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Re: Anti Patterns

dvae — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:44:18 -0000

I think you are describing what is commonly called as "anti-pattern".

Re: Create random test objects with Java reflection

dvae — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:02:16 -0000

Note that JFairy is quite good for this. Particularly if you can use it's pre-supplied data types, like Peson or Company. See https://github.com/Codearte...

Re: Symfony in a Docker Container

dvae — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 08:48:54 -0000

Typo: "This guild will". I think you mean guide.

Re: mdless: Better Markdown in Terminal - BrettTerpstra.com

dvae — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 17:43:21 -0000

One step closer to TermKit. http://acko.net/blog/on-ter...

Re: mdless: Better Markdown in Terminal - BrettTerpstra.com

dvae — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 17:23:49 -0000

Ooh! Very very nice!

Re: mdless: Better Markdown in Terminal - BrettTerpstra.com

dvae — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 13:50:27 -0000

Looks great. Did I really see an image inline in your terminal? How does that work?

Re: Database versioning best practices

dvae — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 08:33:30 -0000

Flyway solves this by storing the hash digest (md5) of the file in the version table, along with the version number. This way it can check that the file has not changed since it was applied, or it can detect the difference between branch 1 and branch 2 of a given migration.

Re: How fast is logging?

dvae — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:18:28 -0000

If performance is a concern, then it's best to use an AsyncAppender. I
always use an AsyncAppender, as there are very few downsides. Just a
little extra config:

<configuration>
<appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender">
<file>myapp.log</file>
<encoder>
<pattern>%logger{35} - %msg%n</pattern>
</encoder>
</appender>

See: http://logback.qos.ch/manua...

Re: The 4k Programmer - Tony La's Blog

dvae — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:22:12 -0000

Very interesting post. But for me the text looks a little small and i find my 27" already very big.

What keyboard is that? Does it work ok for programming?

Re: Save Previous HSBC Statements as CSV

dvae — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 06:31:38 -0000

Yes it's a shame. I've left feedback on the HSBC feedback form.
I also tried your bookmarklet, but it doesn't work in latest chrome. Does it still work for you?

Re: 2.2 Spotlight: Adaptive Load Balancing Based on Cluster Metrics

dvae — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:31:20 -0000

Very interesting.

Would latency, or backlog size be better default metrics for adaptive routing? If the heap is large, or the CPU usage is high you might assume that the node is slow, but surely it's better to just measure if the node is slow?

Re: The non-blocking script loader pattern

dvae — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:08:27 -0000

Worth mentioning that XHR script loading can't be used in this case as it doesn't do cross domain.

Re: Review of Homeland ‘Broken Hearts’

dvae — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:44:40 -0000

Every day is a school day. Sure it would be harder than was shown in
the episode, but this wasn't pure fiction, see "Scientists Demonstrate
Deadly WiFi Pacemaker Hack", Wired.com, 2008,
http://www.wired.com/gadget...

One would hope that such a vulnerability would be fixed by now, but hey software tends to be buggy.

Re: Notes: Smart TVs

dvae — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:08:12 -0000

I think the future is already here. Just look at how many TV channels have iPad apps. And try playing YouTube and Vimeo clips on the AppleTV via airplay, althought I admit that different from TV channel viewing.

Re: ∞ Welcome to The Loop 2.0

dvae — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:35:00 -0000

If only we saw the raw site directly and didn't have to scroll all the way to the bottom to turn off the horrible WPTouch theme.

Re: ∞ Welcome to The Loop 2.0

dvae — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:35:03 -0000

If only we saw the raw site directly and didn't have to scroll all the way to the bottom to turn off the horrible WPTouch theme.

Re: Clearcase to Subversion migration script

dvae — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:20:36 -0000

Jmciver,

Ah, I don't have the source to that any more. All it did was create a clearcase baseline (label in base clearcase speak), and it did that by finding the previous baseline name, parsing out the number, incrementing it, and then creatting a new baseline. This way the baselines increased sequentially.

Re: DailyJS: The Four Cs of JavaScript

dvae — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:23:03 -0000

javascript doesn't have classses.

Re: Notes: Java 1.6 on Leopard

dvae — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:53:36 -0000

Oh, just checking.

Who says it's slow?

It's a lot faster in several ways for me.

Re: Notes: Java 1.6 on Leopard

dvae — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:48:42 -0000

I've read that snow leopard users get a 32-bit build of Java 6. I

Re: Flame for the iPhone - jerakeen.org

dvae — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:58:12 -0000

If you're only interesting in corporate developers, sure stick to subversion.

If you want to get people who like to tinker and play, then mainstream DVCSs are de rigueur .

Re: Notes: Make it harder

dvae — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:17:37 -0000

> the above-average kids just fell asleep and their capabilities where not exercised when they most needed, in their youth.

I don't know about you, but I never found tests motivating. I liked learning because I liked to know more an understand more. Tests just got in the way of learning. If you think kids don't learn enough these days, it because the teaching.

Unfortunately the modern edu-instrial complex like to measure things and tests are the only way they can do it. So that's why there are now more tests more often (in the UK) than ever before, and it takes time away from teaching.

Also, if fail average kids that did ok, then you discourage them at a time when they need to be encouraged.

Re: The Tao of Mac - My new budget camera

dvae — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:15:41 -0000

Congrats.

How come the comments aren't accessable on your orginal post? I wanted to read the ones after I left my FX35 reccomendation.

BTW my FX35 was stolen just 3 days after buying it :(. Hop you have better luck.

Re: The Tao of Mac - Dear Lazyweb, I need a new compact camera

dvae — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:19:50 -0000

I've had a Sony DSC-T1 for many a year, and I've always liked it. But my wife alway complained that it's shit. It's true that it''s bad in low light, and so she always ended up with a blurd shot.

So I've just been through a whole dpreview, and some trialing, and then some shops.

My criterial were different from yours:
- most compact camera's don't go wide angle enough. Often they are 30, or 35mm (in 35mm equiv speak), I wanted wider.
- the wide angleness was more important than zoom. A long zoom always makes a camera bulky anyway.
- needed to be fast (turns out they all are these days)
- needed anti-shake stuff (turns out they all do this too, but some only in software, others in hardware and software)
- quite like the idea of HD video mode (this wasn't an original requirement, but when I saw some camera's had it I was tempted)

I borrow a friend's IXUS 70 for some trialing to compared to my T1, and did some side by side comparison shots. Turns out the IXUS 70 is a really nice little camera. Completer different shape to the T1, not so thin, but it takes better pictures. In the end it wasn't tempting enough, not wide enough and no HD movies. However, it is a bargain these days as it's a bit older than the other cameras I looked at.

In the end (after looking around a fair bit, it turned into a toss-up between two Panasonic Lumix cameras. The TZ5 and the FX35.

The TZ5 had a larger zoom range, and a much nicer LCD, and a x10 zoom But these made the camera bigger and it had a worse apature range than the FX35. So in the end I went with the FX35. It's smaller, and with a 25-100mm lens (35mm equiv.) it's plenty wide enough.

I bought it just a few hours ago and the battery is currently charging.