Identifier: H2020-CS2-CFP01-2014-01Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015Latest information: On 21 January the templates for drafting Part B.I and Part B.II of the proposals were upload … | Continue reading
Identifier: ERC-2014-STGPillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015Latest information: A total of 3272 proposals were submitted in response to the 2014 Starting Grant call (ERC-2014-STG). … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015Latest information: An overview of the evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available under the tab 'Call do … | Continue reading
A lesson from mankind’s experience is that all past generations have lived “interesting times”. Popular amnesia likes to lose sight of this; therefore, we think our day’s vicissitudes are unprecedented. That said it appears that we are departing from the cast of the past in a way … | Continue reading
I have answered a lot of MySQL pivot questions over on Stack Overflow and a few over on Database Administrators and have learned some things about how to transform data in MySQL.Unfortunately, MySQL does not have PIVOT function, so in order to rotate data from rows into columns y … | Continue reading
Macaroni and Cheese is an American classic. It’s practically a staple in our diets, or at least the boxed version was while growing up in the 80’s and 90’s. When craving the favorite cheese drenched pasta, how do you decide which one to make? From baked and boxed to fancier truff … | Continue reading
James thinks the idea of copyright is outdated and should be abolished. Ben is, well, see the title. Hosts Ben Thompson, @monkbent, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-JTI-IMI2-2015-03-two-stagePillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: IMI2-2015-03-01(IMI2-RIA-IA), IMI2-201 … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-JTI-IMI2-2015-04-two-stage-MasterPillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: IMI2-2015-04-01(IMI2-CSA) | Continue reading
Download the palette. Unzip, open in Sketch and copy the palette into your own document. Use Control + C to quickly pick a color. Based on these things, originated by Designmodo’s Flat UI. | Continue reading
I have been working with grids for a long time now, and there is one challenge that pops up in every project: how many items do you put on a given row. Think, for example, of a row of news or product teasers. You may decide to go for 3 teasers per row, evenly spaced, for a certai … | Continue reading
After months in the making, renowned US accelerator Techstars last week finally announced officially that it is launching a program in Berlin. The accelerator will be based in the centre ...The post Techstars Berlin’s Jens Lapinski Q&A: ‘There is Space Here for a Horizontal, Inde … | Continue reading
I've been thinking about looking into Angular for a while now. I know a few people who swear by it, but, coincidentally, they're all backend developers (PHP/Symfony2). I actually do not know any frontend developers who actively use Angular. It's curious that this seems to be exac … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-SILC-II-2014Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015Latest information: An overview of the evaluation results (flash call info) is now available under the tab ‘Call' | Continue reading
An open letter to software developers all across the world. Dear Software Consultants, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you were lied to when we hired you. Your job isn't about code at all. The interview process was kind of a train wreck (and, yeah, about that, sorr … | Continue reading
As the darkest and coldest part of the winter looms, the next three months or so are the most difficult to get through. There’s little to look forward to (the Super Bowl doesn’t quite do it for me) and spring seems so far away. This is when I remind myself that it’s stew and soup … | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss Xiaomi’s ambition to own the home, why we’re frustrated with patents, why the West is unfair to the developing world, and what makes China unique. Links Jordan Lewis: Exponent Bingo – Twitter Ben Thompson: Xiaomi’s Ambition – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Handic … | Continue reading
On July 31, 1971, Al Worden performed the first deep-space extra-vehicular activity. "No one in all of history" saw what he saw that day | Continue reading
Hands up those of you out there in full-time jobs who haven’t at least thought about finding a new one in the past year? Right, put your hands down, you ...The post Time For a Career Change? Jobspotting Takes Job Search ‘Out of the 90s’ appeared first on Silicon Allee News. | Continue reading
One of the many exciting things about the modern WebKit API is that it has an officially sanctioned communication mechanism for doing JavaScript-to-native communication. Hacks should no longer be necessary to get data back out of the WKWebView. It is a simple matter of registerin … | Continue reading
This millionaire isn't looking to profit from his real estate. | Continue reading
“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.” ― Milan Kundera These...Categories: Breakfast SweetTags: chestnutgluten-free(Read more...) | Continue reading
