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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
Done drugs Drank coffee Worn a scarf Been camping Watched Titanic Smoked cigarettes Listened to a Drake song (voluntarily) Believed in a higher power (besides my watts) …and most likely never will. | Continue reading
Sony Alpha 7 II - The Three-Year Wait Anthony Bouch Tue, 04/21/2015 - 05:56 Sony Alpha 7 II - The Three-Year Wait Placeholder for Submitted Info Share Placeholder for Feature Image or Video Updated: 26 Sept 2019. I've since purchased a Sony Alpha A9 - a truly incredible camera, w … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben and James thank John Siracusa then dive into the EU’s antitrust investigation of Google and discuss whether or not antitrust is more or less important in technology. Links John Siracusa: OS X Reviewed – Hypercritical John Siracusa: OS X 10.10 Yosemite R … | Continue reading
Social media statistics during recent disasters (e.g. the 20 million tweets relating to `Sandy' storm and the sharing of related photos in Instagram at a rate of 10/sec) suggest that the understanding and management of real-world events by civil protection and law enforcement age … | Continue reading
Social media statistics during recent disasters (e.g. the 20 million tweets relating to `Sandy' storm and the sharing of related photos in Instagram at a rate of 10/sec) suggest that the understanding and management of real-world events by civil protection and law enforcement age … | Continue reading
When a significant event occurs, many social media users leverage platforms such as Twitter to track that event. Moreover, emergency response agencies are increasingly looking to social media as a source of real-time information about such events. However, false information and r … | Continue reading
When a significant event occurs, many social media users leverage platforms such as Twitter to track that event. Moreover, emergency response agencies are increasingly looking to social media as a source of real-time information about such events. However, false information and r … | Continue reading
Exploration of Design Aesthetics from the world's most famous brand, and better design in the form of an Antithesis | Continue reading
One of the most disturbing aspects of design trends over the last decade or two is the cult of Apple, and the various sound bytes that they use to be able to convert people into their design aesthetic => my specific issue is with this hyperbolic “minimalism” mantra that they have … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2015Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: MSCA-COFUND-2015-DP(MSCA-COFUND-DP), MSCA-COFUND-20 … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, we were running into severe disk space and memory issues on our development servers at work. Our set-up is a bit odd, we have 3 servers - one for the transactions, one for the web interface, and the final one for reporting. Using transactional replication we have … | Continue reading
A few weeks bit over a month ago, I took the plunge and attended my very first SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday #370 in Phoenix. I’ve never had a chance to go to any of the local user group events or another SQL Saturday due to scheduling issues, etc. but this year I reshuffled things … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss whether or not there is a bubble, as well as a bit on the Apple Watch. Please note this was recorded before the Apple Watch reviews were released. Links Ben Thompson: It’s Not 1999 – Stratechery The Unicorn List – Fortune Ben Thompson: … | Continue reading
My name is Bastian and I am an addict. I confess that I spend too much time with my smart phone. More time than I actually want to spend with it. It often reminds me of my time as a smoker. In the end of my "smoking career" I smoked more unnecessary cigarettes than necessary – if … | Continue reading
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the...Categories: SnackTags: gluten-freeMisorice(Read more...) | Continue reading
All of us developers who love what we do have started lots of side-projects. And almost all of us have equally as many side-projects abandoned on some workspace or projects directory, rotting, with no hope of every achieving completion. New projects are dumped there periodically, … | Continue reading
I pushed the magic button to get a Shyp person here to send out a couple packages I have been procrastinating sending for weeks. After that was settled, I dialed up Time Warner Cable, to get my modem swapped out, a process I’ve been actively trying to get done for weeks. After a … | Continue reading
After practicing Functional Programming in Swift for a few weeks, I decided to try something a little bit different. I decided it was time to experiment with curried functions, map, filter, sort, and reduce in Objective-C. Swift collections implement map, sort, filter, and reduce … | Continue reading
After practicing Functional Programming in Swift for a few weeks, I decided to try something a little bit different. I decided it was time to experiment with curried functions, map, filter, sort, and reduce in Objective-C. Swift collections implement map, sort, filter, and reduce … | Continue reading
Function Currying and uncurrying have been extensively discussed since Apple introduced Swift last year. I won’t delve into this topic deeply because there are some great resources about it on the Internet. But, briefly, what is currying? It’s a technique that transforms a functi … | Continue reading
Function Currying and uncurrying have been extensively discussed since Apple introduced Swift last year. I won’t delve into this topic deeply because there are some great resources about it on the Internet. But, briefly, what is currying? It’s a technique that transforms a functi … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss BuzzFeed in the context of the Brother Orange story, then talk about Amazon’s Dash Button and Home Services initiative, along with a dive into the technical details of Amazon’s balance sheet (sorry, it’s a bit dry) and why Ben is nervo … | Continue reading
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I used to host this site on Heroku but have now moved to a platform build for static sites, or as Divshot puts it: Static Web Hosting for Developers. Setting up the site on Divshot was a breeze, took just a couple of seconds from when I started reading the documentation to when I … | Continue reading
Does this sound like an admonition? Such as in “run for good health”. Since the writer has experienced the University of Oregon’s legendary Bill Bowermann, moreover, since ever since he stuck to daily running and weight lifting interrupted by reading Russian, such a call would be … | Continue reading
“Multispectral Imaging for Art and Archaeology” is the first crowd funded project related to Art Conservation Science. It was launched by CHSOS (Cultural Heritage Science Open Sou… | Continue reading
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a professional branding agency was how to properly handle color output. So I decided to write this post in the hope of saving you some from some of the pitfalls that I failed to avoid. | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-FETHPC-2014Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015Latest information: After the end of the five-month evaluation period and the information of the applicants about the ev … | Continue reading
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Inspired on memo and khal, todoman is a simple todo manager, (or task manager), designed to take note and keep track of pending tasks, that runs as a cli application on almost any Unix-like system (this includes Linux, BSD and probably other OSs from the Unix family). Todoman is … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben and James follow up on last week’s episode, introduce the Toilet Bowl philosophy of career development, and then dive into the future of publishers in the world of Facebook. Due to some technical issues there is a rather abrupt stop at the end – sorry a … | Continue reading
I've recently joined a project where all front-end work is done directy in the CQ trunk instead of using a stand-alone approach with Handlebars as I was used to. What surprised me is the need to deploy everything if you want to see your CSS (LESS) or JS changes applied to your lo … | Continue reading
Want a nice gradient background on your site? background-image: linear-gradient(red, blue); BOOM, done! Ok, it’s a little boring. So if you want more, I recommend this css-tricks article and MDN page. Still here? Alright, let’s go and have a look at some of the details of how lin … | Continue reading
I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with anyone. | Continue reading