I wrote a post a few months ago about sharing data between iOS apps and app extensions in which I recommended using NSFileCoordinator and NSFilePresenter. But I had to update the post to remove that portion when some helpful people pointed me to Apple Tech Note 2408 | Continue reading
True story: I wrote my first lines of Ruby in February and used that wee bit of knowledge that to motivate myself to start this blog using a Ruby-on-Rails-based static site generator (Middleman FTW!) and used that experience to give a talk to the Bmore on Rails meetup…46 days aft … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode, Ben finally has an Apple Watch: James has lots of questions about it. (And yes, we should have talked about Google Now.) Links Horace Dediu: The Battle for The Wrist — Asymco Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Great News – Stratechery … | Continue reading
tranScriptorium team will present recent results next Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from 11:00am to 12:45pm EDT in a webinar. See additional information at this link. | Continue reading
Next June 1st, tranScriptorium team will give a talk at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities about recent results of tranScriptorium project on Interactive Handwritten Text Recognition and Indexing of Historical Documents | Continue reading
Identifier: COS-TOUR-2015-3-04Pillar: More favourable conditions for business creation and growthOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 13 May 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: COSME-05-201 … | Continue reading
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I don’t follow all the advice I receive via social media and blogs (because, oh, what a surreal life I would lead then!), but a blog by Garann Means found its way to my Twitterstream via Andy Mangold, and it is pretty much why this blog exists. Because I have been out here adapti … | Continue reading
Identifier: COS-DESIGN-2015-3-03Pillar: More favourable conditions for business creation and growthOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 12 May 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: COSME-10-2 … | Continue reading
tl;dr: react-closure-compiler is a project that contains a custom Closure Compiler pass that understands React concepts like components, elements and mixins. It allows you to get type-aware checks within your components and compile React itself alongside your code with full minif … | Continue reading
ppk (Peter-Paul Koch, http://quirksmode.org) gave the second talk of day 1 at beyond tellerrand 2015 and completely nerded out at least half the audience with his topic of browser fragmentation on Android. His talk is the distilled version of his book “The Mobile Web Handbook” an … | Continue reading
While being a designer/developer still feels like the most fulfilling thing I can currently imagine as a job, the last 14 years of being a freelancer in this industry brought quite some low times in which I wasn't sure if this is something I could do forever. Especially the last … | Continue reading
tranScriptorium and Transkribus will be presente in the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities next 16 June 2015 | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-CS2-CPW02-2015-01-MasterPillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 5 May 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: JTI-CS2-2015-CPW02-AIR-01-03(CS2-IA), JTI … | Continue reading
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It is risky to take the rickety boat from Africa to Europe. Nevertheless, masses embark on a journey to a dream that dissipates once reached. Unshaken by the perils, the goal remains to enter an assumed paradise. The participants put themselves in harm’s way and antagonize hosts … | Continue reading
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In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss why Twitter needs new leadership, its massive potential, and why Google probably should acquire it Links Ben Thompson: Twitter Needs New Leadership – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Twitter’s Marketing Problem – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Fac … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-FTIPilot-2015-1Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015Latest information: A total of 269 proposals were submitted in response to this call. | Continue reading
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My direct reports often ask me to assess their speed. They either feel too slow and want to improve their performance or, a bit less often, they’re looking for confirmation that they are fast enough. | Continue reading
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Identifier: COS-DCFB-2015-3-01-MasterPillar: More favourable conditions for business creation and growthOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: COSME … | Continue reading
A few days ago I got a warning in my GitHub news feed that my 2 year educational discount was about to expire. As each of my 5 private repos contained a sensitive project I was forced to take them down before GitHub would make them public. (Update: I just figured out that it is p … | Continue reading
I recently came across the H5BP’s Frontend Developer Interview Questions. It’s a collection of questions related to building websites, meant for employers to vet potential candidates for a job. Although I’m currently not looking for a (regular) job, I thought it would be interest … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss the prospects for Google’s Project Fi as well as Facebook’s decision to change their News Feed algorithm Links Project Fi – Google Ben Thompson: Google Launches Project Fi – Stratechery Daily Update (members-only) How Google’s Project … | Continue reading
Identifier: COS-EYE-2015-4-01-MasterPillar: Supporting entrepreneursOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: COSME-04-2015(COSME-GAE) | Continue reading
Update: I gave a presentation to the SF Python Meetup group about the new library, including why you’d use a descriptive language for your API, why RAML, and why Spotify chose RAML.If you’re into IPython Notebooks, mine can be found here, with slides generated from IPython here. … | Continue reading
Update: I gave a presentation to the SF Python Meetup group about the new library, including why you’d use a descriptive language for your API, why RAML, and why Spotify chose RAML.If you’re into IPython Notebooks, mine can be found here, with slides generated from IPython here. … | Continue reading