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Also worth a try is Foundation, it seems to be like Bootstrap but much more of a looser skeleton than a big package. I used Bootstrap on my portfolio but now I'm kinda regretting that because I feel like I have to play so much to Bootstrap's rules or go through tons of LESS and recompile it to change the styling, although with foundation now you have to do it through SASS instead so it ain't much better on that front.
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Until quite recently I have always liked to write my own code from scratch. Whether that be CSS frameworks, Javascript libraries or Python/PHP libraries and modules. Then I started to learn Python and realised how much more productive you can be using Libraries. People all over the internet have already written pretty much everything you would ever want to do, and probably a lot better than you too (if you carefully pick the best one). In the current 'era' of web design not using jQuery and its modules (or another JS framework) is in my opinion a crazy waste of time and resources. Bootstrap is more arguable as it does have a very distinct look unless you customise the gently caress out of it, but is certainly a very good starting point if you have lacking design skills. My point is, once you learn to work with other peoples code you will never look back.
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Sep 26, 2012 20:39
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 Same old screenshot, but I've just tagged my Cocoa Gedcom.framework at 0.9.1 and pushed it to github, as it can now successfully read a pretty horrid torture test file without data loss: https://github.com/mikkelee/Gedcom-Framework After a couple of false starts and bad design decisions last year, I tore the whole thing up (*) and started anew in March. Took a break to handle other things in July/August, and picked it up again this month. Not sure how many hours that amounts to. I've been using this to get a good knowledge of the Cocoa frameworks and have learned a lot, so I can definitely recommend finding a project and just hacking away at it until it does what you want. Next major step after polishing everything off (and writing a bunch of helper methods to handle the dumber aspects of GEDCOM) is creating a GUI that's actually worth a drat, the current one is basically just a viewer. *) I did keep some very low-level code (most of which has been rewritten since, ie the age/date parsing is now done via ragel instead of ParseKit to avoid dependencies).
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Sep 27, 2012 00:43
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Chopper posted:Until quite recently I have always liked to write my own code from scratch. Whether that be CSS frameworks, Javascript libraries or Python/PHP libraries and modules. Seriously, as part of my master's dissertation I wrote a framework for handling distributed processing of physiological data on Windows/Linux/Android and it took literally 6 hours, 3 of which was getting a parallel processing library to work on Android. If I wrote that in C++ and didn't use existing libraries (if there are any), it would've taken me loving weeks.
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This is the guy who had the terrible portfolio website. I redid it using Twitter Bootstrap (thanks to the guy who mentioned foundation, I almost chose it but Bootstrap has better documentation). Anyway thought I'd update you guys on what I ended up doing. For anyone interested my (still a work in progress for content) new Bootstrap site is up: http://www.pluswebhost.com/portfolio/ The learning curve was a little bit of a pain in the rear end, but it was really easy once I figured out a basic layout. Thanks for the recommendations, it took far less time to actually get going once I knew what was up, and I will likely develop with this far more often from now on. Now if I could just get popovers working  e: And I'll probably be changing the color scheme. I didn't feel like compiling with less over and over right at the beginning. Updated link. Knyteguy fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Sep 28, 2012 |
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Sep 28, 2012 06:16
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Knyteguy posted:For anyone interested my (still a work in progress for content) new Bootstrap site is up: http://www.pluswebhost.com/portfolio/bootstrap/ Please Use A Bootstrap Theme. People, especially people looking at your portfolio for design work, will recognize it immediately. I think a lot of people are somewhat sick of the Bootstrap theme. Please Use A Bootstrap Theme. Chopper posted:My point is, once you learn to work with other peoples code you will never look back. This probably belongs in the Coding Horrors thread, but at a previous job I was not allowed to use any external code. Not because of legal reasons, but because of support reasons. "But what if Google goes out of business, and leaves GWT in the dust?" "1) This is an internal tool. If they drop it, oh no, we're on a slightly outdated version, and 2) That's not going to happen." "And what if jQuery goes out of business?" "3) You're all morons." This was at a company in the top 50 of the Fortune 500, by the way.
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Suspicious Dish posted:Please Use A Bootstrap Theme. I agree, if only because the original theme is very bland for a portfolio. I didn't plan on keeping the original, I just didn't want to screw around with Less during the first stage of development quote:This probably belongs in the Coding Horrors thread, but at a previous job I was not allowed to use any external code. Not because of legal reasons, but because of support reasons. 
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Suspicious Dish posted:This probably belongs in the Coding Horrors thread, but at a previous job I was not allowed to use any external code. Not because of legal reasons, but because of support reasons. I had the same thing. I could've used someone else's nice little dll for reading from USB scales. Instead I had to pinvoke like crazy and ended up creating a no poo poo memory leak in C# that wasn't caught 'till months later.
