Since the New Year began, we've had a flurry of activity here at ZURB HQ. You might've heard yesterday that we've taken Forrst within our fold . But that's not all.
We got our year started off right with the arrival of a new designer. He was just what we needed to get the year rocking like Dick Clark's Rocking New Year's Eve. Without further ado, let's give a warm welcome to Alok Jethanandani.
Introducing Alok as Our New ZURBian
Now that we are in the New Year, it is time to settle back into work and make plans for 2013. As part of your professional development planning, consider Percona MySQL Training.
Percona will be holding the following MySQL Training classes in the first quarter:
January
Live Virtual Training - DBA Training for MySQL: January 7-10, 2013
Chicago, Illinois, USA : January 14-17, 2013
London, UK: January 14-17, 2013
February
Frankfurt, DE: February 4-7, 2013
- New Relic: The Great Things We Saw and Did at BUILD 2012
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Ruby 1.8.7 and REE End of Life
- Global Nerdy: The Windows Phone Predictions that IDC, Gartner and Pyramid Research Probably Hope You've Forgotten
- Ruby Inside: The Past 2 Weeks in Ruby: 1.9.3-p286, JRuby 1.7RC2, Sidekiq Pro and Much More
- Positive Incline: My 2012 in books
A good New Year's resolution might be to learn more about resilience. It's a new way of thinking compared to straightforward high availability. It's a full stack, full team, full system, environment centric mode of thought.
Fortunately, Dr. Richard Cook , Professor of Healthcare Systems Safety and Chairman of the Department of Patient Safety at the Kungliga Techniska Hogskolan, has been thinking about resilience for a long time. And he gave a fascinating …
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- The "Tech. Arch.": Transform Your Ruby Camping Web App Into An OAuth Provider
- Intridea - Company Blog: Intridea Insider: Patti Chan
…the arrival of this book turned out to be very timely. I should get round to a longer review in the New Year.
Next up
Top of my list for next year (already purchased and downloaded onto my Kindle) is The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager (2012) by Daniel Mezick . Do you confront culture and mindset head-on, or regard them as something emergent? That has been a favourite conversation topic on Twitter and in conference bars and I'm really looking forward …
…Testing
Confidence Intervals
A crucial aspect of unmoderated user testing is confidence intervals. That's why we broke out the concept and wrote an article centered solely around it.
Read More About Confidence Intervals
These are just a few of our most recent words. As we head into the New Year, there will be plenty more to come! Stay tuned. Same ZURB channel. Same ZURB time.
Some of the best ideas you'll ever come up with were originally someone else's. It's not stealing, it's sharing. And at the Cloud Expo in Silicon Valley, that's often the reason why attendees came.
In an effort to figure out exactly what "the cloud" is, I simply asked attendees on the floor, "What's your cloud strategy for 2013?"
Watch this video for a collection of different ways we're planning on tackling the cloud in the New Year.
This...story is told by Marisa Yang, a little Asian-American girl of mixed heritage living in Hawaii. Her family, which gets together each New Year's Eve for dumpling soup at her Grandma's, include Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiians. Her grandma calls her family "chop suey," which means "all mixed up."
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It's only the second week of the New Year, and we're already tired of all this 2012 apocalypse hoopla - with 11 more months yet to go. We got our fill of doomsday predictions last year; forecasting a global catastrophe is kind of tedious at this point. But if there's any benefit to these prophecies, it's that they underscore the importance of disaster planning.
As we all know too well, things can go wrong unexpectedly. Being prepared is often the difference between …
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I don't make New Year's Resolutions. Rather, I try to develop good habits regardless of the date on the calendar. Recently I've started doing something new: trying to make at least one contribution to the world of open source, large or small, every single day.
Now I've decided to publish a few notes on these contributions. Why? Two reasons, really. First, it helps hold me accountable. Second, it might inspire someone else to make their own contributions. One of the big lessons, …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: It's All About 2012
- Ruby Inside: This Week's Ruby News: Ruby 1.9.3p0, OmniAuth 1.0, MagLev 1.0 and More
- Trevor Turk: Links for 12-9-2011
- Dalibor Nasevic: Development Setup
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- Comments on: blog: Link dump for September 29th
How does Facebook handle the massive New Year's Eve traffic spike? Thanks to Mike Swift, in Facebook gets ready for New Year's Eve , we get a little insight as to their method for the madness, nothing really detailed, but still interesting.
Problem Setup
- New Relic: Cloud platform provider cloudControl offers free RPM to its customers. Nice way to ring in the New Year!
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