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Recently I've been discussing the question of "What is the Essence of Leadership" with friends. For me it boils down to: 1. Develop the vision and long-term goals (this might be done just by you or preferably with your team). 2. Put the outcome into…
6 February 2013Planet Mozilla
One operation that seems to be more difficult than it should be in every programming language is removing a value from an array. It's such an easy concept mentally that it skews our programmatic view of the task. In JavaScript the splice method is of…
6 February 2013MySQL Performance Blog
On Friday, February 15, 2013 10:00am Pacific Standard Time, I will be delivering a webinar entitled “Building a highly scaleable distributed row, document or column store with MySQL and Shard-Query” The first part of this webinar will focus on why…
6 February 2013Planet Mozilla
Too many developers struggle with their object oriented programming skills. Concepts like abstraction, single responsibility principle, unit testing, refactoring, architecture and SOLID seem out of reach. You wonder how you can grasp the concepts. You buy…
5 February 2013inessential.com
I no longer work on Glassboard, and don’t get any benefit at all if you use it. So I feel totally comfortable telling you that I use it all the time. I do. I have a few projects going with other people. Some are software projects and some aren’t. Here’s…
5 February 2013MySQL Performance Blog
Recently some of my fellow Perconians and I have noticed a bit of an uptick in customer cases featuring the following error message: The canonical solution to this issue, if you do a bit of Googling, is to increase the number of processes / threads…
4 February 2013TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
For Retina display MacBook Pro owners, the Henge Horizontal Dock will be the best investment you can make in your system beyond the computer itself, especially if you utilize multiple displays. Originally unveiled at CES, the US$249 system nabbed a Best…
4 February 2013Planet Mozilla
Remember mincss from a couple of days ago? Now it supports downloading the HTML, to analyze, using PhantomJS. That's pretty exciting because PhantomJS actually supports Javascript. It's a headless (a web browser without a graphical user interface) Webkit…
2 February 2013Wired Top Stories
The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.
31 January 2013inessential.com
Mark Bernstein: How Software Is Built Today: > I spent about a day this week polishing a detail of Tinderbox Six. I’d like to walk you through some of the design because it’s interesting and accessible, and because I think it demonstrates why our…
31 January 2013