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Ironically, one of the reasons that I started writing Puppet code, was so that I could spend more time designing and building, and less time writing documentation. I suppose I’m a victim of my success, because Puppet-Gluster has grown large enough to warrant its own documentation. So I gave in, and put together some documentation. It’s available as markdown , and, also as a pdf . As before, there is an examples/ directory which yo..
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Ironically, one of the reasons that I started writing Puppet code, was so that I could spend more time designing and building, and less time writing documentation. I suppose I’m a victim of my success, because Puppet-Gluster has grown large enough to warrant its own documentation. So I gave in, and put together some documentation. It’s available as markdown , and, also as a pdf . As before, there is an examples/ directory which yo..
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I will do such things – What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be The terrors of the earth!”_ King Lear, Act 2, Scene 4
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I think about my English classes almost every day when I sit down to write, and even some days when I don’t. I think about how much I hated them, how I dreaded each pointless class and similarly meaningless assignment, and then I think about the eternal debt of gratitude I owe those three teachers for seeing me through. Permalink.
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So after a few months of Chinese holiday delays, my ErgoDox DIY keyboard kit has finally arrived. There are amazing videos of how to assemble the thing on youtube, and thankfully my roommate was an electrical engineering student at CU and lent me his soldering station. I've started the process of soldering extremely tiny surface mounted diodes to the printed circuit boards. All together the project will require over 300 solder joints by m....
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So after a few months of Chinese holiday delays, my ErgoDox DIY keyboard kit has finally arrived. There are amazing videos of how to assemble the thing on youtube, and thankfully my roommate was an electrical engineering student at CU and lent me his soldering station. I've started the process of soldering extremely tiny surface mounted diodes to the printed circuit boards. All together the project will require over 300 solder joints by m....
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To create image thumbnails from a PDF document, run this in a terminal window: $ convert -thumbnail x300 -background white -alpha remove input_file.pdf[0] output_thumbnail.png The parameters to convert do the following things: ParameterEffect-thumbnailSimilar to -resize, but optimized for speed and strips metadata.x300Make the thumbnail 300px tall, and whatever width maintains the aspect ratio.-background whiteSets the t....
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I had the opportunity to give my RESTful WeB APIs and MongoDB Go For A Picnic talk at both MongoTorino and NoSQL Day . The folks at PUG Friuli where so nice to record all the NoSQL Day sessions, so here you have it: the full length video of yours truly speaking to a fully packed room crowded with 120 very attentive attendees. Unfortunately audio is horrible and while all MongoTorino talks were in english, NoSQL Day was an italian-o..
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I had the opportunity to give my RESTful WeB APIs and MongoDB Go For A Picnic talk at both MongoTorino and NoSQL Day . The folks at PUG Friuli where so nice to record all the NoSQL Day sessions, so here you have it: the full length video of yours truly speaking to a fully packed room crowded with 120 very attentive attendees. Unfortunately audio is horrible and while all MongoTorino talks were in english, NoSQL Day was an italian-o..
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I had the opportunity to give my RESTful WeB APIs and MongoDB Go For A Picnic talk at both MongoTorino and NoSQL Day . The folks at PUG Friuli where so nice to record all the NoSQL Day sessions, so here you have it: the full length video of yours truly speaking to a fully packed room crowded with 120 very attentive attendees. Unfortunately audio is horrible and while all MongoTorino talks were in english, NoSQL Day was an italian-o..
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This post is rather outdated now, and so the details contained within are no longer valid. Read with caution. I recently came across the rather snazzy looking subscriber count button on the Smashing Magazine website. A quick Google revealed that these are no longer available after MailChimp redesigned their service . Boo! An example of the Smashing Magazine counter: So, a quick look through the coding on this Smashing Magazin..
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Not on nginx, but still want your Tumblr blog in a subdirectory? Henrik Nyh has got your back . Have not personally used this, being a fan of nginx, but should at least be a good starting point to get you on your way.
