What to know when looking for work.
We talk about what is good to know when you take employment in a company.
Running work on GPU (Cuda) (how-to)
We use JCuda to run some workloads on the GPU and see the difference in speed.
Git the basics #1 (how-to)
We look into the very basic commands of git. Making changes and committing to a branch.
PHP 7 improved performance
I was participating in a webinar with Zeev explaining the new implementation of PHP 7 and the improvements in memory management giving better performance. He pointed us to some blog posts, by Nikita Popov (@nikita_ppv), explaining improvements to the underlying structure of values, arrays, objects a.s.o. In this blog post I want to summaries some…
Kdelibs build failure on 64 bit system
I just switched to use Linux at work. I’ve had Gentoo at home for years but Windows seems to be a part of the consulting branch of work I’ve done so far. The new machine I got was of course a 64 bit one and I installed the right distribution. After a week of use…
Building a local OpenSwift object store
I needed a solution to save data and I wanted to create an API so I could handle different storage solutions. One of the solutions I wanted to support was OpenSwift, a part of OpenStack. Trying create a small local installation for testing wasn’t easy and required research. Configuration options seems endless so I’m trying…
Debugging with breakpoint in any place
Was debugging some code the other day and had some annoyance. I had to set a breakpoint in my code and then try to figure out where a problem happened by going into methods, and jump multiple steps before actually reaching the code I wanted to test. In this case the code to debug was…
Platform as a service review
I thought it could be interesting to do a small review of the PaaS solutions I’ve come into contact with and my experience. To preface this post I want to say that I mainly use PaaS solutions for prototyping and small scale development. None of the solutions I’ve built so far is running in production…
Add/remove to segment
Customer segments aren’t the most straight forward concept. It should be and works fine but the back-end handling seems to be a set of different solutions put together to make the whole. First of we have the customer segments created as member groups. These groups have names and some small settings but only a few…
Remote search server on a development environment after FEP7
Quick note just to save this small information. IBM support is telling us that it’s impossible to use Commerce Developer with an external Solr server. After some research I found which config file to change in order to change which server it will call. [WCDEV_INSTALL]\wasprofile\config\cells\localhost\nodes\localhost\servers\server1\namebindings.xml This file has multiple entries for configuring the search. Changing…