I recently discovered cedit, which provides some structural commands for editing c-like languages. (See this Emacs Rocks! episode if you're not familiar with the concept: it introduces paredit, a structural editing mode for lisps). So, it deals with curly braces and semicolons, k … | Continue reading
In this episode we discuss this tweet of Ben’s: Apple has a monopoly on the iOS market. And monopolies are profitable. — Ben Thompson (@monkbent) July 25, 2014 We also discuss the news that OKCupid and Facebook are running tests on their users. Links Fabian Giesen: What I mean wh … | Continue reading
2014-07-30 22:35 Update: I’ve updated the post with the link to netlink RFC. I’ve also replaced references to golang with Go programming language on majority of mentions in the article. I do agree with the people in discussions on the topic of Go/golang, but I’ve adpoted golang i … | Continue reading
“For me, it’s just very hard to be in the world. Whether it’s cooking or writing, you trudge along and it’s hard. You spend most of your time in any...Categories: Libations Sweet TeaTags: LycheePistachiosRoseTea(Read more...) | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-BG-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: BG-01-2015(RIA), BG-02-2015(RIA), BG-07-2015(RIA) | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-SFS-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: SFS-01c-2015(RIA), SFS-02b-2015(RIA), SFS-05-2015(RI … | Continue reading
See TOSCA-MP results at IBC 2014. Mike Matton from VRT will present a paper in the session “Advanced content production in an automated world” on Monday Sept. 15, 11.30. Demos will also be on show at the Future Zone, hosted by VRT at their booth 8.F02. | Continue reading
In this episode we discuss feedback about Uber and pricing, then discuss Ben’s recent articles on Microsoft and Apple/IBM. Ben Thompson: It’s Time to Split Up Microsoft – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Big Blue and Apple’s Soul – Stratechery (Note: We recorded this show before this pi … | Continue reading
The European Commission published a Communication: “Towards an integrated approach to cultural heritage for Europe”. It points out the challenges that cultural heritage is currently fac… | Continue reading
On the occasion of the Best in Heritage event, eCultValue organises its third Dialogue Day on 25 September 2014 in Dubrovnik. The first Dialogue Day, held at the same occasion, was a success and To… | Continue reading
The eCultValue project has launched an Open Call that is an extraordinary opportunity for Living Labs to run experiments for the concept validation at European museums of technologies for cultural … | Continue reading
Andreas Bovens has published a the comprehensive round-up of use cases and example code for "responsive images" at Dev.Opera: Dev.Opera — Responsive Images: Use Cases and Documented Code Snippets to Get You Started You should also read Eric Portis' in-depth article about srcset & … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-TWINN-2015Pillar: Spreading excellence and widening participationOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 7 May 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: H2020-TWINN-2015(CSA) | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-LCE-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014Latest information: After the update to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme of 22 July 2014, this topic has been cancelle … | Continue reading
Harry Roberts: We all know about !important, which I won’t go into here, but how can we trick specificity into being lowered or increased with no side effects? Não imaginava que é possível encadear um seletor CSS consigo mesmo para aumentar sua especificidade. Interessante como u … | Continue reading
I use cask for managing the dependencies of my Emacs configuration. Whenever I opened my Cask file, I wondered if I really was using all the sources I had defined: (source gnu) (source marmalade) (source melpa) (source melpa-stable) (source org) It seemed quite strange that we h … | Continue reading
This post is an accompaniment to my PyCon 2014 and EuroPython 2014 talk, For Lack of a Better Name(server): DNS Explained, that is a deep dive into DNS. Slides can be found here I previously wrote a post explaining Kerberos “Like I’m 5” that turns out to be one of my most visited … | Continue reading
This post is an accompaniment to my PyCon 2014 and EuroPython 2014 talk, For Lack of a Better Name(server): DNS Explained, that is a deep dive into DNS. Slides can be found hereI previously wrote a post explaining Kerberos “Like I’m 5” that turns out to be one of my most visited … | Continue reading
Identifier: ECSEL-2014-1Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: ECSEL-01-2014(ECSEL-RIA) | Continue reading
A round-up of mostly everything you never wanted to know about browser fragmentation on Android. If somebody tells you they tested their website on Android, laugh evilly and show them this slidedeck. The Android Browser • A presentation by HTML5Test Enjoy! | Continue reading
Following a request of the European Commission, metaio participated in the creation of the video “My Augmented Reality” explaining the importance of research projects such as VENTURI for technology development at metaio. The video is published on YouTube, but will also be feature … | Continue reading
