Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Notice board at Ericsson, Stockholm (pic by DeirdreS ). Many of us have worked with them: the engineering jerk who is brilliant at what they do, but treats others like trash. Some companies have a policy not to hire them (eg, Netflix's "[No Brilliant Jerks]", which was one of the many reasons I joined the company). There's also the "[No A **e Rule]", popularized by a bestselling book of this title, which provides the following [test]: 1.

Engineering 111

Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111

The Polyglot Developer

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

If you’ve been a long time subscriber to The Polyglot Developer , you’ll know that I use the blog as a way to document what I learn on a day to day basis. I’ll never remember what I did six months ago unless I document the steps to reproduce it later. I’d like to think that I’m a developer first and a blogger or technical writer second.

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The Polyglot Developer

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Including map functionality in your mobile application is often a very important necessity, depending on the scenario. Maybe your application needs to do navigation, or simply just show locations on a map. There are many different map providers, the most popular being Google Maps. However, Mapbox is picking up steam because of how easy it is to use and its pricing model.

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Mobile Google Development 40