Mon May 27 00:19:51 HKT 2019 From /weblog/software_engineering/team

program manager

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/03/09.html

Sharing from a PM - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Ideal-Programmer

It sound interesting but I don't exactly sure what is the difference with traditional approach - https://www.infoq.com[..]omputest-transformation-agile-enterprise

https://blog.oursky.com[..]/18/build-engineering-culture-tech-team/

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Mon May 27 00:08:38 HKT 2019 From /meaningful

pressure

http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post_29.html

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com.au[..]we-choke-under-pressure-and-what-we.html

https://www.zmescience.com[..]ews-science/avoid-choking-technique04332

These Navy SEAL tricks will help you perform better under pressure - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]l-help-you-perform-better-under-pressure

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Sun May 26 23:56:41 HKT 2019 From /weblog/software_engineering/team

leadership

Servant Leadership - http://www.inc.com[..]t-be-my-style-of-servant-leadership.html , similarly, what a leader should do is helping other to do better, not to be the best of the team - http://blog.vincentx.info[..]/03/onthings-manga-taught-me-leadership/ http://www.infoq.com[..]what-do-you-look-for-in-a-servant-leader

Mentorship - http://www.javacodegeeks.com[..]entorship-in-software-craftsmanship.html

Keep focus, or lose - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com[..]0/how-steve-jobs-influenced-googles.html

The anti-pattern and suggestion about new joiner - http://5whys.com[..]-you-will-face-as-a-software-team-l.html

Believe me, the objective was not to make decisions, but to create the right environment so that the right decision would be made. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/leandevelopment/message/1952

A nice set of questions to ask for a leader - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]3/questions-on-influence-and-growth.html

In short, don't put your shoes on others' foot - http://www.inc.com[..]earned-in-the-army_Printer_Friendly.html

4 types of leadership style, well, I think he model leadership a little too simple - http://softwarecreation.org[..]s-the-best-leader-for-the-software-team/

Your experts are spending all their time mentoring novices. Therefore:

Put one expert in charge of all the novices, let the others develop the system. - http://gigix.agilechina.net[..]010/2/25/organizational-pattern-day-care

What is the key Characteristics of great team - http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/01/characteristics-agile-org

This is very insightful obversation, in many time we look into something work in short term but not really solve the problem, a discussion about why so many people like micromanagement even if they know it is bad - http://www.thoughtclusters.com[..]m/2011/01/programmers-and-micromanaging/

http://www.adoptionofagile.com[..]best-thing-you-can-do-for-your-team.html <- is provide required information, probably more transparent.

Don't make me think... but you have no business not allowing me to think if I choose to. - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]allow-me-to-think-just-dont-make-me.html

How To Lead Clever People, actually I am double about this, let's see - http://business.in.com/printcontent/28632 http://business.in.com/media/images/2011/Sep/img_56852_wise.jpg

How to grow the leadership - http://www.jrothman.com[..]og/mpd/2012/11/nurturing-leadership.html

他在公司的名言是「When you give, you get」。他在上海成立科研中心，大方讓上汽參與，他認為各懷鬼貽的氣氛不可能做出成績。合資公司理論上是獨立個體，合資公司員工應把合資公司利益放到最前，而不是自己原屬公司的利益，但很少人做得到。慢慢下來，上汽也逐漸對墨菲產生尊重。

在美國和上海工作過的GM員工，指上海GM的工作氣氛跟美國截然不同，甚至認為上海GM形成一套自己的文化，這套文化建基於信任。墨菲跟員工打成一片，工餘在家中安排活動，中美關係罕有地融洽。 http://www.thehousenews.com/finance/由傲慢製造的優秀企業/



10. 永遠記得，做出決定前要先綜觀全局。

9. 否定別人跟切換開關一樣容易。但你最好拼死抵抗這種衝動，因為你也曾經做過蠢事。你做過爛決定，然後學習、成長，別人也一樣。

8. 掃地、擦桌、關燈。哪裡有漏洞要補就去補——即便那很瑣碎、沒人會注意。你必須做這些事去造福你的產品、你的公司，以及所有你們團隊共同打造的，令眾人驚艷、神奇的事物。

7. 你無法做所有的事。閉上眼睛，向後仰倒，學會信任。

6. 顯然有某種更為有效的方法能處理你正在做的事。是什麼呢？在每天回家的路上反覆思考吧。

5. 找出總是在依賴你的人，想想要怎麼做才能協助他們，讓他們自力更生。或許你覺得當個壟斷市場的鮭魚供應商很重要，但如果小鎮的所有人都學會捕魚，便能將你解放出來去做別的事。像是學習種小麥，或是如何馴服那些可愛的小狼。

4. 別說任何對當下討論沒有貢獻的話。你的聲音並非悠揚到絕對必須被聽見。

3. 做得出最好的決定比不上處在得以確保做出更多最佳決定的流程。

2. 就像你經常發表意見那樣，多說感謝和鼓勵的話語。

1. 最重要的是：永遠要掃除障礙物。那怕只是玩玩手指、看看窗外的雲，也別讓你那愚蠢、幼稚的自我阻礙團隊前進的腳步。

http://www.inside.com.tw/2013/02/04/a-manager-s-maifesto

http://joeduffyblog.com[..]oftware-leadership-6-read-every-checkin/

http://www.engineeringandcareering.co.uk[..]o.uk/2014/10/leading-and-delegating.html

https://www.thekua.com[..]op-5-mistakes-for-first-time-tech-leads/

http://www.yegor256.com/2015/01/08/morning-standup-meetings.html

How to lead with diplomatic - http://www.crucialskills.com[..]how-to-be-both-assertive-and-diplomatic/

