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davidcoallier

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davidcoallier··on Law Firm Announces Investigation on Behalf of Uber Technologies Inc Investors
Apparently Pivotal, Pluralsight and Zuora are also being sued by the same law firm (http://www.howardsmithlaw.com/index.html)
davidcoallier··on GitHub Résumé
Seems to be a yearly cyclical thing with resume.github.com. I don't know why but as the author, I find it amusing :-)
davidcoallier··on Free Python ebook: Bayesian Methods for Hackers
I couldn't agree more. The content has been relevant from day one and it's been looking even better ever since. I've passed it in a few lectures already and people really love it already :-)
davidcoallier··on NGINX has a bug-tracker
There was no bug tracker for nginx apart from the mailing lists up until 8 days ago :-) That's a pretty good and important addition for the project to engage with the community in my opinion.
davidcoallier··on Orchestra.io - PHP Platform as a service
Its' fixed :)
davidcoallier··on Inline PHP-FPM Server Running on Node.js
Here's a little video to show how it works :) http://www.screenr.com/aJ3
davidcoallier··on Inline PHP-FPM Server Running on Node.js
In this case Node.js acts as the webserver as Nginx or Apache would.
davidcoallier··on Inline PHP-FPM Server Running on Node.js
PHPJS emulates PHP but can't run PHP scripts :)
davidcoallier··on Open-Source News CMS being Developed by The Texas Tribune and The Bay Citizen
Congrats Travis! Can't wait to see what comes out of it.
davidcoallier··on Developer Preview of Couchbase Mobile - Apache CouchDB for iOS devices
I think it'll be very interesting to see people distributing and replicating CouchApps. This could allow us to potentially skip completely the AppStore and have our own CouchAppStore.
davidcoallier··on Cheesy HTML5 Valentines
Also made it avail for swingers and polygamists :-))

http://html5valentine.com/?Joana,John,Dirty%20mike%20and%20t...

davidcoallier··on Github Resume Generator
Ok everyone, I've added a basic listing of member organisations but the API seems to be a tad erratic and sometimes doesn't load and some other times does.

Please let me know if something is completely wrong and so I'll revert it.

davidcoallier··on Github Resume Generator
Very good point, I think the footer got lost in some git stash. I've re-added it now.
davidcoallier··on Github Resume Generator
Yep it's in the list of future features if the GH-API allows it :-)
davidcoallier··on Github Resume Generator
I would assume Github has a cache, hard-refresh and it should be there now.
davidcoallier··on Github Resume Generator
Good catch :) Fixed and pushed.
davidcoallier··on Github Resume Generator
Hah good point :-) Should be fixed now, I just pushed to the repo.
davidcoallier··on Github Resume Generator
Not yet, I'm planning on adding a few things like (see the note on http://resume.github.com) and more.

Feel free to fork and modify! :) I'd be happy to include any decent contribution that makes better resumes.

davidcoallier··on The dangers of unlicensed engineering
This is fairly interesting, in the Jan-Feb 2011 edition of "American Scientist" [2] (The magazine) there's an article entitled "A troubled tradition" that outlines a few issues in academia with reviewing papers.

Peer reviewers traditionally have 5 main rules to follow when reviewing papers and one of them is "Fairness" which essentially states: "Avoid biases based on gender, institution affiliation, nationality, and career status."

Interesting to finally have proof that this doesn't only apply to academia but also to "real-life" engineering and that people discriminate no matter what.

Considering that the definition of engineering is: "The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems" — I can't even imagine why one wouldn't have the right to do "engineering" studies.

I digress, my point is made and I'm sad to still see such reaction to well put studies—Assuming it was well put [1]

[1] David M. Cox — PhD: http://bit.ly/hyf5Lj The aforementioned assumption is made based on the academic knowledge of Dr. Cox and that he would know how to make a study and make an elaborated point explained in details.

[2] American Scientist — Volume 99 — Number 1 — January-February 2011

davidcoallier··on New platform for deploying, managing, and scaling PHP apps
There I've added it for you. It's nothing elegant but should validate most entries, other bogus entries are filtered and sent straight to /dev/null ;)