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Empathy
The importance of empathy in product development, encouraging creators to consider the end user’s experience. By understanding users’ perspectives and needs, developers can enhance productivity and create solutions that resonate emotionally. The goal is to foster a positive connection with users, ensuring outputs are accessible and valuable.
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She’s Funny That Way (2015)
Every so often a gem of a movie comes along that comes out of nowhere that completely surprises you and makes you wonder how you missed the publicity for it in the first place when it was released. She’s Funny That Way is what I would call a comedy farce. A movie that builds on its seemingly unrelated characters that slowly have their lives intertwined after various comedic encounters. Owen…
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A Few Best Men (2011)
Oh Olivia Newton-John, what were you thinking when you signed up for this script? What is an actress of your gravitas and legendary status doing in this disaster of a movie that invokes memories of the Sex lives of the Potato Men with its below toilet humor. Tell me there was a nasty tax bill you had to find some cash for and this was the best option next to…
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The Gunman (2015)
Sean Penn takes the lead in this truly cliched story with all the predictability of a Scooby Doo cartoon. He is part of a team that is providing security for a company in Africa. Naturally the security is a little more, especially when a hit on a government official is ordered and his team is ordered to perform said duty. Can you see where this is going? Good, will make…
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The Guard (2011)
Brendan Gleeson wraps himself into the type of role he was born to play, an unconventional, no nonsense, highly amusing Irish man. Gleeson here is a country sergeant in the local police (called the Garda in Ireland) who manages things in his own delightful way. From the opening scene, where he simply lets a car full of joy riders speed past him without any form of chase, knowing they are…
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Apollo 13 (1995)
One of my all time favorite movies that never fails to deliver on one of the most dramatic incidents in the Apollo space missions. Tom Hanks proves he is one of our generations greatest actors as he slips into the character of Jim Lovell, who was also a technical adviser on the movie. James Horner provides us with a breathtaking score, which can be best witnessed when Ed Harris (playing…
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Kill Me Three Times (2014)
This popped up on Netflix and I will confess to not knowing about this Simon Pegg comedy thriller he made last year in Australia. It isn’t the best of his output and one can’t help but feeling he was lending his name and box office draw to this rather low budget local country movie. The gist of the movie has Pegg as a hitman that witnesses a couple who…
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[review] Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Bruce Schneier has recently released his latest book covering the use of data in our modern day world. Taking a deep dive into the world of privacy, surveilence and encryption this was a real page turner, resulting in it really difficult to put down. I had to keep reminding myself this was not fiction. This was real life. This is now. We’ve sold our digital souls, yet most have not…
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We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
Just finished the excellent book, “We don’t need roads: the making of the Back to the Future” http://amzn.com/B00OZ0TN6I that was recently published. It chartered the journey from inception right through making of the final film. I am a huge fan of the BTTF and can proudly quote pretty much every line so I was excited to get behind the movies to see if there was something I could learn from this…
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OpenBD – for remote proxying
The standard CFCONTENT tag has had the file=“” feature from the start. This is where you can pass in a local file and have it sent to the client. Extremely handy when you are giving a client access to a file that may not be in the webapp directory or if you want to add extra security or logging to a given file before sending to the client. Why limit…
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