Moon Game, 2015 © Sjoerd KnibbelerHaving announced the five talents for the ING Unseen Talent Award, we’re excited to announce that voting is now open for the Public Prize. Cast your vote here and get the chance to win an exclusive Unseen prize. | Continue reading
Untitled (Dilatation I), 2015 © Sébastien BoninHaving announced the five talents for the ING Unseen Talent Award, we’re excited to announce that voting is now open for the Public Prize. Cast your vote here and get the chance to win an exclusive Unseen prize. | Continue reading
All is dust, 2015 © Olya OleinicHaving announced the five talents for the ING Unseen Talent Award, we’re excited to announce that voting is now open for the Public Prize. Cast your vote here and get the chance to win an exclusive Unseen prize. | Continue reading
Summer Ending, 2015 © Lara GasparottoHaving announced the five talents for the ING Unseen Talent Award, we’re excited to announce that voting is now open for the Public Prize. Cast your vote here and get the chance to win an exclusive Unseen prize. | Continue reading
Microservices are a thing these days. When I was at SoundCloud, I was responsible for the migration from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a constellation of microservices. I’ve told the technical side of this story multiple times, both in presentations, and as a multi-p … | Continue reading
canvas { display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; cursor: crosshair; } This post explains the algorithm I use for field of view in my game. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a long time. While I procrastinated, I moved four times, got married, had two kids, and ported my … | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss the New York Times exposé on Amazon’s work practices at its Seattle headquarters. What exactly was the story about, what questions are raised by it, and more importantly, what are the right answers for not just Amazon but society as a whole? This episode is … | Continue reading
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question. | Continue reading
I’m a big fan of Zach Gage’s games. He recently released a game called “Sage Solitaire” in which solitaire is played with poker hands. You can make a Full House, Straight, Straight Flush, etc, to clear cards from the board. To choose what hands to make, it’s pretty important to k … | Continue reading
I’m a big fan of Zach Gage’s games. He recently released a game called “Sage Solitaire” in which solitaire is played with poker hands. You can make a Full House, Straight, Straight Flush, etc, to clear cards from the board. To choose what hands to make, it’s pretty important to k … | Continue reading
If you’re a web developer and you’re interested in open source projects and you commonly use browser devtools in your activities then you might want to read on. In this article, I’ll go over some of the things that make the Firefox DevTools open source project special, and how th … | Continue reading
María De Lourdes Melgar Palacios discusses the nation's decision to allow foreign companies to invest in its energy sector. | Continue reading
The HTR technology being developed for tranScriptorium offers a number of exciting possibilities when it comes to transcription, not least of which is when it comes to crowdsourcing. Based on our experience of running Transcribe Bentham – which crowdsources the transcription of t … | Continue reading
Jerry Brown, the man once known as 'Gov. Moonbeam,' has since become an unofficial ambassador on stopping climate change. | Continue reading
TU Berlin/Spin Digital presented an 8K H.265 decoder at CEBIT 2015TU Berlin participated as exhibitor at CeBIT Hannover (Germany), one of the world’s most important computer and technological trade... | Continue reading
TU Berlin/Spin Digital presented an 8K H.265 decoder at CEBIT 2015TU Berlin participated as exhibitor at CeBIT Hannover (Germany), one of the world’s most important computer and technological trade shows. The exhibition took place at the Hannover Messe from 16th to 20th March. TU … | Continue reading
As Common Core test results come in, the goal of comparing student performance among states is unmet. | Continue reading
As a software engineer, I eventually need to collect metrics from my development environment to be graphed and measured. I found a very portable solution based on Docker containers, InfluxDB as time series store and Grafana as visualization tool. Let’s start by installing the Doc … | Continue reading
Much of the ORM criticism of the last decade missed the point, being inaccurate. By the end of this article, we will conclude with the … | Continue reading
http://angularjs.blogspot.de/2015/08/angular-1-and-angular-2-coexistence.html | Continue reading
Scholarships for the Oct 19-21 Practical Object-Oriented Design Course (POODNYC) in New York City have been awarded! Winners are listed below, but before I introduce them I'd like to give an overview of the applicant pool and selection process. | Continue reading
Take your skills to the next level! The Persistence Hub is the place to be for every Java developer. It gives you access to all my premium video … | Continue reading
Take your skills to the next level! The Persistence Hub is the place to be for every Java developer. It gives you access to all my premium video … | Continue reading
I attended OSCON for the first time this year in Portland. | Continue reading
In this article we'll take a look at the wonderful world of the CSS Grid Layout, a relatively new W3C specification that has partially started to see the light in some browsers. But before we dive into what this new CSS technique is all about and how to use it, let's quickly revi … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-BBI-PPP-2015-02Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: BBI.D7-2015(BBI-IA-DEMO), BBI.R10-2015(BBI-RIA), B … | Continue reading
I recently came across awesome list of php resources that can be very handy. Have a look at the following and save it Dependency Management Libraries for dependency and package management. Composer/Packagist – A package and dependency manager. Composer Installers – A multi frame … | Continue reading
A few days ago I met a Berlin taxi driver named Zlatan who told me his favorite place to eat is ... | Continue reading
A few days ago I met a Berlin taxi driver named Zlatan who told me his favorite place to eat is Roga | Continue reading
Consider this post a guide on how to avoid the most common mistakes young designers make when assembling their portfolios. | Continue reading
A lot of exciting things have happened on the JVM in the last couple of years. We've seen several interesting languages and frameworks come to life … | Continue reading
Gradle Release Notes The Gradle team is excited to announce Gradle 8.9. This release improves error and warning reporting for variant issues during … | Continue reading
Java allows casting to an intersection of types, e.g. (Number & Comparable)5. When combined with default methods on interfaces, it provides a way to … | Continue reading
If you have used Composition in favor of Inheritance you won't face this problem and your class would have been more robust, because you are not … | Continue reading
http://hannesdorfmann.com/android/adapter-delegates/ | Continue reading
Dear Spring community, It's my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.2 is now generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central! … | Continue reading
How ButterKnife makes use of Java’s annotation processing capabilities, to help easily bind views to your Android activities http://lgvalle.xyz/2015/05/04/butterknife/ | Continue reading
The Optional classs in Java 8 is a useful tool to help developers manage data. But advice on how to use it varies. This is my take on one good … | Continue reading
A fluffy vegan almond sponge cake with fresh raspberries, jam and flaked almonds for a classic Bakewell flavour. | Continue reading
Wow, I haven’t written a post in a while. This one will need to be really good, then. Huh, my blog sure looks outdated. I can’t write a post with it looking like that. I need to update the design. How do I deploy this thing again? Oh, it’s a full-blown web application. All blogs … | Continue reading
Earlier this year I posted about WKWebView communication latency and how it’s not quite as good as UIWebView (when using WKScriptMessageHandler, the officially sanctioned mechanism). There have a been a few developments in this area, so an update seems warranted. Things appear to … | Continue reading