Handlebars.js Tutorial
This is a complete tutorial, and indeed a reference, on Handlebars.js templating and, principally, JavaScript templating.
Source: javascriptissexy.com
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255 interesting links collected during 2013, including "Handlebars.js Tutorial" and "Top 4 Reasons Employees Quit – How to Hire Staff who Stick".
Code Contracts is the next coding practice you should learn and use
A contract is an assertion in the code. If a contract is violated (hence if the condition asserted is false) we consider that there must be a bug.
Source: codebetter.com
Launch Effect - A WordPress Theme for Viral Launches
Launch Effect is a free responsive one-page WordPress theme that lets you create a viral campaign in minutes.
Source: launcheffectapp.com
How to really defer loading javascript
Many people say "just use defer" or "just use async" or others say "just put your javascript at bottom of page". None of the above are solutions to the problem of actually allowing a webpage to fully load and then (and only then) loading external JS. Nor will any of the above always get you past that "Defer loading of javascript" warning you are getting from the Google page speed tool. This solution will and is the recommended solution from the Google help pages.
Source: www.feedthebot.com
Unicorn! · GitHub
Our deploys are ridiculous now. Combined with our custom Capistrano recipes, they’re very fast. Here’s what we do. First we send the existing Unicorn master a USR2 signal. This tells it to begin starting a new master process, reloading all our app code. When the new master is fully loaded it forks all the workers it needs. The first worker forked notices there is still an old master and sends it a QUIT signal. When the old master receives the QUIT, it starts gracefully shutting down its workers. Once all the workers have finished serving requests, it dies. We now have a fresh version of our app, fully loaded and ready to receive requests, without any downtime: the old and new workers all share the Unix Domain Socket so nginx doesn’t have to even care about the transition.
Source: github.com
The Bleeding Edge of Pizza-Box Design
These cutting-edge pizza boxes should be standard-issue.
Source: www.slate.com
What will LEGO do with 3D Printing?
It is the one million (actually more likely to be a few billion) dollar question: how is LEGO going to exploit the possibilities offered by 3D printing?
Source: 3dprintingindustry.com
Don’t Use Try/Catch | Karl Seguin
The only time you should swallow exceptions (catch{..} or catch(Exception){...}) is in your global exception handler to avoid truly fundamental issues (and recursive global exception handling).
Source: codebetter.com
10 Free WordPress Themes Based on the Foundation Framework
As we near the end of 2013, Foundation is rapidly becoming more popular with front-end developers and the demand for WordPress themes is also increasing. In addition to the 10 free themes included in this article, Foundation-based themes are popping up on Themeforest and other commercial sites.
Source: wptavern.com
Svenska Spotscale klämmer in två av årets hetaste trender i en och samma produkt. Med hjälp av drönare kan företaget skapa en 3d-modell av en byggnad eller ett kvarter. Modellen kan sedan skrivas ut i fyrfärg av en 3d-skrivare. (via Drönare gör 3d-modell av ditt hus - Computer Sweden)
Svenska Spotscale klämmer in två av årets hetaste trender i en och samma produkt. Med hjälp av drönare kan företaget skapa en 3d-modell av en byggnad eller ett kvarter. Modellen kan sedan skrivas ut i fyrfärg av en 3d-skrivare. (via Drönare gör...
Source: computersweden.idg.se
SpinKit | Simple CSS Spinners
Source: tobiasahlin.com
JavaScript Promises: There and back again
Promises have arrived natively in JavaScript!
Source: www.html5rocks.com
Myth - CSS the way it was imagined.
Myth lets you write pure CSS while still giving you the benefits of tools like LESS and Sass. You can still use variables and math functions, just like you do in preprocessors. It’s like a polyfill for future versions of the spec.
Source: www.myth.io
Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy?
To managers I would say, judge people by results, by working software, not by how hard they appear to be working. Counter intuitively, it may be better not to sit with your developers, you may get a better idea of their output unaffected by conventional/intuitive indicators.
Source: mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk
Special: Så kommer du vidare från första jobbet
Det lönar sig inte att bli för långvarig på en arbetsplats för då blir du tagen för given. Bästa förhandlingsläget har man när man byter jobb.
Source: www.idg.se
IFTTT's Ingenious New Feature: Controlling Apps With Your Location
Updating the IFTTT app will unlock a new channel—iOS location—that lets users trigger events when entering or exiting a geographic plot of their specification
Source: www.wired.com
Sourcing
Sourcing.io will help you identify the best software engineers for your company. We have a database of over four million developers, and let you cut & slice that data in various ways, such as filtering by engineers by skill, location, whether they work at a top company, or are connected to someone in your team.
Source: sourcing.io
rather
Replace anything you want in your social feeds with things you’d rather see, like cats.
Source: getrather.com
Bättre teknik sämre för leverantörerna - IDG.se
Affärssystem är ett lika generellt ord som "bil", som kan åsyfta allt från en gammal Fiat till en Rolls Royce.
Source: www.idg.se
Choosing Go for a new project | Technology at GDS
Programmers like learning new languages (many spend their spare time working on new things), so giving developers the opportunity to learn new things on work time seems like a good move for many reasons:
Source: gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk
Choosing Go to implement the new GOV.UK router | Hacker News
It does not look that bad actually. Your list lacks Oracle, Microsoft technologies to really complain about inefficient usage of public money.
Source: news.ycombinator.com
Utveckling & koddesign
Tweets från hösten 2013. Peter Lindberg
Source: medium.com
Mongodb – not evil, just misunderstood
As someone leading the engineering efforts for a shipping and logistics company I wasn’t too happy initially to see Mongodb being used as the primary datastore but after 2 years I’m more than sure that this was definitely the datastore for us.
Source: siddharth-ravichandran.com
Bank of America’s Research Report on Bitcoin | Hacker News
If bitcoin gets traction, it will effectively ruin any financial privacy we have remaining. It’s one thing for a government to have access to this, it’s a whole other world of problems when everyone from my neighbor to my cable company has access to it.
Source: news.ycombinator.com
Woop! Woop! Alla tror på ljusning i konjunkturen
De svenska it-konsultbolagen är mer optimistiska än på många år. Detta enligt en stor undersökning som gjorts bland de svenska konsulterna. "It är grejen i framtiden", säger Lars Stugemo på HiQ.
Source: www.idg.se
Imgur: The Biggest Little Site in the World
What does Imgur, one of the most highly-trafficked sites on the web, want to be when it grows up? Television.
Source: www.theatlantic.com
Humble architects » Thinking Inside a Bigger Box
Foster a culture of cross-pollination: Developers who see each other’s code have more consistent code than developers who just see their own code. Pair programming, code reviews and tech sharing sessions all foster cross-pollination.
Source: johannesbrodwall.com
Lessons Learned From An App Graveyard
Guesstimates by analysts put the number of mobile app downloads this year at somewhere between 56 and 82 billion, with the average user downloading somewhere between 26 and 41 apps, with a smaller subset of those apps being used on a regular basis. Other numbers indicate that 95% of downloaded apps are abandoned within a month and 26% of apps are only used once.
Source: mobile.smashingmagazine.com
Pensionsmyndigheten delar koden öppet
Github är en av nätets mest populära webbplatser för att dela med sig av programkod. Nu hoppas den svenska Pensionsmyndigheten kunna dra nytta av det för att stärka sin egen interna utveckling. Sedan en dryg vecka tillbaka delar myndighetens utvecklare med sig av egenutvecklad kod på sajten.
Source: www.idg.se
How Not To Hire A Developer: No, I will not hack on your codebase for free under the pretext of it being a "technical interview"
Yes, I’m aware you need to asses my technical skills, however, I’m not going to work for free. If I want to do that, I’ll hack on some open source something or other that takes my fancy.
Source: hownottohireadeveloper.blogspot.co.uk
Exploring canvas drawing techniques
Taking you from the very basics (drawing a primitive mouse-following-line on canvas), all the way to those harmony brushes, with their sophisticated curves and strokes, spanning from the edges and curling around into weirdly beautiful structures. The tutorial pretty much reflects my own path of exploration.