Dr. Nico Rose cites research that finds that happy people tend to be more effective leaders. - http://www.forbes.com[..]-your-money-managing-your-life-part-one/

https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/02/humility-positive-trait

https://medium.com[..]ge-manager-vs-great-manager-cf8a2e30907d

https://simpleprogrammer.com/coaching-programmers/

Don't pretend - https://medium.com[..]ad-my-five-biggest-mistakes-fd7f4a2f1808

https://medium.com[..]les-of-effective-leadership-d2f9d28a49fb

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Thu May 23 22:45:47 HKT 2019 From /weblog/design

camera

軟體相機時代來臨！Google Pixel 工程師來台揭秘相機技術 - https://www.inside.com.tw[..]cle/16465-google-pixel-camera-background

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Tue May 14 00:05:38 HKT 2019 From /weblog/learning

feedback

1. Create a structure for requesting feedback.
2. Get specific.
3. Act and report back.
http://www.michelemmartin.com[..]ee-tips-for-getting-better-feedback.html

3 Undisclosed Tips for Digital Creatives, 2 are getting feedback - http://www.targetprocess.com[..]isclosed-tips-for-digital-creatives.html

5 tips of getting feedback quicker - http://www.inside.com.tw[..]/04/02/5-tips-for-getting-replies-faster

Negative feedback antipatterns - http://blog.d3in.org[..]942984306/negative-feedback-antipatterns

How to give feedback - https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/05/feedback-software-teams http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2017/05/feedback-software-teams

孩子衝動易怒怎麼辦？玩這種遊戲有望快速學會冷靜 - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20170913/LIF181719.asp

Asking for feedback isn’t the distraction — pretending that your employees don’t have feedback is. - https://m.signalvnoise.com/excuses-excuses-3a25cdafe06b

As a startup CEO, it is hard to take time to step back, reflect, and learn. But making it a mandatory routine — and actually calling it a captain’s log — has imbued the practice with power and meaning, both for me and the company I run.
- https://medium.com[..]ave-kept-for-over-300-years-db30bf1bad4c

研究表明，自我認知水平較高的人（懂得如何觀照自我、如何融入社會，對別人如何看待自己一清二楚）做出的決定會更明智，在學業和工作上會更出色，養育的孩子也更成熟。他們不太會撒謊、欺瞞和偷盜。他們與別人的關係也會更健康。- http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20171016/LIF152338.asp

Let's people complaint - https://blog.codinghorror.com/complaint-driven-development/

Don't fear of looking dumb - https://medium.freecodecamp.org[..]arning-fast-is-looking-dumb-9166fb78c234

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Mon May 13 17:33:43 HKT 2019 From /weblog/software_engineering/SCM

git

Suggestful github project - http://rdegges.com/successful-github-development

GIT to SVN command guide - http://www.javacodegeeks.com[..]vs-svn-commandline-syntax-reference.html

pretty cool guide - http://martin.elwin.com[..]e-to-an-ioke-dev-env-from-source-part-1/ http://www.ralfebert.de/tutorials/git/ http://www.drdobbs.com[..]rticleId=240160261&siteSectionName=tools http://www.drdobbs.com[..]&siteSectionName=architecture-and-design

Some comments about possible issues - http://www.ericsink.com/entries/git_index.html

http://www.developer.com[..]an-streamline-your-writing-projects.html

Several ppl blog about why GIT better than SVN - http://inancgumus.com[..]tages-of-git-over-subversion-svn-a-brief http://altdevblogaday.org[..]03/09/its-time-to-stop-using-subversion/ http://blog.ashodnakashian.com/2011/06/git-for-personal-projects/

A suggested branching model - http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

Some advantage of GIT over Mercurial - http://blog.extracheese.org[..]hy-i-switched-to-git-from-mercurial.html

#undo last commit
git reset HEAD^

#show files in a given commit
git show --pretty="format:" --name-only rev_number

#remove untracked files and directories
git clean -f -d

#track remote branch
git branch --track branch_name origin/master

# given you created a new local branch 'branch_name'
# pushes 'branch_name' to 'origin/branch_name', creating the remote branch for you
git push origin branch_name

#delete remote branch
git push origin :remote_branch_name

From http://leonardoborges.com[..]ngs/2011/05/29/a-few-useful-git-commands

Some more suggested workflow - http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2011/06/09/git-lessons-learned/ http://sandofsky.com/blog/git-workflow.html

Move from SVN, experience of JIRA - http://www.drdobbs.com[..]from-subversion-to-git-and-the/240009175 http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/10/git-workflows-webinar-qa

Merge or Rebase? http://blogs.atlassian.com[..]13/10/git-team-workflows-merge-or-rebase

http://www.javaworld.com[..]ntial-tips-for-git-and-github-users.html

change-default-git-commit-message-template - http://blog.ajduke.in[..]nge-default-git-commit-message-template/

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside-out

Git cheat list - https://gist.github.com/aleksey-bykov/1273f4982c317c92d532

https://examples.javacodegeeks.com[..]re-development/git/git-commands-tutorial

https://dev.to/hector6872/how-good-are-git-hooks-14ho

https://medium.freecodecamp.org[..]nds-in-less-than-10-minutes-c53922625a73

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Mon May 13 16:23:25 HKT 2019 From /weblog/design

