Jon Baer

The implication, said Jacob Olcott, a cybersecurity expert at Good Harbor Consulting, was that devices brought into China were hacked. “Everybody knows that if you are doing business in China, in the 21st century, you don’t bring anything with you. That’s ‘Business 101’ — at least it should be.”

Zen coder prefers long-term happiness and productivity. He is capable of focusing deeply. He trains focus. Distraction junkie coder prefers instant gratification for the price of not reaching his full potential and hurting himself both physically and mentally in the long run. He is too lazy to focus.

Episode #3, #!/usr/bin/ruby # for sysadmins with John E. Vincent

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation offers a highly structured server-side object model that makes it easy to access objects that represent the various aspects of a SharePoint Web site. From higher-level objects, you can drill down through the object hierarchy to obtain the object that contains the members you need to use in your code.

Life is metabolizing material informational system with ability of self-reproduction with changes (evolution), which requires energy and suitable environment. 

Recently I’ve been working with both the HTML 5 File API and Socket.IO and it occured to me that those technologies could be used to send, and push, files between the client and server. Immediately I set about making delivery.js, a simple node module that makes it extremely easy to send and push files between the client and the server via Socket.IO.

You can use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage timer jobs in a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 farm.

This article describes the default timer jobs for SharePoint Server 2010. A timer job runs in a specific Windows service for SharePoint Server. Timer jobs also perform infrastructure tasks for the Timer service, such as clearing the timer job history and recycling the Timer service; and tasks for Web applications, such as sending e-mail alerts. A timer job contains a definition of the service to run and specifies how frequently the service is started. The SharePoint 2010 Timer service (SPTimerv4) runs timer jobs. Many features in SharePoint Server rely on timer jobs to run services according to a schedule.

Am I alone in feeling this? Do other programmers struggle with this as well? Is this a manifestation of Imposter Syndrome? I thoroughly enjoyed college, but I did not study as hard as I should have. If you are a Computer Science major in college now and a lot of this does not come naturally, I urge you: please spend time on your studies. Really learn the algorithms presented in class. If you never actually use them during your career, at least it will help you feel more like a programmer.

The following is a transcript of a teaching experiment, using the Socratic method, with a regular third grade class in a suburban elementary school. I present my perspective and views on the session, and on the Socratic method as a teaching tool, following the transcript.

If, by some typically improbable turn of events, Homer Simpson were to unearth from his backyard an old chest containing a chess set from medieval times, what would the pieces look like? Chances are they would resemble the lovable little contestants beautifully carved from walrus tusks by anonymous artisans in the famous cache known as the Lewis Chessmen.