Clearly I have an avid fascination with weird celebrity business stories. One of my all time favorites is MC Hammer. This one is a quick read too… MC Hammer is actually known best for his series of poor business decisions (example basically blowing all of his money keeping an lar … | Continue reading
Just a quick note to comment that I’ve added links to two recent interviews on the media section of my Speaking and Media page: The Cloudcast #133 – The Cloud Foundry Foundation, Cloudcast podcast, March 2014 (interview) [there are a few audio dropouts in this due to recording ov … | Continue reading
In late 2011, I was contacted by a very charming, smart and persuasive French gentleman who spoke of clouds, platform-as-a-service, and polyglot programming. It took him and his team a couple of months to get me thinking seriously about a career change, after 10 great years at IB … | Continue reading
That’s it! We’ve finally done it… Or almost done it. We’ve extracted the SizeOf code from the Ehcache library in it’s own library.Release 0.2.0 The first release of the lib was just pushed to maven central and available by adding the following dependency to your pom.xml:org.ehcac … | Continue reading
In unit tests you might run in problems, when your code uses PHP built-in functions, that emit certain hard-coded values like session_start(). When you use PHP namespaces, however, you can solve this problem in an elegant way. | Continue reading
Interviews are scary, but they don't have to be. When you're on the spot, it's best to be prepared. Let's prepare you. | Continue reading
I have been using Laravel quite a bit recently and it's a great framework, which is really good fun to code with. I've just started writing a registration system in Laravel and came across a problem which I felt was worth sharing. I was creating the table and model to store the e … | Continue reading
As much as I'd like to say that your looks will get you far, sometimes actual information is good to know too. | Continue reading
It’s been 4 years since we released Ehcache 2.0. While it was the second major release in almost 6 years, it didn’t break backward compatibility, but was “simply” the first release with a tight integration with the Terracotta stack, just 6 months after the acquisition. With JSR-1 … | Continue reading
Kun vastuupäivitykseni yhä viipyy, päätin kirjoittaa kevyenä välipalana oheisen dialogin. Kyseessä on satu kunnanpoli... | Continue reading
Kun vastuupäivitykseni yhä viipyy, päätin kirjoittaa kevyenä välipalana oheisen dialogin.Kyseessä on satu kunnanpoliitikosta ja teatteritaiteilijasta. Selvyyden vuoksi on heti alkuun sanottava, etteivät sadun kumpainenkaan päähenkilö pohjaa todellisiin henkilöihin, sen koomm … | Continue reading
I love getting feedback from people. You learn most from it. | Continue reading
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In this, the first episode of the Exponent podcast, we talk about our background, Microsoft and disruption, and the meaning of culture. We also explore our goals for this podcast, and just a bit about Taiwanese garbage trucks. Show Notes: If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple link The Halo … | Continue reading
Identifier: ERC-2014-CoGPillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 20 May 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: ERC-CoG-2014(ERC-COG) | Continue reading
I’ve recently started to play with some more of the internals of Cloud Foundry than I’ve been used to. This has been made much easier by the advent of bosh-lite, a system for deploying all of Cloud Foundry’s components using the bosh continuous deployment and configuration tool, … | Continue reading
Drawing a Lorenz attractor by absolutely positioning span elements along the x and y axes, and faking the z axis by adjusting their size. | Continue reading
Drawing a Lorenz attractor with CSS shadows. No JavaScript involved. | Continue reading
With rumors swirling about a bigger iPhone 6, I figured I’d touch on them (haha, puns). A few years ago, I thought the idea of a larger iPhone would be something I disliked. With my small-ish hands, even the iPhone 5’s 4 inch screen is too large for me to reach the back button in … | Continue reading
I’ve been doing Objective-C for almost 5 years (woo!), so at this point I think I have a better understanding than most of Apple’s motivations and intentions, with relation to building the language. That said, recently I’ve been loving working with Go, and there’s a few reasons f … | Continue reading
This is part 2 of a two-part tutorial for beginners as an introduction to HTML and CSS. | Continue reading
This is part 1 of a two-part tutorial for beginners as an introduction to HTML and CSS. | Continue reading
Rotating 3D shapes with CSS transforms and animations. No JavaScript involved. | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-FETFLAG-2014Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: FETFLAG-1-2014(FPA), FETFLAG-2-2014(CSA) | Continue reading
Have you ever found yourself needing trigonometric functions like sine, cosine, and tangent when writing your Sass stylesheets? Ok, probably not, but the day may come, and you’ll be glad you read this. | Continue reading
It's short notice, but I’m giving a talk Stony Brook University tonight about How Startups Fail. So if you find yourself in the middle of… | Continue reading
One, if the not the, most common use case for Ehcache out there is using it with Hibernate. With only a little configuration, you can speed up your application drastically and reduce the load on your database significantly. Who wouldn’t want that? So off you go: you add the coupl … | Continue reading
Identifier: ERC-2014-PoCPillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: ERC-PoC-2014(ERC-POC) | Continue reading
The second and final round of field trials of TOSCA-MP has taken place in January at RAI in Turin, Italy and VRT in Brussels, Belgium. More than 30 users from different organisations in the broadcast and media industry had the opportunity to get a hands-on experience of the tools … | Continue reading
A new version of our folder is now available here. | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-FETPROACT-2014Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: FETPROACT-1-2014(RIA), FETPROACT-2-2014(RIA), FETPROA … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-Prize-Innovation-SOFT-2014Pillar: Euratom Research and Training Programme 2014-2018Opening Date: Deadline: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014Latest information: FAQQ. I have just had a look at the call summary and … | Continue reading
Pay attention. Milk is not just an afterthought in your coffee. It can make your coffee sing or put a spoiler on your saucer. Optimum milk matching is the key to perfect coffee.Coffee connoisseurs may know their aromas from their arabicas and even be able to explain the opti … | Continue reading