Architecture

Top Ten Software Architecture Mistakes - http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/10/top-ten-architecture-mistakes

Discussion about the balance of upfront design - http://blog.objectmentor.com[..]4/25/the-scatology-of-agile-architecture

There is no conflict in agile and architecture - http://www.andrejkoelewijn.com[..]s-no-conflict-in-agile-and-architecture/

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HexagonalArchitecture

Experience of build instead of buy - http://arstechnica.com[..]uy-one-companys-decision-to-go-it-alone/

Problem of too many layer - http://johannesbrodwall.com[..]/10/the-madness-of-layered-architecture/

http://edmundkirwan.com/general/simple.html

http://blog.schauderhaft.de[..]are-architect-here-is-your-reading-list/

Sometime it is worth to build to throw - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SacrificialArchitecture.html

Business Transactions
External Dependencies
Caching Strategy
Garbage Collection
Application Topology
http://blog.appdynamics.com[..]s-to-capture-in-enterprise-applications/

invent a solution the majority of whose components depend on no others with those few components whose task it is to compose those other components being left largely to coordination roles. - http://edmundkirwan.com/general/simple.html

http://blog.cloudera.com[..]ting-started-with-big-data-architecture/

Twitter - http://www.infoq.com/cn/articles/twitter-architecture-evolution http://highscalability.com[..]tter-handles-3000-images-per-second.html

Suning, more on HTTP - http://www.infoq.com[..]oduct-details-system-architecture-design

Decision - https://javax0.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/architects-dont-decide/

Some suggestion of making system simple, well, but the suggestion itself it is that simple - https://www.infoq.com/articles/driving-architectural-simplicity

https://medium.com[..]ural-patterns-in-a-nutshell-a0b47a1e9013

https://www.in28minutes.com/introduction-to-software-architecture

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Mon May 13 00:37:02 HKT 2019 From /weblog/java/fundamental

garbage

Some overview articles - http://javarevisited.blogspot.com[..]/2011/04/garbage-collection-in-java.html http://jeremymanson.blogspot.com[..]10/01/garbage-collection-references.html http://www.oracle.com[..]work/java/javase/gc-tuning-6-140523.html

Interview with Azul, about the pauseless GC - http://www.infoq.com/interviews/gil-tene-azul-zing

A story of how to tune GC - http://kirk.blog-city.com/why_do_i_have_this_long_gc_pause.htm

NewRatio ( XX:MaxNewSize ) is important, but usually ignored - http://blogs.oracle.com[..]ector/entry/the_second_most_important_gc

Java memory configuration and monitoring - http://blog.codecentric.de[..]ry-configuration-and-monitoring-3rd-act/

How Garbage Collection differs in the three big JVMs - http://blog.dynatrace.com[..]ollection-differs-in-the-three-big-jvms/

Garbage Collection Bootcamp 1.0 - http://www.lucidimagination.com[..]1/03/27/garbage-collection-bootcamp-1-0/

http://javarevisited.blogspot.sg[..]ollection-interview-question-answer.html

How CMS work - https://blogs.oracle.com[..]thecollector/entry/hey_joe_phases_of_cms

Compare between difference VM - http://www.optaplanner.org[..]IsTheFastestGarbageCollectorInJava8.html

GC handbook - https://plumbr.eu/java-garbage-collection-handbook

Check what GC you are using - http://marxsoftware.blogspot.hk[..]16/04/determining-garbage-collector.html

About G1 Java Garbage Collector - http://dobbscodetalk.com[..]G1-Java-Garbage-Collector.html&Itemid=29

Tools to visualize GC - http://gceasy.io/

Visualizing difference algorithm - https://spin.atomicobject.com[..]sualizing-garbage-collection-algorithms/

safepoints - http://performantcode.com/gc/safepoints/

Few new GCs for huge heap - https://dzone.com/articles/java-garbage-collection-3

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Mon May 13 00:11:07 HKT 2019 From /weblog/career/jobs

interviewer tip

The best way I've found to interview candidate developers is to pair program with them to do real work on the actual code of the project that is hiring. If not possible, give programming exercise which is:

The exercise must involve working with current development tools.
The exercise must require the candidate to apply important features of the language.
The exercise must involve understanding and working with existing code.
The exercise must involve error handling.
The exercise must involve testing.
The exercise must offer scope for domain modelling.
The exercise must involve asking questions.
The exercise must be realistic.
The exercise must involve changing requirements.
The exercise must offer the candidate enough rope to hang themselves.
The exercise must test many different skills and practices.

A good interview programming exercise takes at least an hour. - http://nat.truemesh.com/archives/000630.html

The other interesting reading - http://blog.secosoft.net[..]ass-kickin-interviewscreening-questions/

Phone interview - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePhoneScreen.html

Questions that somebody like to ask... although I think this guy is a bit arrogance - http://softarc.blogspot.com[..]y-favorite-java-developer-interview.html

Another interview question and answer - http://journeymanjournal.blogspot.com/2005/03/sir-am-i-hired.html http://paultyma.blogspot.com[..]/howto-pass-silicon-valley-software.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001042.html

How about lie at CV? http://jroller.com[..]mon?entry=lying_on_your_r%C3%A9sum%C3%A9

Interviewing in google - http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/000174.html

What interviewee should asked at interview - http://blog.reindel.com[..]programmer-should-ask-on-a-job-interview

What should not waste time to ask the candidate - http://www.innerspace.com.hk/cl_life.html

http://www.ehow.com[..]303_use-technique-ace-job-interview.html

Beware of the small things during interview - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20100115/eoe145304.asp

