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| The Latest from Handwaving | MORE | | I Use This The Kindle can sync my current location in a book to every device, but I have to move papers and articles over manually. At usesthis.com they interview a bunch of people to ask about their current computer setup and their dream setup. Most of them are using aged machines, ultraportables (Mac Air is popular), and Emacs/VIM for editing (a few slickedit fans). Most of them have little to add in their dream setup (more battery life, better cloud sync). Are our tools finally good enough? Not for me. Current setup: A 4 year old Sony Z laptop, 8GB RAM, SSD. even use Visual Studio. Technology DevelopMentor Courses - Friday, October 26, 2012 The Right Milk for a Latte food science book I read says this changes the flavor substantially but American consumers now expect that “cooked” flavor. Milk-based espresso drinks require that the milk be heated and produce a thick microfoam vaguely like shaving cream. have tried every variation and brand of milk available in my area and concluded that pasteurization seriously effects the taste and texture of the foam. The very best is “raw” milk straight from the cow, un-pasteurized and un-homogenized. The foam is beautifully thick and the milk imparts a caramel sweetness to the espresso. We buy organic brands. Handwaving - Monday, October 25, 2010 On Being Wrong It reminded me of a book I wanted to read, but I never got past the book review. The blog The Wrong Stuff has some excellent interviews about how people deal with errors or mistakes. Basically, most experts are no better at predicting the future than a drunken monkey. This quote reminds me of why I hate talking to smart people: “Most people tend to dismiss new information that doesn’t fit with what they already believe. Smart people are better at rationalizing and defending their opinions no matter how inane. That doesn’t mean they aren’t useful. Handwaving - Wednesday, August 4, 2010 | | The Best from Handwaving | MORE | | I Use This The Kindle can sync my current location in a book to every device, but I have to move papers and articles over manually. At usesthis.com they interview a bunch of people to ask about their current computer setup and their dream setup. Most of them are using aged machines, ultraportables (Mac Air is popular), and Emacs/VIM for editing (a few slickedit fans). Most of them have little to add in their dream setup (more battery life, better cloud sync). Are our tools finally good enough? Not for me. Current setup: A 4 year old Sony Z laptop, 8GB RAM, SSD. even use Visual Studio. Technology DevelopMentor Courses - Friday, October 26, 2012 The Right Milk for a Latte food science book I read says this changes the flavor substantially but American consumers now expect that “cooked” flavor. Milk-based espresso drinks require that the milk be heated and produce a thick microfoam vaguely like shaving cream. have tried every variation and brand of milk available in my area and concluded that pasteurization seriously effects the taste and texture of the foam. The very best is “raw” milk straight from the cow, un-pasteurized and un-homogenized. The foam is beautifully thick and the milk imparts a caramel sweetness to the espresso. We buy organic brands. Handwaving - Monday, October 25, 2010 On Being Wrong It reminded me of a book I wanted to read, but I never got past the book review. The blog The Wrong Stuff has some excellent interviews about how people deal with errors or mistakes. Basically, most experts are no better at predicting the future than a drunken monkey. This quote reminds me of why I hate talking to smart people: “Most people tend to dismiss new information that doesn’t fit with what they already believe. Smart people are better at rationalizing and defending their opinions no matter how inane. That doesn’t mean they aren’t useful. Handwaving - Wednesday, August 4, 2010 | - Quality of Weather Predictions
Unfortunately, it’s been 20 years since I last looked at a statistics book. I wrote a little script to grab the weather forecasts from the Weather Underground for the past 6 months. want to know how good their predictions are from 1 to 4 days out. For my first pass through I computed the root mean square error of predicting the daily high temperature. For predictions 1, 2, 3, and 4 days away, the values are 2.9, and 5.0 respectively. That doesn’t sound so good to me, but I need to figure out what other metrics to squeeze out of this. For now, the error residuals are looking pretty bleak. Handwaving - Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - The iPad Experience
don’t play games, don’t look at photos, don’t (regretfully) read books, and listen to music on my iPod. I am writing this using the WordPress app on an iPad. After one week I can add my 2 cents to the mountain of testimonials on owning an iPad. Since the iPad arrived I have not undocked my laptop. It has sat next to my desktop, used only for those hours when I need a real computer. But since the desktop is a better computer, the laptop remains underutilized. The iPad really is a nice device when sitting on the couch. But is it worth $700? Handwaving - Saturday, June 26, 2010 - Second Mover Advantage
Even Amazon came several years after Book Stacks Unlimited. This article (and this one) pokes a hole in the idea that there’s a sustainable first-mover advantage for businesses. That is, being the first search engine or social networking service did not give those innovators any advantage in the market; in fact, most of those first generation companies are gone (Excite & SixDegrees). This strikes me as obvious, yet VCs insist that being first to market is critically important. Has Microsoft ever built the first of anything? Is the iPhone the first ever smartphone? Handwaving - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - Bring on the Tobin Tax
There’s even a book out called This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly detailing the long history of booms and busts. Yesterday, a few Wall St. CEOs faced a wave of stupid questions from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorganChase, made a flippant but important comment : financial crises happen “every five to seven years.&# Warren Buffett has said the boom/bust cycle will continue because fear and greed are hard-wired into human beings. masters. Booms & busts are inevitable. to 0.5%. Handwaving - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - Product ratings should be high
