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on Nuby on Rails (95) permalinkI’ve had to rely at times on silence and on talking quick / Defending myself with nothing but my walking stick. —Buck65 Here are nine easy tips that will help you communicate better at your next conference. Figure A Can you read me now? Dan Grigsby’s presentation at RubyFringe was an intentional example of this. All the titles were at the top, with humorous stock photos below. Keep it in the top third, if possible. ...Shared by Anil Wadghule (4) Carlos Villela (43) Dan (22) dwfrank (36) Gebond (62) Gustav von Sydow (18) Jana (116) John H (29) Kevin Old (94) Koen Van der Auwera (24) Masakuni Kato (15) Neil (27) robertpostill (41) Ted (41) tig (179) Tom (12) Xarc (21) zapnap (109)
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on Phusion Corporate Blog (19) permalinkProblem description and motivation There is a lot of software (both Rails related and unrelated) which rely on servers or daemons. To name a few, in no particular order: Ultrasphinx, a Rails library for full-text searching. It makes use the Sphinx search software for indexing and searching. Indexing is done by running a command, while searching is done by querying the Sphinx search server. acts_as_ferret, another Rails library for full-text searching. It uses the Ferret ...Shared by Chu Yeow (42) Cody Caughlan (11) Dan (22) Jacob Harris (21) jason Rohwedder (37) jetienne (52) John H (29) John Mettraux (47) JøEh (31) kates (9) Lucas Húngaro (9) Mark Dillon (3) nawoto (39) Rav (25) Robert Dempsey (71) robertpostill (41) Ted (41) zapnap (109)
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Why Amazon’s EBS Should Worry Data Centers (24)
on GigaOM (3010) permalinkAmazon has announced Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), a persistent storage offering that can be used in tandem with applications using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). With this move, it is turning up the heat on everyone from storage area network vendors, server companies and of course data center operators. Don’t be surprised if the company starts attracting corporations using its suite of web services. Amazon first started talking about this back in ...Shared by Akhmad Fathonih (54) Alex (449) Alex (154) Aspi (32) Brent (136) Cade (209) caozenghui (124) Chris K (134) Clint Ecker (280) David (57) Herkemer (22) hoberion (32) jake (24) Jeff (67) John H (29) kcearns (57) Mark Cheverton (30) Matthias (20) mattpovey (35) Rich Miller (32) Steve (60) Yung-Hui Lim (133) Zoram (116) Zsombor (32)Contribute comment
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How Facebook deals with memcache consistency in multiple datacenters (4)
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How to Survive Multi-Continent Daily Scrums (2)
on Agile Software Development - Better ways of developing software (26) permalinkAs Scrum, XP and Agile mature, Teams and ScrumMasters are increasingly confronted with the problem of handling multiple distributed teams, telecommuters or nomadic team members who aren't able to just co-locate. For instance, a recent project for the Dutch Railways[1] involved 3 teams with a total of 15 developers and testers from Holland and India. This constellation presents many special challenges in addressing impediments, assuring communication and collaboration despite language and time zone differences, and ...Shared by BluesForPablo (53) John H (29)
- John H said: I'll be tackling this in the next month or so...
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How do you compare security across voting systems? (6)
on Freedom to Tinker (76) permalinkIt’s a curious problem: how do you compare two completely unrelated voting systems and say that one is more or less secure than the other? How can you meaningfully compare the security of paper ballots tabulated by optical scan systems with DRE systems (with or without VVPAT attachments)? There’s a clear disconnect on this issue. It shows up, among other places, in a recent blog post by political scientist Thad Hall: The point here is ...Shared by CannonGod (768) Ian (30) John H (29) Justin Yost (263) mndoci (210) Moderated AppSec Feed - OWASP Foundation (32)Contribute comment
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- Yetimon said: :) Diebold - the corrupt bastards who also happen to supply all the Kiwibank ATM machines.
- FelipeC said: Voting Fail!
- Ian said: I love this analogy.
- Eduo said: Esto se parece al tipo de discusiones que suelo ver (=tener) en twitter: "ESE no es el punto!!"