The concern of putting negotiable in salary - http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2014/08/08/negotiable/

http://www.zdfs.com/code/2015/on-interviewing-software-engineers

how-to-carry-out-technical-recruitment - http://www.infoq.com[..]s/how-to-carry-out-technical-recruitment http://ramblinjan.com[..]ing-Process-is-your-engineering-process/

Assessing technical experience (a great idea) - https://hackernoon.com[..]to-hire-the-best-developers-3ac0fa4e3f39

Bet you can’t solve this Google interview question. - https://medium.freecodecamp.org[..]s-google-interview-question-4a6e5a4dc8ee

system-design-interview-questions - https://dzone.com[..]stem-design-interview-questions-for-java

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Sat May 11 13:17:41 HKT 2019 From /weblog/photographic/tutorial

undersea

水底攝影入門（一）：水底光線的考慮 - http://www.dcfever.com/column/read.php?id=2459

Undersea macro - https://www.scubadiving.com/murky-macro-photography-tips

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Sat May 11 13:16:20 HKT 2019 From /weblog/photographic/tutorial

landscape

勿加偏光鏡！水面有反光構圖更靚 - https://www.dcfever.com/news/readnews.php?id=23813&link=guid https://fstoppers.com[..]-especially-landscape-photography-311376

India guide - http://www.dchome.net/viewthread.php?tid=481974

How to take astro landscape photo - http://www.hokoon.edu.hk/astro/photocontest/astro_landscape.html

How to take cloud sea photo - http://www.dcfever.com/column/read.php?id=2273

TimeLapse tutorial - http://www.dcfever.com/column/read.php?id=3381 http://www.dcfever.com/news/readnews.php?id=20997

如何避免廣角鏡頭的失真 - https://digiphoto.techbang.com[..]-avoid-the-distortion-of-wide-angle-lens

星芒的成因 & 拍攝技巧 - https://higracephoto.blogspot.com[..]01/diffraction-spikes-for-apertures.html

初學者也能拍出唯美畫面：攝影師教你捕捉絕美風景照的4步驟 - https://digiphoto.techbang.com[..]ture-the-stunning-scenery-of-the-4-steps

Tips of taking sunrise photo - https://mymodernmet.com/sunrise-photography-guide-anton-gorlin


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Sat May 11 13:11:30 HKT 2019 From /weblog/photographic/tutorial

Astronomy

星軌拍攝技巧 數問 -

1).數碼機因hot pixel而唔適合曝得耐...最好分開影影夠幾個鐘...咁每張間隔之間都要俾CMOS斗下氣？
有師兄 教過 分十幾張 每張 10-20min 再合成 好過 一野 暴 幾粒鐘, (菲林 令計)

2).數碼機有D人話用ISO 100、有人話用ISO 400-800好...如果用合成方法...其實係咪都係就番光害而定...定係關雜訊事？
睇天氣 , 小弟 用 o個次 用 iso 100

5).北極星仰角澳門係23度，咁香港一樣？？
4季 都唔同 位置, 用星座 搵 會準確 d, e+ 係 冬季, 北極星 位置 係 獵戶座 (lei 個最易 認, 唔會 搵唔倒 ... ) 頭頂 (腰帶 致 頭頂 距離 再過 5倍左右)

附圖 係 舊年 去雲南 香格里拉 時影, 本泥想 長暴, 不過 o個晚 太涷 個人 頂唔順 要收皮 反酒店

http://www.dchome.net/viewthread.php?tid=798154

With a lot of information, 香港的星空 — 觀測及拍攝資訊 - http://www.dcfever.com/column/read.php?id=1829

Herman's articles at dcfever - http://www.dcfever.com/column/info.php?id=185

500px tutorial - http://500px.com/blog/738/tutorial-photograph-the-night-sky

About Comet - http://www.dcfever.com/column/read.php?id=2193

Atmospheric optical phenomena 大氣光學現象 - http://matthew-chin.blogspot.hk[..]16/06/atmospheric-optical-phenomena.html

Stars & Night Sky - http://www.mikkolagerstedt.com[..]top-5-tips-to-photograph-stars-night-sky

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這張是11月15日凌晨拍攝的M42獵戶座星雲, 大埔的光害較嚴重, 所以要加上IDAS V4濾鏡作長時間曝光, 分三段不同時間曝光及作Layer Masking 處理, 把動態範圍拉闊. 在月光的影下算是滿意, 希望之後可以分數晚作10小時以上的曝光並加長每一張frame 的曝光時間 (現在是5分鐘一張), 使到暗位的表現進一步改善.

Place: Tai Po
Date: 14 Nov, 2013 (UT)
Camera: Canon 20Da
Lens: Canon EF-600 F4L
Mount: Vixen Sphinx with Star Book
Filter: IDAS V4
Exposure: 10 sec x 10, 30 sec x 10, 300sec x 26
ISO: 800
Guiding: Borg 60mm telescope, AIS120MM, PHD guiding.
Image calibration: Dark x 20 (average) for each exposure, Bias x 16 (Median), Dark subtracted Flat field x 20 (Median)
Processing: DSS, PS: layer Mask, Cropped, curve, colour adjusted.

http://forum.hkas.org.hk/viewthread.php?tid=8009
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http://list25.com[..]resemble-things-found-on-earth/?view=all

how-to-find-the-milky-way - http://goldpaintphotography.com[..]om/2015/07/24/how-to-find-the-milky-way/

how-to-capture-sharp-star-photographs - http://www.mikkolagerstedt.com[..]10/how-to-capture-sharp-star-photographs

