All Public Lookies
prev 1 2 3 4 5 ... next
The following is a Twitter conversation assembled by @dangilkerson.
|
@coreyhaines Possibly. Still not sure how to do that incrementally. Or rather it is more divide and conquer than OO.
|
| 196 days ago by @mfeathers |
This was created at 1/13/2010 4:56:15 PM have a look.
This lookie was started by @nfnaaron. You can edit it here, the unlock code is gl814.
Here's a poster of the alphabet, made with letters from various brands (no 'W').
How many do you know? I got 20 correct. It would have been 21, except I changed my answer on G!
I don't know the answer to a, b, l, p.
You?
@mkennedy: I altered this lookie so it's easier for people to stumble across it and participate!
This was created at 1/5/2010 11:58:38 AM have a look.
I travel a lot for DevelopMentor. In fact, last year I flew about 62,760 miles (that's 101,002 KM).
It completely floors me that this generated 14,100 lbs (6,395 KG) of CO2! Quite upsetting really. 14,100 lbs is more than the weight of 3 "average" US passenger cars!
Well, that jet fuel is never coming back. But at least we can buy carbon offets and make a small investment in renewable energy and zero out that insane amount of carbon. I have used
Terra Pass
Powered Green
for my offsets. It only costs around $100 USD to make things right again. If you have kids or care about the future, keep this in mind. It seems extremely negligent to do nothing.
Do you travel a lot? Have you considered its impact? I hope you will...
This was created at 1/5/2010 10:48:55 PM have a look.
The following is a Twitter conversation assembled by @mkennedy.
Here's an interesting conversation between @nikhilk, @SLColinBlair, @RickStrahl, and myself (@mkennedy)
@nikhilk originally referened his conversation here:
http://www.bettween.com/nikhilk/slcolinblair/conversation/3098567
That's an beautiful site, but I brought in some other participants and can add commentary here.
|
What do folks do when building samples that use web services with API keys and require developer to get their key to run sample?
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
|
|
Web services should come with sample keys that can be freely distributed with sample apps...
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
|
@nikhilk Depends on how easy it is to get your own key. For example, getting keys for Bing Maps is easy and something everyone should do
|
| 207 days ago by @SLColinBlair |
|
|
@SLColinBlair might be easy, but detracts from sample's core purpose. Dev has to get a key, specify the key in config before running.
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
|
|
@nikhilk I suppose if it is a service like Bing that has a token system you could supply the dev a token that will work for 6 hours or so
|
| 207 days ago by @SLColinBlair |
|
|
@SLColinBlair Not sure I get your point. The sample needs to work out of the box whenever it is downloaded.
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
|
|
@nikhilk Thinking of a token server on your site that supplies a token to the sample.
|
| 207 days ago by @SLColinBlair |
|
|
@SLColinBlair really the most straightforward, it-just-works thing is for the service to provide a sample key.
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
|
|
@nikhilk Yes, but I doubt that will happen. Too much of a security hole. Hmm, what if the example has a mock service?
|
| 207 days ago by @SLColinBlair |
|
|
@SLColinBlair what security hole? Service already offers keys! Mock service == mock data, which makes sample less interesting.
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
|
|
@nikhilk Security hole in that if everyone is using the same set of sample keys then why have the keys in the first place?
|
| 207 days ago by @SLColinBlair |
|
|
@SLColinBlair real key is to track usage, monetization of real apps. Sample key is to facilitate experimentation - comes with no SLA for eg.
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
|
|
@nikhilk Yes, but how many "cheap" people would just go to production with the globally known test account? That is the service owner's prob
|
| 207 days ago by @SLColinBlair |
|
@nikhilk leave something like string key = "YOUR_KEY_HERE"; and add error checking to help.
|
| 207 days ago by @mkennedy |
|
|
@SLColinBlair well, if the service offers free keys anyway, then why does it matter?
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
|
|
@mkennedy yep ... here are the issues with that: http://twitter.com/nikhilk/statuses/7306078271
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
|
|
@nikhilk The service owner can track the free keys usage and find the people who have too high a usage load
|
| 207 days ago by @SLColinBlair |
|
@nikhilk /sample keys/ I wish. Same issue for me (amazon). But wouldn't that completely defeat the purpose for the provider?
|
| 207 days ago by @RickStrahl |
|
|
@RickStrahl See this discussion I just had: http://is.gd/5K0FM ... I think a good chunk of services could offer this capability if not all.
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
This was created at 1/2/2010 4:09:16 PM have a look.
Whoops! It looks like you forgot to specify the URL in this link.
When you create a new link, you should highlight the text to display as well as type in the URL. If you forget that second part, you'll end up here.
For example, suppose I wanted to link to my personal site: http://www.michaelckennedy.net with the text "my site". I would use the following editor tag (without spaces around the [ and a's]):
[ a url=http://www.michaelckennedy.net] my site [ /a ]
And you should see this: my site.
If you arrived here from your lookie, please go back and fix it.
Thanks for using our site!
Michael (@mkennedy)
This was created at 1/2/2010 3:14:48 PM have a look.
The following is a Twitter conversation assembled by @mkennedy.
|
|
What do folks do when building samples that use web services with API keys and require developer to get their key to run sample?
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
|
|
@nikhilk leave something like string key = "YOUR_KEY_HERE"; and add error checking to help.
|
| 207 days ago by @mkennedy |
|
|
@mkennedy yep ... here are the issues with that: http://twitter.com/nikhilk/statuses/7306078271
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
|
|
@nikhilk /sample keys/ I wish. Same issue for me (amazon). But wouldn't that completely defeat the purpose for the provider?
|
| 207 days ago by @RickStrahl |
|
|
@RickStrahl See this discussion I just had: http://is.gd/5K0FM ... I think a good chunk of services could offer this capability if not all.
|
| 207 days ago by @nikhilk |
This was created at 1/2/2010 4:06:32 PM have a look.
[In case you've never seen one of these, this "lookie" was created by Aaron, in order to expand on something that I tweeted. lookatthiswithme is a cool service (which I did not create).]
“The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.” -- Louis Kahn
As seen here:
http://www.folklore.org/index.py
which is a chronicle of the creation days (early eighties) of the Mac.
Here is a particularly interesting story, about one of the early Mac developers playing Defender. To get good at it, he shot all his humans (you're supposed to keep them alive) and then learned to live through the ensuing mutant chaos. After that, mutant chaos was never that much of a problem for him.
Make a Mess, Clean it Up!
This was created at 12/31/2009 9:32:34 AM have a look.
prev 1 2 3 4 5 ... next