Lorry Lokey, founder of media-relations site Business Wire, has sold his stunning San Francisco apartment for $6 million, Curbed SF reports. Lokey bought the home for $4.6 million in 2006, but he isn't looking to turn a profit on the sale. A signer of the Giving Pledge, Lokey ple … | Continue reading
Heroku has finally released their own integration with Github. So it’s time for me to officially retire my current solution based on my HerokuDeployer project. An app that I build for the sole purpose of deploying this Jekyll blog with just a push to the Github repository. I’ve b … | Continue reading
It's that time of year again.... First, as always, we revisit the predictions I made last year, and see how well they stacked up. (Because, as I've said before, anybody can make predictions without going back to measure your accuracy; I believe in accountability, even to my own s … | Continue reading
This article was originally written for the Fusionbox blog in January 2015. The Fusionbox process takes many pages from the Great Big Book of Agile Methodology to streamline and modernize the production of web content, etcetera, but for the folks at home, what is agile developmen … | Continue reading
Finally, the snow decided to show up. It came a couple of days late, it missed christmas. And of course, it’s all gone by now. Have some thoughts? Send me an email. | Continue reading
With the holidays behind us, we feel guilty about our episodes of gluttony. Though it may not last more than a week or two, we make New Years resolutions to exercise more and eat better. The gyms are packed and there’s that buzz about kale, quinoa, chia, and other healthy super f … | Continue reading
I’m a big fan of good looking band art. Sadly though, unlike other countries, Austria doesn’t really have a culture of well designed concert posters - they’re usually just bold type on bright neon paper stapled to a signpost. So for a long time, collecting and designing covers an … | Continue reading
Who needs a ball? Cities get creative on New Year's Eve by dropping objects that reflect local products and culture | Continue reading
2014, looking back... a little bit of a year in review. What I've been up to at Twitter, in Open Source, and in life.… Continue reading Some random reflections on 2014 → | Continue reading
Forgiveness not met by regret implies subjugation. The practical use of history is its distorted exploitation. This abuse accompanies the following discourse about the present. Perceived developments that disturb the world order and our holiday peace produce sundry responses. Som … | Continue reading
It’s been an interesting year. From the disappearance of Malaysia flight 370 to the Ebola outbreak and many other poignant news stories, those compiling this year’s lists of highlights and countdowns have their work cutout for them. Since I’ve never done a list of highlights on t … | Continue reading
I'm feeling suspicious of nil. What is nil? In a recent newsletter I pondered true and false, and suggested that thinking of them as normal, everyday objects could expand your ideas about OOP. Today I'll continue with this theme by considering nil. What _is_ nil? A straightforw … | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss the problems with drones, how they could be used for terrorism, and how you balance upside and downside. Links Felix Salmon: Whither Nanopublishing? – Medium James Allworth: Thinking Twice About Drones – Stratechery (Members-only) FBI: Man plotted to fly dro … | Continue reading
Alert! This is another rant blog post! I promise the next one will be more technical :-)Rocket launch me some opinions Past few days I’ve been playing around with Rocket, the new container runtime by CoreOS. Quite a few people have asked for my opinion so I figured I would put it … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, a week ago more precisely, we’ve released the first alpha of the new development line of Ehcache. The target of the alpha release was to provide a JSR-107, the javax.cache API for java, compliant implementation of using the new API and features as we plan to h … | Continue reading
This bug has actually existed for about 5 years, but for various reasons it has not been fixed by the jQuery team. The official bug ticket is here: jQuery Ticket #3016 [closed bug: patchwelcome] and it is still a valid bug in Firefox 34.0.5. I know that cloning a textarea is a su … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-INFRADEV-2014-2015Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: INFRADEV-2-2015(RIA-CSA) | Continue reading
Couple of new talks about DataScript | Continue reading
tl;dr: RetroGit is a simple tool that sends you a daily (or weekly) digest of your GitHub commits from years past. Use it as a nostalgia trip or to remind you of TODOs that you never quite got around to cleaning up. Think of it as Timehop for your codebase. It's now been a bit mo … | Continue reading
If you have ever received a notification text from an app on your smartphone, there is a decent chance it was powered by Twilio. The San Francisco-based cloud communications company, ...The post Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson Q&A: ‘We’re Trying to Make Communication Less Dumb’ appeared f … | Continue reading
What happens if you try to get mashed on potatoes and sauced on sauce? It's a sobering insight into what really happens to the booze we cook with | Continue reading