- Christopher Granade said: Perhaps a little crude (but only a little). Still, this latest xkcd elegantly sums up why Diebold isn't to be trusted making voting machines. Plus, props for using the phrase "you're doing it wrong."
- Nicholas said: <3. Thank you, Will.
- Matthew said: horribly great.
- brad said: All teachers should use them.
- Luke G said: Haa priceless.
- Adam Lasnik said: Man, once again, XKCD is just golden.
- Michael (blog.crisatunity.com) said: Which is why we are a republic and not a democracy.
- AJ said: Very well put.
- Miguel Duarte said: De facto, porque raios é que é necessário um anti-vírus numa máquina de voto? Alguém está mesmo a fazer mal o seu trabalho e o anti-vírus é um sinal disso.
- Will said: Fucking hilarious.
- jbussoli said: Wow. This is true on so many levels. This is a reminder to evaluate the overall scope of a fix on any project.
- Nomad Scry said: Bloody brilliant!
- Ken Sykora said: What a fantastic analogy! I'm just blown away...
- Aaron H. said: HAHA! Exactly.
- Bwana said: This stinks of outsourced testing.
- Geoffrey Wiseman said: This is classic. Disturbing and apt and humorous all at once.
- Greg said: HA! Genius...
- Apollo L said: A sharp look at the absurdity of having virus scanning on voting machines.
- Andrew Ferguson said: It's a good point
- Kevin Shaum said: I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I don't believe that anyone is using Diebold to try to steal elections. I find massive, thundering incompetence much more plausible.
- Thomas said: This made me squirt water out of my nose
- Nathan said: HA!
- John H said: This pretty much says it all when it comes to the current state of voting equipment!
- Sandaruwan said: now that's one hell of a brilliant argument
- Mike said: idea completely stolen from nick hatch
- Lionel Riem said: SO. TRUE.
- Richard said: Nice analogy
- Pruet said: This is totally right? why we need antivirus in the election (erection :P) machine? It supposes not to contact with any other machine.
- Lee said: He nails it. Well... yeah, I am sticking with that analogy.
- Jason said: Hilarity and making fun of Diebold all in one!
- eric stimmel said: Genius. As usual.
- CKL said: Someone's seen Monty Python's Meaning of Life too many times.
- Sean said: Truly the greatest xkcd the world has ever seen.
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Scrum in a Multiproject Environment (1)
on Agile Software Development blogs (2) permalinkToday I presented the paper written by me and Pekka Abrahamsson. The paper tells about our experience in adopting Scrum in a multi-team multi-project environment within a large corporation and in a research intensive team. We focus on particular challenges to expect when adopting Scrum in such an environment, check the paper out if you are about to try Scrum in a multi-project situation - there is a concrete list of what to pay attention ...Shared by John H (29)Contribute comment
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Burn Your Burn-down Charts (3)
on Agile Software Development - Better ways of developing software (26) permalinkIn many articles on Scrum, the traditional burn-down chart is still depicted as the preferred method for displaying progress in a sprint or project. However, since the introduction of burn-down charts, several improvements have been suggested by leading authors and experts. I agree with each one of them, and my suggestion to you is to try these ideas, and turn your charting practices completely upside-down! Scope ChangeIn "Earned-value and Burn Charts" Alistair Cockburn has described ...Contribute comment
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Prawn: The Pure Ruby PDF Generation Library (16)
on Ruby Inside (723) permalinkPrawn is a new pure Ruby PDF generation library developed primarily by Gregory Brown. Back in March, Gregory tried to raise $13000 so he could spend six months working on Ruby-related open source projects. He eventually raised $5525 from the community (plus $5000 from Ruby Central and $500 from Mountain West RubyConf) and has spent the last few months working on Prawn. Prawn can be installed from a pull from GitHub or, for those of ...Shared by dkastner (36) Dominik (12) Eric Steil III (8) Florent Solt (54) IceskYsl (84) John H (29) Laurent Bois (27) Marston A, SugarStats (91) mkrisher (21) Myles Eftos (2) remi (24) Robert Dempsey (71) Tim (63) Tim (21) Tomas (47) vcamaral@gmail.com (86)Contribute comment
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