Fixing Localhost SSL Connection Error in Google Chrome
You’re developing locally. Your war exploded. Your artifact deployed. Your browser pops open to localhost:8080. And boom, sad face — Google Chrome displays an SSL connection error message.
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Understanding Java Runtime Exceptions as a Front-End Developer
Chances are, even as a front-end developer, you’ll stumble upon runtime exceptions at some point if you do any amount of work in Java. You may not be obligated to fix these back-end issues, but having a general understanding of what they are and how to read them is key to being able to maintain effective communication with your internal team and external users.
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3 Best Practices for Optimizing Images for the Web
Image assets are commonly the largest load on a website, which is why image optimization is so vitally important in maintaining high page performance.
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Understanding Social Styles: What They Are and Why They Matter
If you work with people and/or manage people that you find difficult to deal with, keep reading. This post reviews the concept of Social Styles and how to leverage them for improved communication and collaboration in a team work environment.
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Sylvan Esso
Sylvan Esso‘s self-titled debut album is one to write home about. Literally. When I first heard it I told everyone I knew about it, including my family.
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future is a very inspiring book. And with SpaceX’s CRS-7 having just exploded—the third resupply mission to fail in only a couple months—finishing this biography recently made the journey through it timely.
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Make It So
Make It So, by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel, is a terrific exploration of interaction design lessons from science fiction. It covers everything from commonly found mechanical controls and visual interfaces to emerging technologies and languages like volumetric displays and gestural interfaces and beyond.
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Deliverance
Deliverance, Culprate’s official debut album is absolutely amazing. The album was entirely funded by an Indiegogo crowd-funded campaign and certainly does not disappoint.
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the story of a lunar colony’s revolt against rule from Earth, is a classic sci-fi novel by Robert A. Heinlein. Published in 1966, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress won the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and is considered one of the most important science fiction novels ever written.
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