Jonathan Franzone Pain Relievers for Continuous Integration and Agile Development Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008 Time: 2:00 PM Eastern; 11:00 AM Pacific About the Webcast: Do you need: Faster builds? Trouble-free merges? Reliable builds to test against? You’re the build manager. You actually build the product that ships, yet get no respect. You’re on your own to …
Monday’s always get me down. 🙁 So why not take a few minutes to waste some time and exercise your brain at the same time? I friend of mine sent me a link to this website called Fantastic Contraption. The basic premise of the game is get a pink circular (sometimes square) object from the …
The guys that brought you the hilarious Mac or PC music video are up to it again. This time they produced a music video about three guys with mullets, jeri curls, spandex and translucent jackets driving around the Bay Area in an “Invisible Ride“. Enjoy… or be offended. Whichever. * Click through to the site …
So what is The Leviathan? And even more importantly what are the Leviathan Chronicles? Well, in short it’s a podcast. But it is so much more. When you first go to the website you are greeted with an extremely compelling user interface that takes you into another world. Once you read the description of what …
Does Amazon know what I am looking for more than the search phrase that I just typed in? Perhaps… but perhaps not so much. I was recently searching around Amazon for a few separate classes of items. The first thing I searched for was headphones and headsets with microphones. Following that I decided to turn …
So I was doing some research on MySQL database security and wanted to do a quick search for two runtime configuration parameters. I did a search for –secure-auth and –old-passwords on google. Do you think I saw any results concerning MySQL database flags? Nope. I saw two hits. One was a YouTube video of Dr …
This is Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell from his album Rebel Yell. Last night a little dancer Came dancin’ to my door Last night a little angel Came pumpin cross my floor She said honey baby You got a license for love And if it expires Bring hell from above because In the midnight hour she …
Build Seamless, Fully Functional Forms with No Coding Collis Ta’eed provides and excellent tutorial on using the Wufoo site to generate web forms with no coding. There are lots of pictures and code samples. JDK 6 Update 7: Java VisualVM Included Geertjan Wielenga gives an honest review of the latest Java Development Kit’s new features, …
The Problem I recently had a problem. I am a software developer and as such I use source control. For this purpose I generally prefer Subversion. I have been keeping my source repositories on an external drive with the intention to back them up to another secure location periodically (yeah, that never happens). I looked …
This is a hilarious manualist/violin quartet produced by the same guy. He plays two separate violin parts and then two parts on his hands (hand farting). Now that is talent!