Backbonejs and PubNub, a nice couple
I’ve been a fan of PubNub for a while now but haven’t gotten around to using it in anything substantial (most of my work resides on intranets).
I saw this post by Dan Ristic on making Backbone real-time with PubNub. To be honest, it’s really easy to get this up and running. The guys from PubNub make it really easy for developers to get rolling with their platform.
I guess I don’t have any excuses to not do something with PubNub…
If only the news read more like this
…would the world be different ?
Remember this excel connection string parameter when you’re trying to import data in SSIS and the columns have mixed data types i.e. the column has floats and strings.
You’ll save some hair off the top of your head…
Awesome answer about coffee on quora
Just read this answer to a question on quora about coffee.
I’ll have to agree, I have been walking in Melbourne and in a little side street I’ve found a little coffee stand and it has been some of the best coffee I have ever tasted.
Time to adapt to mobile and Siri
I found this on linked in and it came from a Futurist and Innovation expert. The advice in there is pretty good but i’m wondering if this isn’t already mainstream.
I read the article and much of it doesn’t come as a surprise, it’s more a ‘yep, heard that before’. But the one thing i found useful was the adoption of Siri, this i think is a winner.
How you do this is yet to be determined. It would be nice if you could say ‘Siri, purchase a bike pump and have it delivered here’. Siri would need to know what bike tyre valve you have, how much you’d be willing to spend and where you live. This may be a little far off but it would almost be like having you’re own personal assistant.
Anyway, enjoy the read.
Reminds me of my experience in University
This speaks volumes.
When i was at university all i remember was clicking link after link trying to find any piece of information i needed.
Just went to my old University’s website and it looks like the developers may have read this comic at some point. Nice work XKCD.
I just discovered the phenomenon known as Benford’s Law. I would never have picked this up.
I feel so sorry for the number 9 now… so unpopular.
Here is a good explanation i read on #Quora
A friend found this.
It’s a whole bunch of convenient extension methods that people have written and have decided to share with the world.
What I have found is that I have written almost the exact same mehtods for some of these. Kinda creepy but confirms that I’m on the right track when I programming (or both you and the writer have it wrong…).
Read, borrow and enjoy.
Great article on how we can develop the tools today that help people in the future when we don’t know what our tools will be used for.
Want to be in a band ? Refer to this chart before deciding your role…
a record of a developer 