Augustine’s Law A bad idea executed to perfection is still a bad idea Corollary: A good idea poorly executed is of no use to anyone Lakein’s Law Failing to plan is planning to fail Eisenhower’s corollary : Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Fitzgerald’s Law There are two states to any large project : too early to tell and too late to stop Corollary: Projects have momentum, once started they become increasingly difficult t..
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We always talk about elearning through the lense of MOOCs and self-study management. WordPress (Sensei, Learndash, LeanPress, WP-Courseware), Moodle, edX, Blackboard, Canvas, Sakai and others come out as the solutions mentioned over and over again. Here I wanted to show you three different directions for education and elearning needs. HR Driven: JollyDeck JollyDeckis an HR driven elearning platform to help managers and training department..
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justSomeUX is a series where I share some interesting UX / UI and smart copy for your inspiration (and my archive of references). Asking for donations is never easy. Well, the Canary found a nice way to phrase it. >Interesting Donation UX Why is good? It gives perspective Make you realise that spend money more on dumb stuff so you might as well give them so of it
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We all have ideas. Sometime we don’t even realise we do, as we don’t always pay attention to the flow of our mind. Some ideas come and pass and never come back. Some stick around. Sometime we turn these ideas into action. But even then we seldom finish them. Parkinson’s law Parkinson’s law is a project-management rule of thumb stating that : “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”
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I was working earlier on a post on privacy, then realised I cannot even start to give a proper introduction to it without laying down some facts first. So, there will be no jumping straight into the subject of privacy, centralisation of the internet, and how politics is affecting the internet as a whole. Instead, we will take a couple of posts to really define the current state of the internet, also give an historical perspective, before di..
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justSomeUX is a series where I share some interesting UX / UI and smart copy for your inspiration (and my archive of references). Asking for donations is never easy. Well, the Canary found a nice way to phrase it. >Interesting Donation UX Why is good? It gives perspective Make you realise that spend money more on dumb stuff so you might as well give them so of it
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We all have ideas. Sometime we don’t even realise we do, as we don’t always pay attention to the flow of our mind. Some ideas come and pass and never come back. Some stick around. Sometime we turn these ideas into action. But even then we seldom finish them. Parkinson’s law Parkinson’s law is a project-management rule of thumb stating that : “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”
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I was working earlier on a post on privacy, then realised I cannot even start to give a proper introduction to it without laying down some facts first. So, there will be no jumping straight into the subject of privacy, centralisation of the internet, and how politics is affecting the internet as a whole. Instead, we will take a couple of posts to really define the current state of the internet, also give an historical perspective, before di..
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In a reddit thread on health inspection violations someone offered a story about a run away cow licking bread in a recreation of a 18th century french bakery. A commenter wrote a poem about the incident: my name is Cow, and wen its nite, or wen the moon is shiyning brite, and all the men haf gon to bed - i stay up late. i lik the bred. It is unclear why it caught on so quickly, but the poem inspired countless imi..
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It has been a while! SnailLife work has been moving at a snail’s pace. Why? Because debugging the snail brain has turned into a highly demotivating, hellish endeavour. The snails make decisions and perform actions based on so much crap , that the simple log files I was using all long are just not cutting it anymore. The Laravel log for the original app has turned into 3 Laravel logs because I now have 3 independent apps (the front-end, Bra..
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For the past couple of days I’ve been fascinated by the Mythic GM Emulator. I created this mobile application to automate rolls on the Mythic Fate Chart. Set a Chaos Rank, choose your Odds, and it will determine your outcome plus random events based on a pseudorandom javascript d100 roll. Check out the code on […]
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The quote above is a funny, yet very accurate introduction to the topic developed in the documentary by Kirby Ferguson : Everything is a Remix. (side note: If you care who said this quote go check this link to figure out why nobody really knows.) Everything is a remix explores the concept of originality in creativity. Never heard of it? Please, take the time to watch it below.
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The quote above is a funny, yet very accurate introduction to the topic developed in the documentary by Kirby Ferguson : Everything is a Remix. (side note: If you care who said this quote go check this link to figure out why nobody really knows.) Everything is a remix explores the concept of originality in creativity. Never heard of it? Please, take the time to watch it below.
