Lion Video Conversion Tools
After recording technical sessions I visit on my camera, there was a clear need to share them on a reliable and controllable platform. Without thinking too much I started with Vimeo Plus as it provides a reasonable compromise between the price, storage space and overall control. In a way, I much prefer to pay and [...]
Big Data & LivePerson: Hadoop and MapReduce
ILTechTalks organized another event yesterday – “Big Data & LivePerson” where Ophir Cohen (@ophchu) from LivePerson presented company experience with Hadoop and MapReduce.
10 Cool Facts about Gradle
About a month ago @saylambda user group (lambda.org.il) had a “JavaScript as a Functional Language” meeting, very nicely presented by Zachary Kessin (@zkessin). You can see a summary, HTML slides and video recording of the session. This time the subject was Groovy and Ronen Narkis (@narkisr) presented Groovy as a language, its powerful GDK, AST [...]
Gradle CodeNarc Plugin
After working on Gradle CodeNarc plugin for some time and using it in 3 of my projects, I decided to officially release it last week. This plugin allows to easily run a CodeNarc Groovy code analysis from your Gradle build script. In the simplest form the plugin can be used as: which adds new “codenarc” [...]
The Pomodoro Technique Summary
I’ve decided to give Pomodoro technique a try. This is a fairly simple time-management system where one is supposed to work in chunks of 25 minutes without interruptions with 3-5 minutes breaks between each chunk. And there are longer 15-30 minutes breaks every 4 chunks. That’s basically it but there are many more details which [...]
An importance of wrapping variables
Long time ago I’ve developed a habit of wrapping every variable logged in [ .. ]: The reasons were mostly to spot any trailing whitespaces in variables logged which was very helpful in error messages. As simple as it sounds, lots of messages thrown or logged today still don’t enclose variables in any special characters [...]
Groovy 1.8.0 – meet JsonBuilder!
Groovy 1.8.0 released in April brought a lot of new features to the language, one of them is native JSON support through JsonSlurper for reading JSON and JsonBuilder for writing JSON. I recently used JsonBuilder in one of my projects and initially experienced some difficulties in understanding how it operates. My assumption was that JsonBuilder [...]
Displaying Git branch in Linux command prompt
Even though I create “dev” branch for all my Git projects and perform all development work there, I need to make sure I’m still on the “dev” branch from time to time. “gs” is my alias to “git status” and I run it very frequently for that and other purposes. But this beautiful Git presentation [...]
Creativity Management
If you’re an Israeli entrepreneur or have just started working on your own ‘something’, there are a number of places in Tel-Aviv where you can get a nice office, amazingly supporting environment, free Internet and plenty of free coffee. One such is The Hub TLV and another one is The Junction (@TheJunction32). When you go [...]
