Here's a map of my travels last week:
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I started last Sunday in Tampa, flew back to Toronto, where I hung out at the airport for about four hours until I caught another flight for Calgary.
While the Tampa trip (which took place the previous week) was about seeing the Special Lady (and getting work done remotely during the day), the Calgary trip was all about business. I was there to do an assessment of the current mobile device setup for …
…our clusters, or even destroy a cluster or build one in a different geographic location," said Joey O'Neill, Senior System Administrator, Cheezburger. " Opscode's solution allows us to be agile and quickly respond to changes without worrying about configuration mistakes."
" Cheezburger's sites are just straight up funny and they've got something for just about everyone," said Adam Jacob, Chief Customer Officer, Opscode. "By embracing …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Using Chef for DevOps Innovations
Modern Android Takes Over
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To the great annoyance of many a developer, Android 2.3 (a.k.a. "Gingerbread"), which was originally released at the end of 2010, has been the most common version of Android in the wild. Even until late last year, the general word was that accounted for half of all Android operating systems in the market.
Here's some good news: according to Engadget , who are going by Google's cleaned-up metrics …
- occasionally useful: Telling Android to Conserve Data on Mobile Hotspots in Android 4.1
- » Product Launch Blog: What's New at Pathfinder: Mobile, Healthcare Innovation and the FDA
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Rubinius 2.0-rc1, Rake 10, Refactoring video, Passenger 4.0 supports JRuby, and more
- SapphireSteel Software: Amethyst 2 and iOS
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Continuous Deployment with Appboy
- Biodegradable Geek: This vs That — Be Tech Agnostic
Click to see the Twitter search for # ThorstenTips.
Wow — Karen Geier is killing it on Twitter with her " Thorsten Tips", a bunch of silly predictions inspired by Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins' crazy predictions that in five years, no one will care about tablets and that Blackberry will be the undisputed leader in mobile tech . They're tagged with # ThorstenTip s, and you should get in on the fun!
I've posted some of my favourites below:
"In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model." And yes, if you're going solely by BlackBerry's disastrous experience with the Playbook, then yes. However, with Apple and Samsung…
- Global Nerdy: Karen Geier's High-larious "Thorsten Tips"
- the evolving ultrasaurus: cross-platform smartphone development
- Signal vs. Noise: How Chipotle, Pinkberry, and others win big by doing just a few things well
- Intridea - Company Blog: Find Great Sushi Anywhere with SushiMe on iPhone
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- New Relic: Case Study: New Relic Helps Uken Games Build a Global Gaming Business
The question they always ask at Toronto-based Unspace , the local heroes behind such get-togethers as Toronto's Rails Pub Nite, RubyFringe , FutureRuby and Throne of .js is "Is there a better way to do this?" Their quest for better ways to do things extends to finding better development tools, which led to their early adoption of Ruby on Rails, and more recently, JavaScript-based frameworks (hence their Throne of .js conference last …
- Unspace Blog: Embergarten
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #998
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: Amber.js (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is now Ember.js
- Rowan Hick: RubyFringe a new brand of awesomeness
- RubyLearning Blog: Hampton Catlin on Haml
- : ByteClub.tv
Software development is one of those fields that's classified as "professional", yet doesn't have strict educational requirements as other fields, such as medicine, engineering and law do. Some of the biggest names in software come without academic credentials: consider Jobs, Gates and Zuckerberg, as well as some lesser-known-among-laypeople ones including Anders Hejlberg (creator of Turbo Pascal, chief architect of Delphi and later C#), John Carmack …
- Blog | The Working Group: Tom Walsham joins TWG as Product Manager Extraordinaire
- Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup Book Tour
- New Relic: Case Study: New Relic Helps Uken Games Build a Global Gaming Business
- Giles Bowkett: Teaching The Robots To Sing: Episode 2 (TDD With Jasmine-Node)
- Calvin Klein: Calvin Klein Moso Leaves Bedding
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Let's talk about OpenHack
From Oleg Gelfand , found via Stanislav Platonov .
A more apt title would be " GNU/Linux User Interfaces", but hey, brevity is the soul of wit. It goes very well with my favourite occasional outburst for annoying Free Software and Open Source zealots: "Free as in CRAP!"
- Luigi Montanez: The Rise of the Activist Engineer
- Dalibor Nasevic: Announcing MK Ruby Users Group (ruby.mk)
- RailsBridge News: Another Successful BugMash Event! Congratulations to the Participants and Prize Winners!
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #885
- ZURB: Building Interfaces: How Emotion Rules Decisions
- How Software is Built: Interview with James Vasile - Software Freedom Law Center
A few weeks back, Holger Schulze put out the call on his Information Security group on LinkedIn for respondents to a survey on BYOD and mobile security practices. Of the group's approximately 160,000 members, 1,650 took the survey. He's since tallied the results and published them online :
In this article, we'll look at those results that describe the state of BYOD at the organizations represented by the respondents.
BYOD Adoption in Organizations: Still a Long Way to Go
Whether you're new to iOS programming or a long-timer, RayWenderlich.com is a valuable resource for the iOS developer. They regularly publish tutorials, tips, tricks and other goodies that you'd be crazy to do without if you're serious about writing apps for iDevices. In addition to articles on the site, they go deeper with their books , which are excellent.
RayWenderlich.com recently published an article titled AFNetworking Crash Course , which …