I can’t really remember the first time I saw a computer. I do remember though that “working on a computer” was the first thing that came to my mind when I was asked “What do you want to do when you grow up?”. Years later, being both a grown up and a developer, I ask myself: Now that you know, if you were a kid again, would you still want to be working on computers when you grew up? Let’s see what a life for a developer means to me....
|
|
I can’t really remember the first time I saw a computer. I do remember though that “working on a computer” was the first thing that came to my mind when I was asked “What do you want to do when you grow up?”. Years later, being both a grown up and a developer, I ask myself: Now that you know, if you were a kid again, would you still want to be working on computers when you grew up? Let’s see what a life for a developer means to me....
|
|
As a Dermatologist, what life changing skin care advice would you give me? . Avenida dos Platanos . Beautiful Lisbon . Best restaurants in Alghero? . Boca do inferno. Cabo da Roca. Casa dos passarinhos (Steak on hot stone, tuna steak with “mirandesa” sauce, monkfish masada). Cascais - Guincho. Cervejaria Ramiro (seafood restaurant in town). Eduard 7th park. Estoril. Fox Trot (bar). Hachijō-jima island . Ilha da Culatra (good for famili....
|
|
How to give a presentation people will remember . How to give a stellar presentation . Speaker style bingo: 10 presentation anti-patterns .
|
|
Gili Islands travel (Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia - Lonely Planet) . Manta snorkeling Nusa Penida – When? Where? How much? . Pura Lempuyang, Bali.
|
|
This blog post is going to explain how to route traffic on your host through a Tor Docker container. It’s actually a lot simplier than you would think. But it involves dealing with some unsavory things such as iptables. Run the Image I have a fork of the tor source code and a branch with a Dockerfile. I have submitted upstream… we will see if they take it. The final result is the image jess/tor , but you can easily build locally fro....
|
|
3.5/5 Fast-paced, thrilling, and creepy. What else could you want? Well, for one - likeable characters would be a move in the right…
|
|
I have some news, two items actually. First , today (it’s still 18th June in California) is my blog’s 8th anniversary! I wrote my first blog post, about Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting , exactly 8 years ago, on 18th June 2007 and have written 229 blog posts since. I had started writing and accumulating my TPT script collection a couple of years earlier and now it has over 1000 files in it! And no, I don’t remember what all of them d..
|
|
I have some news, two items actually. First , today (it’s still 18th June in California) is my blog’s 8th anniversary! I wrote my first blog post, about Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting , exactly 8 years ago, on 18th June 2007 and have written 229 blog posts since. I had started writing and accumulating my TPT script collection a couple of years earlier and now it has over 1000 files in it! And no, I don’t remember what all of them d..
|
|
So I’ve been at work almost a month now, and living in the truck for just as long. I’ve definitely established a comfortable routine, and I’m a lean, mean, code-producing machine on my team, so everything is going good. This means I can focus my non-work hours to the real goal: the big trip. The Trip When I interned in Silicon Valley last summer, I realized a few very important and related things:
|
|
So I’ve been at work almost a month now, and living in the truck for just as long. I’ve definitely established a comfortable routine, and I’m a lean, mean, code-producing machine on my team, so everything is going good. This means I can focus my non-work hours to the real goal: the big trip. The Trip When I interned in Silicon Valley last summer, I realized a few very important and related things:
|
|
Unfortunately, I’m not talking about some more RV/Hippie Van/Truck neighbors. No matter how well you plan out things, life always has a way of throwing little things at you to make sure you’re still paying attention. For the past week, life has been throwing the sound of jackhammers in my direction. It makes perfect sense that construction crews would work at night, when normal human beings aren’t at work and getting in their way, but I ....
|
|
Unfortunately, I’m not talking about some more RV/Hippie Van/Truck neighbors. No matter how well you plan out things, life always has a way of throwing little things at you to make sure you’re still paying attention. For the past week, life has been throwing the sound of jackhammers in my direction. It makes perfect sense that construction crews would work at night, when normal human beings aren’t at work and getting in their way, but I ....
|
|
Guilherme Rambo created a great OS X OS X app for viewing WWDC content . Just installed it. Super handy. Thanks. Installing as simple as: $ brew cask install wwdc
|
Due to several recent events beyond my control I’m a bit behind on the project - hence the lack of updates which I apologise for. The goods news is that I’m back working to finish off the clusters and I’m happy to report that all is going to plan. Here is the final digram of the two-node cluster design: Plain text version available here This was generated from the LCMC tool (beware - it’s java!).
|
|
Due to several recent events beyond my control I’m a bit behind on the project - hence the lack of updates which I apologise for. The goods news is that I’m back working to finish off the clusters and I’m happy to report that all is going to plan. Here is the final digram of the two-node cluster design: Plain text version available here This was generated from the LCMC tool (beware - it’s java!).
|
|
At SoundCloud, we’re building an ecosystem where creativity thrives. Developers are an important part of that ecosystem. We’re continually…
|
|
About three years ago, when I started working with Ruby and Rails, I noticed that the term “Rack” always came up in my Google searches.
|
|
At SoundCloud, we’re building an ecosystem where creativity thrives. Developers are an important part of that ecosystem. We’re continually…
|
|
Something I noticed when I first bought this truck was that it had a special permit in it. A special permit issued by the “Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration”, authorizing it to carry…something? I’m not actually sure what this truck was used for prior to my purchase, some sort of commercial activity, and I know for a fact that it started it’s life as a simple Budget truck. Call it stubbornness or naivety, but I’m not....