銀河 - 觀測和拍攝 - http://matthew-chin.blogspot.hk/2016/06/blog-post.html

簡易四步驟處理高清銀河 - http://www.dcfever.com/column/read.php?id=3278 TimeLapse-AfterEffects特效『星流跡影片』-進階 - http://www.dcfever.com/column/read.php?id=3935

500 rule:
11mm: 45.5 seconds
12mm: 41.7 seconds
14mm: 35.7 seconds
16mm: 31.3 seconds
18mm: 27.8 seconds
20mm: 25 seconds
24mm: 20.8 seconds
28mm: 17.9 seconds
35mm: 14.3 seconds
50mm: 10 seconds
85mm: 5.9 seconds

http://www.price.com.hk/news.php?sec_id=12&id=7216

How to find constellations: a starter’s guide - http://www.zmescience.com[..]eature-post/starter-guide-constellations

http://www.deepskycolors.com[..]ilky-Way-Photo-Concepts-You-May-Wan.html

【星空系列教程】銀河及地景拍攝技巧
https://digiphoto.techbang.com[..]ot-to-ensure-the-star-series-tutorial-on
https://digiphoto.techbang.com[..]and-landscape-shooting-techniques-middle

Informaton of light pillar - http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/eyes/pillars.htm

How to take Lightning photos - http://www.dcfever.com/column/read.php?id=2456

How To Master Night Sky Photography - https://www.lightstalking.com/night-sky-photography/

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Mon Apr 29 10:54:01 HKT 2019 From /weblog/software_engineering/testing

attitude

Customer attitude will affect how the software engineering workflow a lot: http://groups.yahoo.com[..]gprog/message/7420?threaded=1&var=1&p=24

Do you think this piece of code are too simple to have test case to cover? read this - http://gojko.net[..]t-the-software-craftsmanship-conference/

Related blog, finding the common between taking photo and software testing - http://andreas-simon.blogspot.com[..]hotographic-testing-lessons-learned.html . However, there is one big difference, it is harder to define a good photo than bug feel software

If it is good to put developer as tester? - http://janetgregory.blogspot.com[..].com/2011/03/programmers-as-testers.html

In fact I am kind of agree about this article, but maybe I just not TDD hard enough - http://beust.com[..]ectural-meltdown-around-iteration-three/

Tooling, Insight and Humility - http://www.developsense.com[..]reasons-for-testers-to-learn-to-program/

Insufficient Requirements is not an excuse - http://www.developsense.com[..]-blog-posts-9-insufficient-requirements/

What is the meaning of working - http://www.developsense.com[..]14/03/very-short-blog-posts-14-it-works/

How Much is Enough? Testing as Story-Telling - https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/6203

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Sun Apr 28 14:13:30 HKT 2019 From /weblog/trip

hongkong_hiking

** 欣賞好風景, 就在花瓶頂 ** - http://www.utravel.com.hk/forum/viewthread.php?tid=3862

野外美食餐單大交流！ - http://go2nature.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1168681

(9:15)錦英>雁谷>靈猿守谷>猿頭>吊手岩>雁谷>110礦洞>耀安(12:30) - http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/uncle_1389

路線：沙頭角公路→紅花嶺→礦山→紅花嶺→沙頭角公路 - http://go2nature.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1148245#1148245

路線：落馬洲→鐵坑山→鳳崗 - http://go2nature.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1149172#1149172

迪士尼後面山頭 - http://go2nature.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1149194#1149194

紅花秘洞 - http://hiking1688.xanga.com/756623531/2011-11-12/ http://trackhikers.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/blog-post.html

丫髻穿鼻 - http://hiking1688.xanga.com/757264463/2011-12-03-/

石芽北脊 - http://anlth2010.blogspot.com/2011/11/2011-11-20.html

路線：警校道→南朗山北橫山徑→海馬→南朗山頂→南朗山南脊→南朗山路→黃竹坑 - http://go2nature.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1160106#1160106

龍園 -> 外環單車徑 -> 流浮山老街 -> 蠔塚 -> 沙江天后廟 - http://www.utravel.com.hk[..]content=main&utm_campaign=weekend-120201

Valentino Chocolatier -> 半月灣 -> 橋咀洲地質景區 -> 吉光片羽 - http://www.utravel.com.hk[..]content=main&utm_campaign=weekend-120606

西貢街渡協會（9080 5794 / 9082 2057）

松柏 鶴嘴遊 - https://plus.google.com[..]22/albums/5764282192850561249?banner=pwa

路線：貝澳→十塱→芝麻灣監獄→長沙灣→61山頭→蝦鬚排→正生書院→芝麻灣郊遊徑→水塘→十塱→貝澳 - http://go2nature.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1189410

青衣自然徑 城門水塘 鶴藪至鳳園 荔枝窩 青山寺 - http://www.utravel.com.hk/DetailTour.php?id=ADsRYxEo

深涌野營 - http://go2nature.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=491

潛龍 - http://go2nature.net/discuz/viewthread.php?tid=35258

全港五大長跑徑推介 - http://www.utravel.com.hk/DetailTour.php?id=ADsRYxEr

石硤尾主教山 - https://www.google.com[..]1%A4%E5%B0%BE%E4%B8%BB%E6%95%99%E5%B1%B1

屯門老虎坑 - http://wild1688.xanga.com/771669864/

白燕岩 - http://www.wildconqueror.com/web/outdoor813/PakYin.htm

觀音石河 - http://blog.yahoo.com/_ADKUGL33P2HG6RY5VPN7XRFDXM/articles/176086

鶴咀　海角回憶１ - http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com[..]/supplement/travel/art/20131013/18461339