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Sample base conversion worksheet created in LaTeX. LaTeX is amazing. And frustrating. And powerful. And frustrating. This coming Fall semester, I will be teaching an introductory programming class for engineering students. To help them understand bits, bytes, integers, etc., is to have them practice base conversions between decimal, binary, and hexadecimal. I wanted to set this up in LaTeX, but the idea of typesetting all of thos....
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Sample base conversion worksheet created in LaTeX. LaTeX is amazing. And frustrating. And powerful. And frustrating. This coming Fall semester, I will be teaching an introductory programming class for engineering students. To help them understand bits, bytes, integers, etc., is to have them practice base conversions between decimal, binary, and hexadecimal. I wanted to set this up in LaTeX, but the idea of typesetting all of thos....
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I’m an engineer, and am pretty clueless when it comes to film-making. However, I’ve been asked by a few different people how I made the ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core video series. While I’m not deluding myself into thinking I’m a pro, I’m happy with how they turned out, and they were made on a shoestring budget with open-source software. This post is for those who are curious about what I did, what I used, and how I did it.
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Capture the Flag (CTF) is a special kind of information security competition which provides a safe and legal way to try your hand at hacking…
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Prelude This is the first post in a four part series that will provide an understanding of the mechanics and design behind pointers, stacks, heaps, escape analysis and value/pointer semantics in Go. This post focuses on stacks and pointers. Index of the four part series: Language Mechanics On Stacks And Pointers Language Mechanics On Escape Analysis Language Mechanics On Memory Profiling Design Philosophy On Data And Semantics ..
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The Darktable snap (darktable-kyrofa) is terribly out-of-date. I’d like to bring it up to the latest release, but I could use your help verifying that things still work. If you’re a photographer, particularly if you have some experience using Darktable, mind putting it through its paces? v2.2.4snap1-rc1 is in the candidate channel: $ sudo snap install --candidate darktable-kyrofa Please let me know if you run into any issues. Update: v2.2.4..
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I’ve been playing around with JavaFX (the desktop/windows application interface for Java) recently and was trying to find a list of the different “Simple...Property” to use in TableColumn ’s setCellValueFactory() method.
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The following applications I use regularly on my mac on built on electron: Atom editor Slack Google Play Music "Desktop" Insomnia HTTP client Part of my PIA VPN client Keybase Github Desktop (soon) I hate them for the following reasons in loosely descending order of importance. They have a "Helper" process that periodically goes berzerk on my CPU for minutes on end doing God knows what The have an unending stream of "evergreen updates....
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They did not know it was impossible so they did it — Mark Twain Rules, somehow, always, seems to be a barrier to innovation. Status-quo is cultural protectionism The status-quo creates artificial scarcity. Because it promotes the lack of initiative It supports business as usual. The status-quo is opposed to disruption, to change, to innovation. It is opposed to improvement. It is the systemic manifestation of the resistance.
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ShipIt Day VIII was held on April 20 and 21st. Seventeen teams made up of internal associates had just 24 hours to create something innovative, usable, and value-adding. This quarter’s ShipIt Day was held at our new Innovations Campus in the Link Conference Center. We were excited to get to utilize the space for this event. Another awesome addition to this quarter’s ShipIt Day was our new game rooms.
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They did not know it was impossible so they did it — Mark Twain Rules, somehow, always, seems to be a barrier to innovation. Status-quo is cultural protectionism The status-quo creates artificial scarcity. Because it promotes the lack of initiative It supports business as usual. The status-quo is opposed to disruption, to change, to innovation. It is opposed to improvement. It is the systemic manifestation of the resistance.
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By now, on the net, on TV and around the world, there is nothing but talk about WannaCrypt: ransomware, or malware that can encrypt all the files on one’s computer and demand a ransom for unlocking them. -Continue to read the article on SerHack.me
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I have long been inconsistent when creating Java Exception classes, in terms of how I name them. Having looked through the Exeptions that are supplied with Java, I see there is no real standard naming convention. I have found more exceptions with the form
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Or why “do as you are told” is a bad idea. In 1964, Stanley Milgram back then a young researcher at Yale University, published the resultsa famous experiment known to this day as the Milgram Experiment. The set up is simple: The subject of the experiment takes part himself in a (staged) experiment supposed to study the impact of pain on memory and learning. For this, he is asked by the experimenter to administer increasingly strong electric..