|
|
Something I noticed when I first bought this truck was that it had a special permit in it. A special permit issued by the “Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration”, authorizing it to carry…something? I’m not actually sure what this truck was used for prior to my purchase, some sort of commercial activity, and I know for a fact that it started it’s life as a simple Budget truck. Call it stubbornness or naivety, but I’m not....
|
|
Overriding retain/release/autorelease may be handy while debugging: - (instancetype)retain { NSLog(@"%p, retain\n", self); return [super retain]; } - (oneway void)release { NSLog(@"%p, release\n", self); [super release]; } - (instancetype)autorelease { NSLog(@"%p, autorelease\n", self); return [super autorelease]; }
|
|
Once upon a time I was making a pretty large app for Android. When everything was almost finished I wondered how shall I remove all my logs before publishing the app? Looks like many other developers are interested in the same question as well. Surprisingly, the recommented way out is to strip off the Log class from the production builds using ProGuard. Maybe Proguard is nice, but to me it’s really weird why instead of having a nice out-of-..
|
|
Once upon a time I was making a pretty large app for Android. When everything was almost finished I wondered how shall I remove all my logs before publishing the app? Looks like many other developers are interested in the same question as well. Surprisingly, the recommented way out is to strip off the Log class from the production builds using ProGuard. Maybe Proguard is nice, but to me it’s really weird why instead of having a nice out-of-..
|
|
I occasionally mention how glad I am that I’m able to live the way I do, but it’s definitely not for everyone. In fact, the reason I’m able to do this is mainly because of the benefits afforded to me by the company I work at. Not that I expect many people are envious of my lifestyle, but for all those aspiring to live out of some type of vehicle, here is a list of hard requirements, collected through experience and in no particular order, t..
|
|
I occasionally mention how glad I am that I’m able to live the way I do, but it’s definitely not for everyone. In fact, the reason I’m able to do this is mainly because of the benefits afforded to me by the company I work at. Not that I expect many people are envious of my lifestyle, but for all those aspiring to live out of some type of vehicle, here is a list of hard requirements, collected through experience and in no particular order, t..
|
Dirt. Metal. Water. War…thump…thump…thump. Blood. Grime…Guitar. Drums…dum..dum…dum. Human.Inhuman.God.Monster. Hope…survive…survive…survive! It’s a metal rock show in an apocalyptic wasteland masquerading as a movie. And I am not saying that only because of the humongous guitar mounted on an armored truck. It starts with a far off beat when the protagonist is suddenly made aware of being … Continue reading Mad Max: Fury Road Review
|
|
As I’ve mentioned before, I drove buses in a past life (read: two months ago). That meant that in Massachusetts, I had a Commercial Driver’s License. The bus company that I had worked for over the course of the past four years graciously trained their drivers and paid them, but in the Real World™, obtaining a CDL can be super expensive. Most driving school websites don’t list their prices, but this one has a quote of $225 for a 2-ho..
|
|
As I’ve mentioned before, I drove buses in a past life (read: two months ago). That meant that in Massachusetts, I had a Commercial Driver’s License. The bus company that I had worked for over the course of the past four years graciously trained their drivers and paid them, but in the Real World™, obtaining a CDL can be super expensive. Most driving school websites don’t list their prices, but this one has a quote of $225 for a 2-ho..
|
|
Beyond the hype, buzz, and pricey gimmicks… Places to eat in London: Antipode. Arang. Bone Daddies. Gelupo. Grind. Holy Cow. Kerbisher and Malt. Kulu Kulu (South Ken). Le Relais de Venise. Lucky 7's. Royal China. Shree Krishna Vada Pav. Sri Suwoon. Tayyabs. The Cow. Tonkotsu.
|
|
In this new crazy world of containers and immutable hosts, one might still want to run previous generation software such as Puppet on a current generation Atomic host . This article will explain how you can do that, and offer some proof of concept code . The atomic host doesn’t provide a yum or dnf command, because the software is pre-baked into a read-only /usr/ partition. To “ install ” (to use) additional software, it usually..
|
|
In this new crazy world of containers and immutable hosts, one might still want to run previous generation software such as Puppet on a current generation Atomic host . This article will explain how you can do that, and offer some proof of concept code . The atomic host doesn’t provide a yum or dnf command, because the software is pre-baked into a read-only /usr/ partition. To “ install ” (to use) additional software, it usually..
|
|
Reality is often mundane to us, so much so that we tend to forget the true beauty of life and our world. This short read really got…
|
|
I am pretty sure everyone of us has been in a situation where you needed to generate a report and/or extract some data from a database and present it in a spreadsheet.
|
|
Every so often, I like to apply a simple Litmus test to my life to help me figure out a couple things. The test has a single question, and the way I answer this question tells me a lot about how reasonable of a person I’m being, and if I’m living in a sustainable way. The questions is this: If everyone acted the way I’m acting, would it still work?
|
|
Every so often, I like to apply a simple Litmus test to my life to help me figure out a couple things. The test has a single question, and the way I answer this question tells me a lot about how reasonable of a person I’m being, and if I’m living in a sustainable way. The questions is this: If everyone acted the way I’m acting, would it still work?
|