011 11:46 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Jens and Freija departing South Pole after 12 months Just said farewell to IceCube winter-overs Freija and Jens on the “flight deck” (outdoor waiting area near the plane… wind chill -65 F). Bittersweet partings for all concerned, I’d say. Their plane is taxiing as I write this. Carlos and Sven take over now as winter-overs for the coming year. This was the f..
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Nov. 12, 2011 11:46 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Jens and Freija departing South Pole after 12 months Just said farewell to IceCube winter-overs Freija and Jens on the “flight deck” (outdoor waiting area near the plane… wind chill -65 F). Bittersweet partings for all concerned, I’d say. Their plane is taxiing as I write this. Carlos and Sven take over now as winter-overs for the coming year. This was the f..
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17:01 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station En route to South Pole Been here just over a day now and am settling in. Once I get here it’s easy to settle into a work routine, which makes it harder to do much writing. But I’m still acclimating to the altitude, trying to rest and stay hydrated, and the schedule isn’t too intense so far. Did a debrief today of our outgoing winter-over (WO) scientists, who are leaving t....
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17:01 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station En route to South Pole Been here just over a day now and am settling in. Once I get here it’s easy to settle into a work routine, which makes it harder to do much writing. But I’m still acclimating to the altitude, trying to rest and stay hydrated, and the schedule isn’t too intense so far. Did a debrief today of our outgoing winter-over (WO) scientists, who are leaving t....
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17:01 NZDT B2 Science, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station En route to South Pole Been here just over a day now and am settling in. Once I get here it’s easy to settle into a work routine, which makes it harder to do much writing. But I’m still acclimating to the altitude, trying to rest and stay hydrated, and the schedule isn’t too intense so far. Did a debrief today of our outgoing winter-over (WO) scientists, who are leaving t....
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Microsoft Silverlight e Adobe Flash verso la resa. Comincia l’era di Re HTML5
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nicolaiarocci.com
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14 years ago
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Silverlight 5 è in dirittura d’arrivo. L’ultimo aggiornamento del plug-in Microsoft sarà ultimo in tutti i sensi dato che a quanto pare non ne seguiranno altri. A sostenerlo è ZD-Net per bocca di Mary-Jo Foley, di solito sempre ben informata su quel che succede nei corridoi del gigante di Seattle. Diversi partner e clienti mi hanno detto di aver saputo da fonti Microsoft che Silverlight 5 è l’ultima versione di Silverlight che Microso....
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Last weekend was another successful Music Hack Day Boston jam-packed with cool hacks, and hackers alike. We are always excited to get involved, meet new and interesting people, and of course hack!
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Last weekend was another successful Music Hack Day Boston jam-packed with cool hacks, and hackers alike. We are always excited to get involved, meet new and interesting people, and of course hack!
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So yesterday I was bored and asked my friend what I should do. She replied "I don't know, draw ASCII art or something!" and sitting there with the terminal open I kind of wondered what it would take to write one of those image to ASCII scripts. 20 minutes later I had the following PHP Shell Script! It works by simply sampling the saturation of every X th pixel and mapping that saturation to a character from an array. There is no nearest....
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So yesterday I was bored and asked my friend what I should do. She replied "I don't know, draw ASCII art or something!" and sitting there with the terminal open I kind of wondered what it would take to write one of those image to ASCII scripts. 20 minutes later I had the following PHP Shell Script! It works by simply sampling the saturation of every X th pixel and mapping that saturation to a character from an array. There is no nearest....
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As a trainer, I have noticed that when I start the "Roles, Personas and Goals" discussions, attendees in the room are 40% more likely to start surreptitiously checking e-mail their smartphones than they when we talk about comparatively exciting topics such as "stand up meetings," "story boards," the "burn up versus burn down chart" debate, or "evolutionary design." I had to lure you to this blog post, in fact, by riding on the coat-tails o..
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SoundCloud launches the HTML5 Audio Improvement Initiative
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developers.soundcloud.com
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14 years ago
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eng
We at SoundCloud want to build the best sound player for the web, and we want to do that using the Open Web standards. While working on the…
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SoundCloud launches the HTML5 Audio Improvement Initiative
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developers.soundcloud.com
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14 years ago
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eng
We at SoundCloud want to build the best sound player for the web, and we want to do that using the Open Web standards. While working on the…
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NoSQL has long been a trend that many have talked about. While there’s a place for various key-value stores and tools such as memcache and redis, this will address most specifically how NoSQL is attempting to replace a traditional database. I’ve long been a fan of postgres and in general traditional relational databases. In a broad sense traditional databases offer multiple things. RDMS Data guarantees The current major SQL da....
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NoSQL has long been a trend that many have talked about. While there’s a place for various key-value stores and tools such as memcache and redis, this will address most specifically how NoSQL is attempting to replace a traditional database. I’ve long been a fan of postgres and in general traditional relational databases. In a broad sense traditional databases offer multiple things. RDMS Data guarantees The current major SQL da....
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In my earlier post on Teams and Tools at Heroku , I mentioned how we value engineers’ time; their work has enabled us to build a great platform. As a result of what we’ve built, we’ve had great growth both of our platform and of our teams internally. With that growth inevitably comes different distractions on engineers’ time. Despite how a manager may plan things, engineering work needs long periods of uninterrupted time. To ensure that no....
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