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I had the opportunity to give my RESTful WeB APIs and MongoDB Go For A Picnic talk at both MongoTorino and NoSQL Day . The folks at PUG Friuli where so nice to record all the NoSQL Day sessions, so here you have it: the full length video of yours truly speaking to a fully packed room crowded with 120 very attentive attendees. Unfortunately audio is horrible and while all MongoTorino talks were in english, NoSQL Day was an italian-o..
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Facebook has changed the rules yet again, this time related to logging in to Facebook from 3rd party applications. Up until now we used the web based OAuth approach for logging into Facebook since that allowed us to keep the same implementation across Android, iOS, Blackberry etc. without changing anything. However, the new Facebook 2 factor authentication is a very complex process and Facebook really went overboard with a very elaborate mo..
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Technology Adoption Curves vs. Birth Year and Life Expectancy
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www.danstroot.com
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12 years ago
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Asymco has done a fascinating piece of research mapping technology adoption curves, technology refresh rates, and human lifespan, to predict technology lifetime ownership. "...knowing how what innovations become universal and the speed at which these technologies are replaced can give us an idea of what individuals might experience in their lifetimes." This post Technology Adoption Curves vs. Birth Year and Life Expectancy first appear..
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The best Postgres feature you're not using – CTEs aka WITH clauses
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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12 years ago
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SQL by default isn’t typically friendly to dive into, and especially so if you’re reading someone else’s already created queries. For some reason most people throw out principles we follow in other languages such as commenting and composability just for SQL. I was recently reminded of a key feature in Postgres that most don’t use by @timonk highlighting it in his AWS Re:Invent Redshift talk. The simple feature actually makes SQL both re....
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The best Postgres feature you're not using – CTEs aka WITH clauses
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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12 years ago
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SQL by default isn’t typically friendly to dive into, and especially so if you’re reading someone else’s already created queries. For some reason most people throw out principles we follow in other languages such as commenting and composability just for SQL. I was recently reminded of a key feature in Postgres that most don’t use by @timonk highlighting it in his AWS Re:Invent Redshift talk. The simple feature actually makes SQL both re....
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I feel like Gene Munster, where just as he perpetually beats upon his iTV drum so, too, do I all too frequently return to the iPad Pro. Since Apple’s iPad event, after receiving my MacBook Pro, and all throughout the ensuing period during which I began to define the different roles this new device and my trusty iPad would fill, this topic and Tim Cook’s comment to that effect have occupied a great deal of my consciousness. Unfortunately..
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Rick Knudtson is a co-founder of Flywheel, a WordPress hosting and management company built for designers.
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Tumblr will let you run a blog as a sub-domain (blog.domain.com) rather than using their own URL scheme (username.tumblr.com), allowing your blog to appear much more professional and appear directly linked to your domain/website. However, it is argued within the SEO scene that a subdomain is bad practice for maximising your search engine optimisation. This is because subdomains do not always receive the benefits from the root domain they’..
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How do you turn a mobile phone into an alert system for activists? You use design thinking, continuous delivery and people-focused research.
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When linking to Shawn Blanc’s excellent iPad Mini and Air review I mentioned Jim and Marco’s altercation on Twitter the day before in passing. Brought on when Marco criticized Jim’s lack of time spent with the Mini preluding an article titled “review”, I found the entire exchange humorous and representative of the pair’s similar personalities. I considered writing this article then at peak relevance, but instead pushed it into Drafts for..
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I have always been fascinated by the idea that we can significantly improve our wellbeing by making relatively small changes: exercising, changing our diet, adding some supplements.
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People often ask how to do iteration in Puppet . Most Puppet users have a background in imperative programming , and are already very familiar with for loops. Puppet is sometimes confusing at first, because it is actually (or technically, contains) a declarative , domain-specific language . In general, DSL’s aren’t always Turing complete , nor do they need to support loops , but this doesn’t mean you can’t iterate. Until rec..
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People often ask how to do iteration in Puppet . Most Puppet users have a background in imperative programming , and are already very familiar with for loops. Puppet is sometimes confusing at first, because it is actually (or technically, contains) a declarative , domain-specific language . In general, DSL’s aren’t always Turing complete , nor do they need to support loops , but this doesn’t mean you can’t iterate. Until rec..