Source: perfectionkills.com
List.js - Search, sort, filters, flexibility to tables, list and more!
Tiny, invisible and simple, yet powerful and incredibly fast vanilla Javascript that adds search, sort, filters and flexibility to plain HTML lists, tables, or anything.
Source: listjs.com
Han ska göra Stockholm till hetaste startup-staden
– Varje stad har olika förutsättningar. Men att du har utvecklare, ett hem för gemenskapen med event och möten, och någon som dokumenterar allt och är en spindel i allt som händer är otroligt viktiga delar.
Source: www.idg.se
Little Big Details
Your daily dose of design inspiration.
Source: littlebigdetails.com
Spotscale is working with the best RC pilots in the world to create 3D models using hexacopters | Swedish Startup Space
Spotscale is a company based in Linköping, founded by Ludvig Emgård and Jonas Lindqvist. They started out back in January 2013, by developing products to build hyper-local 3D models of buildings, blocks and surroundings captured using hexacopters. Through extensive experience of 3D mapping and multi-rotor helicopters – the company have already managed to land 15 customers using their products.
Source: swedishstartupspace.com
4 Sneaky Ways to Determine Company Culture in an Interview
Remember, at an interview, it’s not just the company deciding if you’re right for the team — you get to decide if they feel like the right fit for you.
Source: mashable.com
"Användarna vet inte vad de vill ha"
– För några år sedan betraktades vi ofta som mjukisar när vi kom ut till företagen och talade för att få in användarperspektivet. En gång blev jag så arg så jag sa att jag hatar människor men älskar pengar och det enda sättet att tjäna pengar är att göra det enkelt för människor, säger Johan Berndtsson, användbarhetsexpert och en av grundarna till Inuse.
Source: www.idg.se
String types are fine. How about your code?
why would you ever need to take a substring of someone’s name, or a poem, or the Russian word for "Banana"?
Source: eteeselink.wordpress.com
DynoSRC
DynoSRC loads JavaScript files inline in your HTML response, then stores them in localStorage. You can even inline the DynoSRC client lib, eliminating all HTTP requests for JavaScript on your site.
Source: www.dynosrc.com
How "junior" developers can become regex wizards | Hacker News
Perhaps for a self-learner a nice approach is to write it yourself and then go searching for a solution. That way you’ll likely: validate what you did, figure out that you missed a detail or perhaps learn some new
Source: news.ycombinator.com
Jessica Hische - Non-Creepy Networking: Party Etiquette
I can offer some advice about how to not come off as a total creeper in various situations and how to use your extroversion or introversion to your advantage.
Source: jessicahische.is
How to brighten up your designs
A month on from the launch of iOS 7, creatives have had time for the new OS to bed in mentally, so thought we’d find out how leading designers think Apple’s brighter outlook will impact design, and get their advice on how designers can brighten up their work.
Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk
Top 5 Reasons People Love Their Jobs and How You Can Love Yours, Too
If you are looking for a job you love where you are engaged and challenged, you need to look further than compensation. For employers, get employee feedback on a regular basis. Then, listen and act.
Source: mashable.com
Beyond Test Driven Development | Liz Keogh, lunivore
The people who came up with TDD are deserving of every respect, which I haven’t always given them. I decided to start with that this time just to make it clear. TDD is a flippin’ awesome practice.
Source: lizkeogh.com
Business Startup Ideas: 6 Proven Methods to Generate Them
Stop telling yourself that you can’t come up with business startup ideas. You can, and here are 6 proven methods to do just that.
Source: agilelifestyle.net
Trevolta - Crowd-funded Travels. Plan an extraordinary trip and get it funded by inspired people, amazed friends and generous sponsors!
Trevolta.com is a global crowd-funded travels website. We enable travellers to submit their extraordinary ideas for expeditions in order to raise funds for it. Projects can be backed up by inspired people or sponsors looking for marketing opportunities and brand awareness.
Source: www.trevolta.com
An Introduction To Full-Stack JavaScript
Nowadays, with any Web app you build, you have dozens of architectural decisions to make.
Source: coding.smashingmagazine.com
The Tech Founder’s Blind Spot: Building Over-Generalised Products, for a World That Loves Specifics | Ian Cackett
People don’t want a general-purpose framework for logging and visualising their progress towards personal goals. They want an app that tells them not to eat the donut, that they lost 2lbs this week, or that they just achieved their personal best running time.
Source: iancackett.wordpress.com
SQL-on-Hadoop: What does "100 times faster than Hive" actually mean?
As is the natural human wont, advocates of particular SQL-on-Hadoop solutions tend to emphasize favorable performance results derived from advantageous test settings, failing to explain the whole picture, including results across the full set of ordinary queries.
Source: www.gruter.com
Personal development at Spotify
We believe being able to grow, learn new skills and achieving mastery is a big part of what motivates a person. Those things are also important in our fast-paced world where our surroundings (market, competitors, technology) and Spotify itself changes all the time. We need employees that are eager to learn, that are open to change and that want to take on bigger challenges as they and the company grow.
Source: labs.spotify.com
IKONS - 264 free vector icons from Piotr Kwiatkowski
Hand crafted, scalable vector icons for designers and developers.
Source: ikons.piotrkwiatkowski.co.uk
Responsive Design Won’t Fix Your Content Problem
An attendee raised her hand and said "I’ve been wondering when you would mention responsive web design. We’re going to use responsive design." I responded "Well, responsive design won’t fix your content problem."
Source: alistapart.com
The Second Coming of Java: A Relic Returns to Rule Web
But there’s a twist to this Java renaissance. It encompasses more than just Java.
Source: www.wired.com
JSON API
"JSON API" is a JSON-based read/write hypermedia media type designed to support a smart client who wishes to build a data-store of information.
Source: jsonapi.org
Why We Chose API First Development
At POP, our site is entirely API driven. We separated our frontend codebase from our backend API in it’s entirety. The two sites are even in separate repositories. There are several reasons we decided to use this architecture which I’ll cover below.
Source: blog.pop.co
Undo
After all, undo might be ubiquitous on the desktop, but when was the last time you saw a web app with an undo command?
Source: sachagreif.com
DigitalOcean Sucks. Use DigitalOcean!
DigitalOcean sucks. And rocks. This is an article reviewing the pro’s and con’s on Digital Ocean after 1 year of usage.
Source: raymii.org
The 20 Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make In Your 20s
A bad job is like an unhealthy relationship. Truthfully, the only reason you’re there is because it is the safest and easiest thing you know. Any job or relationship that allows for you to get comfortable should be avoided at all costs. The last scenario you could ever want is becoming like the rest of those miserable 40-somethings faced with weekends of minivans and soccer practice.
Source: elitedaily.com
Microwave Oven UI Standard Project
The dream, the vision even, is you step up to a microwave at a friend’s house, a cafeteria, a dormitory, the office lunch room, you reach for the standards-based common UI and operate it by muscle memory.
Source: wittman.org
Beautiful Code
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
Source: a13x.net
Presto | Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data
Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes.
Source: prestodb.io
Sluta bygga system som alla hatar
Det är absurt att it-systemen inte är ett stöd i arbetet utan ofta en stresskälla, skriver Karin Lindström.
Source: www.idg.se
System eats culture for lunch
If you want to create a culture of co-operation, but your incentives reward individual performance, it will not happen. If you want a culture of innovation, but you punish for errors, it will not happen.
Source: www.samihonkonen.com
Why Japanese Web Design Is So... Different
Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens, beautiful shrines, serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, books and magazines are the envy of designers worldwide. Yet for some reason practically none of this mastery has been translated into digital products, in particular websites, most of which look like they hail from around 1998.
