Author Archives: Laurence

Software Development Heaven – sit stand desk and Herman Miller chair

by Laurence Posted on December 9, 2013

This year I joined the sit-stand work environment revolution and I love it! When it comes to being a successful software professional, investing in the right tools is important. Many of us overlook ergonomics, especially our desk and chair. In … Continue reading →

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AngularJS Review – A Sweet Client Side JavaScript Framework

by Laurence Posted on November 3, 2013

AngularJS makes everything else look obsolete. I’m looking at you Backbone and Ember… It is one of those things where in hindsight the approach appears obvious because it is so elegant. However it took the web a good 15 years … Continue reading →

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Building SysBench in Ubuntu 13.04

by Laurence Posted on September 15, 2013

When trying to build SysBench 0.4.12 you may be getting an error like: /bin/sh ../libtool –tag=CC –mode=link gcc -pthread -g -O2 -o sysbench sysbench.o sb_timer.o sb_options.o sb_logger.o db_driver.o tests/fileio/libsbfileio.a tests/threads/libsbthreads.a tests/memory/libsbmemory.a tests/cpu/libsbcpu.a tests/oltp/libsboltp.a tests/mutex/libsbmutex.a drivers/mysql/libsbmysql.a -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/ -lmysqlclient_r -lrt -lm ../libtool: line … Continue reading →

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Are you Smart yet? Will everything become Smart someday?

by Laurence Posted on August 31, 2013

Everything is getting capital ‘S’ Smart these days. Smart phones, Smart homes, Smart cars, in EPIC there are ‘Smart phrases’, and even a local cafe chain has something called Smart beans…. The Smart trend lumps together intelligent networks, big data, … Continue reading →

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