coursera:

Editor’s Note: Pamela Fox is Coursera’s Lead Student Team Engineer.

Last week, thanks to the course calendar, I realized that my final exam for Ariely’s class on Irrational Behavior was due the night before a Google I/O talk that I would be giving the next day about Coursera - frankly, I…

travis-ci-changelog:

You can now specify a new option to tell Travis CI that your HipChat messages should be posted as HTML. This allows you to include proper link tags in your custom templates.

Just add the following to your .travis.yml

notifications:
  hipchat:
    format: html

matiaskorhonen:

When we run our build suites on Travis Pro the bundling step takes the most time by a wide margin (aside from the test script itself).

Inspired by this Coderwall protip by Michał Czyż, I set about attempting to cache our completed gem bundle on S3.

How it works

1. The tarballed bundle and a…

President by ~jjingob

usagov:

If you receive your federal benefits by paper check, you’ll need to switch to electronic payments by March 1, 2013.

The federal benefits affected are:

• Social Security
• Supplemental Security Income
• Veterans Affairs
• Railroad Retirement Board
• Office of Personnel Management
• Department of…

usagov:

We will host a National Consumer Protection Week Twitter chat on Wednesday, March 6 at 2 p.m. EST.

Experts from USA.gov and the Federal Trade Commission will be on hand to answer your consumer-related questions and and provide government resources that can help. So whether you have questions…

Zach Holman - How GitHub Works

gpdrr13:

Did you know that the City of San Francisco (USA) is part of the Making Cities Resilient campaign? Cities and urban resilience are on the agenda at the GP this May. This includes a welcome booth at the marketplace and a featured event on “Building Resilience into Urban Planning and Investments”

bigredandshiny:

Contributor Robyn Day reviews the Bruce Davidson exhibition now up at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston [continued at Big Red & Shiny…]

Untitled (Young Man Holding Baby in Luncheonette) from East 100th Street series Bruce Davidson (American, born 1933) 1966—68, printed 1969 Photograph, gelatin silver print
*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum purchase with funds donated by Haluk and Elisa Soykan and the Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
*© Bruce Davidson /Magnum Photos
*Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

usagov:

By Phil Ashlock, Ben Balter, Danny Chapman, Kara DeFrias, and Greg Gershman

Over the years, you’ve probably filled in your name, address, and date of birth hundreds of times— while renewing your passport, applying for financial aid, filing your taxes, or completing any of the dozens of forms we…