Source: randomwire.com
First of all, congratulations on your recent acquisition of an ENTP! You will find that the ENTP is a friendly, loyal, and valuable companion who, with regular care, will become a cherished part of your life. The following tips will help you take proper care of your ENTP to ensure that this loyal and unusual creature can flourish in your home or garden: (via Guest article: caring for your ENTP pleasebeniceto.me )
First of all, congratulations on your recent acquisition of an ENTP! You will find that the ENTP is a friendly, loyal, and valuable companion who, with regular care, will become a cherished part of your life. The following tips will help you take...
Source: pleasebeniceto.me
ThisPlusThat.me: A Search Engine That Lets You 'Add' Words as Vectors
For example, word2vec allows you to evaluate a query like King - Man Woman and get the result Queen. This means you can do some totally new searches.
Source: insightdatascience.com
Driven databasutvecklare till Tele2
När du blir varm i kläderna finns det möglighet
Source: www.academicwork.se
Building A Successful Product: Start Small And Listen
Developing a product is one thing, bringing it to market is another. In this article, Rachel explains how to start with a new product, develop and support it over time.
Source: www.smashingmagazine.com
Everpix, Snapchat, and The Startup Lie
It bears repeating that ultimately what failed Everpix was the belief that they should be The Next Facebook (or even Instagram?).
Source: subimage.com
Interfaces in need
Facebook doesn’t need your design help. But there are many other companies that do.
Source: medium.com
Out of the picture: why the world's best photo startup is going out of business
Everpix was great. This is how it died.
Source: www.theverge.com
GDS design principles
Listed below are our design principles and examples of how we’ve used them so far. These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles.
Source: www.gov.uk
Obamacare - USAs svar på regalskeppet Vasa - IDG.se
Oracle har ett särskilt intresse av att lösa problemen, eftersom webbsajten bygger på program från Oracle.
Source: www.idg.se
Installing and setting up OS X Mavericks for python development (WIP)
While this is not required, I have chosen to re-install my mac from scratch with the new OS X Mavericks. This gave me the opportunity to correct a few less smart decisions i took previously. Here I’ll describe the process it took for me, to get OS X Mavericks properly running - skip the reinstall part, if you just want to upgrade using the App Store.
Source: blog.kristian.io
Swedes do think small
Sweden has this great potential in going big from the beginning. If you have the money you can use your local market as a test bed, but when launching we Swedes need to go big and don’t be so small in mindset. We have the knowledge, we have the innovative ideas and we have the people. So let’s start to go big.
Source: fredrikstenbeck.com
Fem heta trender i startup-Sverige
Här är fem tydliga trender vi ser i ett av världens just nu mest spännande startup-klimat.
Source: internetworld.idg.se
Vad är DevOps?
Enklast förklarat är det ett ord som beskriver automatisering av tre olika närbesläktade verksamheter, nämligen: Utveckling Drift Test (QA)
Source: utvbloggen.se
Körde taxi för att få pengarna att räcka
Christofer Karltorp och Taaniel Jakobs har gjort mycket för att hålla sin startup Zerply vid liv. Som att köra taxi i San Francisco och sälja sina egna kontorsmöbler. Följ med när Internetworld träffar dem i ett "hacker-hus" i San Francisco.
Source: www.idg.se
Ifvisible.js
ifvisible.js Crosbrowser & lightweight way to check if user is looking at the page or interacting with it.
Source: serkanyersen.github.io
Micro-Scrum: A stamp-sized version of Scrum » Thinking Inside a Bigger Box
I die a little bit inside when people say "should we do Agile or not". The assumptions behind this question are all wrong
Source: johannesbrodwall.com
Från nedlagda varv till hemmahamn för entreprenörer
Malmö är en entreprenörstad där de amerikanska jättarna och en öppen kultur bidragit till miljön. En ny generation startup-företag samlas bland stadens gränder, byggd på exitpengar från förr.
Source: www.idg.se
Retr-O-Mat - Inspiration & plans for (agile) retrospectives
Planning your next retrospective? Get started with a random plan, tweak it, print it and share the URL. Or just browse around for new ideas!
Source: plans-for-retrospectives.com
Startups som hatar kvinnor - IDG.se
Men lika länge som jag har bevakat den svenska startupscenen, lika länge har jag förundrats över den likriktning som finns inom den. De flesta av företagen på Internetworlds entreprenörslista består av män, eller är extremt mansdominerade. Det trots att vi varje år anlitar Rättviseförmedlingen och aktivt söker i olika nätverk för att hitta kvinnliga entreprenörer. Och trots att företagens tjänster och produkter har en kundkrets som består av både kvinnor och män.
Source: www.idg.se
The Worst Daily Scrum Ever
I once observed what was probably the worst daily scrum ever. Just when I thought it was over, something interesting happened.
Source: www.tobiasfors.se
Sir Trevor JS
Sir Trevor is rich content editing entirely re-imagined for the web: an intuitive editor for web content which does not presuppose anything about how it will be rendered.
Source: madebymany.github.io
Ask HN: I’m afraid I will always be a mediocre developer | Hacker News
If you feel mediocre then you probably aren’t being challenged enough in the role you are currently in.
Source: news.ycombinator.com
Traveling, Writing and Programming (2011)
The peculiar thing about programmers is that they’re the one profession that can easily work remotely and travel, and yet they’re the one profession that doesn’t. Of course there are exceptions, but on my travels I didn’t meet another programmer doing anything similar; a sad state of affairs.
Source: blog.alexmaccaw.com
What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup from Thailand in six months
It’s been 6 months now since I moved from Amsterdam to Asia to work remotely. I chose Thailand for its low-cost of living and safety. Since my visa will run out soon, I’ll have to leave the country and I’d like to sum up what I learnt from working here over the past 6 months and if it might be an option for more people.
Source: levels.io
Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm Taylor
Bottom line is: when you find #000000 in your color picker, ask yourself if you really want pure black. You’re probably better off with something more natural. And if you’re feeling adventurous, try staying away from the left edge of the color picker altogether.
Source: ianstormtaylor.com
Startups och myndigheter leder api-rallyt
Det är startup-företag och offentlig sektor som driver utvecklingen framåt på området öppna api:er. Åtminstone i Sverige. Internationellt kommer nu även storbolagen.
Source: www.idg.se
Want to Work for a Startup? Start Something First
So, you want to ditch the corporate life and go work for a startup. Cool, but do you really understand what that would mean?
Source: mashable.com
3 tips om vad du kan säga när någon säger att hen har rent mjöl i påsen
Det finns två skillnader mellan den övervakning som görs av staten och den informationsinsamling som privata företag gör. Du kan inte välja bort statlig övervakning. Du kan välja bort att använda privata företags tjänster.
Source: www.annatroberg.se
StatusPage.io Blog - Good User Experience Means More Than A Good Product
Most of the stuff I just talked about has one common thread and it’s that your customers, your users, those people on the other side of the screen – they’re humans too. They love it when people make them feel special. They want to feel like they’re a part of something bigger than themselves.
Source: blog.statuspage.io
Fun with AngularJS!
Recently AngularJS, an MVC style JavaScript framework from Google, has been gaining more momentum. I’ve been curious about it for awhile and when I read this article recently, I decided it was finally time to give it a whirl. I was pleasantly surprised with what I found.
Source: devgirl.org
Creating a "Meet The Team" Page in WordPress
Almost every custom theme I develop with WordPress requires a Management Team or Meet the Team page. If I had to guess, I’d say that I’ve built just around 50 different setups. It occurred to me that their must be many other WordPress developers out there creating similar systems as well. For this reason, I’ll share the approach I typically use to build and manage a "Meet The Team" page in WordPress.
Source: css-tricks.com
Zookal starts "world first" delivery-by-drone service in Sydney
Today, Zookal, a textbook rental startup, is announcing that by using unmanned aerial vehicles to ferry textbooks to renters, it will cut delivery times from two to three days down to a matter of minutes, while shaving shipping costs down to a tenth of their normal prices.