Heroku has finally released their own integration with Github. So it’s time for me to officially retire my current solution based on my HerokuDeployer project. An app that I build for the sole purpose of deploying this Jekyll blog with just a push to the Github repository. I’ve b … | Continue reading
It's that time of year again.... First, as always, we revisit the predictions I made last year, and see how well they stacked up. (Because, as I've said before, anybody can make predictions without going back to measure your accuracy; I believe in accountability, even to my own s … | Continue reading
This article was originally written for the Fusionbox blog in January 2015. The Fusionbox process takes many pages from the Great Big Book of Agile Methodology to streamline and modernize the production of web content, etcetera, but for the folks at home, what is agile developmen … | Continue reading
Finally, the snow decided to show up. It came a couple of days late, it missed christmas. And of course, it’s all gone by now. Have some thoughts? Send me an email. | Continue reading
With the holidays behind us, we feel guilty about our episodes of gluttony. Though it may not last more than a week or two, we make New Years resolutions to exercise more and eat better. The gyms are packed and there’s that buzz about kale, quinoa, chia, and other healthy super f … | Continue reading
I’m a big fan of good looking band art. Sadly though, unlike other countries, Austria doesn’t really have a culture of well designed concert posters - they’re usually just bold type on bright neon paper stapled to a signpost. So for a long time, collecting and designing covers an … | Continue reading
Who needs a ball? Cities get creative on New Year's Eve by dropping objects that reflect local products and culture | Continue reading
2014, looking back... a little bit of a year in review. What I've been up to at Twitter, in Open Source, and in life.… Continue reading Some random reflections on 2014 → | Continue reading
Forgiveness not met by regret implies subjugation. The practical use of history is its distorted exploitation. This abuse accompanies the following discourse about the present. Perceived developments that disturb the world order and our holiday peace produce sundry responses. Som … | Continue reading
It’s been an interesting year. From the disappearance of Malaysia flight 370 to the Ebola outbreak and many other poignant news stories, those compiling this year’s lists of highlights and countdowns have their work cutout for them. Since I’ve never done a list of highlights on t … | Continue reading
I'm feeling suspicious of nil. What is nil? In a recent newsletter I pondered true and false, and suggested that thinking of them as normal, everyday objects could expand your ideas about OOP. Today I'll continue with this theme by considering nil. What _is_ nil? A straightforw … | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss the problems with drones, how they could be used for terrorism, and how you balance upside and downside. Links Felix Salmon: Whither Nanopublishing? – Medium James Allworth: Thinking Twice About Drones – Stratechery (Members-only) FBI: Man plotted to fly dro … | Continue reading
Alert! This is another rant blog post! I promise the next one will be more technical :-)Rocket launch me some opinions Past few days I’ve been playing around with Rocket, the new container runtime by CoreOS. Quite a few people have asked for my opinion so I figured I would put it … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, a week ago more precisely, we’ve released the first alpha of the new development line of Ehcache. The target of the alpha release was to provide a JSR-107, the javax.cache API for java, compliant implementation of using the new API and features as we plan to h … | Continue reading
This bug has actually existed for about 5 years, but for various reasons it has not been fixed by the jQuery team. The official bug ticket is here: jQuery Ticket #3016 [closed bug: patchwelcome] and it is still a valid bug in Firefox 34.0.5. I know that cloning a textarea is a su … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-INFRADEV-2014-2015Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: INFRADEV-2-2015(RIA-CSA) | Continue reading
Couple of new talks about DataScript | Continue reading
tl;dr: RetroGit is a simple tool that sends you a daily (or weekly) digest of your GitHub commits from years past. Use it as a nostalgia trip or to remind you of TODOs that you never quite got around to cleaning up. Think of it as Timehop for your codebase. It's now been a bit mo … | Continue reading
If you have ever received a notification text from an app on your smartphone, there is a decent chance it was powered by Twilio. The San Francisco-based cloud communications company, ...The post Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson Q&A: ‘We’re Trying to Make Communication Less Dumb’ appeared f … | Continue reading
What happens if you try to get mashed on potatoes and sauced on sauce? It's a sobering insight into what really happens to the booze we cook with | Continue reading
I don't like to work in silence. Especially when I'm doing something that needs concentration, I keep my best focus with the right background music. There’s different types of sound for different tasks - for example, I like to do creative work with calm, relaxed acoustic stuff. … | Continue reading