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We, Marcos Pacheco and Marcus Tannerfalk, work as Agile Coaches in the Palma office for the hotel search company trivago. This is our experience in working with a development team in daily sprints with the goal of delivering an MVP (minimum viable product)
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Or why “do as you are told” is a bad idea. In 1964, Stanley Milgram back then a young researcher at Yale University, published the resultsa famous experiment known to this day as the Milgram Experiment. The set up is simple: The subject of the experiment takes part himself in a (staged) experiment supposed to study the impact of pain on memory and learning. For this, he is asked by the experimenter to administer increasingly strong electric..
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We, Marcos Pacheco and Marcus Tannerfalk, work as Agile Coaches in the Palma office for the hotel search company trivago. This is our experience in working with a development team in daily sprints with the goal of delivering an MVP (minimum viable product)
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I spent a lot of time and paid for some help (thanks David Donari!) to figure out how to install Apache Cassandra with PHP 7 and the Datastax PHP Driver. I needed additional Cassandra servers with PHP and had to find a solution to this. Following the official installation instructions ... will not work. It [...]
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I spent a lot of time and paid for some help (thanks David Donari!) to figure out how to install Apache Cassandra with PHP 7 and the Datastax PHP Driver. I needed additional Cassandra servers with PHP and had to find a solution to this. Following the official installation instructions ... will not work. It [...]
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Today, almost a year since the initial TrailDB open-source release , we are happy to announce the next major version of TrailDB, 0.6. The release is long overdue: this release is packed with major new features (and some minor bug fixes) that have been driven both by increasing internal use of TrailDB at AdRoll, as well as requests and contributions by the community. You can download and install the latest version by following the gettin....
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Hello world, I am SerHack, I am a developer, a security researcher and writer, I mostly write about software backend and a security researcher. I am from Italy where the security of citizens data is not seen as a priority. When I started looking to the world of development, I was like 12 years old. -Continue to read the article on SerHack.me
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Millenials (people born after 1980 and before 2000) are defined as : lazy entitled unattached not motivated by money want more holidays more horseshit The point of this post is to share a truth more and more commonly agreed upon: Millenials are not real. “Millennials” as a concept is mainly a huge pile of crap. And I just stumbled upon wonderful talk by Adam Conover, and I think he made the point pretty brilliantly so please what the talk..
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I grew up (and currently live) in the city of Cambridge in Ontario, Canada. The city was formed when 3 smaller towns (Hespeler, Preston and Galt) amalgamated in 1973, but the towns have a rich history as some of the key centers for industry in Upper Canada during the 1800s and early 1900s. When I was Googling something related to the new light rail transit system currently being installed in the region, I came across a Wikipedia page whe..
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I grew up (and currently live) in the city of Cambridge in Ontario, Canada. The city was formed when 3 smaller towns (Hespeler, Preston and Galt) amalgamated in 1973, but the towns have a rich history as some of the key centers for industry in Upper Canada during the 1800s and early 1900s. When I was Googling something related to the new light rail transit system currently being installed in the region, I came across a Wikipedia page whe..
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Painting in Progress - from imagination As I return to the painting on my easel, reworking both the major figures and probably everything else as well, I am put to mind of a lesson by a former teacher, Carol Pylant . She told me to be paint over the edges of my foreground figures when working on backgrounds, so the backgrounds don’t get too “stiff.” Of course, this applies not just to edges. “If you painted it once, you can paint it ....
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I’ve been using Jekyll on my blog since 2012. It is great! But, lately, its slow build times started to bother me.
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I have created a very simple HTML email alert Template for Icinga 2 to replace the default boring text-based email alert. This template can be easily installed by replacing existing alert scripts inside /etc/icinga2/scripts. Update: I have replaced mail command with mutt due to an incompatibility of options among different Linux distributions. Also, I have added new color highlight feature for different states (ok=green,warning=orange a..
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