Greetings from the Ministry for Dancing, Getting High and Fucking
Pozorvlak has an interesting blog post spawned by this rant by Vinay Gupta. The TLDR is that he wants a concrete strategic plan for how you would run a government ministry whose goal it was to promote dancing, getting high and fucking. Whilst I’m a
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07 May 2012 08:41 AM
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PetaPoco: Mapping related objects
In the prior PetaPoco post, I started to dig into many-to-one relationships a little. Chrissie followed up with yet more mapping behavior in his latest Simple.Data post, so I thought I would cover it in a bit more detail. Note: Chrissie has also covered
07 May 2012 08:39 AM
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10 Tips to Survive and Progress in the Field of Software Testing
These tips not only survive but also advance you in your software testing career. Make sure you follow them: Tip #1) Written communication – I repeatedly saying this on many occasions that keep all things in written communication. No verbal
07 May 2012 08:39 AM
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Experimental Page Layout Inspired by Flipboard
Yet another impressive experiment and demo from Codrops.
07 May 2012 08:35 AM
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Git visualization with gource
Are you using git/svn/mercurial/bazaar as version control system and you ever wanted to visualize your work, how the project developed over time well Gource is there to visualize all this in a beautiful way. It takes the history of your
07 May 2012 08:35 AM
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Today BrentOzar.com Turns 10 Years Old
Happy birthday to my first post from May 7, 2002. 1,782 posts and over 12,000 comments later, I feel like I’m still winging it, but it’s time to stop and think about the lessons I’ve learned over the last decade. This web site has
07 May 2012 08:33 AM
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JSinSA 2012
This past weekend was the ever fantastic JavaScript in South Africa (JSinSA) conference. This year focus was on HTML 5, JavaScript & CSS 3 – easily some of the MOST important topics for developers regardless of platform to know about. It was it’s
07 May 2012 08:33 AM
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Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito
According to the author, this book is aimed at developers who want to produce high-quality, maintainable unit tests. It is intended especially for those who would like to start unit testing their code, but are unsure about how to get started and what to
07 May 2012 08:33 AM
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DDD Sydney Is Back – Vote For Sessions & Register Today
It’s this time of the year, and DDD Sydney is taking place again by end of June 2012 :-)Yes, it’s “the other” DDD … Developer Developer Developer! If you don’t remember the way sessions get chosen in DDD is that call for submissions is first open
07 May 2012 08:29 AM
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PowerShell Exit Codes
Recently I came across an interesting quirk in PowerShell: exit codes from powershell.exe are inconsistent. As you may know there are two ways of launching PowerShell script: you can use -File or -Command parameter. powershell -File test.ps1 or
07 May 2012 08:29 AM
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements in 2012
I’ve just updated the page on speaking engagements I have for 2012. I’m dropping back from the number of sessions from last year for a variety of reasons including to achieve a more balanced work-life load. May 2012 – XP2012 August 2012
07 May 2012 06:30 AM
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Tablet vs Tablet
This happened for real and I am not making it up. I went to recharge my mobile phone yesterday evening. To do that, I went to a small electronic shop that also sells mobile phones, repairs mobile phones and does mobile recharge for prepaid customers like
07 May 2012 06:29 AM
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Cloud Computing – Shifting focus to PaaS, Analytics and Mobility
If you look at the hour hand of a clock you will not notice the movement, but you cannot conclude from your observation that hour hand does not move. Similarly if you daily look at what is happening in cloud computing you will hardly see any movement.
07 May 2012 06:28 AM
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Building Metro style apps with C++ event is now a live webcast
Two weeks ago, we announced an all day training for those Building metro style apps with C++.. Event sold out within a few days, and we got a lot of requests for it to be recorded (or broadcasted live).. I am happy to announce that the
07 May 2012 06:27 AM
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The Future of NoSQL with Java EE
I've been following the recent NoSQL momentum since some time now and it seems as if this buzzword also is drawing some kind of attention in the enterprise java world. Namely EclipseLink 2.4 started supporting MongoDB and Oracle NoSQL. Having EclipseLink
07 May 2012 06:24 AM
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Using MongoDB with PHP
I was exploring the feasibility of using MongoDB with PHP and found that it is a fairly simple process to do the same. For web development I use following system setup: Operating System : Microsoft Windows Vista 64 bit PHP : 5.3.8 Web server :
07 May 2012 06:24 AM
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JRebel 4.6.2 Released
This week we released a new minor version of JRebel. You can download the latest version of JRebel right now. The new version includes a number of bugfixes and improvements for GWT, Tiles, Spring, Liferay, JBoss, etc. See the changelog for the full list
07 May 2012 06:22 AM
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Haskell: Maximum Int value
One of the algorithms covered in Algo Class was the closest pairs algorithm – an algorithm used to determine which pair of points on a plane are closest to each other based on their Euclidean distance. My real interest lies in writing the divide
07 May 2012 06:21 AM
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Testing Rhino Service Bus applications
One of the really nice things about Rhino Service Bus applications is that we have created a structured way to handle inputs and outputs. You have messages coming in and out, as well as the endpoint local state to deal with. You don’t have to worry about
07 May 2012 06:18 AM
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This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details
Fair warning: this is a blog post about automated cat feeders. Sort of. But bear with me, because I'm also trying to make a point about software. If you have a sudden urge to click the back button on your browser now, I don't blame you. I don't often
07 May 2012 06:18 AM
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Martin Fowler's State Machine DSL with Xtext 2.3
In his book on domain-specific languages, Martin Fowler introduces a small example along which he shows different techniques to implement a domain-specific language. The example goes like this:Imagine you work for a company specialized on developing and
07 May 2012 04:15 AM
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Cannot use ctrl-c. How to stop tail -f, etc?