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Suspicious Dish posted:This probably belongs in the Coding Horrors thread, but at a previous job I was not allowed to use any external code. Not because of legal reasons, but because of support reasons. I worked at a shop that had a bunch of internal apps written in Perl, and my manager frowned on using CPAN modules. It was the same poo poo, "what if they update the module and totally change the interface?" and "these machines aren't directly internet accessible, how do you expect to reliably pull down those modules?"
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I've installed 1-wire digital temperature sensors throughout my house. I'm going to be hooking servos up to all the HVAC registers. All hooked up to an old laptop running Ubuntu which is going to be running an application I'm writing in Python to control the temperature on a per-room basis. I've also got several IP cameras, humidity sensors, and other stuff and I'm going to all integrate it into a home page for our house. But anyway, all I've got going now is some python+rrdtool graphing the data.
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Sep 28, 2012 19:07
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Knyteguy posted:This is the guy who had the terrible portfolio website. I redid it using Twitter Bootstrap (thanks to the guy who mentioned foundation, I almost chose it but Bootstrap has better documentation). The site is still too wide for my 13" laptop at 1280x800 with the dock on the left side of the screen.
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Thermopyle posted:I've installed 1-wire digital temperature sensors throughout my house. I'm going to be hooking servos up to all the HVAC registers. All hooked up to an old laptop running Ubuntu which is going to be running an application I'm writing in Python to control the temperature on a per-room basis. Are you concerned with the noise of servos constantly opening and closing grates at all hours of the day? Or is the servo nested deep enough inside the vent to muffle the noise?
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Sep 28, 2012 21:15
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Kallikrates posted:Are you concerned with the noise of servos constantly opening and closing grates at all hours of the day? Or is the servo nested deep enough inside the vent to muffle the noise? Spread the motion of opening/closing over like 15 seconds or something. I've tested it and its nearly inaudible.
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Thermopyle posted:I've installed 1-wire digital temperature sensors throughout my house. I'm going to be hooking servos up to all the HVAC registers. All hooked up to an old laptop running Ubuntu which is going to be running an application I'm writing in Python to control the temperature on a per-room basis. Shalinor fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Sep 29, 2012 |
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Sep 29, 2012 20:38
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Hibame posted:The site is still too wide for my 13" laptop at 1280x800 with the dock on the left side of the screen. This should now be fixed, thanks. Containers didn't work exactly how I expected them to. E: also that temperature stuff is awesome! Knyteguy fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Sep 29, 2012 |
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Sep 29, 2012 20:42
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Shalinor posted:Are you linking this over wifi, or did you drop wires for everything back to the central system? I built my house about 5 years ago and dropped multiple runs of Cat5 into every room. See some pictures of how I wired up the sensors and stuff here. You can do this wirelessly with xbee sensors which work pretty great. The only downside to xbee sensors is that while the 1-wire DS18B20 sensors cost a couple bucks, the xbee sensors are 20 to 50 bucks apiece.
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I'm working on a small holo themed drawing app for android. Also I apparently don't know how to edit images.
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Here's a crosspost from the making-games megathread. Got some new characters, mainly.
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 Inspired by the xanalogtv screensaver, I decided to have a go at writing something like that myself. A tv signal (not any particular standard) is generated, noise is added (plus a little skip every now and then to try to trip up the hsync), and then it's passed on to a receiver. This tries to make sense of the signal it gets, using the vsync and hsync data in the signal. I know very little about how analog tv actually works, and some elements of the program are still a little too 'digital' for my liking, but it looks like what I was aiming for. Except there's no colour, but I've tried reading up on that and it makes my head hurt.
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Just finished my portfolio/résumé website. It's all made using BootStrap thanks to a suggestion I saw earlier in the thread. http://www.floriansegginger.ch Please tell me if you find something weird/badly phrased.
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Status: Single Llllaadies?  (Not really picking on you, just thought it was funny to see that on a Resume, never really looked at many before!) I like it though. Pretty easy to see what's what, which is what you need when you have a portfolio. Only thing I can see is maybe enlarging the "2012", "2011", etc, headers, so they don't look the same as the project name headers.
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Jewel posted:Status: Single quote:I like it though. Pretty easy to see what's what, which is what you need when you have a portfolio. Only thing I can see is maybe enlarging the "2012", "2011", etc, headers, so they don't look the same as the project name headers. Thanks, I'll see what I can do without breaking the hierarchy 
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Sir Davey posted:In europe we do Résumés a little differently. For example, there are little ' things over the e's  .