Source: pandodaily.com
"Internationell karriär ett måste"
Ericssons ledarskapsprogram blev den kick hon hade drömt om, med resor över hela världen. – Vi skickades till fem olika toppuniversitet och fick lära oss om allt från telekom till ledarskap och strategiutveckling, det var riktigt bra, säger Maha Bouzeid. Sedan dess har det blivit USA, Finland, Malaysia, Australien, Filippinerna, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indien, Kina, Indonesien, Singapore, Qatar, Bahrain, Dubai.
Source: www.ingenjorskarriar.se
Product Strategy Means Saying No
If you’re building a product, you have to be great at saying No. Not ‘maybe’ or ‘later’. The only word is No.
Source: www.intercom.com
A peek inside Microsoft’s new ‘design-first’ development strategy
With Q&A, however, Microsoft "started with just a pure design view," Netz said. That meant the design team sat in a room for weeks and thought about how to make the user experience as simple and addictive as possible.
Source: gigaom.com
När bilden inte talar sanning - IDG.se
Michael Kazarnowizc tror att vi är på väg in i ett nytt klassamhälle där förmågan att kritiskt granska och bedöma sanningshalten i bilder och information står högt i kurs. Klasserna kommer inte skiljas åt på grund av inkomst som i industrisamhället. Informationshantering och uppbyggd trovärdighet samt förmåga att använda teknik är faktorer som kommer att påverka.
Source: www.idg.se
I, Cringely The Secret of iOS 7 - I, Cringely
I see the iPhone 5S and whatever follows as logical desktop replacements. They, and phones like them, will be the death of the PC.
Source: www.cringely.com
Focus transition
Keyboard navigation has a major downside: it’s not clear where the focus moves upon pressing the Tab key. Animation makes the transition more apparent.
Source: n12v.com
A Beginner’s Guide to Perceived Performance: 4 Ways to Make Your Mobile Site Feel Like a Native App | Mobify
Despite what Facebook thinks, it’s not impossible to build performant websites. It may not be easy, but it’s not out of our grasp. We just have to work a little bit harder to make it happen. Technically, we’ve got the power to make our sites feel faster, more modern, and overall better experiences.
Source: www.mobify.com
Så ska kollektivtrafiken in i framtiden - IDG.se
Viktigast, anser han däremot, är att öppna upp biljettförsäljningen till tredjeparter, som skulle tjäna pengar genom att få en del av försäljningssumman. - Den riktiga kraften hos tredjeparter kommer bli synlig först när det är möjligt att sälja och distribuera biljetter med hjälp av api:er, säger han.
Source: www.idg.se
Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup
Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of @Sonar
Source: medium.com
We should all just decide on JavaScript and solve the interesting problems instead
Our endless bickering over the merits of different languages and paradigms isn’t all that productive, nor is it very interesting. You’re not a Ruby/C#/Java/Elixir developer, you’re a goddamn problem solver. Remove the programming language from your LinkedIn/Twitter bio, that’s not who you are.
Source: peterevjan.com
Deploying an Oracle Database Application
However, for a complex application, the order for creating the objects is rarely obvious. Usually, you must consult the database designer or a diagram of the design.
Source: docs.oracle.com
Kjell Häglund om Sveriges it-politik: "En enda makaber trehövdad tragedi för detta land" - M3
Sverige var en gång världens mest spännande it-land. När industrisamhället hade börjat tappa fart stod en ny, hyperkreativ världselit av visionära ingenjörer och entreprenörer redo att kugga i. Det var då tre sorglustiga ministrar klapprade in på Rosenbad och kortslöt utvecklingen. "Vi ska inte jaga en hel ungdomsgeneration", sa statsministern – och vände en hel generation blivande digitala samhällsbyggare ryggen. "Vi är inte heller helt oskyldiga, hehe", flinade utrikesministern om NSA-skandalen – dagarna innan Sverige avslöjades vara Igor med USA:s Frankenstein.
Source: m3.idg.se
Koden är inte problemet | Squeed Team Blog
VARFÖR sätts nya medlemmar så ofta på "enkla" uppgifter tills du blivit produktiv och kan göra "riktigt" arbete, ensamma?
Source: www.squeed.com
What I learned at #esh13
I have just spent an awesome and inspiring weekend at East Sweden Hack 2013, hacking at our project Inspirr.
Source: kristofer.palmvik.se
Should I Use A Carousel?
NO!!! seriously, you really shouldn’t
Source: shouldiuseacarousel.com
how to blog about code and give zero fucks
All joking aside, our communities need to hear from people who aren’t the maintainers and conference speakers and web celebrities. We need to hear from people who give zero fucks, who never worry about their Klout scores or how many people starred their repo. The big names create an echo chamber where ideas are safe and popular and failure and being wrong are covered up so no one else can learn from them. We don’t really badly need any more of that crap. We need you.
Source: www.garann.com
Writing an AngularJS App with an Express + Node.js Backend
n this tutorial, I’m going to walk through writing a simple blog app with Angular and Express. For this, I’m assuming basic knowledge of Angular and Node. If you’re new to Angular, I highly recommend that you check out the AngularJS homepage first.
Source: briantford.com
Det anordnas hackathons från öst till väst
Ett av dem är East Sweden Hack som går av stapeln den 14-15 september i Linköping. Hacket arrangeras av talangföretaget Skill i samarbete med en rad aktörer i regionen. Där är uppdraget att skapa applikationer och webbtjänster som gynnar invånare och besökare i Östergötland. Bland vinsterna finns resa, boende och inträde till konferensen Le Web i Paris.
Source: internetworld.idg.se
David Bieber: Why a Code@Night is not a Hackathon
david-bieber: I’ve written in the past about what a Code@Night is. And they’re wonderful. One of my favorite topics, really. People come to these things and they just code all night. Great experience. Tons of fun. Fruit. PacMan. Yadda, yadda, yadda. I tell people this all the time, and a pretty common... (via david-bieber)
Source: blog.davidbieber.com
Fhacktory
PLEASE DON’T pitch a startup concept showing boring mockups and fancy power points. Because a hackathon should be all about hack and fun!
Source: www.fhacktory.com
ENTP ENFP Personality Types
Their greatest difficulty is not in initiating projects but in choosing among so many possibilities, setting realistic boundaries, establishing priorities and correctly assessing resources.
Source: www.personalitypathways.com
Forget Silicon Valley North, Let’s Make Vancouver 'Canadian HQ'
But I’m not writing this post to debate whether Silicon Valley North exists or is a worthy aspiration. Rather I want to make a case for why Silicon Valley companies that are looking to launch in Canada should be turning their sights due north and making Vancouver their Canadian headquarters.
Source: www.techvibes.com
The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.
Source: www.theguardian.com
Alla APIer | Svenska API-katalogen
Detta är alla APIer i katalogen. Letar du efter något speciellt så använd sökfältet högst upp på sidan och saknar du något så tveka inte att lägga till ett nytt API.
Source: apikatalogen.se
Yahoo unveils new logo as symbol of company’s progress
Who’d have thought a company would shock the world and release a logo made in Microsoft WordArt?!
Source: venturebeat.com
The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story
Young companies die by the hundreds in Silicon Valley, but you would hardly know it by reading your local blog. Flowtab, now a shuttered product, did something following its demise that I’ve never seen before — released a death chronicle of sorts. Their timeline and notes showcase the mistakes that the company made during its short life. Contracts, failed television appearances, deals that fell through, and more were published. If you work in technology, it’s a compelling set of documents.
Source: techcrunch.com
Flat And Thin Are In | Smashing Magazine
In the last several years, we’ve seen a rapid shift in software and app interface design, from 3-D and skeuomorphic to flat and minimal. Although this trend has become nearly ubiquitous, let’s take a moment to consider how we got here and what influence it’s having on interface design as a whole. Additionally, I’ll share some tips and considerations on designing flat interfaces.
Source: www.smashingmagazine.com
Retina.js | Retina graphics for your website
retina.js is an open source script that makes it easy to serve high-resolution images to devices with retina displays
Source: retinajs.com
He got 1%, we can't hire him
I still look back on that young candidate who was rejected because of some bogus score on a discriminatory test that ultimately means little or nothing.
