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Recently (April 2018), I redeployed grh.am using Hugo after running the site with Jekyll for a number of years (which I never really blogged about, the last blog post talks about Pelican ! Previously, deployment felt a little clunky, requiring a git push to a remote repository set up on a server, where a git hook picks up on the new commit and runs Jekyll (as per the Jekyll documentation). This time round, I fancied doing it a ..
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Highlights from the BuzzConf BA 2018 conference. April 26th, 2018 Buzzwords as the Motivation for a Conference As google promptly help us define, buzzword is… a word or phrase, often an item of jargon, that is fashionable at a particular time or in a particular context. In the world of software, these words come and go all the time. While they’re on the spot , everbody talks about them. That means the amount of information spr....
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What ambitious web application developers need to learn from game developers. Presented at EmberConf 2018 in Portland.
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This is a wide-ranging talk on learning and why you need to understand how people learn if you want to build good software. Plus I build a fun orbital mechanics demo. Presented at EmberNYC, March 2018.
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We’re excited to launch the a brand new survey called the JVM Ecosystem Survey 2018 in partnership with the Java Magazine. Also, if we reach 2,500 responses, we’ll give $2000 to Devoxx4Kids!
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In Rider , we have integration tests which interact with api.nuget.org . Also, we have an internal service which monitors the performance of these tests. Two days ago, I noticed that some of these tests sometimes are running for too long. For example, nuget_NuGetTest_shouldUpgradeVersionForDotNetCore usually takes around 10 sec. However, in some cases, it takes around 110 sec, 210 sec, or 310 sec: It looks very suspiciou..
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At Cerner, peer review of code is an important job. We have found it to greatly improve the quality of code and improve a team’s knowledge of the codebase. Through code review discussions, newer engineers are able to learn on valuable areas to question or challenge when something is being changed. While we heavily embrace the practice of peer code review, we also recognize it can make an engineer’s life challenging when you are overwhelmed ..
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In Rider , we have integration tests which interact with api.nuget.org . Also, we have an internal service which monitors the performance of these tests. Two days ago, I noticed that some of these tests sometimes are running for too long. For example, nuget_NuGetTest_shouldUpgradeVersionForDotNetCore usually takes around 10 sec. However, in some cases, it takes around 110 sec, 210 sec, or 310 sec: It looks very suspiciou..
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Introduction What does is mean to be a professional programmer? Some say that it is a specific set of skills . For others, it’s a pledge . I think both are not going far enough. A professional programmer is a programmer who acts like a professional , like doctors, lawyers, counselors, and engineers. In my opinion, acting like a professional means several things: Putting users first . Elevating merit and eliminating bias . Str..
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Introduction What does is mean to be a professional programmer? Some say that it is a specific set of skills . For others, it’s a pledge . I think both are not going far enough. A professional programmer is a programmer who acts like a professional , like doctors, lawyers, counselors, and engineers. In my opinion, acting like a professional means several things: Putting users first . Elevating merit and eliminating bias . Str..
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Introduction What does is mean to be a professional programmer? Some say that it is a specific set of skills . For others, it’s a pledge . I think both are not going far enough. A professional programmer is a programmer who acts like a professional , like doctors, lawyers, counselors, and engineers. In my opinion, acting like a professional means several things: Putting users first . Elevating merit and eliminating bias . Str..
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Introduction What does is mean to be a professional programmer? Some say that it is a specific set of skills . For others, it’s a pledge . I think both are not going far enough. A professional programmer is a programmer who acts like a professional , like doctors, lawyers, counselors, and engineers. In my opinion, acting like a professional means several things: Putting users first . Elevating merit and eliminating bias . Str..
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Over the years of using Linux as my primary and only OS I had to embrace some unavoidable facts. First, things tend to change and complex things tend to break. Second, reinventing the wheel almost never pays off. And finally, it’s not that hard to make a new habit and sometimes it’s better than adjusting your workstation to your “intuitive” understanding that may change very soon. So years ago I decided to only use the most common software ..
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Over the years of using Linux as my primary and only OS I had to embrace some unavoidable facts. First, things tend to change and complex things tend to break. Second, reinventing the wheel almost never pays off. And finally, it’s not that hard to make a new habit and sometimes it’s better than adjusting your workstation to your “intuitive” understanding that may change very soon. So years ago I decided to only use the most common software ..
