Monthly Archives: December 2011

Embedded Tweets

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Twitter released a new version last week and included the capabilities to deliver embedded tweets.

WordPress founder Matt Mullenwegs blogged about this addition and WordPress supports embedded tweets on its hosted blogs in a couple of ways. The Twitter Blackbird Pie or the Twitter Embed shortcode

As this is a standalone WordPress blog I had two options:

So without further ado, here are the two options in action:

Twitter Blackbird Pie Plugin

Just applied a new Twitter theme called "Sandy Shore" to my profile, take a look! Got it from http://t.co/GEZnqiGb
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Twitter generated HTML

I feel the Twitter generated HTML currently meets my expectations better than the Twitter Blackbird Pie Plugin.

The Twitter Blackbird Pie Plugin does not have a ‘follow’ button and has inserted the shortened url rather than the link alias. I would also like some of the capabilities offered by WordPress’ shortcode options included in the Plugin. I shall have to do a bit more digging I think!

YOW! 2011 Brisbane Conference – Day 1 Attendance Summary

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YOW! 2011 Australia

Day 1 of the YOW! 2011 Brisbane Conference was full of fantastic talks, book recommendations and great giveaways as usual. As well as the YOW! 2011 Conference t-shirt I picked up an Atlassian t-shirt and enjoyed some micro dots for afternoon tea thanks to ThoughtWorks.

I had been really looking forward to the DevOps stream in the morning featuring Jez Humble of Continuous Delivery fame and ‘The Build Doctor’ himself Julian Simpson and had an enjoyable morning session. After lunch things begun to hit another level with two presentations by Joshua Kerievsky author of Refactoring To Patterns on Lean Startup and The Limited Red Society. I also enjoyed learning about QuickCheck testing capabilities from John Hughes, and Haskell from one of its founding fathers Simon Peyton-Jones. The JVM keynote from Oracle Vice President of Development Camron Purdy, which opened the conference, was interesting but not really worthy of its keynote status. I also failed to heed the lessons of conference pasts and went to another labourious IBM SOA presentation this time provide by Rachel Reinitz.

In this blog entry I will provide a brief synopsis of each of the sessions I attended. Comprehensive notes and details of the presentations I attended will hopefully follow over the coming weeks.

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Gradle – Get Excited Vimeo Presentation

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Hans Dockter introduces Gradle.

Quite an old presentation, but does highlight why you may want to start considering Gradle as your next build tool. Take back control of your build and and model your automation domain better. Hans demonstrates some neat features such as finer forking control and parallel builds, as well as demonstrating a number of benefits gained by the declarative nature of Gradle builds – the use of describing the ‘what’ rather than the ‘how’ as he refers to it. It is slightly annoying when he talks and you can’t see the screen but you can get the gist of it.

JFrog Seminar – Gradle, Hans Dockter – HiRes from JFrog Ltd on Vimeo.

YOW! 2011 Brisbane Conference – Planned Attendance

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YOW! 2011 Australia

The YOW! 2011 Brisbane Conference starts today and I am lucky enough to be attending.

My plan over the next few days is to attend the following sessions and I will write up my notes over the next few days.

Monday 5th December
9.00-10.00 Top 10 JVM Erroneous Zones – Cameron Purdy
10.30-11.25 Continous Delivery – Jez Humble and Martin Fowler
11.30-12.30 We’re All Developers Now – Adventures in Infrastruture as Code – Julian Simpson
1.15-2.15 Lean Startup – Joshua Kerievsky
2.15-3.15 The Limited Red Society – Joshua Kerievsky
3.30-4.30 SOA Connectivity and Integration…Real World Examples – Rachel Reinitz
4.30-5.30 Better Testing with Less Work: QuickCheck Testing in Practice – John Hughes
6.15-7.30 Escape from the Ivory Tower: The Haskell Journey From 1990 to 2011 – Simon Peyton Jones

Tuesday 6th December
9.00-10.00 Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topographically Connected Quantum-Relavistic Parallel Timespaces…Made Easy! – Damian Conway
10.30-11.30 Problem-solving and Decision-making in Software Development – Linda Rising
11.30-12.30 Domain-Driven Design for RESTful Systems – Jim Webber
1.15-2.15 Product Engineering Innovation in Legacy Code – Dave Thomas
2.15-3.15 Three ‘Tall’ Tales – Kevin O’Neill
3.30-4.30 The Future is Parallel, and the Future of Parallel is Declarative – Simon Peyton Jones
4.30-5.30 Feedback Makes Everything Better: Understanding the Software Engineering Process – Bjorn Freeman-Benson