The center of your application is not the database. Nor is it one or more of the frameworks you may be using. The center of your application are the use cases of your application.
~ Bob Martin from, http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/05/15/NODB.html
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6th gen prog lang: when you yell to a co-worker, “yo! email me that binary.”
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An old Unix master came to Master Wq. “I am troubled, Wq. You teach the way of Vim. vi is holy but Vim is not; its code sprawls, its features crowd memory; its binaries are vast, its behavior inconsistent. This is not the way of Unix. I fear you mislead your students. What can be done?”
Master Wq nodded. “You are right,” he said. “Vim is broken. Let us fix it. Shall we begin?”
~ Tom Ryder from, http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-koans/
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For want of a static language the type checker was lost.
~ Dariusz Pasciak from, http://blog.8thlight.com/dariusz-pasciak/2013/06/26/for-want-of-a-static-language.html
I don’t write much j/s, but I write enough. Enough that I shouldn’t feel like I’m always struggling to remember how to use an array. An array for crying out loud. “Everything’s an object.” Great. Why?
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On 05/07/13 09:15, Michael Tiernan wrote:
> “What is the UDP three way handshake?” He said he was wondering how many people would catch the question’s trick.You send three UDP packets in three different directions, then shake the hand of the person next to you.
~ Robert Lanning from, https://lists.lopsa.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/018116.html
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Five basic principles of object-oriented design. Not the only five, but five which are, well, SOLID.
Single responsibility – A class should have only a single responsibility.
Open/closed – Open for extension; Closed to modification.
Liskov substitution – Objects can be replaced by instances of their sub-types without breakage or surprise.
Interface segregation – Many, specific interfaces – that is, APIs – are better than fewer, more general-purpose interfaces. (…or “interface” in the worst case.)
Dependency inversion – Depend upon the abstraction. (Not upon the specific concretion.)
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I have a hard time keeping all the cloud terms straight. Everything seems to be available As A Service (aaS). Try as I might to explain them, it just didn’t click for some people. Since cloud terms are so nebulous some times, I decided I need to put everything in a context that people understand. Therefore, I present…Coffee as a Service (CaaS)
~ Tom Hollingsworth from, http://networkingnerd.net/2013/05/09/coffee-as-a-service/
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This will now be my go-to way of explaining the _aaS buzzword bingo. “I wish I had a… Oh! A cup of coffee!” aka SaaS. Brilliant!
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~ Daniel Vassallo from, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3583103/network-path-reference-uri-scheme-relative-urls
//example.com/img.pngis a perfectly valid URI syntax as per RFC 3986: Section 4.2. It is relative to the current scheme, and … it can be very useful when switching between http and https, because you won’t need to explicitly specify the scheme.
How is it possible I’ve never learned this?
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If you don’t understand what all the hubbub is about Google Reader, RSS, free services… here are three bits to get you thinking:
What if someone invented a service where, instead of having to check all your important blogs, instead of having to check Twitter and Tumblr a million times a day, you could get all the updates in one place? Great idea!
~ Ryan Holiday from, https://medium.com/future-tech-future-market/7b1a7ddb6ffe
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Free is so prevalent in our industry not because everyone’s irresponsible, but because it works. … In other industries, this is called predatory pricing, and many forms of it are illegal because they’re so destructive to healthy businesses and the welfare of an economy. But the tech industry is far less regulated, younger, and faster-moving than most industries. We celebrate our ability to do things that are illegal or economically infeasible in other markets with productive-sounding words like “disruption”.
~ Marco Arment from, http://www.marco.org/2013/03/19/free-works
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It’s hard to maintain the Everglades for the tourists when you’re up to your ass in alligators.
Curious about what I do? Here’s a glimpse.
http://malwaremustdie.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-evil-came-back-darkleechs-apache.html
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(If you’ve understood any of that, you will be cursing the scum-of-the-earth people who spend time making up this malicious stuff. Awesome that! …let’s fix this sh*t and go get beers.)
Now, Imagine you were working on something when that little item was brought to your attention. “Hmmmm, I wonder if that’s as serious as it sounds . . . “
Then you can go back to being the mother hen roosting on her eggs.
I’m not complaining. This is simply a part of what I do. Just thought perhaps some of you, dear readers, might like a glimpse behind the curtain.
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oh. my. god. https://github.com/joho/7XX-rfc
This is, hands down, the geekiest piece of humor I have ever seen. HT to @dmuth who now owes me a cup of coffee to replace the one I blew out my nose onto my keyboard.
If you, my dear reader, care to do the ‘what the hell?’ deep dive:
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http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/advanced-vim-registers/
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Suddenly, my paltry `dd` and `y` vi skills seem pathetic.
Note to self: Read this. Read it again. Repeat.
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Let’s fix that shit and go get beers!
This. Yea verily this!
Here’s what I do know. There are plenty of frustrated system administrators, developers, engineers, “devops” and everything under the sun who don’t want much. All they really want is for shit to work. When shit breaks, they want to be notified. They want pretty graphs. They want to see business metrics along side operational ones. They want to have a 52-inch monitor in the office that everyone can look at and say: See that red dot? That’s bad. Here’s what was going on when we got that red dot. Let’s fix that shit and go get beers.
~ From, http://lusislog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/why-monitoring-sucks.html
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Hat tip to John E. Vincent. …and what’s network and systems administration (NSA)?
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I have yet to speak to anyone in the big blue room, (that is to say, anyone who does not work deeply within the Internet behind the magic curtain,) who has the slightest idea what is going on in general with “big data”, or specifically with “the customer is the product.” But “We Value Your Opinion” by Neven Mrgan — and that’s not a typo — is pure, sweet, ambrosia. It explains perfectly what is really going on. If you’re not paying for it, then you are the product. Have a cigar. Welcome to the machine. For more enjoyment and greater efficiency, consumption is being standardized.
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Retiring server after 9 years of flawless operation. RIP “Portnoy”!
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