The other minute I’ve read an interesting article on the new HTML5 reversed attribute on ordered lists, that, who would have thought, reverses the counting. The article proposed a JavaScript polyfill. However, I thought,… | Continue reading
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About two weeks ago reddit user AZxWildcat submitted this awesome image to the College Football subreddit. Instantly after seeing this, I wanted to know more. How often does this happen? What year did it happen the most? When did this first happen? Science Time My initial hypoth … | Continue reading
I spent the Thanksgiving holiday with relatives in Saint Louis, Missouri. We went to the local zoopark, and I enjoyed the opportunity for some backyard and urban bird-watching. As nice as it was to see the Cardinals of Saint Louis (of course, I mean the birds not the baseball tea … | Continue reading
8 years ago I had a very embarrassing meeting. I laughed at a major global company that had invested over $ 600 million in a shared system. It took 5 years for the companies representative to talk to me again. I did not actually laugh initially. I did something much worse. They e … | Continue reading
Your developers have created a brilliant new application, and you are new starting to get some traffic, but it is collapsing under the load, and you are having to throw hardware at the problem. A solution is at hand in the form of caching. Varnish is the first thing to give your … | Continue reading
First it has been around a lot longer than you think and in a lot of different formats. The modern cloud came about from the requirements of online companies to solve the problems of providing 100% uptime and security on cheap hardware. Mainframes solved these problems a long tim … | Continue reading
One of our more noisy US colleagues recently stated that the UK Government needs to do more in the cloud. Given our experience the UK Government is doing lots in the cloud, they are just not doing it with our US colleague. So I thought it would be helpful to provide a few example … | Continue reading
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In the past weeks I saw a lot of interest for the twitter bootstrap framework, and for good reasons. If you’re not familiar with it, go straight to the site. I guess you’ll like it. | Continue reading
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Vim is very customizable, it has thousands of plugins suitable for everyone’s needs. Each of us uses some of them. Furthermore, it has a good number of files you can use to configure some aspects of the editor and it would be very nice to keep all this stuff under a version contr … | Continue reading
As usual, my considerations grouped by chapter: Creating our own renderer # Very interesting way of starting a book. The author presents a gem used throughout the book called enginex. | Continue reading
I had far too much to say about Terra Nova to fit into 140 characters, so I’ve resurrected this blog for a one-off TV review. It’s fair to say that I like dinosaurs. I like the BBC’s Walking With… series, I like all three of the Jurassic Park films (yes, even the third one – … … … | Continue reading
I’ll be presenting “Asynchronous Job Execution in the Cloud” (Session ID: 24301) later this week at JavaOne in San Francisco. The session will be held in the Hotel Nikko (Carmel I/II) on Wednesday Oct. 5, at 1pm. I will cover how deployment topologies requires us to rethink how w … | Continue reading
Can a scientist really enjoy the beauty of a flower? Here is what Mr. Feynman had to say about science and the appreciation of nature. ”I have a friend who’s an artist and he’s some times taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say, ‘look how b … | Continue reading
Can a scientist really enjoy the beauty of a flower? Here is what Mr. Feynman had to say about science and the appreciation of nature. "I have a friend who's an artist and he's some times taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say, 'look how b … | Continue reading