A nice ColdFusion bug

Written on 10 December 2013, 11:10am

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Floating Points hit again. Use PrecisionEvaluate() to fix

15.12 + 59.70 - 74.82=#15.12 + 59.70 - 74.82# 
--outputs 1.42108547152E-014 
PrecisionEvaluate(15.12 + 59.70 - 74.82)=#PrecisionEvaluate(15.12 + 59.70 - 74.82)# 
--outputs 0.00

More here and there

Agile Manifesto mindmap

Written on 1 December 2013, 11:10pm

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Remember the 12 principles behind the Agile Manifesto? They start with:

Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery
of valuable software.

http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

I think they are much easier to be remembered in a mindmap format. I split them in two parts: half of them refer to teams, while the other half refers to the work. The result is below:
Agile Principles Mindmap - done with SimpleMind+ for iOS http://www.simpleapps.eu/simplemind/
Agile Principles Mindmap – done with SimpleMind+ for iOS http://www.simpleapps.eu/simplemind/

In fact, I needed a reason to upload a high resolution image under the new theme 🙂

New and responsive theme

Written on 30 November 2013, 03:02pm

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More than 2 years and a half after the first post, it was the time for a visual change. For a long time I wanted to switch to a responsive WordPress theme, and Boston-Theme was exactly what I needed.
The goals for the new theme were:

  • responsive
  • minimalist
  • 2-columns

Now theme is optimized for readability and is waiting for some useful content 🙂 I am only updating this blog now and then, so the Twitter widget in the left side is the part with the most frequent changes.

The before and after screenshots:
cbp - before and after

There are some parts that I still need to improve:

  • the Syntax highlighter – not getting along very well with the theme default code styling
  • the images of the existing posts – uploaded at full size, but shown at 558px with links to full size
  • the Golden ratio (present in the previous version) is now gone, so I must thing about another geeky, subliminal feature

Update: The flickr widget is now one click away, in the right sandwich menu, while the CloudFlare is running smoothly in the background.