Source: www.codingjohnson.com
Use Node.js to Extract Data from the Web for Fun and Profit
In this article, I’m going to show you a pretty powerful set of tools for scraping web content quickly and easily using Javascript and Node.js.
Source: www.storminthecastle.com
Plain Text Doesn’t Exist... Unicode and encodings demystified
This article is about Character Encodings or Character Sets. Let’s work through an example to understand the topic.
Source: 10kloc.wordpress.com
Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy
Now we live in an amazing, amazing world with so many fascinating frameworks to choose from and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don’t care, because this is what people are like now – they’ve got their framework of choice and they’re like "uh! It won’t..."
Source: wekeroad.com
The Solution to Technical Debt
Are you in a software development team, trying to be agile? Next time the team gets together, ask: How do we feel about the quality of our code?
Source: blog.crisp.se
An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Node.js
I see comments every once and awhile that sound something like, "I’ve downloaded Node, now what?" This tutorial answers that question and explains how to get started from the very beginning.
Source: blog.modulus.io
lolcommits takes a snapshot with your webcam every time you git commit code, and archives a lolcat style image with it. Git blame has never been so much fun. (via lolcommits: git webcam=lulz.)
lolcommits takes a snapshot with your webcam every time you git commit code, and archives a lolcat style image with it. Git blame has never been so much fun. (via lolcommits: git webcam=lulz.)
Source: mroth.github.io
Listen to AOL’s CEO Fire Employee in Conference Call With 1,000 people | Hacker News
rdtsc’s law of failing large companies: "a large enough failing company, with a power crazy CEO is indistinguishable from a TV show"
Source: news.ycombinator.com
Create beautiful dynamic data driven maps | CartoDB
We help people visualize and analyze geospatial data From polygons to points. From hundreds to millions. No limits with CartoDB.
Source: cartodb.com
What's your timezone?
So we have the ability to stop asking people what timezone they’re in by relying on the time on the device. Here’s a method that works well.
Source: trevoro.net
How To Stay Engaged When Your Job Sucks
Your job may suck, but you should still be actively attempting to stay engaged and manage your own happiness.
Source: www.linkedin.com
Pure
A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project.
Source: purecss.io
oracle10g - Why are Oracle table/column/index names limited to 30 characters?
Apparently the answer is that it will break currently scripts that aren’t defensively coded. I say that is a very worrying thing, Oracle is trying to be the database, surely this is the kind of thing that you must constantly improve, otherwise your product will die the death of a thousand cuts.
Source: stackoverflow.com
Backbeam, the only full-stack backend platform | backbeam.io
With backeam you can model your entities and relationships no matter how simple or complex they are. Then you can query the database with a simple yet powerful SQL-like language. Support for joins, geo-queries, full-text,...
Source: backbeam.io
The Future of Airline Websites
This case study is our humble plea to airlines, and the travel industry in general. Let’s work together, take the lead, and chart the course that others will follow.
Source: www.f-i.com
import•io is data, simply
Making data from the web as easy as copy & paste.
Source: import.io
Free Web Analytics Software - Analytics - Piwik
In a digital world, Piwik gives you insights on your website’s visitors, your marketing campaigns and much more, so you can optimize your strategy and online experience of your visitors. Piwik is the leading open source web analytics platform available in 48 languages!
Source: piwik.org
Coding Horror: The Rule of Three
So the next time you think "I’ve built a reusable thing!", stop, and think "how can I find three users, customers, or audiences, to prove that I’ve built something reusable?" instead.
Source: www.codinghorror.com
Free Food! Free Travel! 10 Corporate Perks We Love
So, whether you’re a job seeker looking for a great new place to call work-home or a manager who wants to offer your employees something extra-special, check out 10 of our favorite office benefits and perks.
Source: www.thedailymuse.com
7 Reasons Why You Need To Work For A Big Company
Large companies tend to be regarded as dull and unsexy. All the real action and fun is at small startups (preferably Web 2.0 at the moment). Well, I run my own company now and I would never go back. But I am really glad I worked for a large company. Here are my reasons why
Source: onstartups.com
Finding Meaning at Work, Even When Your Job Is Dull
Work can, however, provide an array of meaningful experiences, even though many employees do not enjoy those in their current job. So, what are the sources of meaningful experiences at work?
Source: blogs.hbr.org
The 7-bit Internet · The Accidental Businessman
Contrast that with SOAP, which is nominally text based, but is orders of magnitude more complex than REST because it is built with the idea that humans will never really have to read or understand it. I’ve been in this business for two decades, and the only way I know to hand-debug a SOAP transaction is with a hammer and a straitjacket2. Heck, I’ll take an old-school EDI transaction over SOAP any day.
Source: blog.tabini.ca
Intresse för Oracles nya databas - IDG.se
– Vi har haft en bra svensk betakund i IFS som har testat väsentliga nya funktioner under ett års tid, säger Bengt Eriksson som arbetar med tekniskt säljstöd på Oracle i Sverige.
Source: www.idg.se
Think Your Office Is Soulless? Check Out This Amazon Fulfillment Center
An Amazon fulfillment associate might have to walk as far as 15 miles in a single shift, endlessly looping back and forth between shelves in a warehouse the size of nine soccer fields. They do this in complete silence, except for the sound of their feet.
Source: www.fastcodesign.com
Oracle 12c makes the database elastic
The elasticity with 12c does not come in from the storage side, but from how the metadata to access the user data is handled... and that is highly elastic, with system load determining what part of the metadata and for which user database it will be running.
Source: enswmu.blogspot.com
CSS filters, GIFs, and performance — What I Learned Building...
It turns out that that’s indeed possible, and using CSS transforms we can scale up the image using the GPU, which gives us a reasonable performance boost.
Source: medium.com
Webben vs korruptionen i Brasilien
I Brasilien ska nya lagar, en öppenhetsportal samt öppna data stoppa korruptionen. Att utgifterna blir offentliga sätter press på ministrar och tjänstemän som spenderar pengarna. Och öppenhetslagen går längre än den svenska offentlighetsprincipen, genom att det är själva informationen, inte handlingarna, som ska vara offentlig. Den ska dessutom publiceras, inte bara vara tillgänglig.
Source: www.idg.se
News Analysis: Oracle’s Cloud Strategy - Revisionist History or Cloud Genius? | Enterprise Software Musings
Over the past decade, Oracle has emerged as the laggard in the cloud market. VC’s had advised their startups not to build on Oracle to avoid the cost overhead and legacy database technology. Yet Larry Ellison remains the rare master of Sun Tzu’s Art of War strategies. In this latest effort, he shows his determination to serve as the arms dealer for cloud infrastructure.
Source: enswmu.blogspot.com
Why Yammer believes the traditional engineering organizational structure is dead
Kris Gale, VP of Engineering at Yammer, argues the key to building fast at scale lies in small teams. He explores intricacies of organizational design in engineering and explains how making intentional decisions throughout growth ensures that you don’t lose the things that are unique and special about being a startup.
Source: firstround.com
iconmonstr - Free simple icons for your next project
iconmonstr
Source: iconmonstr.com
Initializr - Start an HTML5 Boilerplate project in 15 seconds!
Initializr is an HTML5 templates generator to help you getting started with a new project based on HTML5 Boilerplate. It generates for you a clean customizable template with just what you need to start!
Source: www.initializr.com
jQuery CollagePlus
This plugin for jQuery will arrange your images to fit exactly within a container. You can define the padding between images, give the images css borders and define a target row height.
Source: ed-lea.github.io
Pine Innovation » Exjobb som utvecklare på startup från Chalmers Entreprenörsskola
Vill du göra ett exjobb där du får möjlighet att utveckla och forma en ny IT-platform som en del av ett startup-team från allra första början?
Source: gustav.io
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
As usual, with competing technologies both have value, the challenge is to know when to use each one (spoiler: luckily the answer is almost always REST).
