I am saddened to have to write this blog post — I don’t like taking space on my blog for complaining about companies! But in this case I feel it’s needed — and I would like to hear from others who had similar issues with this airline and find out how they dealt with it […]
Posts By: Liv
Jamaica — May/2016
Yet another awesome holiday — first time ever in Jamaica in Montego Bay. And also first time swimming with dolphins!!! woohoo! some more (and grainy) photos from the resort: and a short video from the pool:
A Case to be Made for Managing Advertising Inventory Better
I just saw this the other day on LinkedIn — a set of 2 job openings targeted at me. Nothing unusual, LinkedIn does a good job at targeting jobs at their users (it is in fact due to LinkedIn I ended up at Netflix, via a very similar targeted job ad). However, there is something […]
Netflix Party — 06/May/2016
Never a dull moment in Netflix:
Sausalito and Golden Gate Bridge — 4/Apr/2016
Took a yacht trip from Sausalito under the Golden Gate Bridge. About time I see them from a yacht 😉
Netflix Nebula Gradle Plugin and project.version
If you use the Netflix OSS Nebula plugin in gradle and you use it for automatic versioning, incrementals etc then you will come across this at some point. (And in the case that some of you have already encountered this, I have to ask why did you not write the blog post I needed when […]
Specify File Order for Combining JavaScript Files through gradle-js-plugin
If you use Gradle builds to combine and minify JavaScript source files via the gradle-js-plugin (thanks, Eric!), you might have run into the same problem as I did: ordering of the files! The Github docco doesn’t mention (yet!) anything around it and you are left to guess that doing something like this will sort out […]
Checkstyle, Findbugs, PMD and the Likes
I’ve been using the above (and a few others like CodeNarc) code quality plugins for quite a bit and I thought I’d give my 2 cents here on a matter of style: the way you can suppress checks in each of these tools. I do like the way Checkstyle allows you to define what to […]
Managing Project Dependencies with Gradle
This is a set of slides that I’ve put together to showcase how we use Gradle in Netflix Ads Engineering to help with dependency management. It goes through multi-module project vs separate Gradle project per module, using properties file with Gradle to specify dependency versions and also how to use the Nebula gradle-dependency-lock to lock […]
Please Stop Using Thread.sleep() in Java!
Ok, I need a good moan about this to the extent that it deserves its own blog post, but I had it with the bloody Thread.sleep() method in Java! I know it was the only way to “sleep” back in the day but seriously, but seriously, we have TimeUnit since JDK 1.5 — and nowadays […]