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Sir Davey posted:In europe we do Résumés a little differently. We need to give this sort of information (marital status, if you have kids, etc..) and a headshot is commonplace. I've just seen them called CVs instead of resumes
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Sir Davey posted:In europe we do Résumés a little differently. We need to give this sort of information (marital status, if you have kids, etc..) and a headshot is commonplace. You do that over here (North America) and your resumé (I can do a fancy e too) would probably get thrown out because you could get sued over that information. No idea why that's common in éuropé.
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piratepilates posted:You do that over here (North America) and your resumé (I can do a fancy e too) would probably get thrown out because you could get sued over that information. No idea why that's common in éuropé. afaik in some countries (Finland?) googling applicants, using any information or seeking any information not explicitly provided by applicant is horrifyingly illegal and results in huge penalties
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Sir Davey posted:In europe we do Résumés a little differently. We need to give this sort of information (marital status, if you have kids, etc..) and a headshot is commonplace. éuropé sounds lovely. What's the headshot used for? Throwing out candidates who are ugly?
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They often include a headshot in Chinese resumes too, but I haven't figured out what they're used for (if anything)
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akadajet posted:éuropé sounds lovely. What's the headshot used for? Throwing out candidates who are ugly? All I've seen it used for here in Switzerland is to filter candidates who aren't white
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akadajet posted:éuropé sounds lovely. What's the headshot used for? Throwing out candidates who are ugly? Well some jobs require you to have good hygiene. For example in a bank or things like that. If you look disgusting on your photo then, yeah, you kind of deserve to be thrown out of the pile. Otherwise I guess it's just to give your CV a more "human" look.
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Sir Davey posted:In europe we do Résumés a little differently. We need to give this sort of information (marital status, if you have kids, etc..) and a headshot is commonplace. Shenanigans, not in these parts of Europe (Netherlands).
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On the bonus side, in lots of places in Europe they're legally not allowed to contact your previous employer and ask about you
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Cowcatcher posted:On the bonus side, in lots of places in Europe they're legally not allowed to contact your previous employer and ask about you Really?? That seems like such an essential part of the process over here in the states
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fletcher posted:Really?? That seems like such an essential part of the process over here in the states It does seem counterintuitive for someone to know your marriage status, religion and age but not what your last boss thought of your work. But then again, your last job could have been in Arizona and you got fired because you were using contraceptive pills and the boss' review of your work is "WHORE OF BABYLON"...
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An early screenshot of my latest roguelike: Warp9 I just picked up FTL the other day and absolutely love the gameplay, but I'm desperate for a sandbox mode. Rather than mess with their lackluster modding capabilities, I decided it would be simpler just to write a new game along similar lines. I'm using libtcod with subpixel image blitting for the graphics, which gives it a great ANSI-art style.
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Sir Davey posted:Well some jobs require you to have good hygiene. For example in a bank or things like that. If you look disgusting on your photo then, yeah, you kind of deserve to be thrown out of the pile. Being a working professional in general requires you to have good hygiene. Don't you guys do in-person interviews over there? The only time I've included a head shot on my resume is when I was applying to acting gigs because that's a job where appearance does matter.
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I've had indian students tell me that it is used there to determine how dark you are for jobs. It sounds pretty racist because it is!
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thelightguy posted:Being a working professional in general requires you to have good hygiene. Tell that to some of the people in IT.
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MeramJert posted:They often include a headshot in Chinese resumes too, but I haven't figured out what they're used for (if anything) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71wtvZ_z3ZI#t=1m I find his series of videos to be pretty interesting. e: For those who don't wanna watch the video, he explains that in China one's image is very important and employers can hire based on physical attributes. Where the West considers this discrimination, in China looks can be important to business (ie. a good looking receptionist, secretary, or salesman are some examples he pointed out.)
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Can't really post a screenshot for either since they're not very visual, but I want to mark my accomplishment somehow. Hopefully this isn't a thread faux pas? I finally got fallbacks for midroll video ads in my company's Android app to work - I think. Backwards-compatible videos between 20-minute videos, where not losing your state is important, is the most painful thing ever on Android. Ugh. I'm stoked I got the hard part done, though. (but I wish people would just pay their $7 for no ads.) Next is requesting ad metadata, integrating our good-enough VAST parser, ad quartile pings, and clickthrough UI.  At home, I've got a netboot+NFS+kickstart setup scripted to automatically and fully install a VM, complete with custom hostname, VMWare Tools (as I'm using ESXi), and Puppet. Turns out, if you specify a http repository during install, it'll download then install, whereas it'll go straight to installing from an NFS repository. Now if only I could script starting a VM on ESXi without having to pay for a license (I'm using the free version).
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