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I should know better than to use a latest tag in a Docker image. I’d never do this at work, so why did I do it in my hobby project? I blame Go’s nature of dealing with package versioning (that is, the lack thereof) for putting me in the “let’s use latest!” mindset (and yes I know they’re working on it). Anyway, I should know better, but here we are, writing this post. It’s going to be a short one.
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Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing Brainfuck ; and you probably already use JSON. Aside from that last point, parsing S-expressions for Scheme might be an even simpler task. If you'd just like to see the code for the library, pj, check it out on Github . What parsing i....
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Took me a little while to get into this book. It starts out in a school where a pupil spots a spaceship from his favourite video game. This then moves on to it being a precursor to an invasion by the aliens from the video game and the game itself was actually put together as training so the players could pilot drones in the war. A slightly surreal concept but pretty well executed. The “twist” with the main characters dad is a bit contrived ..
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I have been very fortunate in my career to have some exceptional bosses that have had a massive impact on my career.
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I had read a lot of good things about this book and it had sat on my Kindle for a long time. Really enjoyed the first half of the book but thought the second half was more focused on things that weren’t relevant to me. There were some statements made that were clearly opinions but were stated as facts. Overall a bit disappointing.
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Took me a little while to get into this book. It starts out in a school where a pupil spots a spaceship from his favourite video game. This then moves on to it being a precursor to an invasion by the aliens from the video game and the game itself was actually put together as training so the players could pilot drones in the war. A slightly surreal concept but pretty well executed. The “twist” with the main characters dad is a bit contrived ..
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I have been very fortunate in my career to have some exceptional bosses that have had a massive impact on my career.
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I had read a lot of good things about this book and it had sat on my Kindle for a long time. Really enjoyed the first half of the book but thought the second half was more focused on things that weren’t relevant to me. There were some statements made that were clearly opinions but were stated as facts. Overall a bit disappointing.
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There is definitely an intimidation factor some people feel about integrating things into Ember apps. While there are plenty of things I want to make easier too, I think a large amount of the perception only comes from lack of good learning materials. Toward that goal, I made this screencast
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Testing mobile applications is not always an easy feat. In addition to defining what to test and determining how to write those tests, actually running tests can also be problematic — in particular, UI test suites running on real mobile devices or emulators sometimes run for an extensive amount of time.
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Time sure is flying. My son is already over a month old. I finished my second-to-last (penultimate!) class for my Master’s degree. And it’s already another month, so time to report what I read last month.
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Testing mobile applications is not always an easy feat. In addition to defining what to test and determining how to write those tests, actually running tests can also be problematic — in particular, UI test suites running on real mobile devices or emulators sometimes run for an extensive amount of time.
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New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team, company, or organization. Read more "Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams"
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Skyscanner fixed projects and gained visibility into their open source vulnerability exposure.
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snyk.io
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8 years ago
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Skyscanner today monitors nearly 500 separate projects with Snyk, and is able to understand the state of their security as well as address both their vulnerability and licensing issues. This case study shows why Skyscanner chose to use Snyk and the benefits they see every day.
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Alarm goes off, time to wake up. Snooze alarm, and then repeat: check email, check Facebook, check Twitter, check Snapchat, rinse; repeat again; no new posts? Check again. No second spared to compose a thought; dreams fade away. Day continues just the same way — rise, rinse, repeat, repeat. Can’t spare time to sit and relax, can’t let your mind wander not five minutes, no unstructured thought or daydream; just repeat. Every moment captures ....
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Although the decision to include X-Pack sparked some confusion and disgruntle in some people due to having non Apache licensed code being present in the repo and the distrubitions; they are easily removable if any of them is a concern to you. SQL support was announced in ElasticON and there is a comprehensive presentation by Costin Leau. I was pretty excited about the support, because we use Elasticsearch for storing metrics and logs and it..
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Wanted to try out some code, but needed to ensure never checked in. Git pre-commit hooks are handy in this space. Add the following script to search for either @COMMITFAIL or @NOCOMMIT in the staged files. If found, attempts to commit will fail. Based on https://gist.github.com/rex/223b4be50285f6b8b3e06dea50d15887 : #!/bin/bash set -o nounset set -o errexit echo "Arguments:" echo "$@" echo "---" readonly FILES_PATTERN='(\..+)?$' readonl..
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OpenMapTiles 3.8 with improved transportation layer and new water features
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www.maptiler.com
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8 years ago
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The new release of open-source project OpenMapTiles 3.8 brings evolutionary steps rather than revolution.
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