花山 - http://thehousenews.com[..]%B1%E5%B1%B1%E8%97%8F%E8%90%AC%E6%9F%B1/

長梯級路線 - http://go2nature.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1267470#1267470

《衛奕信徑全征系列》第五、六段-沙田坳、九龍水塘及城門水塘[計劃出發中] - http://blog.comefromhk.com/2014/03/2746/

米粉咀 - http://www.oasistrek.com/mai_fan_tsui.php

火石洲上山下海之旅 - http://danny-yum.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/2014-05-25.html

http://www.skywalker.autozine.org/Place/

Google Map 終於有遠足徑街景！你我都可以做 Map Maker - http://www.dcfever.com/news/readnews.php?id=10460&link=guid

由耀安邨出發，走半坳嶺北脊上馬鞍山村，跟著礦場脊上馬頷峽，落樹帶棧道，走至象門，so far so good… http://go2nature.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1311936#1311936

維多利亞城界石尋寶遊 / 戴緻賢 - http://thehousenewsbloggers.net[..]B6%E9%81%8A-%E6%88%B4%E7%B7%BB%E8%B3%A2/

新界西北區水塘系列 - http://matthew-chin.blogspot.com/2015/10/blog-post_29.html

下花山看荃青全景 - http://matthew-chin.blogspot.com/2015/11/blog-post.html http://matthew-chin.blogspot.hk/2015/05/blog-post_17.html

Tunnels at High West - http://gwulo.com/node/29966

十個你不知道的鳳凰山秘境 - http://wanderingphotographyhk.blogspot.hk/2016/04/blog-post.html https://thestandnews.com[..]B1%E7%A7%98%E5%A2%83-%E5%BE%8C%E7%AF%87/

【假日親子遊】閒遊西貢橋咀島 - http://www.bkmilk.com.hk/?p=144786

鳳凰徑全征系列 - http://blog.comefromhk.com/2011/03/1653/ http://blog.comefromhk.com/2011/03/1638/ http://blog.comefromhk.com/2012/12/1936/ http://blog.comefromhk.com/2013/04/2198/ http://blog.comefromhk.com/2013/11/2457/ http://blog.comefromhk.com/2013/12/2580/

【啹喀的後裔6】重遊昔日三大軍營　前軍人望活化軍營推啹喀文化 - https://www.hk01.com[..]E%A8%E5%95%B9%E5%96%80%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96

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Sun Apr 28 00:48:00 HKT 2019 From /weblog/design/distribute

distribute

In one sentence, here's why: humans are notoriously bad at keeping "self" distinct from "other". Egomania, projection (transference), and enmeshment are well-known symptoms of this problem. OK, so I hear you saying, "yeah, but what does this have to do with programming?" It certainly seems absurd to suggest that if we are bad at something we know the most about (our "selves"), how could we possibly say that we have a good approach for the programming analogues - objects, modules, etc. - http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=46706

Argue why space base design is better than n-tier design - http://www.google.com[..]0The%20End%20of%20Tier-based%20Computing

Some key research of google for distributed computation - http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/google-scalability

Someone think we are not yet (per Oct 2007) have good language support for distibuted computing - http://kasparov.skife.org/blog/2007/10/11/

A blog contain a lot distributed computing information - http://www.highscalability.com/

How Wikipedia manage their site - http://dammit.lt/uc/workbook2007.pdf

Google tutorial for Design Distributed System - http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/dsd-tutorial.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

The Hadoop Distributed File System: Architecture and Design - http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/r0.18.0/hdfs_design.html

http://www.metabrew.com[..]-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores/

Applying experience from CPU design for distributed solution - http://blog.paralleluniverse.co[..]o/post/26909672264/on-distributed-memory

Distributed systems for fun and profit - http://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html

Monitor and design - http://highscalability.com[..]buted-mission-critical-applications.html

Uber case study - http://highscalability.com[..]les-their-real-time-market-platform.html

Load balancer design - http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2016/01/load-balancer-intro/

Some issues of distributing logic to difference systems - http://blog.takipi.com[..]t-f-up-your-microservices-in-production/

https://blog.acolyer.org[..]lised-solution-to-distributed-consensus/

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Sun Apr 28 00:45:21 HKT 2019 From /weblog/design/examples

messaging

ZeroMQ: The Design of Messaging Middleware - http://www.drdobbs.com[..]&siteSectionName=architecture-and-design

When NOT to use a message queue - http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1455

现代IM系统中的消息系统架构 - 架构篇 - https://yq.aliyun.com/articles/698301

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Sat Apr 20 01:13:56 HKT 2019 From /weblog/photographic/tools

lightroom

If you using mac and like to have post editing of digital photo, Definitely worth to try:
http://www.macromedia.com[..]n/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_lightroom

A free (until beta period finish) competitor of Aperture. The auto tuning work excellent. However, there is no plugin yet and require highend machine to work smooth. It take 400MB RAM for just a few RAW photo and it work like a dog on my poor mac mini. This is the first time of this 5 years I wish to have a better machine

