Dries Buytaert: Cross-channel user experiences with Drupal
Last year around this time, I wrote that The Big Reverse of Web would force a major re-architecture of the web to bring the right information, to the right person, at the right time, in the right...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Goosebumps from Our Tube: Syreeta & Stevie Wonder Leaving...
Syreeta (Wright) was once married to Stevie Wonder and in 1972 they recorded this magnificent cover of the Beatles’ “She’s leaving home”.Watch this video on YouTube.Possibly related twitterless...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: The async Puppet pattern
The post The async Puppet pattern appeared first on ma.ttias.be.I'm pretty sure this isn't tied to Puppet and is probably widely used by everyone else, but it only occurred to me recently what the...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: Item isChild of another Item in QML
Damned, QML is inconsistent! Things have a content, data or children. And apparently they can all mean the same thing. So how do we know if something is a child of something else?After a failed...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Quick KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler test
Cache Enabler – WordPress Cache is a new page caching kid on the WordPress plugin block by the Switzerland-based KeyCDN. It’s based in part on Cachify (which has a strong user-base in Germany) but...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Megan Sanicki to become Executive Director at the Drupal...
This is a time of transition for the Drupal Association. As you might have read on the Drupal Association blog, Holly Ross, our Executive Director, is moving on. Megan Sanicki, who has been with the...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: QML coding conventions checker that uses QML parser’s own...
My colleague Henk Van Der Laak made a interesting tool that checks your code against the QML coding conventions. It uses the internal parser’s abstract syntax tree of Qt 5.6 and a visitor design.It has...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Jameszoo ft. Arthur Verocai doing weird...
But don’t you worry, there’s no obnoxious 4/4 beat to be heard. And how electro can a violin get?Watch this video on YouTube.Possibly related twitterless twaddle:Music from Our Tube: GoGo Penguin Music...
View ArticleDieter Adriaenssens: Some guidelines for writing better and safer code
Recently, I came across some code of a web application that, on brief inspection, was vulnerable to XSS and SQL injection attacks : the SQL queries and the HTML output were not properly escaped, the...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: Geef vorm
We zijn goed. We tonen dat door ons respect voor privacy en veiligheid te combineren. Kennis is daar onontbeerlijk voor. Ik pleit voor investeren in techneuten die de twee beheersen.Onze overheid moet...
View ArticleJeroen De Dauw: I T.A.K.E. 2016
Last week I attended the I T.A.K.E. unconference in Bucharest. This unconference is about software development, and has tracks such as code quality, DevOps, craftsmanship, microservices and leadership....
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Autoptimize Power-Up sneak peek; Critical CSS
So although I am taking things rather slowly, I am in fact still working on Power-Ups for Autoptimize, focusing on the one most people were asking for; critical CSS. The Critical CSS Power-Up will...
View ArticleJeroen De Dauw: Is Pair Programming worth it?
Every now and then I get asked how to convince ones team members that Pair Programming is worthwhile. Often the person asking, or people I did pair programming with, while obviously enthusiastic about...
View ArticleJeroen De Dauw: Maps 3.6 for MediaWiki released
I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 3.6. This feature release brings marker clustering enhancements and a number of fixes.These parameters where added to the display_map parser...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: MVVM, Model View ViewModel, with Qt and QML
In the XAML world it’s very common to use the MVVM pattern. I will explain how to use the technique in a similar way with Qt and QML.The idea is to not have too much code in the view component. Instead...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Changes with the Drupal Association
The Drupal community is very special because of its culture of adapting to change, determination and passion, but also its fun and friendship. It is a combination that is hard to come by, even in the...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Comment la réalité augmentée m’a transformé…
…en cycliste.La plupart de mes lecteurs sont sans doute familiers avec le principe de réalité virtuelle. Un univers entièrement fictif dans lequel on s’immerge totalement afin de se couper du monde...
View ArticleKris Buytaert: Docker and volumes hell
We're increasingly using Docker to build packages, a fresh chroot in which we prepare a number of packages, builds typically for ruby (rvm) , or python (virtualenv) or node stuf where the language...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Limit the runtime of a cronjob or script
The post Limit the runtime of a cronjob or script appeared first on ma.ttias.be.There are ways you can prevent cronjobs from overlapping, but you can also limit how long a particular script can...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Une dernière bière avant la fin du monde
D’un claquement légèrement éméché sur le comptoir, la femme repose le verre de bière vide tout en écartant une mèche rousse de son front rougeaud. D’un doigt tremblant, elle ouvre un bouton de son...
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