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I’ve had a few major changes in my life which made me think that there is no singular self. Me today is a very different person than me 5 years ago. Me now thinks about different things in a different language than me 5 years ago. Me now have different goals in life than me 5 years ago. Me now makes much different decisions than me 5 years ago. Me now has experienced some really bitter moments and lost some close people. Once I get slapped ....
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We are now finalizing the features for Codename One 2.0. Yes we are skipping the 1.2 revision and going up to the 2nd generation which we feel is warranted given the amount of features added since the May release of 1.1. We will make the release in December which we will probably spend in code freeze so you won’t see new features from us during that month that are not bug fixes or completely separate features (e.g. IDEA plugin).
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A picture found literally on my doorstep - this leaf was on my driveway one morning when I opened the front door. The X100’s close-focussing capability meant that I could get right in close to it and capture the beads of rain on the leaf.
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A close up of the Auld Wives Lifts on Craigmaddie Muir near Mugdock Park. The boulders sit in a natural ampitheatre and makes it an eerie spot. Nobody is quite sure when the boulders were arranged and the faces carved into the rock. See also 2013-11-16-03 .
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Recently I have begun exercising more restrain when deciding whether to publish a link post or not, attempting to decrease the lopsided original content to echo piece ratio by posting more of my own work than others’. I find it somewhat ironic, then, that today’s first link post goes to John Gruber’s linked list item commenting on Ed Dale’s Smart Move Apple . Permalink.
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Yesterday afternoon Benedict Evans had something interesting to say regarding a new product-service pairing called Coin, questioning why anyone considered it anything more than a toy. Having never heard of the site, I continued scrolling until coming across Cody Fink’s referral link , at which point my “when in doubt wait until more than one person talks about it before taking the bait” rule kicked in and I opened Coin’s website. Over th..
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Shortly after Ole Zorn released Editorial for iPad I adopted a workflow heavily reliant on this and his other — some would say companion — app Pythonista. Employing Editorial for all my writing needs and Pythonista to run a retrofitted version of FirstCrack thus enabling me to post on the go, I read, wrote, and updated my website almost exclusively on my iPad. Although recent months have seen a reversal of that shift in conjunction with my ..
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Shawn Blanc posted by far and away the best iPad and iPad Mini first look I have read thus far. I enjoyed the flame war over Jim’s article immensely, Marco’s own “review” — if it even merits such a designation — had its own humorous high point, but up till now nothing impressed me to the extent that Shawn’s piece did. Permalink.
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This was an amazing journey for me, the entire storyline seemed amazingly well thought out. The characters were in depth, and…
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Ben Brooks put it quite well when he linked to this article , characterizing it as a “fantastic post from Watts Martin”; I wholeheartedly agree. More often than not I consider Ben to have gone off the deep end some time ago, the result of which we see today in his near-constant advocation for privacy often taken to the extreme . However, Mr. Martin — and, by extension, Ben in his explicit endorsement of this piece — hit the nail on the he..
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Yesterday Jason Snell made an interesting tweet regarding Apple’s A7 SoC, presumably after reading the MacRumors article Retina iPad Mini Has 1.3 GHz A7 Processor With 5X the Performance of the Original Mini : “The iPad Air’s processor is running at 1.39GHz; the iPad mini’s is clocked down to 1.27GHz.” Amidst nearly every discussion surrounding the iPad Mini, especially building up to its release earlier today, much of that discourse h..
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I had fun this evening working on this with Samuel Reed . Performance and programming language choice is always a hotly debated topic and it's always fascinating the explore. It was truly interesting to see async php code. I know NodeJS is known for it, but PHP really isn't at all. The actual article is here: http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2013/11/13/benchmarking-asyncronous-php-vs-...
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I had fun this evening working on this with Samuel Reed . Performance and programming language choice is always a hotly debated topic and it's always fascinating the explore. It was truly interesting to see async php code. I know NodeJS is known for it, but PHP really isn't at all. The actual article is here: http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2013/11/13/benchmarking-asyncronous-php-vs-...
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