Same goes for books and products and restaurants. read reviews and watch interviews with the authors before picking up a book. Most people use a similar suite of filters to pick a movie, book, or product; therefore, they will generally be pleased with what they get. I recently signed up for a Netflix trial account and rated around 300 movies. noticed that I was giving out lots of 3 and 4 stars, a fair number of 5s, but very few 1s and 2s. It reminded me of this article , which says the average rating for products and movies, at lots of different sites, is around 4.3 why?). Handwaving - Monday, January 11, 2010 - All-you-can-read subscription for news
Before everyone gives up on the idea of charging for content, let’s remember that Apple succeeded with music, Amazon’s Kindle looks impressive with books, NetFlix is going strong with DVDs & streaming movies, HBO is still going strong with plain old TV, and the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times require a subscription. Newspapers are dying. Walter Isaacson says newspapers must charge for content , but Michael Kinsley says it will not work. In particular, Isaacson likes micropayments, but almost everyone else hates the idea. This will reduce costs substantially. Handwaving - Thursday, February 12, 2009 - The Seer who saw the housing bubble
I accidently clicked on a link mocking the book “Are you missing the real estate boom?&# There I found the following brilliant book review by “Don Corleone&# , dated April 19, 2005!! The author has a vested interest in the bubble not bursting, and he’s selling his soul with this book to prove it. by the real estate association’s lapdog, David Lereah. For me, this was more comic relief than any scholarly analysis. He spins webs of demographics and interest rates, but he never ever addresses the core issues that determine housing values. Not anymore. Handwaving - Monday, March 2, 2009 %>
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Unit testing code depending on the ASP.NET #WebApi HttpClient In this case the client application contains the following class to load books from the REST WebAPI controller: 1: public class BooksClient. 19: 20: public Book GetBook( int id). 27: 28: public Tuple PostBook(Book book). 30: var response = _httpClient.PostAsJsonAsync(BaseUrl.ToString(), book).Result; This class uses the HttpClient to request the data from the service and extracts the books from the body before returning them. The GetBooks() function gets all books from the REST service. 5: var books = new []. 14: {. Result; 18: }. 21: {. The Problem Solver - Monday, May 20, 2013 Unit testing a ASP.NET WebAPI controller Testing a simple ApiController that gets data Suppose we have the following ASP.NET WebAPI Controller with two Get methods, the first returns the complete list of books and the second returns the book with the requested ID. 14: 15: // GET api/books. 24: var book = _repo.GetBook(id); 25: 26: if (book == null ). 30: 31: return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, book); 32: }. The Get() method that returns all books is easy enough to test. There are no dependencies on WebAPI bits, all it does is return a enumeration of books. 8: 9: }. The Problem Solver - Sunday, May 12, 2013 Requirements and Specifications The first book I picked up was Mike Cohn’s User Stories Applied , the nearest thing the Agile-set has to a definitive text on requirements. True Requirements runs throughout the book but doesn’t help me compare and contrast. The fact that so many prominent books duck the question of requirements and specification makes me think this is a fairly common issue. 'As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” and so I’ve been giving a lot of thought to requirements. nothing. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - How to rip audio books
So i listen to a lot of audio books, and here's how i create the mp3 of them. Make sure the book is UNABRIDGED 1) get a ipod - i prefer the nano. link] 4) set your encoding bitrate to 64k & stereo, this is a very high quality audio book. Overview we are going to create bite size files about 30 minutes each. then label them, and create the id tags. finally we'll attach a picture. link] Ripping 2) download audiograbber & install. link] 3) download lame encoder & install. To do this double click a track. select the Sectors>Last. And there you go Llewellyn Falco - Sunday, July 6, 2008 - Book review: Silverlight 4 in Action
Reviewing this book took some time as it weighs in at a hefty 798 pages, who ever said that Silverlight was a small products? That is a lot of material but then the book doesn't assume any prior knowledge of Silverlight at all. The book is divided into 25 chapters in 3 different sections. In these cases the book is a nice point to get started but no more than that and getting additional information on the Internet is pretty much a requirement. Pete has a pretty solid coverage of the material the book will help you understand what you need to know. Enjoy! The Problem Solver - Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - Books on Windows Phone 7 development
Here are some books for people that are looking to get into Windows Phone 7 development (some are pre-order only at this time): Microsoft XNA Framework Programming for Windows Phone 7. Microsoft Silverlight Programming for Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple. Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications. Windows Phone 7 The Blomsma Code - Thursday, December 2, 2010 - Using SignalR for real time data updates
In the following code the clients starts the communications hub and passed the loadBooks callback to load the books as soon as the communications are initialized. $( function () {. then( function (books) {. each(books, function () {. appendTo(ul); renderBook(newLi, this ); }); }); }; function renderBook(li, book) {. var books = _repo.GetBooks(); return books; }. }. e.preventDefault(); var form = $( this ); var book = {. val(). }; hub.updateBook(book); }); hub.bookUpdated = function (book) {. public void updateBook(Book book). {. The Problem Solver - Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - Unit testing a ASP.NET WebAPI controller
Testing a simple ApiController that gets data Suppose we have the following ASP.NET WebAPI Controller with two Get methods, the first returns the complete list of books and the second returns the book with the requested ID. 14: 15: // GET api/books. 24: var book = _repo.GetBook(id); 25: 26: if (book == null ). 30: 31: return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, book); 32: }. The Get() method that returns all books is easy enough to test. There are no dependencies on WebAPI bits, all it does is return a enumeration of books. 8: 9: }. The Problem Solver - Sunday, May 12, 2013 %>
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