Resource:
http://labs.macromedia.com/technologies/lightroom/
http://www.macromedia.com[..]ion/webforums/forum/index.cfm?forumid=72
http://www.macromedia.com/go/labs_rss

http://www.mikkolagerstedt.com[..]/5-steps-to-work-like-a-pro-in-lightroom


Lightroom教學: 進階設定七件事 - http://wlcreative.com[..]%AD%E5%AE%9A%E4%B8%83%E4%BB%B6%E4%BA%8B/

裁剪與校正 - https://digiphoto.techbang.com[..]ching-lightroom-late-foundation-lesson-6

如何用自然光拍攝有溫度的逆光照片？ - https://digiphoto.techbang.com[..]klight-photo-6-big-questions-once-solved https://digiphoto.techbang.com[..]ure-backlight-photo-post-processing-next

輕鬆搞定大光比，8步驟打造青海經幡唯美人像 - https://digiphoto.techbang.com[..]the-qinghai-sutra-fan-beautiful-portrait

https://digiphoto.techbang.com[..]to-pull-out-a-nice-black-and-white-photo

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Fri Apr 12 00:44:19 HKT 2019 From /weblog/design

performance

http://highscalability.com[..]6/big-list-of-20-common-bottlenecks.html

Nothing specific, mostly code clean up, refactoring and simplification, the performance boost was a surprise. <- This is a good one - http://bad-concurrency.blogspot.com.au[..]12/07/disruptor-v3-faster-hopefully.html

Is there anything we can do about this when designing algorithms and data-structures? Yes there is a lot we can do. If we perform chunks of work on data that is co-located, and we stride around memory in a predictable fashion, then our algorithms can be many times faster. For example rather than using bucket and chain hash tables, like in the JDK, we can employ hash tables using open-addressing with linear-probing. Rather than using linked-lists or trees with single items in each node, we can store an array of many items in each node. - http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com.au[..]emory-access-patterns-are-important.html

Skip lists are used instead of b-trees because b-trees don’t scale. - http://highscalability.com[..]ast-mvcc-inmem-lockfree-codegen-and.html

Beware about the performance issue of static initalization - http://stackoverflow.com[..]-cause-problems-with-multi-threading-how

Experiment show why arraylist is better in most cases - http://www.javaadvent.com/2013/12/arraylist-vs-linkedlist.html

How to design low latency application in java - http://vanillajava.blogspot.com.au[..]5/chronicle-and-low-latency-in-java.html

http://highscalability.com[..]ciples-of-high-performance-programs.html http://blog.libtorrent.org[..]principles-of-high-performance-programs/

Suggestion about how to determine number of thread pool - http://venkateshcm.com[..]rmine-Web-Applications-Thread-Poll-Size/

Beware the performance penalty of logging - https://plumbr.eu/blog/locking-and-logging

Keep thing dynamic - http://highscalability.com[..]ciples-of-high-performance-programs.html

http://www.rationaljava.com[..]st-rule-of-performance-optimisation.html

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu[..]u/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html

http://highscalability.com[..]aling-data-platforms.html?SSLoginOk=true

Discuss about developing low latency financial application - http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2770868

Discussion of object pooling - http://highscalability.com[..]-but-forgotten-trick-object-pooling.html http://coffeenco.de[..]m_performance_part_1_object_pooling.html

Efficiency - the amount of work you need to do.
Performance - how fast you can do that work
Efficiency - governed by your algorithm
Performance - governed by your data structures.
http://www.rationaljava.com[..]e-difference-between-efficiency-and.html


Turning off power save mode on the CPU reduced brought the max latency from 11 msec down to 8 msec.
Guaranteeing threads will always have CPU resources using CPU isolation and thread affinity brought the maximum latency down to 14 microseconds.
http://highscalability.com[..]eduler-jitter-using-cpu-isolation-a.html
http://epickrram.blogspot.co.uk[..]o.uk/2015/09/reducing-system-jitter.html

About design for performance for webapi - http://tech.forter.com[..]y-decision-as-a-service-design-patterns/

check list - http://techbeacon.com[..]ery-software-development-team-should-ask

Beware if system utilization over 80% - http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2016/02/utilisation-wait-latency http://robharrop.github.io[..]/20/service-latency-and-utilisation.html

scalable-io-events-vs-multithreading-based - https://thetechsolo.wordpress.com[..]lable-io-events-vs-multithreading-based/

How to find out bottleneck - https://vanilla-java.github.io[..]entile-latencies-in-Chronicle-Queue.html

https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html

Compiler Performance and LLVM - http://pling.jondgoodwin.com/post/compiler-performance/

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Wed Apr 10 17:06:39 HKT 2019 From /weblog/java/performance

io

Improvement from io -> nio, then -> MappedByteBuffer - http://dobbscodetalk.com[..]blog&show=File-IO-in-Java.html&Itemid=29

How to improve performance by tuning the IO - http://pzemtsov.github.io[..]enefits-of-stream-buffering-in-Java.html

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Tue Apr 09 18:38:55 HKT 2019 From /weblog/software_engineering/testing

mock

Yet other discussion of Stubs, Fakes, and Mock Objects - http://vladimirlevin.blogspot.com/2007/11/stubs-fakes-mocks.html http://www.sustainabletdd.com/2012/05/mock-objects-part-1.html

While reviewing this article, Marty Andrews pointed out an important insight: there are two ways to use a mock object, either as a testing technique or as a design technique, and the intended use helps shape the available choices.

http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/4526

Someone post some arguement that using mock probably a bad idea , which look like a endless arguement... - http://jroller.com[..]xRuiz?entry=mocks_for_concrete_class_can