Source: spf13.com
Därför lockar Linköping - Internetworld
– Efter tre går det inte att gå ut och ta en kaffe här. Ska man käka middag är det Onlinepizza som gäller (också grundat i Linköping, red. anm.). Det finns inte riktigt någon after work-kultur, men det är inte en avspegling av Linköping som helhet. Det som saknas är en kritisk massa. I Stockholm kan man alltid hitta någon när man går till ett kafé och det finns en del workspace-ställen.
Source: internetworld.idg.se
Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking
Spotify supports unicode usernames which we are a bit proud of (not many services allow you to have ☃, the unicode snowman, as a username). However, it has also been a reliable source of pain over the years. This is the story of one time when it bit us pretty badly and how we spent Easter dealing with it.
Source: labs.spotify.com
OverAPI.com | Collecting all the cheat sheets
OverAPI.com Collecting All Cheat Sheets
Source: overapi.com
Caption Hover Effects
A tutorial on how to create some subtle and modern caption hover effects.
Source: tympanus.net
Large Responsive Photo Backgrounds in Web Design
In this guide I want to discuss a few trends and possible techniques for creating responsive image backgrounds
Source: blog.teamtreehouse.com
MVC Architecture for JavaScript Applications
There isn’t enough discussion to read about using the model-view-controller architecture for client-side JavaScript web application development and it’s a shame.
Source: michaux.ca
Intro to Web Workers
After searching the code base and the web, I discovered it was a built-in for a feature set I had never encountered before: Web Workers! With curiosity piqued, I dove in to learn about the mysterious call and what it can do.
Source: zapier.com
Åldrade affärssystem ger Microsoft slagläge - IDG.se
Frågar man leverantörerna så säger alla att de har molnlösningar – men då ljuger de. Vad de pratar om är de internetbaserade asp-tjänster som har funnits i 30 år. Det handlar ju inte om äkta molnbaserade tjänster där servrar delas eller där det kommer uppgraderingar varje vecka. Det är som skillnaden mellan finöl och fulöl, fast i tappningen affärssystem – fin-erp och ful-erp, säger Jonas Andersson.
Source: www.idg.se
Don’t Hash Secrets | Benlog
So here it is: Don’t hash secrets. Never. No, sorry, I know you think your case is special but it’s not. No. Stop it. Just don’t do it. You’re making the cryptographers cry.
Source: benlog.com
Åldrade affärssystem ger Microsoft slagläge
Sex av tio svenska företag har otidsenliga affärssystem. Konjunkturen har skjutit upp nödvändiga byten, enligt analytikern Jonas Andersson. - När det vänder smäller det till och då blir Microsoft den stora vinnaren.
Source: www.idg.se
Foundation: The Most Advanced Responsive Front-end Framework from ZURB
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world.
Source: foundation.zurb.com
Hackers vs. suits: Why nerds become leakers
the same personality traits that make people good at programming also cause them to have a disobedient attitude toward authority figures and social conventions.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
From starting to working at – the story of Osom | Fantblog
I work at Osom. I used to say "I’m starting a company", but these days I’m not starting, I’m working. So what’s the difference?
Source: bjornfant.se
swestartups.com - map of swedish startups
Source: swestartups.com
Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practices
Unit tests created through the TDD process naturally sit at the extreme left of this scale. They contain a lot of knowledge about the behaviour of a single unit of code. If that unit’s behaviour changes, so must its unit tests, and vice-versa. But they don’t contain any knowledge or assumptions about other parts of your codebase, so changes to other parts of your codebase don’t make them start failing
Source: blog.stevensanderson.com
8 months in Microsoft, I learned these | /home/alp
I learned that one will see this sort of problems in all large scale companies. Most of them are not specific to Microsoft at all. Every company has its own problems.
Source: ahmetalpbalkan.com
Two i’s by Jason Fried of 37signals
I think it’s always good to be working on two things: The next most important thing, and the next most interesting thing.
Source: 37signals.com
Digital McGyver Meet Fogg, the mobile data liberator
Imagine if you could go abroad and turn on data roaming without worrying what it will cost you. The new service Fogg is a first step towards that world.
Source: www.digitalmcgyver.com
Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures
Source: adit.io
Transporter
Transporter is a private cloud storage device for syncing, sharing, accessing, and protecting your digital life. No cloud, no fees, no privacy concerns. Your files are only stored on your Transporters and computers and mobile devices that you authorize.
Source: www.filetransporter.com
Ladda
A UI concept which merges loading indicators into the action that invoked them.
Source: lab.hakim.se
Are coders worth it? | Hacker News
With very rare exceptions of some OSS or in-house projects (Google, FB) most of software industry consists of such sweatshops which are almost an assembly lines which produce bloatware that mere passes most of tests. Have you ever seen so-called Enterprise Software? ERPs? Web-portals? Or take a look at the bloatware MS produces - these all products of such software-manufacturing processes.
Source: news.ycombinator.com
James Somers – Web developer money
It was a job offer, and these were the terms: $150,000 in salary, a $10,000 signing bonus, stock options, a free gym membership, excellent health and dental benefits, a new cellphone, and free lunch and dinner every weekday. My working day would start at about 11am. It would end whenever I liked, sometime in the early evening. The work would rarely strain me. I’d have a lot of autonomy and responsibility. My co-workers would be about my age, smart, and fun.
Source: www.aeonmagazine.com
Turning around when your job feels like a dead end
It is nearly a career certainty: that unpleasant feeling of being stuck and not really knowing what to do about it comes around at least once over the course of a working life. Colleagues and new hires are being picked for plum positions while you sit by. Perhaps your job starts to feel like a dead end with little room for creativity or advancement.
Source: www.bbc.com
fogus: Fun.js – Bilby.js
A self-contained functional library, Brian McKenna’s Bilby stretches the possibilities of functional style in JavaScript.
Source: blog.fogus.me
Incident Management at Spotify
At Spotify we take these types of incidents seriously. Our mission when dealing with outages is to avoid having the same incident twice. We want to be able to learn something new with each incident. However, sometimes we fail.
Source: labs.spotify.com
Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
Now, the internet has no shortage on opinions on API design. But, since there’s no one widely adopted standard that works in all cases, you’re left with a bunch of choices: What formats should you accept? How should you authenticate? Should your API be versioned?
Source: www.vinaysahni.com
Goda meriter räcker inte för drömjobbet
Sju av tio jobb tillsätts via kontakter och personliga nätverk. Meriter tycks inte väga lika tungt. "Beskriv vad du verkligen vill göra", säger karriärrådgivaren Viveka Andersson.
Source: www.idg.se
Some things I've learnt about public speaking
...something about public speaking and specifically about conference speaking.
Source: blog.jgc.org
Observations: The Qubulus Story
Today it was announced that Qubulus is put into bankruptcy. It was expected. Ever since I exited the company on the 6th of January last year. Why? When you have (or had) the best technology available? When you have a fast growth market of indoor positioning with smart opportunities for indoor navigation and all the add-ons for that? When WifiSLAM and Meridian got acquired within the last six months?
Source: apmaran.blogspot.com
Street View Service - Google Maps JavaScript API v3 — Google Developers
The Maps Javascript API V3 supports the display of custom panoramas within the StreetViewPanorama object. Using custom panoramas, you can display the interior of buildings, views from scenic locations, or anything from your imagination. You can even link these custom panoramas to Google’s existing Street View panoramas.
Source: developers.google.com
Screensiz.es
We built screensiz.es to help you quickly find the screen specifications of the most popular devices and monitors currently on the market.
Source: screensiz.es
"Rör inte min semestersurf!" - IDG.se
På samma sätt uppfattas det som mer avkopplande att läsa en pappersbok än en e-bok, och att prata i telefon anses vara mer socialt än att hålla kontakt med sina vänner via mejl, Skype eller Facebook.
Source: www.idg.se
Så kan inåtvända komma ut | Under strecket | SvD
Extrovertas naturliga fiende är en tom almanacka, introvertas är telefonen, som avbryter och överrumplar med intimitet.
