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dev2ops Video Q&A: Continuous Deployment requires great testing
Thanks to Damon Edwards for the great questions during our interview at Yahoo! Large Scale Production Engineering Meetup.
If you ever write a varags method…
In some specific cases, methods with a variable argument list might greatly improve the usability of an API. However, it is very easy to overuse or misuse this language feature, leading to cumbersome APIs. Varags methods shine when the programmer knows how many arguments must be passed to a specific invocation of the method when… Read more
Practical Scala/Java interoperability by small examples
If you try to combine Java code with Scala in your application, everything seems to go fine until you bump into big differences between Java collections and Scala collections. A Scala Traversable is not Java Iterable and vice versa; maps are different, etc. So, in practice, you have to do conversion. Fortunately, there are pretty… Read more
Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
Behavioral science and specifically motivational science is fascinating. When you wake up, what drives you? Dan Pink, in his recent book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, identifies three principal factors: autonomy, mastery and purpose. Check out the video below to get an excerpt.
jQuery.data(): underappreciated
One of the most underappreciated jQuery methods has to be .data(). It allows you to associate arbitrary named values with DOM elements. Usage is simple: $(“body”).data(“x”, 1); $(“body”).data(“y”, someObject); You can store any data types and expect the same back. As a web developer, I’m sure some of you have assigned arbitrary… Read more
Hosting Stanford’s Palo Alto Bike Tour
Yesterday, we had the pleasure to host the first “Stanford Bike Tour” organized by Ibrahim Elbouchikhi. It is a chance for Stanford students to hop on a bike, and cross over to the neighboring valley!