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So maybe it’s time for another change. A few months back, a thought popped into my sick little head: what the heck do we need software like Photoshop for?

I helgen lockades programmerare från alla Sveriges hörn till Stockholm för att delta i den nystartade tävlingen Codemocracy.

Compass Consulting har djupstuderat ett tiotal svenska företag. Undersökningen ger, tillsammans med tidigare erfarenheter, en glasklar slutsats: it-projekt tar onödigt lång tid. Så mycket som hälften av tiden är dödtid.

A lot of developers are taught to use database stored procedures, triggers and database constraints at every possible opportunity, and they cannot understand why an old dinosaur like me should choose to take an opposite view. The reason can be summed up quite simply

The Mikado Method can help you find the troubling dependencies any large refactoring is affected by. You build the Mikado graph using the naïve approach from your goal and out. By drawing the graph, you ensure that those dependencies are remembered and communicated to fellow workers or the future you, like a memento. By working the Mikado graph from the leaves in, you can perform big changes while keeping the system in a deliverable state, all the time.

Crowdser outsources projects to the global crowd, which has infinitely more competence than the local labor market and gets work done without any overhead costs.

The way it worked, according to Adland, is that visitors to the amusement park wore RFID bracelets. This allowed people to log into their Facebook accounts and then ‘like’ various attractions such as the water slides and video games. If the park photographer took their pic, they only had to flash their bracelet in order to be tagged in the photo.

To create a playlist folder, simply go to the File -> New playlist folder or click the “+” symbol near the top left side of your screen. Once you’ve created a folder you can just drag and drop existing playlists into it and even create folders within folders to better organise your music.

But with Facebook Places, in its current iteration, I either blast out my location to everybody in my 500+ person network (and rely on Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm to determine which of my FB friends actually care), or I reach for another network like Foursquare, whose graph has been built specifically from the ground up for these kinds of updates.

“How do I remove duplicate rows from a table” is a common question in the newsgroups, and here we will look at a few different techniques for achieving this.

This article describes how to dynamically rank rows when you perform a SELECT statement by using a flexible method, which may be the only possible solution and which is faster than the procedural solution.

In this post, I just want to give you a clear picture about the best services that are out there, by gathering all the information in one place so it’s easier to save and use as needed.