23.05.13

Dear Banks, F… Off and Leave Me Alone!

Posted in Blogroll, News, Random Thoughts, Tech at 12:10 pm by Liv

OK, this is not the same as my other previous posts about idiotic recruitment, as in fact the exploratory email I have received from the recruiter was relatively well-targeted — minus the fact that I’m actually in USA nowadays not UK, but they obviously have a copy of my resume/CV from a while back so can’t blame them for trying out really. The reason though I wanted to bring this up is not to frame the recruiter, but to actually stop all banks and financial institutions from trying to get me a job in that area — I will be pushing this particular post through all sorts of media channels and as such I hope they finally get the message. (Need I suggest that you share this on your Twitter and whatever other social media you use? )

You might know that I have written before on this blog about why as a developer I don’t want to work for a bank — the original post is here by the way — however, I appreciate that my blog is rather small so possible that it didn’t get in front of (all) recruiters at the time… which really explains this email recently. Hopefully this will stop after this post

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21.05.13

49ers Levi’s Strauss Stadium

Posted in Fun Time, News, Photos at 1:49 am by Liv

I’m a bit late with this post, granted, as this is a overdue by a couple of weeks, however, having just returned back from London, had quite a few things to catch up on, and as such I’m surely an exception can be made in this case. Special thanks go to Meg for getting me the signed poster by Kayley and Alexa — and of course to the girls themselves!

Just to shed some light into this, you would have probably seen the big launch announcement in the press:

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10.05.13

Make ShareThis “Chicklets” Look All the Same

Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 3:36 am by Liv

I’ve written before on my blog about ShareThis — I do love their WordPress plugin and their analytics provide some interesting insights into my blog traffic. There is however a niggly little thing which has been bugging me for a while — and it’s all to do with the way their “chicklets” look. (If you’re not familiar with the ShareThis lingo, chicklets are those bubbles with numbers in them which show you how many times a certain piece of content has been shared per channel — e.g. Twitter, Facebook etc.)

If you are like me, always in a rush to produce the content rather than customize it (in other words, don’t want to spend too much time setting up your blog and want to dedicate most of the time to actually writing “stuff”), then you probably took the same steps to install the ShareThis plugin, accepted the defaults and then enable it. Trouble is if you do that, the chicklets by default don’t have a uniform/standard look, and you probably spotted different colors and styles being used — which gives the content a bit of a messy and disorganized look.

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01.05.13

Couchbase Graph/Stats Problem?

Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 6:44 am by Liv

This is just something that we found recently in Cognitive Match and I thought it might help others who use Couchbase as a NoSQL store, and rely on some of their (otherwise awesome!) graphs, as it seems these can be occasionally misleading — though this is probably an edge case.

A bit of background: we use Couchbase for some of our data stores in our serving solution in Cognitive Match; the particular data that gets stored in Couchbase gets updated frequently and even more frequently it gets read, however, due to the application architecture, an “eventual consistency” approach to updating this data is fine from our app point of view, and we don’t run complex queries to retrieve the data — just simple “get” operations. And since speed in important when reading the data (and we are ok with favouring reads versus writes/updates), Couchbase works great for us.

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08.04.13

First Californian Car

Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, News, Photos at 1:17 pm by Liv

Well I guess it had to happen after all this time — went and got myself my first car in California:

And this is how much this piece of rubble cost 

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