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I might be missing something but this doesn't seem like an insane amount of work.

We just have joined everything. If we split, it would be 50/50 but I'd probably end up giving her most of the stuff, I already find that we have way too much stuff as it is. I like…

BonitaSoft has an open source community edition.

I was surprised by the omission as well.

I've done a major rehaul on my house. - Removal of mould in basement - Redid basement (plumbing + electrical) - Full foundation waterproofing + french drain - Full landscaping (asp…

The book “Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos” provides a good overview of how these airline reservation systems came to be.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with eggwhites, low fat milk and fruits (banana, apple or frozen berries) Pre-workout snack: Pineapple chunks + apple or banana Post-Workout Snack: Low fat choco…

The new low-code solutions are still used by developers, just allows get to develop much faster without having to worry about UI and cross-platform compatibility and other time con…

Title is somewhat misleading. Seems like they are just discontinuing it as a standalone service and bundling it in with O365. That being said, not sure where they are going with th…

I would counter that being in the loop on everything adds a lot of noise and decreases your focus (because you have much more to look at) possibly making you less effective. Commun…

Boring cars cost less to maintain.

Just like in software development, a framework/methodology is not a replacement for competence. People apply idioms blindly without putting things into context.

There are several factors at play. I believe one of them is MS Power BI catching up. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gartner-positions-m...

On one hand, I find that Rails often has security issues. On the other hand, perhaps it is just indicative of its popularity and interest. When a framework has no security issues, …

Being on Amazon in Canada may not help you depending on the outcome of this: http://europe.newsweek.com/does-us-warrant-apply-data-stored... (as mentioned by @axelfontaine below) A…

It is related. Even though you are hosting data in Canada, the US government may still have access to the data via Amazon (because it is a U.S. based company) depending on the outc…

Sweet! Been waiting a long time for this one :)

Not too sure what's special about this thing. I also wonder why people keep making DSLs to replace SQL. I was using iBatis back in 2005 (now called MyBatis - http://blog.mybatis.or…

As a former Java/Spring developer from the mid-2000s trying to get back into the fold, I think Ruby on Rails is the best bet. It is not the latest and greatest and its a tad slow p…

My favourite quote: "The caveat is that it is technology that should be a tool making lives better in the real world, and in line with the American spirit of getting better and bet…

Personally never quite got the appeal for EC2. You're basically replicating what you would be doing on physical servers anyway. The real productivity gains come from using a fully …

I've been playing around with different account arrangements for family sharing and it seems to work quite well so far, not too many glitches. I was expecting problems since I prob…

Similar to choosing a web framework, most often the issue is with the people, not the methodology/framework.

Impressive.

How is this different than Flyway? http://flywaydb.org