Boy, I am sure behind the times with having a tech type of blog, but being late is better than never. I am going to try to use this platform to discuss some of my tech journeys while I delve into my new job as a DBA developer. I have worked on SQL Server in the past, but I will b … | Continue reading
Just a little blurb…I’m a former web and application developer, and Community Manager who is currently working as a Database Administrator at Stack Overflow. When I’m not at my desk, I’m probably running or pretending to be a woodworker. I can be reached via email at taryn.e.prat … | Continue reading
Now that we’re finally starting to see some mainstream cameras that can run apps (see previous discussion here) I suppose it’s time to talk a little bit about one of the potential downsides of such a scenario. Because as soon as you allow people to download and run third-party so … | Continue reading
So we’ve got this fun little app called Faceship out there – www.appstore.com/faceship. It is, as the name would imply, very face-centric in the sense that it provides a bunch of effects that are intended to be applied to people’s faces. Stuff like this: (These were all done by o … | Continue reading
Go’s only method of compile time safe polymorphism is structural subtyping, and this article will do nothing to change that. Instead, I’m going to present a package ty with facilities to write type parametric functions in Go that maintain run time type safety, while also being co … | Continue reading
Expiring domain names make me sad. Those expiry emails are a constant reminder that I had an idea I didn't execute on (sometimes for the better). After my most recent expiry, I thought I'd take a trip through my expired domains and see what could have been. scrapebook.org I've to … | Continue reading
Twitter serves over 1.6 billion searches each day, ranking tweets for display to the user in reverse-chronological order. However, finding relevant tweets can be a challenging task, since the relevance of a tweet is dependant both on its content and whether it links to a useful d … | Continue reading
Explain like I’m 5 years old: Kerberos – what is Kerberos, and why should I care?While this topic probably can not be explained to a 5 year-old and be understood, this is my attempt at defragmenting documentation with some visual aids and digestible language.In a nutshell Basical … | Continue reading
Explain like I’m 5 years old: Kerberos – what is Kerberos, and why should I care?While this topic probably can not be explained to a 5 year-old and be understood, this is my attempt at defragmenting documentation with some visual aids and digestible language.In a nutshell Basical … | Continue reading
In TREC 2012, we focus on tackling the new challenges posed by the Medical, Microblog and Web tracks, using our Terrier Information Retrieval Platform. In particular, for the Medical track, we investigate how to exploit implicit knowledge within medical records, with the aim of b … | Continue reading
In TREC 2012, we focus on tackling the new challenges posed by the Medical, Microblog and Web tracks, using our Terrier Information Retrieval Platform. In particular, for the Medical track, we investigate how to exploit implicit knowledge within medical records, with the aim of b … | Continue reading
If the purity of a codebase would suffer from a change that enhances the experience of users, then the code should suffer. | Continue reading
Pizza and pasta are pretty obviously out, but what are the other no-nos? | Continue reading
Since the initial release of Vagrant in 2010, Vagrant has grown to be used by hundreds of companies and thousands of people. While I don't have hard numbers to back this up, a majority of the Vagrant users I meet are not Ruby developers. | Continue reading
Your stock options are unlikely to make you rich, so make sure you enjoy the work enough to make it through the tough times. | Continue reading
This post contains all the sources and thoughts behind my PyCon 2013 talk launching newcoder.io. The video and slides are available.If the influx of private, independent schools for learning how to code is any indication, the ever-growing list of moocs, or the financial smack in … | Continue reading
This post contains all the sources and thoughts behind my PyCon 2013 talk launching newcoder.io. The video and slides are available.If the influx of private, independent schools for learning how to code is any indication, the ever-growing list of moocs, or the financial smack in … | Continue reading
Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl is a breakout success, so much so that she is apparently writing a screen version of it at the moment. I have read her debut novel, Sharp Objects, and found it a cynical and bleak thriller about broken people who break others (that is not a complaint, by … | Continue reading
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Mitchell Hashimoto About Writing Misc Mitchell Hashimoto APPLE: My Key to Success March 4, 2013 No, not the company or the fruit. APPLE is an acronym ingrained into every Apple store employee before they ever even step on the retail floor. And it has continued to guide me ever si … | Continue reading
Redmine is an excellent web-based project management tool. It’s open source, free and is built using Ruby on Rails. We use Redmine as our main tool for planning, issue tracking and documenting processes. It’s an everyday tool so we need to have an always ready Redmine instance wi … | Continue reading
To start out, I’ve got a confession to make: I’m a pretty big nerd. I know, I know, it’s hard to believe, but it’s true. I also like games, which might be a little easier to swallow. Beyond the tabletop board and card games I’ve been writing about here, I’m also a fan of video ga … | Continue reading
Have you just updated your local of WordPress and its now all broken on MAMP, I've had this problem a few times now so thought it would be worth sharing how to fix this. The problem is caused by the load-scripts.php file being compressed with zlib, I first did as suggested on thi … | Continue reading
A summary of the paper ‘A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design’ by Bruno Latour. | Continue reading
This rule takes an SVG file as input and returns two PNGs. One is rendered with 72 dpi, which maps 1 SVG pixel to one output pixel. The other, target@2.png, is rendered with twice the solution to fit for Retina displays. | Continue reading
This small experiment allows to try out interactively the so-called Gutenberg canon for page layout on different page sizes. | Continue reading
The thesis investigates how content produced by end-users on the World Wide Web --- referred to as user-generated content --- can enhance the news vertical aspect of a universal Web search engine, such that news-related queries can be satisfied more accurately, comprehensively an … | Continue reading
The thesis investigates how content produced by end-users on the World Wide Web --- referred to as user-generated content --- can enhance the news vertical aspect of a universal Web search engine, such that news-related queries can be satisfied more accurately, comprehensively an … | Continue reading
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Finally, I can actually do some show & tell!The US is trying to recover from the economic crises of the late decade. We’re still a bit high on unemployment at 7.8%, and a bit too low with inflation below 2%. People are depressed - job hunting, competing with hundreds of other can … | Continue reading
Finally, I can actually do some show & tell!The US is trying to recover from the economic crises of the late decade. We’re still a bit high on unemployment at 7.8%, and a bit too low with inflation below 2%. People are depressed - job hunting, competing with hundreds of other can … | Continue reading