Here are some thoughts and arguments on why using wireframes and prototypes to engage more citizens in political life. The use of wireframes and prototypes could enhance E-democracy.
Social networking sites have given a new life to the offspring of search engine optimization, that is to say, social media optimization and social media marketing. One of the recent entrants in the field of social media marketing is twitter. The search results shown on Twitter help SEO professionals in properly executing the search engine…
Disclaimer: I'm sort of a noob, and this is a long post. Thank you all in advance!
summary: completely dead laptop with no signs of life whatsoever (suddenly, for no apparent reason)
Here's the deal:
Lenovo Y470 (only a few months old with no water or shock damage). It stopped working suddenly (no lights, no sound, even when connecting…
A few days ago, I saw this video for a screen capture application. I'm pretty sure I followed a link from Hacker News, possibly to a Life Hacker article.
The video was very short, but demonstrated how the application could be used:
The application was basically a movable/resize-able view port with a button. When the button is pressed,…
We have an ASP.NET 2.0 site running in classic mode. I am seeing very strange behavior in the performance counter values. Perhaps these are bugs (I've been all over Google trying to verify this, without much luck), or perhaps it is just my inexperience with monitoring these things.
This PerfMon graph (http://imgur.com/Jv5io5J)…
Our KDC servers are running either Ubuntu Dapper (2.6.15-28) or Hardy (2.6.24-19). The Kerberos software is the MIT implementation of Kerberos 5. By default, a Kerberos ticket lasts for 10 hours. However, we'd like to increase it a bit (e.g. 14 hours) to suit our needs better. I had done the following but the ticket…
It is conventional wisdom¹ that each time you spin a hard disk down and back up, you shave some time off its life expectancy.
The topic has been discussed before:
Is turning off hard disks harmful?
What's the effect of standby (spindown) mode on modern hard drives?
Common explanations for why spindowns and spinups…
It is conventional wisdom¹ that each time you spin a hard disk down and back up, you shave some time off its life expectancy.
The topic has been discussed before:
Is turning off hard disks harmful?
What's the effect of standby (spindown) mode on modern hard drives?
Common explanations for why spindowns and spinups…
We have distributed web app, and for now, as session handler, we use two separate instances of memcache in redundancy, so everything that is written in one memcache is also written in other. Memcache is fairly easy to install, use, and maintain but we have one problem: if one memcache fail, everything is fine, php…
I recently did a full upgrade of Windows 7 on my Thinkpad. Everything worked fine after up until the second reboot (the first reboot after some updates installed worked OK).
At second reboot time the system would just black screen before the Windows logo appears. Disk/wireless/power/battery lights are all lit and…
Recently my laptop battery will get extremely hot (definitely hotter than it should get) when I charge it.
After that I usually end up removing it once it's fully charged to let it cool down, which takes a couple hours...
Question is, is my battery dead? My last battery I had that died just ended up lasting 2 - 3…
Perhaps this is a multipart question, but I deal with a lot of calendars in my life, and want to know if there is some way to sync them all together, and maintain appropriate privacy.
So I have a family calendar that my ex and I maintain for kid events, and I have a personal calendar for my own life, and I have…
I'm a Linux developer in the market for a laptop.
90% of my time is spent in Emacs, the terminal, and Google Chrome, and I want to use them within the excellent Xmonad tiling windows manager.
Given these constraints, I can only see two options:
Run Linux on a laptop
Run Windows on the laptop, and spend all of…
I recently partitioned my hard drive to dual boot the existing Windows 7 with Linux Mint because I am tired of using Windows, especially the lack of terminal. I want to eventually remove Windows 7 and just run it from a VM within Linux Mint, but I want to make sure that I like the Mint before going all in.
I…
A few months ago during my first end of year review at Microsoft I was doing an assessment of my year. One of my personal goals to come out of this reflection was to improve my personal productivity. While I hear many people say “I wish I had more hours in the day so that I could get more done” I…
CodePlex Daily Summary for Thursday, March 04, 2010New ProjectsAcPrac: A educational program designed to run on Windows. It is fully customizable. It is developed in C# 2008.argo: Linguistic Tool Camelot: A simple utility for testing cross site data queries in SharePointdelta: Delta is a difference tool for…
In the spirit of trying to encourage more deliberate practice amongst coders in Red Gate, Lauri Pesonen had the idea of running a coderetreat in Red Gate. Lauri and I ran the first one a few weeks ago: given that neither of us hadn’t even been to a coderetreat before, let alone run one, I think it turned…
CodePlex Daily Summary for Friday, June 11, 2010New ProjectsBIxPress Community Edition: SSIS Toolset BIDS Addin,Audit,Notify,Deploy,Template: BI xPress is a BIDS Addin/standalone application for SQL Developer/DBA. This tool has many features including Auditing, Notification, Deployment, P...C# Shell…
I’ve had a lot of discussions at the office lately about the drastically different sets of software engineering practices used on our various projects, if what we are doing is appropriate, and what factors should you be considering when determining what practices are most appropriate in a given…
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I have recently been looking at the latest release of the BPM Case Management feature in the Oracle BPM PS6 release. I had put together some…
I'm 21 years old and a first year master's computer science student. Whether or not to continue with my PhD has been plaguing me for the past few months. I can't stop thinking about it and am extremely torn on the issue. I have read http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html and many, many…
Laerte Junior
Laerte Junior has previously helped me personally to resolve the issue with Powershell installation on my computer. He did awesome job to help. He has send this another wonderful article regarding performance counter for readers of this blog. I really liked it and I…
What is Spatial Database?
A spatial database is a database that is optimized to store and query data related to objects in space, including points, lines and polygons. While typical databases can understand various numeric and character types of data, additional functionality needs…
If you have read some of my previous posts over the past few years either here or on my personal blog David's Journal on Tap you will know I am a Social Media enthusiast. I use various social media sites everday in both my work and personal life.
I was surprised to read today on…