chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

dalethedeveloper

#Mobile Device Detection via User Agent RegEx

Yes, it is nearly 2012 and this exercise has been done to death in every imaginable language. For my own purposes I needed to get the majority of non-desktop devices on to a trimmed down, mobile optimized version of a site. I decided to try and chase down an up-to-date RegEx of the simplest thing that could possibly work.

I arrived at my current solution after analyzing 12 months of traffic over 30+ US based entertainment properties (5.8M+ visitors) from Jan - Dec 2011.

The numbers solidified my thoughts on the irrelevancy of including browsers/OSes such as Nokia, Samsung, Maemo, Symbian, Ipaq, Avant, Zino, Bolt, Iris, etc. The brass tacks of the matter is that you certainly could support these obscure beasts, but are you really going to test your site on them? Heck, could you even find one?! Unless the folks that pay you are die hard Treo users my guess is "No".

Interestingly enough my research shows that /Mobile/ is more efficient than **/iP(

nicoleslaw

Tiny Content Framework

About the project

This is a tiny content strategy framework focused on goals, messages, and branding. This is not a checklist. Use what you need and scrap the rest. Rewrite it or add to it. These topics should help you get to the bottom of things with clients and other people you work with.

Give me feedback on Twitter (@nicoleslaw) or by email ([email protected]).

Contents

ydaniv

// polyfill window.getMatchedCSSRules() in FireFox 6+
if ( typeof window.getMatchedCSSRules !== 'function' ) {
    var ELEMENT_RE = /[\w-]+/g,
            ID_RE = /#[\w-]+/g,
            CLASS_RE = /\.[\w-]+/g,
            ATTR_RE = /\[[^\]]+\]/g,
            // :not() pseudo-class does not add to specificity, but its content does as if it was outside it
            PSEUDO_CLASSES_RE = /\:(?!not)[\w-]+(\(.*\))?/g,
            PSEUDO_ELEMENTS_RE = /\:\:?(after|before|first-letter|first-line|selection)/g;
        // convert an array-like object to array

iros

Title

<Additional information about your API call. Try to use verbs that match both request type (fetching vs modifying) and plurality (one vs multiple).>

• URL

  <The URL Structure (path only, no root url)>

• Method:

TaoK

'This function is intended to make it a little easier to add images to emails when sending them 
' through CDOSYS (CDO.Message). If all the following are true, this may help:
' - You want to send an HTML email, with one or more images in the email body
' - You want the images to be in the email itself, so that they display without any security or privacy warnings
' - You don't want the images to show up explicitly as "Attachments" in email clients like Microsoft Outlook
' - You don't want to use the images to "track" who has read your emails (that requirement would be incompatible with the rest)
' - You are using VBScript (ASP, WSH) or Office Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), or Visual Basic 6 (VB6)
'
' This code is loosely based on a collection of prior resources/examples online:
' - VBS/VBA versions using "AddRelatedBodyPart":

caniszczyk

curl -s https://api.github.com/orgs/twitter/repos?per_page=200 | ruby -rubygems -e 'require "json"; JSON.load(STDIN.read).each { |repo| %x[git clone #{repo["ssh_url"]} ]}'

dideler

Note: I'm currently taking a break from this course to focus on my studies so I can finally graduate

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Introduction
3. Interactive Start
4. Linux and Server-Side Javascript
5. Linux Command Line
6. Linux Development Environment

johnjohndoe

class Api::RegistrationsController < Api::BaseController

  respond_to :json
  def create

    user = User.new(params[:user])
    if user.save
      render json: user.as_json(auth_token: user.authentication_token, email: user.email), status: :created
      return
    else

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048