This post originally appeared on the 7digital developer blog on 15th February 2011. It has been moved here for preservation. A few weeks ago, we launched the shiny, redesigned new 7digital.com to a beta audience. Unfortunately, we had a memory leak. The new site was hosted on the same set of hardware as a few other applications, and it … Continue reading Finding a Memory Leak
Author: Daphne Chong
Managing Dependencies With TeamCity
This post originally appeared on the 7digital developer blog on 8th June 2011. It has been moved here for preservation. You can also use a newer TeamCity feature called Snapshot Dependencies for a cleaner way of managing dependent builds. We have recently switched to using TeamCity to manage the building and updating of our shared code at 7digital, which is great. … Continue reading Managing Dependencies With TeamCity
preparing for a technical interview at amazon or google
In October last year, I was offered a job to move to Seattle and work at Amazon! (woohoo!) It was an incredible opportunity. Amazon are giants, have interesting problems of scale to solve, and the chance to work in the US would be fantastic. Unfortunately, personal circumstances weren't quite suitable for a move to the states … Continue reading preparing for a technical interview at amazon or google
lambda ladies
I'm really excited to be able to attend Lambda Ladies in Brisbane, March 17-19. It's a free 3 day workshop run by Red Hat, using Haskell to cover a (re)introduction to functional programming. The last time I looked at functional programming after university was probably when F# came out. I'm looking forward to a chunk … Continue reading lambda ladies
YOW Sydney
I won a ticket to this year's YOW conference in Sydney - thanks to Girl Geek Dinners! I really enjoyed the talks by places doing Big Scale things, especially talks by Adrian Cockcroft (Cloud Native Architecture at Netflix), Ben Christensen (Creating Observable APIs with Rx) and Joel Pobar's insight into Facebook's culture ("Move Fast and … Continue reading YOW Sydney
improving page performance with WebPageTest
We are in the process of rebuilding Ninemsn's front page in coffeescript + node.js, and moving it to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for easier deployment. As we're rebuilding the site, we're quite conscious of improving page performance (or at least maintaining the current standard). I've been really impressed with WebPageTest, a free tool for performance … Continue reading improving page performance with WebPageTest
open information means better outcomes
In the last couple of organisations I've worked for, the flow of information to a team has always correlated to perceived seniority. Starting as a "developer" and not a "senior developer" or a "team lead" means that people's access to information is restricted. This hasn't always been an active decision, it's just happened because people decide … Continue reading open information means better outcomes
responsive web design @ girl geek dinners
Last night, the lovely women at Sydney Girl Geek Dinners were given a treat - a presentation by me 🙂 Between April and July, one very awesome team at Mi9 built the YouDecide9 site. It's a project integrating Ninemsn, Twitter and the Nine Network's audience in the lead-up to the federal election. Quite literally, everything about the project was … Continue reading responsive web design @ girl geek dinners
australia’s biggest cherry ripe
I'm a fan of things of unusual size. One of my favourite sites is pimpthatsnack.com, where the goal is to make larger versions of much-loved snack foods. The league tables of most popular and highest voted snacks are truly amazing. A few years ago, I made a Giant Kit Kat Chunky which has somehow made its way around … Continue reading australia’s biggest cherry ripe
tweets… on a map!
I love hack days; they're a great chance to remind yourself what's possible in insanely short time periods. Last week we were given 24 hours over two days at work (2pm - 2pm) to build anything we liked, using any kind of technology. I was very curious about the Twitter API and wanted to investigate … Continue reading tweets… on a map!
coding, cake and travel 