When I ssh into my Debian Squeeze server and start up tail -f to watch a log file or anything else which uses ctrl-c to exit/stop, ctrl-c does not work. It prints the ^C character on screen and just keeps right on going. Is there a setting somewhere that
07 May 2012 04:14 AM
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Use the PowerShell Registry Provider to Simplify Registry Access
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use the Windows PowerShell registry provider to simplify access to registry keys and properties. Hey, Scripting Guy! I know that I am not supposed to mess around with the Registry on my
07 May 2012 04:12 AM
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Create TNEF Messages, MHTML Renderer & Outlook Message Type Detection
What's New in this Release? We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Email for .NET 1.7.0. This month’s release provides support for the creation of TNEF message files, setting Appointment’s time zone information from an instance of
07 May 2012 04:05 AM
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JSTL String test oddity
I’ve come across this multiple times, and for some reason this always catches me out. You’d think being that EL has ‘eq’ and ‘ne’ operators that work with Strings that this should work: <c:if test="${hello.name
07 May 2012 02:04 AM
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Sonar 3.0 Released: Continuous Inspection of Code Quality
See on Scoop.it – catosplace SonarSource recently released Sonar 3.0. Sonar provides feedback on a number of code quality metrics and is an invaluable tool in any Continuous Integration environment. Whilst you can see similar metrics in build
07 May 2012 01:55 AM
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Continuous Delivery in the Cloud – Part 2: Getting started with Amazon EC2
In this article I will give you an overview of the Amazon WebServices (AWS) that I am using for the demo. All you need to get started is a credit card & phone number for the AWS registration. If you … Continue reading →
07 May 2012 01:54 AM
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New Adventures Await with @Tracky!
After over a decade with the Wichita Public Schools, I’m starting a new adventure with fantastic folks at Tracky. I’m looking forward to the journey and opportunity to work with and learn from a fantastic team. Onward! Filed under: Everything
07 May 2012 01:53 AM
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A brief History of Java
Java started its journey with a team at Sun Microsystems being entrusted the task to write software which could run on various electronic devices like TV, Washing machine and Oven etc. This project was code named as “Green”. One major requirement was to
06 May 2012 23:49 PM
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Optimizing some old F# code
I am digging back into the Bumblebee code base, to clean it up before talking at the New England F# user group in Boston in June. As usual for me, it’s a humbling experience to face my own code, 6 months later, or, if you are an incorrigible optimist,
06 May 2012 23:45 PM
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Boot Times, Android and Windows compared
Photo via david.ian.roberts, under a cc licenseI was marveling over the boot times I get on this Samsung Series 9 Windows laptop, somewhere between 8 and 10 seconds, when it occurred to me that my Andriod phone, a fairly high-end Samsung Galaxy Nexus,
06 May 2012 23:44 PM
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Automating boring testing activities with tox
My pyelftools project has a comprehensive set of tests, which I make sure to run before every release. This turned out to be a somewhat tiresome manual task, because of the following factors: There are three sets of tests in pyelftools: unit tests, full
06 May 2012 23:44 PM
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Learning garbage collection theory
I want to learn the theory behind garbage collection. How do i go about it?I am also a dabbler interested in garbage collection (to the point that I wrote my own garbage collected VM called HLVM). I learned by reading as many research papers on
06 May 2012 23:41 PM
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Mavenizing an empty GitHub project in Eclipse
This post is for myself more than anything else, just because I keep forgetting the steps involved. I’m using SpringSource Tool Suite 2.9.1.RELEASE, which is based on Eclipse 3.7.2 (Indigo). I have the egit and m2e Eclipse plugins installed. The
06 May 2012 23:40 PM
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Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-07
Windows 8 FAQ – DVD playback and Windows Media Center in Windows 8 (Building Windows 8 Blog) “We thought we would follow up the previous post with an FAQ which is based on the comments and discussions, so Bernardo put this together so things
06 May 2012 23:38 PM
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SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to SQL Server Security
This blog post is inspired from Beginning SQL Joes 2 Pros: The SQL Hands-On Guide for Beginners – SQL Exam Prep Series 70-433 – Volume 1. [Amazon] | [Flipkart] | [Kindle] | [IndiaPlaza] This is follow up blog post of my earlier blog post
06 May 2012 23:38 PM
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breakpoints : Trigger jQuery events for your responsive design
Trigger jQuery events for your responsive design breakpoints!.Define breakpoints for your responsive design, and Breakpoints.js will fire custom events when the browser enters and/or exits that breakpoint.
06 May 2012 21:34 PM
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The Avengers: Action, Humor, Great FX and Box Office Records
Just in case you we’re living under a rock or in wilderness, Marvel’s The Avengers had its premiere in USA this weekend. It may not be much for the masses, but for moviegoers and fans this is it. The clash between these wondrous super heroes
06 May 2012 21:34 PM
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