Personally, I love bagels. The pinnacle of all bagels is the toasted everything bagel with plain cream cheese. I reserve the right to update this over time, but let this serve as the Bergstein Metrics of Bagelology. 1. Seeding Amount I've seen bagels under seeded, but I have also seen bagels way over seeded (see: Panera and Dunkin Donuts). Seeding is critical to the flavor, don't blow it folks. 2. Slicing Equality A clear sign of unprofessionalism is the equality of the bagel slices. No bagel deserves this discrimination. It's got to be ballpark 50/50. You start seeing some major issues with

This is a topic I have grown all too familiar with, as this is my thesis topic for my master's degree. I thought I'd share some basics to set the stage in this area of work. Background Users upload files as content to web-based systems. Think of Facebook and how user's upload images and/or videos to share with friends. The key concept is around the notion of sharing. What is appropriate file sharing (anonymous access, authenticated access, membership-based access)? What is not appropriate sharing? This question changes based on application-level policy, meaning it's difficult to find a one

Standing in a Boston hotel room, I went to put my room key in my sport coat pocket and found something that gave me pause. It was a sign. ----- Life has truly been chaotic. My Master's program is winding down, and while I love my job at Penn State and the team I work with, I felt change was coming and desperately needed. The last several years have been spent juggling my job, teaching, side company, family, master's degree, and so on. I drive two hours a day to work, I don't make it to the gym nearly as much as I should, and I always feel like I'm taking time away from my family and beautiful

The Coder module (http://drupal.org/project/coder) is well known for assisting developers in producing code up to snuff with the community defined standards. Such standards have been integral in helping the community grow in a consistent manner. The ultimate goal is to find an automated way to help developers out. Such examples include a code review and performing routine code manipulation. The standard for analyzing code leverages known static analysis approaches. There are two principle goals for code: consistency and simplicity. Consistency To understand what consistent code looks like, we

Much focus has been paid to Matt Niskanen or Simon Depres finding new towns. This is the most likely scenario, as Niskanen's youth and recent good play has surely garnered focus. His trade may be more likely, as Depres came to camp over weight. Although young defense talent is a major asset in this league. Letang is locked up, Martin played well (after a rough previous year), and the defensive depth is stacked (see: Maata, Pouliot, Ruopp, and Dumoulin). Further, Engelland provides an adequate substitute/backup. My focus has shifted to Orpik. He's in a contract year, his return is uncertain

Drupal is a complex and robust system. Due to all of the processing required to bootstrap Drupal, enabled modules, enabled themes, and page-specific rendering, one can imagine performance becomes a major concern. There are two primary ways of caching: a cached version of a page (passive caching) and back-end optimization (active caching). Varnish serves as a passive cache, having to rebuild itself once page content changes. This is common practice, as caching often has an expiration. The expiration can be an amount of time for automatic rebuilding of content, or can be triggered manually (like

My previous post outlined my exploration in text editors. But, there are several other tools that revolutionized my ability to do my job. Skitch - shareable screenshots with the ability to draw, annotate, etc. If you are seeing an error, need to make design changes, etc. Make a screenshot in Skitch, upload it to their servers, and share the URL with those you are communicating with. Shapes - OmniGraffle is awesome, but pricey. Shapes is a straightforward and cheap diagramming tool. This is a real quick and dirty way to share workflows and transitions. Much love for a $4.99 tool. VMWare Fusion