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A quick parody of a classic to celebrate the LinkedIn Hackday tomorrow (July 15th). Apologies in advance for the inside jokes / names. It may not make complete sense to those of you who are not LinkedIn employees. Twas the night before Hackday, when all through LinkedIn Not a person was stirring, not even Stegman. [...]
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Two weeks ago, we celebrated yet another great Hackday judging event at LinkedIn. For the April 15th Hackday, over 50 employees submitted a combined total of 29 projects for the contest. We saw incredible product concepts, developer tool innovations, internal corporate applications, and even a few ideas so good they’ll likely ship as products in [...]
Filed under: Developer, LinkedIn, Silicon Valley, Software | Tagged: H@x0rz, Hackday, Wizard of In | 12 Comments »
Last Friday, LinkedIn had it’s monthly “InDay”, an event where the company encourages employees to pursue research, ideas & interests outside of their day-to-day responsibilities. (This is the same day that I run the regular LinkedIn Hackdays for the company.) This month, the theme was “personal finance” as a brief nod to the ominous due [...]
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During my tenure at LinkedIn, I’ve held a wide variety of roles and responsibilities within the company. Some are fairly public (as described on my LinkedIn profile). Others are the the type that you’d never find formally discussed, and yet would be no less true if you asked anyone who worked at the company. In [...]
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Got the graphic from CNET. They have some details about the event: Apple distributed invitations Thursday for a March 17 special event in Cupertino, Calif., to discuss the iPhone 3.0 software and a new software development kit. Next Tuesday’s event will come a little more than a year after Apple unveiled the original SDK at [...]
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Thanks to Lawrence, Ryan, JSTN. while (days > 365) { if (IsLeapYear(year)) { if (days > 366) { days -= 366; year += 1; } } else { days -= 365; year += 1; } } For non-programmers out there, this is what we like to call in technical terms “an infinite loop”. This code [...]
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Yes, I said Python. First, special hat tip to Mario Sundar for finding this lead. Mario is not a coin collector, but he reads my blog often enough to know that I have a special interest in coins. This one is a beauty, since it combines creative visualization with a unique engineering tale. Here is [...]
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They’ve been celebrating in the streets all day. Apple iPhone NDA. Gone. History. Finito. Buh-Bye. Great news and timing for the CS 193P class at Stanford, as this means that forums are likely to emerge quickly for students to engage with, learn from, and help each other. Here is some text from the Apple Announcement: [...]
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A little too busy tonight for a long blog post, but thought I’d share how excited I am to be helping assist the launch of a new course at Stanford this Fall: CS 193P: iPhone Application Programming The class website is still a work in progress, but it will come along. The course is open [...]
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Very cool to see that the original SimCity code has been updated and released under the name Micropolis. There is coverage on Boing Boing: SimCity has just been released as free software under the GPL version 3 license (though the name has been changed to Micropolis for trademark reasons; it was the original working title). [...]
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Major milestone tonight. Spent two hours after the boys went to bed. Managed to get swizzling working. I have now completed a Mail plug-in that when installed… … drumroll, please … logs out to console the name & email address of the sender of every email you view in Mail.app. … let it sink in [...]
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It took me about 45 minutes, but I finally think I have this figured out: Method Swizzling in Cocoa Basically, it’s the missing piece you need to effectively “hijack” an existing function in an existing piece of Mac OS X software. To do this, you follow a few key steps: You identify a method of [...]
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Blowing some dust off the old compiler this weekend… after about 8 years, I’m actually getting ready to write some real client-side software again. Just a personal project, for fun. Nothing fancy, but I’ve decided to see if I can’t write some useful plug-ins for Mac OS X. In particular, I’m going to see if [...]
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Found this today on Chad Alderson‘s blog. It’s not worth $1.65 Billion, but it’s definitely worth something. Jonathan Coulton releases his songs under the Creative Commons license, allowing third parties (like Michael Booth) the ability to create things like these videos with them. These videos themselves are spliced together from World of Warcraft. Lyrics are [...]
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