Custom UX checklist for your project

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Integration of all of the above Symbian, Qt, Meego, Android, Windows Phone 7 (the new Lumia phones are 7.5), iPhone, iPad Also, we will be ready to move on to Windows Phone 8 when it's released early next year or so. We can work very smoothly with…

24 February 2015

GitLab Annex: Large Binaries with Git

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WARNING git-annex support on GitLab EE was deprecated in GitLab 8.17 (2017/02/22), and was permanently removed in GitLab 9.0 (2017/03/22). Read through the migration guide from git-annex to git-lfs. Updated on 2017/04/04. The biggest limitation of git…

24 February 2015

My First LLVM Compiler

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A walkthrough of writing a basic compiler with LLVM. No prior experience assumed. In a short space of time, I was able to go from zero C++ knowledge, and no experience with LLVM, to a fully-fledged compiler. It’s a lot of fun, let me show you how! Our…

22 February 2015

Email Regex that works 99.99%

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Just copy and paste the email regex below for the language of your choice. Feeling hardcore (or crazy, you decide)? Read the official RFC 5322, or you can check out this Email Validation Summary. Note there is no perfect email regex, hence the 99.99%. Try…

22 February 2015

DIY: kernel panic OS X and iOS in 10 LOC

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After receiving quite a few reports from users of www.frida.re of kernel panic upon attaching the second time to a process, I finally got around to debugging the kernel to figure out what was going on. First, a little background. Frida hooks function…

21 February 2015

PHP Static Analysis with HHVM and Hussar

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Wayfair Engineering places special emphasis on software testing as a means of maintaining stability in production. The DevTools team, which I am a member of, has built and integrated a number of tools into our development and deploy process in order to…

19 February 2015

Major Changes from Solr 4 to Solr 5

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Some of the major improvements in Solr 5 include: * New, and restructured, example Config Sets available by default * SolrJ now has first class support for the Collections API * Implicit registration of /replication, /get, and /admin/* request handlers …

19 February 2015

How to identify a font, any font, anywhere you find it

Macworld

With tens of thousands of fonts in circulation, it’s tough to identify a specific font from memory, when you see it. Fortunately, you don’t have to—there are free websites, and an iOS app, that can identify font samples for you on the fly. The process is…

19 February 2015