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Privacy vs Convienience is a constant battle. Personally, I prefer dialing up my privacy up to 11 to avoid being tracked. Every once in a while, social logins are important because it’s the only way to use a service. If this service is an internal company login that only uses social login via the company’s Google ID, you don’t have much of a chance.
If your login just won’t work, try changing the following settings
Recently, I moved into a new home and was setting up my Phillips Hue lights with my Google Home assistants around my house for convenience. I noticed a couple of hick-ups since the last time I did this.
Efficient logging that doesn’t bring your application down is simple to setup but is often overlooked. Here are some quick tips on how to achieve exactly that
Showcases are a key part of our agile ceremonies. We showcase our work to our stakeholders for feedback at the end of every iteration. And as with every presentation, I believe there is a Science in the Art of the Showcase (for distributed teams).
On one of our recent teams, our showcases had challenges. Each of these challenges is a piece of feedback. We added structure to our showcases by running it like a theatre recording TV shows.
This isn’t revolutionary stuff. This is an attempt at defining a structure that should make it easier to organize showcases based off a check-list.
Homebrew is a the missing package manager for Mac OS. Brew cask extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to Mac OS applications and large binaries alike.
If you’re using these tools and would like to upgrade all of the applications you have, run the following command.
brew update && brew upgrade && (brew cask outdated | cut -f 1 -d " " | xargs brew cask reinstall) && brew cleanup
Java is a verbose language. No one disputes it.
Despite the clunky nature of the language syntax, it still is the language of choice in most enterprises. If you work in the services industry or are a technology consultant, chances are that you have to work with Java on a regular basis.
If you’re also a fan of functional programming language and have worked any modern programming language, you’ll recognize that Java’s syntax hinders your productivity because of the large amounts of boilerplate the language will generate. While newer JVM based lanaguages like Kotlin solve these problems in different ways, the open source community created Project Lombok to provide similar syntactic sugar in the world’s most popular enterprise programming language.
If you’re a dev and you self host your blog, I’d love to hear why. Why do you self host blogs? For most simple blogs in this day and age, migration to a static site like Jekyll or Octopress is pretty easy. I did this a while back. This can be followed up by asking Amazon S3 to host your website. You can even get cloudflare to front the SSL for free.
Why? S3 is free for the first year. Even post that period, my bills have been <$0.02/month which is a 99.951% reduction in cost.
Unit testing is all about focusing on one element of the software at a time. This unit is called the often called the ‘System Under Test’ (refer Mocks Aren’t Stubbs). In order to test only one unit at a time, all other units need to not be test at the same time. As obvious as that sounds, it’s easy to miss.
Classes do not exist independent of one another. They usually have dependencies. Such dependencies are called the ‘Collaborators’. There are multiple ways to manage collaborators that have been talked about by Martin in his article.
Before we go on, please ensure you’ve read through Mocks Aren’t Stubbs by Martin Fowler. This post assumes that you’ve gone through the article before continuing on to commonly made mistakes in Unit Testing
I had been procrastinating movement to a dev-ops style Chef deployment for my servers to ease it’s management because of the age old “If it ain’t broke..”. Well, upgrades on Bumblebee were getting more expensive so I finally decided to take the leap. I introduce the trion cookbook that I’m using to setup my servers.
I also realized that Kimsufi came up with cheaper servers (now as low as €4.99). Without automation to setup my servers, the thought of migration and building another snowflake server scares me purely because of it’s frailty. No more.
I’ve now officially
It seriously irks me when general public operating systems build in default features that send data to their servers without clearly indicating so. Both Microsoft (with Windows 10) and Apple (with Yosemite) have done so. Disabling these features doesn’t take long so here’s what you need to do.