Source: www.svd.se
Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
Perhaps you’ve read posts like Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names and Falsehoods programmers believe about time. Maybe you’ve also read Falsehoods programmers believe about geography. Addressing is a fertile ground for incorrect assumptions, because everyone’s used to dealing with addresses and 99% of the time they seem so simple.
Source: www.mjt.me.uk
Alex Payne — Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup
I regularly get emails from young people, usually those with an interest in programming, who are trying to make decisions about school and/or their professional futures. This post is for those young people.
Source: al3x.net
58 procent av världens it-outsourcing utförs i Indien. Men vilka är det som gör jobbet - och vad tänker de om oss? CIO Sweden åkte till it-fabriken i Bangalore. (via På besök i den indiska it-fabriken - IDG.se)
58 procent av världens it-outsourcing utförs i Indien. Men vilka är det som gör jobbet - och vad tänker de om oss? CIO Sweden åkte till it-fabriken i Bangalore. (via På besök i den indiska it-fabriken - IDG.se)
Source: www.idg.se
45 Ways to Communicate Two Quantities
The following is a list of different ways to visualize two numbers. In many cases, the visualization depends directly on the unit, meaning, interpretation and context of the values.
Source: blog.visual.ly
Our Incredible Journey
Cataloging the thrilling opportunities start-ups are offered when their incredible journey continues by being bought by an exciting company. However, as a user of the start-up’s service, your own incredible journey must end, because all of your photos and writing and checkins and messages and relationships must now be deleted.
Source: ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
What Marissa Mayer Doesn’t (and Does) Get About White-Collar Work | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
On days the teams were most creative, they were also closest to each other and most physically active. "We have this myth that you do your best work when you’re alone, and it’s not true," says Ben Waber, president of Sociometric Solutions and inventor of the badges. Productivity and creativity can be polar opposites. On the other hand, organizations also need productivity—six hours of mental peace to finish a single complex piece of work.
Source: www.wired.com
What happens after Yahoo acquires you
Whether it’s Flickr, Delicious, MyBlogLog, or Upcoming, the post-purchase story is a similar one. Both sides talk about all the wonderful things they will do together. Then reality sets in. They get bogged down trying to overcome integration obstacles, endless meetings, and stifling bureaucracy.
Source: 37signals.com
Why use "closure"? - How To Node - NodeJS
A closure is a function defined within another scope that has access to all the variables within the outer scope.
Source: howtonode.org
Preparing Yourself for Modern JavaScript Development | CodeThinked
This post is going to be an attempt to simply address some of the low hanging fruit out there, and try to bring together a few different concepts that a developer should understand before they go out and try to tackle something like Backbone.js or Ember.js.
Source: www.codethinked.com
"Malmö står sig väl mot Silicon Valley" - IDG.se
I Sverige utbildar vi duktiga ingenjörer. Konkurrensen om arbetskraft är ännu större i Silicon Valley, så egentligen är det lättare här.
Source: www.idg.se
"Inte bra att bara jobba" - IDG.se
Hennes förväntningar på arbetsgivarna är höga. Flexibilitet, trygghet, human människosyn, snabb bekräftelse och förtroende för den närmaste chefen återkommer under vårt samtal och är på många sätt representativa för den här generationen.
Source: www.idg.se
Vill ni sluta växa – anställ en CFO! | Snabbväxare
I veckan fick jag än en gång frågan varför det är så. "Varför klarar företag att växa fort för att sedan tappa fart?". Mitt standardsvar på denna fråga är: "De har nog anställd en CFO!".
Source: snabbvaxare.wordpress.com
Nedskärning tynger IFS - IDG.se
Jag vill dock påpeka att det här inte är en nedskärning vi gör för att det går dåligt, utan det är något vi gör för att vi vill göra det, och för att vi vill strukturera om.
Source: www.idg.se
A Swedish Fairytale: The Luxury Mansionette in Gothenburg
Gothenburg’s is one of the finest towns in Sweden when it comes to choose a tranquil, yet beautiful place to spend your weekends, your vacations or why not (this is for the edgy ones) your life.
Source: freshome.com
Startupstjärnor utmanar Blocket
I dag lanseras Osom, en ny app som du kan sälja och köpa kläder, skor och vintageprylar med. Namnet kommer från engelskans "awesome" och är ett uppstartsföretag som vill vara, som man själva uttrycker det, "en marknadsplats för vackra saker".
Source: www.idg.se
The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Introduction
Building architecture and software architecture have a lot in common, but there is one crucial difference. While architects study thousands of buildings in their training and during their careers, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well. And more often than not, those are programs they wrote themselves. They never get to see the great programs of history, or read critiques of those programs’ designs written by experienced practitioners. As a result, they repeat one another’s mistakes rather than building on one another’s successes.
Source: www.aosabook.org
Taking a stand on open source and patents
Today, we’re taking another step towards that goal by announcing the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge: we pledge not to sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked.
Source: google-opensource.blogspot.se
Task driven Scrum - Agile things
Bring the team back to one or two userstories to be worked upon. Teammembers might argue that they sometime cannot work on the same story. It is then a good idea to let them pair, test or write documentation. They have to work together to get the stories done and not just the tasks. Allowing everybody working on individual task is not effective and does not help the team and therefore the end product.
Source: agilethings.nl
End the CAPTCHA Agony | Are You a Human
One in four people will leave your site when confronted with CAPTCHA. But it doesn’t have to be this way: PlayThru increases your conversions by 60%.
Source: areyouahuman.com
Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage | Derek Sivers
What software are you using for that?" Ah! I get it. I smiled and pointed to my ear. "No software. I just listen to everything that comes in, and recommend other good stuff like it.
Source: sivers.org
Waste #5: Delays | Agile Zone
Face-to-face communication is the most effective means for sharing knowledge within a project team, and even teams separated by only an elevator ride or stair climb will have less face-to-face interaction. Get all of the project team in the same room if at all possible.
Source: agile.dzone.com
Is The Vertical Approach To Enterprise Software Enough To Help You Win The Market? | TechCrunch
Fortunately, most enterprise software markets are ripe for disruption from purpose-built, superior solutions.
Source: techcrunch.com
The Seven Wastes of Software Development
Today I’d like to start a brand new series, the focus of which is the elimination of waste from our software development efforts. Waste elimination can be traced all the way back to the the mid-1900’s, the birth of lean manufacturing, and the Toyota Production System (TPS).
Source: agile.dzone.com
"Så här bra betalt får jag aldrig i Europa" - IDG.se
Dick Olsson flyttade ner med sin flickvän, som också jobbar med Drupal och fick jobb på Qnbn (Qatar National Broadband Network), en statlig organisation som står för utbyggnaden av bredband. 18 månader senare är den 25-årige före detta Skövdebon nöjd med sin tillvaro och den utmaning en flytt innebar.
Source: www.idg.se
Scaling Agile Meetup 20130311
Scaling Agile Meetup 20130311
Source: www.dropbox.com
MBA Quits Corporate Job To Travel The World As A Volunteer
IE Business School grad Adam Pervez quit a secure job at Siemens last summer to travel the world helping locals communities. We caught up with him during a brief pit stop in London to find out what it’s like to be "Chief Happiness Officer" of your own life, and why he quit the corporate world.
Source: www.businessbecause.com
The Python Paradox
I didn’t mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that Python programmers are smart. It’s a lot of work to learn a new programming language. And people don’t learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren’t satisfied with the languages they already know.
Source: www.paulgraham.com
Progressive Reduction
I’m very excited to talk about a technique that we’ve started using at LayerVault. We call it Progressive Reduction.
Source: layervault.tumblr.com
Treat Employees Like Adults - Business Insider
Two younger, married team members recently requested permission to move to Amsterdam for eight months — for no other reason than they wanted to experience another culture. For a moment, I bridled. But since technology makes it possible for them to do their jobs from anywhere, we were able to make it happen. They agreed to work during our regular office hours, and to visit our office for a week every two months. So far it seems to be working seamlessly.
