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What is your experience with using Docker Swarm in a production environment? I have heard conflicting views regarding it.

Any plans to include Bitbucket repositories?

Bitbucket offers a more favorable pricing policy for development agencies, which would potentially be heavy users of your service.

A while ago I helped develop iSpike - http://ispike.sourceforge.net/, which is an interface between the iCub robot (http://www.icub.org/) and a Spiking Neural Network simulator (We used SpikeStream - http://spikestream.sourceforge.net/)

The coolest part is that there exists a pretty complete simulator for the iCub robot that anyone who is interested can run on their computer - http://eris.liralab.it/wiki/Simulator_README

What about versioning data? For most projects we have SQL tables consisting of preconfigured data, that is essential for the project to work. (predefined templates, initial configuration settings) How do you go about producing an SQL difference script for your data, getting it under version control and then applying it at the push of a button?

Currently we are using the Toad for SQL tool for producing and applying both schema and data diffs between our development environments, but it's a Windows only tool.

How does this differ from Meld or WinDiff?

Mostly these would be cases where the browser would, seemingly at random, end up in an unpredictable state and all proceeding test scenarios would fail because of this. (Page is white, or a completely unrelated website gets opened. We have seen lots of weird situations so far)

This might be exacerbated by the fact that we use the remote Browserstack Selenium hosting service so that the tests can be executed automatically as a part of our deployment process.

This has been our experience as well. We invested a lot of time and money in making sure Selenium tests run reliably for our clients. Despite this, the best reliability we managed to achieve was 90% with tests that run for 40 minutes, which is obviously not acceptable.

We have compiled a few tips we learned along the way in our blog post - http://novoit.eu/blog/05-5-tips-when-writing-Selenium-browse...

Does the iTunes licence permit using songs from your player in a video montage that is then shown to others/uploaded on Youtube?

I would have thought any music you have purchased is only for your personal use and derivative work is not allowed?

Am I the only one who thinks there actually is quite a difference between minified & obfuscated javascript vs bytecode?

Minification & obfuscation can only do so much without changing the logic of the script. Sure, spaces are removed, variable and function names make no sense, but most of the logic is still there just as the developer intended.

If we look at compiled Java/C++/Any high level language code, how the application logic is presented is substantially different from the original logic of the application. Making it so much harder to understand how the application works.

Slight variation - http://typedrummer.com/0r4ki5

Surprised no-one has mentioned Papertrail yet - https://papertrailapp.com/

We use them for all our apps and have not seen any issues so far. It can be a bit tricky to set up, but once the logging works, it's hassle free from then on. Pricing is also very affordable.

Wouldn't it be more correct to say "the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere helps retain water on planets"?

We don't really know how well presence of oxygen correlates with presence of life yet, do we? :)

I find it hard to believe that someone would pay you a salary for three years to do something that is completely useless to everyone.

At the very minimum, the fruits of your labour are useful to your boss/customer. That is already a single positive impact in someone's life right there.

Most likely, your boss/customer then used your developments in their primary business, which, no doubt, affects even more people in a positive way.

I believe being in technology, we have the capability to positively affect many orders of magnitude more people, than in most other industries. So cheer up! ;)

Hi mostelato,

We actually have one. It is available to users who log in via Facebook at the moment. You earn levels as well as coins. :)

Hi all,

Thought I'd share our latest project. Feedback and suggestions welcome!

From the Trello wiki page - "Trello uses a paradigm for managing projects known as kanban"

I find it hard to see who this tool is for? 3d artists seem to prefer more graphical ways of interaction as opposed to scripting/entering commands.

Perhaps developers/statisticians/scientists looking to visualise their data?

http://www.jtable.org/ is another similar product we have used before.

I recently used http://thereq.com/ for a similar purpose. Features I liked:

  * I can set interview questions in various languages
  * Candidate can write code right away, I can see everything he/she writes
  * Code can be executed to see the result right away
  * This even works for SQL, they have a sample schema the candidate can manipulate
  * They have a fairly large library of questions you can just add to your interviews
  * It's completely free as far as I can tell

No affiliation with the site, but it was very useful for me.

There is an article about this on Wired: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/google-borg-twi...