I’m a big fan of good pitchers. Not the hard-throwing guys, but guys who really have control of their stuff and know how to pitch. Cole Hamels is one of those guys, and espn.com has this story on his changing pitch selection.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 204)
I haven’t written too many high-performance Java applications lately, but if I did I would check out Java Mission Control from Oracle. I just saw some screenshots of it, and it looks useful.
re/code reports that Google is creating a new hardware division to implement their “living room” vision.
Mosquitoes in Alaska are so big that they’re jokingly referred to as Alaska’s “State Bird.” As a result, you want to make sure you have a good mosquito repellent up there, especially when you’re walking in the wilderness. And if you’re going to put on a repellent, why not smell good too, right?
Here’s your solution: This NPR story ranks Victoria’s Secret “Bombshell” perfume as the #6 mosquito repellent in their tests.
Twig debugging in Drupal 8 is great — really great — when you need it as you’re developing a new Drupal 8 theme. But when you don’t need it, it generates a lot of extra output in your HTML that gets in the way of working on your theme development.
So, as a quick note to self, to disable (turn off) Drupal 8 Twig debugging, follow these steps:
After being away from Drupal work for a long time, I just got back into it, and right away ran into a problem with Drupal 8 where, after migrating a Drupal 6 site to Drupal 8, I was unable to log into the new Drupal 8 website. I have no idea what the migration process set my user password to, but it wasn’t any of the ones I used on the old Drupal 6 website or on the new Drupal 8 website — probably because the migration process zapped my Drupal User 1 account.
Long story short, instead of using drush, I decided to use the Drupal Console project to reset the password, and it worked as advertised. After installing the Console project, just type drupal list | grep password to see the command to reset the password, and then use it. At the time of this writing the command is drupal user:password:reset. I have no idea if that will change in the future, but for now you can type that command and then respond to the prompts. You’ll need the User ID for the account that you want to modify, and you can get that by looking at the Drupal 8 users and users_field_data tables.
A company named DispatchHealth just won an award for the 2016 Denver, Colorado “Startup Business of the Year,” as awarded by the Denver metro Chamber of Commerce. Per their website, “DispatchHealth is bringing back the house call. Our skilled medical team arrives with the tools necessary to provide simple to advanced healthcare in the home or workplace.”
This is a good page on on how to upgrade a Drupal 6 website to a Drupal 8 website, including this tip on how to delete all spammy comments very quickly.
According to this fool.com story, Chipotle has bought back 6% of its outstanding stock since its price fell dramatically after their E.coli food-poisoning issues.
I’ve been looking into Twitter’s stock lately to see if it seems like more of a Buy or Sell opportunity. The financials are so limited that I can’t make an educated decision that way. For instance, there is no “P/E” because there is no “E.” So I consider it more of a gamble than an investment.
This is a reference page of what I know about “moving averages” in stock market investing. This includes simple moving averages, exponential moving averages, and how to use this data to support buying and selling stocks. I also touch on MACD.
This is from an article titled, A Protocol for Dying, by Pieter Hintjens, a famous computer programmer who now has cancer. In his article he later states what he thinks are good things to talk about.
My last name isn’t really “Alexander.”
But it’s not a witness-protection thing or an adoption thing, it’s an Ellis Island thing.
As the legend was told to me late in my teenage years, my great-grandparents on my dad’s side of the family immigrated into the United States through Ellis Island. As they were going through the immigration process, a worker at Ellis Island asked what their last name was.