Source: www.businessinsider.com
Utveckling viktigast på jobbet
Enligt en enkät från bemanningsföretaget Wise Group är det här vad som får oss att trivas på jobbet:
Source: www.idg.se
FullScale
Dangle provides directives that allow you to create visualizations of your data. You can easily bind the result of queries to HTML elements. When the results update, your visualizations will also update. You can build powerful, interactive applications with just a few lines of HTML.
Source: www.fullscale.co
Spotify rustat för storskalig agil utveckling
Spotify har växt från 50 till 300 anställda på två år. Men samtidigt som företaget måste bli större för att stå sig i konkurrensen är det viktigt att snabbheten inte går förlorad.
Source: www.idg.se
Design Trends 2013 - Flat and Minimal
One of the new trends in terms of digital design, especially interface design, is the return of simple, flat and typographical design.
Source: abduzeedo.com
8 Tips to Building a Championship Team
These are the eight strategies that I use to build championship teams:
Source: www.linkedin.com
Hook.js - Pull to refresh. For the web.
We love that neat little "pull to refresh" feature on our devices, but wouldn’t it be awesome if it was for the web? Well, that’s what Hook is here to do.
Source: usehook.com
Ten ways to increase employee productivity - The Globe and Mail
With winter malaise in full swing and the holidays a distant memory, this time of year can kill productivity. To help you and your employees get through the February slump, here’s a couple tips for that have worked wonders for us:
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com
About Scrumy
Scrumy is a project management tool loosely based off of Scrum.
Source: scrumy.com
It-företag söker kompetensen utomlands - IDG.se
Kompetensbristen inom it-utveckling i Sverige får allt fler företag att söka sig utomlands för att hitta rätt personer att anställa.
Source: www.idg.se
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | PragPub February 2013 | Estimation is Evil
It’s based on an unrealistic list of requirements, using weak estimates, made at the moment of maximum ignorance, by people who are always optimistic about their own abilities. It has been squeezed down by managers who think they need to be tough, and sometimes it is just overridden by someone who has made a rash promise to someone higher up the food chain.
Source: pragprog.com
Yahoo förbjuder jobb hemifrån - DN.SE
Studier visar också att det är mer effektivt att kommunicera öga mot öga än över internet. Att jobba hemifrån blir trots det allt vanligare i rask takt.
Source: www.dn.se
Discourse
Ready for a new discussion platform?
Source: www.discourse.org
Säljar-app nästa för TAT-Hampus - IDG.se
– När vi blev uppköpta av RIM upptäckte vi att de hade samma problem som vi, att säljarna levde i sin egen lilla bubbla, säger han. Det betyder enligt Hampus Jakobsson att säljaren inte har riktig kontroll på produkten samtidigt som de som utvecklar den inte vet vad som säljs eller vad kunden efterfrågar
Source: www.idg.se
Crisp's Blog » A team experiment with and without offshoring
So they decided to do an experiment for a few months. They moved one of the testers from India to Stockholm and dropped the other two testers (re-allocating the other two to other teams) to see how that would work.
Source: blog.crisp.se
30 Recent Design Elements in Web Apps
A summary for this great question that appeared on Quora: http://www.quora.com/User-Interface-Design/What-are-the-best-UI-elements-controls-patterns-etc-that-have-cropped-up-in-modern-web-sites-and-web-apps-recently
Source: www.slideshare.net
Learn Git Branching
This application is designed to help beginners grasp the powerful concepts behind branching when working with git. We hope you enjoy this application and maybe even learn something!
Source: pcottle.github.com
Island kan förbjuda porr på internet - DN.SE
Vi kan väl göra en deal? Så fort Island har skickat en man till månen så får de förbjuda porr utan att någon lägger sig i!
Source: www.dn.se
Debiki — for the fruitful conversations
I’m developing what I hope might be one of the future’s forum software alternatives. (There’s a demo at the end of the page.)
Source: www.debiki.com
Gigantiskt SAP-fiasko i Kalifornien - IDG.se
Kalifornien säger upp SAP som leverantör för ett nytt lönesystem. Systemet som redan kostat 254 miljoner dollar var tänkt att ta hand om lönerna för statens 240 000 anställda.
Source: www.idg.se
Forrester’s top 15 emerging technologies
Analyst Bryan Hopkins gave us a peek into what Forrester thinks is next, and much of it builds on those four horseman of disruptive change.
Source: venturebeat.com
Säkerhetsmissarna på ditt skrivbord - IDG.se
Det kanske finns, men själv har jag inte sett system där man arbetar rollbaserat, dvs man ställer rättigheter på väldigt låg nivå (typ enstaka artiklar/kunder/leverantörer i affärssystem etc).
Source: www.idg.se
10 Reasons Why You Have to Quit Your Job This Year - The Altucher Confidential - Quora
Because the basic fact: people spend what they make. If your salary increases $5,000 you spend an extra $2000 on features for your car, you have an affair, you buy a new computer, a better couch, a bigger TV, and then you ask, "where did all the money go?"
Source: jamesaltucher.quora.com
7 Agile Myths | Agile Zone
You’ll hear about these myths most of the time on management level, but some of them can be found on the development level, too. IMHO it’s important to be aware of these myths to be prepared for possible discussions.
Source: agile.dzone.com
Polarbröd river ut rubbet - IDG.se
- IFS var lite för stort för oss, det var lite stelt. Det har mycket funktionalitet som vi inte utnyttjar, för mycket för att det ska vara lönsamt.
Source: www.idg.se
Här är Microsofts värsta missar
Jag gillar Windows 8 numera! Efter månader av frustration och ren ilska har jag äntligen kommit på vad det är bra till - Det har äntligen givit mig ett verktyg att få sonen att städa sitt rum och plocka undan sin disk. "Om du inte städar ditt rum och sköter läxorna så installerar jag Windows 8 på din dator". Funkar varje gång ;)
Source: www.idg.se
Världens möjligheter - Ingenjörskarriär
Vill du jobba utomlands, eller med folk från andra länder? Grattis, då ligger du rätt i tiden. Framtidens melodi är internationellt samarbete. Men satsar man kommer också nya utmaningar.
Source: www.ingenjorskarriar.se
"Planering är A och O"
Ta chansen och jobba utomlands. Men planera ut- och hemresan i god tid. Det rådet ger Patrik och Linda Nord efter tre år i Kuala Lumpur.
Source: www.ingenjorskarriar.se
Why I cheer when my employees leave
For better or for worse, the idea someone will remain at a company long term is just so 2001. So if employers today are truly dedicated to their employees it means accepting they’ll likely leave.
Source: www.linkedin.com
The Most Important Interview Question of All Time
What single project or task would you consider the most significant accomplishment in your career so far?
Source: www.linkedin.com
Konsulten: "Flytta lärandet till arbetet" - IDG.se
De som lyckas skapa en lärande organisation kan räkna med bättre lönsamhet, eftersom de blir snabbare på att reagera på förändringar i omvärlden. De blir dessutom attraktivare som arbetsgivare enligt Johan Skoglöf.
Source: www.idg.se
Security audit finds dev OUTSOURCED his JOB to China
A security audit of a US critical infrastructure company last year revealed that its star developer had outsourced his own job to a Chinese subcontractor and was spending all his work time playing around on the internet.
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
Så blir du en vinnare 2013
Sugen på nytt jobb eller nya utmaningar på din nuvarande arbetsplats? Här är tipsen som stärker dig i karriären.
Source: www.idg.se
17 Simple Tips On Working At A Startup
Thinking about joining a startup, or working at one already? That’s great! If you play your cards right, it will be one of the best decisions you’ve ever made in your professional career.
Source: www.linkedin.com
Top 4 Reasons Employees Quit – How to Hire Staff who Stick
one of the key questions that was asked of employees was the simple question, "What was their reason for leaving?" The four most common reasons for leaving their organization were, in order of rank:
Source: www.recruiter.com