I’ve put a quick note together on the Ehcache-JCache module release. As well as a link and some explanation on the tutorials on the new javax.cache API I’m putting together on github. You can read it here: Ehcache powered JSR-107 provider | Continue reading
“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,” said Pooh. “There there,” said Piglet. “I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.” ― A.A. Milne Mission Samovar 7am-7pm Daily...Categories: San Francisco Tea(Read more...) | Continue reading
I use Projectile for working with projects in Emacs. It's really good at finding files in projects, working with source code indexes (I use Global), and with its perspective support, it's also great at separating projects into workspaces. However, I've always felt it lacking in a … | Continue reading
In this episode we first defend surge pricing before continuing our debate from last week: is society better off when corporations try to innovate, or would we be better off if we left the innovation to startups? Your answer to this question may change your opinion of Silicon Val … | Continue reading
Munin Virtual Host Configuration on Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4 Anthony Bouch Wed, 07/09/2014 - 20:26 Munin Virtual Host Configuration on Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4 Placeholder for Submitted Info Share Placeholder for Feature Image or Video Having switched to Nginx a while ago, … | Continue reading
At this year's beyond tellerrand Stephen Hay was giving a talk which influenced my last two months significantly. He was speaking about simplicity. Since this talk I'm haunted by a single thought: Start a new project as simple as it can get and only add things if you really need … | Continue reading
Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings That then I scorn to...Categories: Brunch SweetTags: gluten-freeoatsPeaches(Read more...) | Continue reading
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Supposedly we've come to grips with CSS pixels and device pixels by now and gotten past our Pixel Identity Crisis. Retina Display Media Queries are all good and dandy, but there is something that remains tricky: CSS borders. Imagine having a great and esteemed brand, a hotshot de … | Continue reading
I spent a big part of my childhood in our basement — no reason to call the police. I loved to waste entire days at my father's workbench, taking old electric devices apart with my best friend, not being able to assemble them again and building our own little gadgets for our treeh … | Continue reading
I’ve been settling into my new role at Twitter over the past few months. I’m a Developer Advocate on the Developer and Platform Relations team, based out of a beautiful new London office we opened a few weeks ago. It has been fantastic so far, learning about the Twitter platform … | Continue reading
tl;dr: vertical centering is still lots of fun if your use case includes containers of variable height, but with a set min-height. If you have no min-height, you can pick either way and you're done. CSS (and browser support in 2014) offers two possible solutions, but each comes w … | Continue reading
Amidst all the information about strategy, subterfuge and propaganda during World War One, it is easy to lose sight of the reality of people who lived through it. Jackie Storer’s excellent new book… | Continue reading
If you want to do a quick check whether your high resolution media queries are working, but you don't have a retina tablet at hand, here's a nice little trick for you: Open Firefox Go to about:config (and sign with your blood that you know what you're doing and will be super care … | Continue reading
Back in April I participated in what was labeled The Most Unique Cycling Event in The U.S. aka the SPY Belgian Waffle Ride.. A 217KM long ride/race with over 3450 meters of climbing, dirt sections, water crossing, jerseys, waffles and beer. What more does a bike nerd need?! I had … | Continue reading
Go has good support for examining and modifying Go source code. | Continue reading
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the fox who longed for grapes, beholds with pain the tempting clusters were too high to gain; grieved in his heart he forced a careless smile, and cried ,‘they’re sharp...Categories: Libations Rare SaladTags: grapeslemon basilverjus(Read more...) | Continue reading
In this episode we take on the validity of Disruption Theory in three parts: A discussion of Jill Lepore’s New Yorker article attacking disruption, as well as the debate that surrounded the article Ben’s article from last fall “What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong” A deeper discuss … | Continue reading
Für nutzerbezogene Daten steht in WordPress die Klasse WP_User_Query() zur Verfügung. Üblicherweise gibt man dort einen Schlüssel mit und bekommt die entsprechenden Werte zum User zurück. Durch ein Entwicklungsthema ist mir eine Besonderheit in der Query aufgefallen, die diesen k … | Continue reading
With multiple similar git repositories, for example where a base repository contains a framework or base system installation and other repositories are created from that repository, it's possible to save some time when cloning down another repository by using the reference option … | Continue reading
There’s a bit of a consensus building post WWDC: Apple has grown up, and it’s great. But is it great? Is it possible that something essential has been lost? After all, a lot of the praise being heaped on Apple and Tim Cook was once used for another company – Microsoft. In this ep … | Continue reading