Alberto Savoia on Testing the Untestable, raise a point that mocking make testing more portable, it probably true, but database setup may be not that difficult to port. - http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=276&thread=213402

http://gojko.net[..]ut-isolation-but-about-responsibilities/

http://blog.objectmentor.com[..]ing-the-invasion-of-dots-and-parentheses

Fakes should have their own tests - http://googletesting.blogspot.com.au[..]/testing-on-toilet-fake-your-way-to.html

http://lkrnac.net/blog/2014/01/18/mock-final-class/

Again, other post on pros and cons for difference approach - https://codurance.com/2019/04/08/Introduction-to-test-doubles/

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Sat Apr 06 00:15:46 HKT 2019 From /weblog/software_engineering/team

Team work

Building trust for team - http://cocreatr.typepad.com[..]nity-of-practice-and-trust-building.html

One nice article about teamwork:

Directing (hi directive + lo supportive, for "enthusiastic beginners")
Supporting (hi directive + hi supportive, for "disillusioned learners")
Coaching (lo directive + hi supportive, for "reluctant contributors")
Delegating (lo directive + lo supportive, for "peak performers")

http://www.cmcrossroads.com[..]bbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=64809

Is it a people problem or process problem - http://blog.nayima.be[..]01/21/people-problem-or-process-problem/

importance of teamwork - http://www.butunclebob.com[..]leS.MichaelFeathers.ProgrammingOnYourOwn

5 Dysfunctions of a Team - http://www.anticlue.net/archives/000279.htm

A Leaner Start: Reducing Team Setup Times - http://www.infoq.com/articles/pat-kua-onboarding-new , I think article "letting-go" is really insightful - http://www.thekua.com[..]007/09/24/onboarding-strategy-letting-go

A good explanation of what is courage, and the result of didn't have courage. It also mention a bit of how to bulit courage within the team, but not much about it - http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/NotXP.htm

A potential issue of focus too much on people, rely on few heros - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]12/people-over-process-misses-point.html

Our agile process requires people to spend the effort to listen and talk to each other, working closely. You have to be a people person to like it. It doesn't suit sociopaths. Accidently hiring a sociopath is going to make XP impossible. Trust me, I know. To me this is XP's fundamental weakness. http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]12/extreme-programmings-fundamental.html

What important is team but not idea - http://www.codinghorror.com[..]g/2010/01/cultivate-teams-not-ideas.html

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/11/enable-high-performance-teams

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Co-Making-Great-Products


A Measure of Your Team’s Health: How You Treat Your “Idiot” - http://quickbase.intuit.com[..]r-teams-health-how-you-treat-your-idiot/ http://www.inside.com.tw[..]ur-teams-health-how-you-treat-your-idiot

https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/05/culture-safety-ei-teams

How to Create a Great Team Culture (and Why It Matters) - https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=3323993

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Sat Mar 09 23:33:41 HKT 2019 From /weblog/java/concurrency

framework

https://dzone.com[..]ye-view-on-java-concurrency-frameworks-1

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Sat Mar 09 23:32:04 HKT 2019 From /weblog/java/performance

static

https://pangin.pro/posts/computation-in-static-initializer

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Sat Mar 09 23:29:19 HKT 2019 From /weblog/languages

scala

Prevent NPE from scala - http://gabrielsw.blogspot.com[..]es-virginia-scala-can-save-you-from.html

Map scala function to java - http://blogs.sun.com[..]rarajan/entry/scala_for_java_programmers
Examples to show good points of Scala - http://edouard.decastro.name/notes/view/1608

Var and Val - http://fruzenshtein.com/scala-variables-values/

Pattern in scala - http://www.scala-lang.org[..]d/sites/default/files/FrederikThesis.pdf

Effective Programming In Scala –
https://blog.knoldus.com[..]16/06/28/effective-programming-in-scala/
https://blog.knoldus.com[..]way-for-abstract-computations-in-scala//
https://blog.knoldus.com[..]wering-up-your-code-implicitly-in-scala/

Reactive, actor, and DB - https://www.javacodegeeks.com[..]rial-developing-modern-applications.html

Cheat sheet: The complete guide to Scala - https://jaxenter.com/cheat-sheet-complete-guide-scala-136558.html

libraries-for-data-science - https://medium.com[..]es-for-data-science-in-2018-4b2cb5c5367e

Case class for data ( and case object, tuples ) - https://danielasfregola.com[..]sing-case-classes-to-structure-your-data

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Sat Mar 02 14:27:46 HKT 2019 From /weblog/ai

cases

Deep Learning with Emojis (not Math) - https://tech.instacart.com[..]arning-with-emojis-not-math-660ba1ad6cdc http://www.infoq.com/cn/articles/using-emoji-in-deep-learning

AI tools - https://hackernoon.com[..]-today-for-personal-use-1-3-7f1b60b6c94f

Twitter timeline - https://blog.twitter.com[..]ning-at-scale-in-twitters-timelines.html http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2017/06/Twitter-new-deep-study

Google translate - https://blog.statsbot.co[..]achine-learning-translation-96f0ed8f19e4 http://www.infoq.com[..]2017/08/Machine-learning-Google-ranslati

https://pokersites.me.uk/poker-ai/

https://code.facebook.com[..]-suicide-prevention-tools-powered-by-ai/

How companies use collaborative filtering to learn exactly what you want - https://medium.freecodecamp.org[..]learn-exactly-what-you-want-a3fc58e22ad9

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