http://zeroasterisk.com/tags/2014/Recent content in 2014 on Alan Blount | AI/ML Engineer at GoogleHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usTue, 21 Oct 2014 18:43:00 +0000http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/10/coreos-docker-great-presentation/Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:43:00 +0000http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/10/coreos-docker-great-presentation/Found this inspriing presentation from a Chicago Docker meetup: http://www.mediafly.com/news/karl-grzeszczak-september-docker-presentation from: Chicago Docker – September 2014 at Mediafly Thursday, Sep 25, 2014, 6:00 PM http://www.meetup.com/Docker-Chicago/events/204992852/ by: Karl Grzeszczak: on Twitter @karl_grz and his website http://karlgrz.com/. It linked to this amazingly well done animation on RAFT consensus and how it works: http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/ Also linked a great blog post: http://lukebond.ghost.io/deploying-docker-containers-on-a-coreos-cluster-with-fleet/ And here are some of the “main” coreos repos: https://github.com/coreos/etcd After digging up a bit on the presenter, he also had this interested post:http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/10/life-changlingly-good-ted-radio-hour-the-source-of-creativity/Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:07:05 +0000http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/10/life-changlingly-good-ted-radio-hour-the-source-of-creativity/http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/351538855/the-source-of-creativity Basic summary: “everyone is and can be creative: you just have to be fearless about failing, and practice a bunch.” Led to this understanding by my art-teacher mother, since early childhood I’ve been saying something pretty similar. Creativity is wonderful, amazing, useful, freeing, and fun… but it’s not rare. Being creative is a skill, available to everyone. It doesn’t have to be “Art” (note the capital A) nor innovation. It doesn’t have to be shared.http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/09/meteor-0.9.2-rc1-is-fun-to-play-with-cordova-support-functional/Tue, 09 Sep 2014 21:41:00 +0000http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/09/meteor-0.9.2-rc1-is-fun-to-play-with-cordova-support-functional/Last night I started playing with `meteor –release 0.9.2-rc1` which you can read about and play with too; check it out here: https://meteor.hackpad.com/Getting-Started-With-Cordova-Z5n6zkVB1xq It’s wonderful! The local development and hot-code-push is a great improvement over any other solution I’ve been using. Builds were painless (mostly). Most of my stumbling points were due to 9x, not the new Cordova stuff. A few interesting details… Cordova gets built here: So far, nothing easy in regards to configuring Cordova, but I’d guess we can edit the config.http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/08/meteor-core-cordova-support-alpha-release-is-out/Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:02:49 +0000http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/08/meteor-core-cordova-support-alpha-release-is-out/We’ve been watching this for a while, but now the first Alpha release is out for Meteor + Cordova built into the core. SWEET! Watch the DevShop Presentation on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzNoXbv1DX4&feature=youtu.be&t=24m And here are instructions to get it going and play with it: https://meteor.hackpad.com/Getting-Started-With-Cordova-Z5n6zkVB1xq Also, just an update, MeteorRider is still a strong and simple option for getting Meteor into Cordova (DOM hijacking), but I’m also checking out another great looking option is Cordova Loader (builds all Cordova assets into the public folder of Meteor).http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/05/testing-tools-for-old-os-browser-combos/Fri, 30 May 2014 18:09:40 +0000http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/05/testing-tools-for-old-os-browser-combos/Lots of us have to trace down odd bugs and test things on different browsers and OS combinations… Of course, the worst of which is “various versions of IE” on “various versions of Windows”. It seems crazy, but the same version of IE can behave differently on a different version of Windows. The two best solutions I’ve used are: http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools [free, vm locally] and http://www.browserstack.com/ [costs, web based] I just got assigned a crappy bug ticket on IE8 + WinXP and had to dust this off again… thought I’d send out a post, see if it helps others and triggers a discussion which might help me out too.http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/04/great-advice-from-arunoda-just-contribute/Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:06:47 +0000http://zeroasterisk.com/2014/04/great-advice-from-arunoda-just-contribute/http://readme.lk/noticed-tech-crowd-interview-arunoda-susiripala/ This advice might be aimed at people who already consider themselves developers, but there’s a nugget in there that’s perfect for anyone who is interested in getting started… Pick some open-source project, probably a smaller one, that does something you’re interested in. Maybe it’s something you tried out and used. Maybe it’s something you tried out and it didn’t work out. Maybe it’s something you looked at and didn’t understand.