A few days ago I was given the job of changing the caching engine used in a Zend Framework based application from a simple flat file system based caching system to a memcached based object store that could be used by multiple servers. After extending the existing application boot … | Continue reading
This episode is all about the (alleged) Apple Beats acquisition. While it may make a certain amount of business sense, does it signify a small but significant change in Apple’s priorities, and is it a cause for concern? Topics covered include: The rationale for the acquisition Th … | Continue reading
This episode was actually recorded on February 18; however, due to circumstances, we had to hibernate Exponent and the episode was never actually edited and posted. Now that the show is back – for good this time – we wanted to post the “missing episode” plenty of folks have asked … | Continue reading
Martin Brinkmann: Each update by a subscribed channel would be displayed directly to you on YouTube. If you wanted, you could also subscribe to a public RSS feed that would deliver those video updates to your favorite RSS reader. If you have done that in the past, you may have no … | Continue reading
Yesterday I couldn’t attend the opening of Glyph Graves’ new installation at Inworldz Translation sim. The sim wouldn’t allow me to connect to it. I tried and tried, using three different viewers. I was able to get onto the SecondLife LEA21 sim for SL’s side of the multi-grid com … | Continue reading
I’m having this printed onto a 16×20 inch canvas. I think it will look marvy in my bathroom over the toilet. | Continue reading
Practical ARIA Examples has some handy snippets and approaches, e.g. for accessible hamburger menu icon, tab navigation and alerts (among others). | Continue reading
This post is a compilation of publicly available information, Datomic docs and google group answers about Datomic internals. Intention is to help others understand implementation model and use Datomic more efficiently. | Continue reading
The internet decided last week, the iPad is dying. Too bad, I really enjoyed using mine. Well, not really for the first 4 years, but when Apple released the iPad Mini, it became my computing partner. Supposedly the Mac is sitting in the corner rapping “don’t call it a comeback.” … | Continue reading
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Identifier: H2020-EINFRA-2014-2015Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014Latest information: Proposal templates and evaluation forms for RIA and CSA are available in the Topic Conditions & … | Continue reading
The art and science of creating chance This post was originally published on Medium in 2015. In 2014 I was lucky enough to speak at Morning Prayers, a secular Harvard tradition that has existed since its founding in 1636. Below is a copy of my remarks. Harvard University · Senior … | Continue reading
I'm leaving Iowa State in a few weeks, which is both a bummer and very exciting. | Continue reading
Datomic introduced a data structure model: entity-attribute-value store, transaction format, Datalog query language dialect. As you get familiar with it, you notice that this model has a lot of nice properties and is, in fact, more thought-out than it may appear at the first glan … | Continue reading
Responsive email is a rapidly growing field; if you need to get up to speed with current developments, check out Responsive Email Resources which has a good overview of approaches and patterns for all domains from planning to implementation. | Continue reading
Between the 21th and 24th April 2014, Håkan Jonsson from Sony presented a VENTURI related paper at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and In-formation Processing (IEEE ISSNIP 2014), in Singapore. Håkan presented his paper on “A comparis … | Continue reading
Some people don't know how to ask for help. Luckily, there's a proper way to do it. | Continue reading
Web applications’ story has been incomplete for a long time. There’s a lot of people working in web development, a lot of effort put into it, a lot of thought (I hope), and still we’re far, far away from complex, evolving, reactive web apps. It’s still the Dark Ages. | Continue reading
Nicholas Zakas: JavaScript has come a long way recently, but we still have a ways to go to get the same type of time-saving functionality that type-safe languages boast. ECMAScript 6 proxies provide a great way to start enforcing contracts where necessary. Caso queira começar a e … | Continue reading
WARNING: 2018-04-12: The code snippets for this post are no longer available. This is just as well anyway, since they all depended on an unstable internal compiler interface, which hasn’t existed for years. A few weeks ago, I set out to add regular expressions to the Rust distrib … | Continue reading
Michaël Villar: The goal of animations should not solely be entertaining the user, but rather, they should be helping the user better understand what’s going on and how to use your product most effectively. If you disable animations, the flow should feel broken; if it is not, thi … | Continue reading
Writing Dockerfiles is pretty funny experience. I like the idea of writing the minimum amount of instructions that will make it possible to run kafka, redis, influxdb or whatever. While taking my first steps in developing a Dockerfile I noticed I keep typing the same commands ove … | Continue reading
I’ve been playing with a few other scaling algorithms in the 2dimagefilter project. They produce even more impressive results than the previous batch. | Continue reading
On the 16th April 2014 an article dedicated to the VENTURI project, named “Augmented Reality: Bringing History and the Future to Life” was published on the CORDIS website. The article discusses the project’s involvement in a future AR installation called Très Cloîtres Numérique, … | Continue reading
Strava for flying Strava for tennis Strava for driving Strava for golfing Strava for rapping Strava for beer drinking Strava for sitting (ok, that one failed already) | Continue reading
Public speaking is the number 1 fear out there. Let's conquer it together. Lovingly. | Continue reading
Mais uma vez esse blog sofre um reboot após um longo período de inatividade. Muita coisa mudou desde a última vez que escrevi por aqui. Terminei a faculdade, mudei de cidade, entrei no mercado de trabalho, publiquei meu primeiro aplicativo. Nada disso, porém, justifica abandonar … | Continue reading
Mais uma vez esse blog sofre um reboot após um longo período de inatividade. Muita coisa mudou desde a última vez que escrevi por aqui. Terminei a faculdade, mudei de cidade, entrei no mercado de trabalho, publiquei meu primeiro aplicativo. Nada disso, porém, justifica abandonar … | Continue reading
Too often people go for the biggest and best laptop out there, when there are reasonable, affordable options. Let's talk about it. | Continue reading
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I’ve been playing with a few scaling algorithms in the 2dimagefilter project. They produce impressive results when fed pixel art, and the fact that emulators can run them in real-time is just mind-boggling. | Continue reading
Small widget to compare two images side by side, for my articles on pixel art scaling (parts one and two). | Continue reading
Small widget that simulates a magnifying glass, for my articles on pixel art scaling (parts one and two). | Continue reading
Lately I’ve been playing with go and docker a lot. I have several reasons why I’m spending part of my (not really copious) free time to have a look at those two technologies but I’ll skip them for now because they would offer you nothing practical to read about, it would just be … | Continue reading
There are some CSS shorthand declarations that require the use of / which LESS may interpret as the math operator for a division (depending on the values in your declaration). Examples for this are: .selector { font: font-style font-variant font-weight font-size/line-height f … | Continue reading
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Building a Cordova based mobile application recently at work we were facing an issue with an application size that was literally growing by the day. The project leveraged a lot of PNG templates sent to us by the design department and these template files were contributing about 5 … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-CBTT-2014Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: CBTT-1-2014(CSA)The FAQ has been updated on 17/03/201 … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-BIR-2014Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: BIR-1-2014(CSA)The FAQ has been updated on 17/03/2014 | Continue reading