I don't like to work in silence. Especially when I'm doing something that needs concentration, I keep my best focus with the right background music. There’s different types of sound for different tasks - for example, I like to do creative work with calm, relaxed acoustic stuff. … | Continue reading
Like many others, I was excited to see that Facebook is putting on a conference for the React community. Tickets were being released in three waves, and so for the last three Fridays I have been trying to get one. The first Friday I did not even manage to see an order form. The n … | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss the recent App Store controversy and how a person – or company’s – greatest strength is also their greatest weakness. Plus a special 2nd recording about the Harvard business school professor and the Chinese restaurant. Links Cabel Sasser: Transmit iOS 1.1.1 … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-YOUNG-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: YOUNG-3-2015(RIA), YOUNG-4-2015(RIA) | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-INSO-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: INSO-1-2015(CSA-IA) | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-INSO-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 28 May 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: INSO-4-2015(CSA-RIA), INSO-5-2015(CSA) | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-EURO-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: EURO-6-2015(CSA-RIA) | Continue reading
Introduction This column is intended for a business audience, and lacks technical details – it is the author’s intent to communicate sound security strategies to C-level personnel tasked with making ...The post The Sony Pictures Hack and Learning Information Security Lessons the … | Continue reading
L’Institut Culturel Google à Paris lancera le 10 décembre une plateforme pour créer des applications mobiles, personnalisables et gratuites pour les musées,Source:… | Continue reading
The Android Debug Bridge ( ADB ) is an underutilised tool in my opinion. Over the last couple of months I have been doing a lot of work using Cordova and the Ionic Framework to create my field guide to NSW Marine Life for the Android platform. When I started… | Continue reading
Over the last couple of months I have been doing a lot of work with Cordova and the Ionic Framework creating my field guide of NSW Marine Life for the Android platform. When I started out working with Android my work flow was pretty simple: Make the required changes to… | Continue reading
Ben and James follow up on last week’s Uber discussion, talk about the problem with regulation, and worry about stagnation and the different cultures of Europe, America, and Asia. Links Nicole Campbell: What Was Said at the Uber Dinner – Huffington Post Lane Wood: Here Ego Again … | Continue reading
The irony was too obvious to miss: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, together with senior management from Vodafone, ruminating over Europe’s digital future in a building which once held enormous amounts ...The post The Meat on the Bones of Germany’s Digital Policy: Merkel at Digit … | Continue reading
I've written a package for chaining context-aware handlers in Go, called Stack. It was heavily inspired by Alice. What do you mean by 'context-aware'? If you're using a middleware pattern to process HTTP requests in Go, you may want to share some data or context between middl … | Continue reading
I'm carrying this around with me for quite some time. Why is there no Wikipedia for news? Well, actually there is, but it's just a sad try to replicate the idea of Wikipedia and apply it to news. The biggest issue with news is trust. Which news source is in all their subjectivity … | Continue reading
There's been a fair amount of conversation around how to recruit software developers effectively. I've participated in some of it. But just today, a blog post crossed my desk(top) and finally prompted me enough to get around and blog about it. In "Resumes Suck. Here's the Data", … | Continue reading
If you’re a top politician, it probably feels like the world is constantly out to get you.* So when you embark on what seems like a nice little day trip ...The post Nick Clegg Looks to Berlin to Learn the Lesson of Transforming a Rundown City into a Tech Hub appeared first on Sil … | Continue reading
This has been a recurring theme for me in 2014. https://t.co/H613AEUvwj— Joe Fabisevich ™ (@mergesort) December 1, 2014 People have asked how I make changes so quickly to my code, it's because I've made it so it can be changed quickly.— Joe Fabisevich ™ (@mergesort) Decem … | Continue reading
TRANSLATIONS: 中文 (UI.cn) | 中文 (CSDN) | 한국어 | ру́сский язы́к This summer, I packed up all my things and moved from San Francisco to Guangzhou, China for work. Through an unlikely chain of coincidences that I don’t entirely recall, I’ve become a product manager on WeChat, a popular … | Continue reading
You know that cool animation that Polygon used in their Xbox One and PS4 reviews, where SVG images appeared to draw progressively? It’s really easy to do. | Continue reading
Heute setzen eine ganze Reihe von Webentwicklern ein Zeichen mit dem Symbol der blauen Mütze – Bewusstsein für Webstandard ist der kurzgefasste Hintergrund der Idee „Blue Beanie Day„. Es schadet nicht, sich damit ein wenig auseinander zu setzen, egal ob man blaue Mützen mag oder … | Continue reading
A recurring argument currently doing the rounds at work and amongst the developer community is whether or not to use JSON or XML when transferring data between systems, web services or databases. N… | Continue reading