Victoria Justice: Magnolia Bakery Beauty

Kicking off another day on the job, Victoria Justice reported for duty on location for her new film “Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List” on Tuesday morning (October 15).

Sporting a denim jacket over a “I Love NY” shirt, the Nickelodeon starlet shot scenes outside the iconic Magnolia Bakery in Manhattan’s West Village with a big smile on her face.

In career news, Victoria recently landed the lead role in the forthcoming MTV series “Eye Candy,” based on the RL Stine bestseller.

MTV honcho Susanne Daniels explained, "Victoria Justice is exactly someone we want to be in business with. Not only does she resonate with our audience, she has a huge fan base and is extremely talented. We are very lucky to have her.”

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Continuous delivery revs up software updates

Continuous delivery, which involves rapid updates to software to keep up with changing business demands, presents opportunities in agility and automation, proponents say, but implementing continuous delivery and its critical process changes can be tricky.

The concept can offer flexibility and improve customer service, advocates stressed. "To me, [continuous delivery] has to do with the different expectations from software customers today," said Luis Eduardo Colon, director of research and development at business process solutions provider CDS Global.

Eduardo recalled when it was permissible to release code once a year. But those days are gone. "It's a matter of the game's changed, and we as technologists need to adapt to that," he said. Now, changes have to be instantaneous without sacrificing quality.

Continuous delivery covers processes spanning from development to production, including code testing, release automation, automating infrastructure, and managing code once it is in production, said Andi Gutmans, CEO of PHP tools vendor Zend Technologies. "That whole process has to be automated, consistent, and drive high quality."

He sees the movement to mobile and cloud services driving continuous delivery. "It's a huge issue for companies." Continuous delivery involves tools, people, and mindset, with an element of dev ops thrown in, said Gutman. "Continuous delivery is a more complete view of what it really means to get code into [the] cloud quickly at high quality."

At the recent ZendCon PHP conference in Silicon Valley, Colon detailed CDS's own continuous delivery pipeline, which has involved processes ranging from writing and committing code to code metrics and unit testing. The process also covers autoconfigure environments and deployment from packages and features a version control system, with CDS looking to switch from Mercurial to Git.

Continuous delivery: Brute-force automation
"For me, continuous delivery is standardization, process, and brute-force automation," said Rajesh Khazanchi, VMware group product manager. He described continuous delivery as a process in which developers check in code, builds occur, software packages are released, and deployment kicks in.

But implementing a continuous delivery system has to be done carefully, Colon stressed. "I would argue that it would be very hard to do it in a couple of weeks, just because there's a lot of pieces and details, and it means you have to take people with different ownerships and different roles and get them to work together."

The right tooling is critical to reinforce the cultural shift of continuous delivery, said Adam Jacob, chief developer officer at IT infrastructure automation vendor Opscode. "It's a big cultural shift, from releasing once a month, once a year, whatever, to doing it all the time," said Jacob, who is the author of the Chef automation platform. Colon, meanwhile, emphasized people and patience as important, pointing out that continuous delivery, continuous integration, and agile are all intertwined.

Get everyone on board
Everyone involved in a continuous delivery effort has to understand the complete process, said Maurice Kherlakian, lead solutions architect at Zend. "Everybody has to understand everything in order to be as streamlined as possible." Also, education is critical, Khazanchi said. "Just don't rush into starting this process," he said. "It's more about making sure every single person on your team understands what you're trying to do. " He suggested a phased approach to implementation.

Proponents acknowledge pushback issues in implementing continuous delivery. "The biggest pushback is that the code base usually is not ready for the process," Kherlakian said. Getting it ready can be challenging; writing tests takes time, but management just wants more features. "It's a hard sell, sometimes."

Another issue is documentation, he added. Write too much, and it will not get read, Kherlakian said. Khazanchi concurred, recalling an experience in which implementers wrote too much documentation. "Nobody's going to read those. So it's extremely important to write quality documentation."

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HP EliteDisplay E271i

Business users who spend eight or more hours a day staring into a computer screen know the value of a desktop monitor that can cleanly display small text while offering a variety of viewing positions. The HP EliteDisplay 271i does both and more. This reasonably priced 27-inch IPS monitor delivers accurate colors out of the box and does a good job of displaying light and dark shades of gray. It also maintains a bright, colorful picture at any angle and has a built-in
USB hub. It's missing an HDMI port, however, and the USB hub doesn't support the newer (and faster) USB 3.0 technology.

Design and Features

There's nothing fancy about the 271i, but like most business monitors it was designed with productivity in mind. The 1,920-by-1,080 IPS panel has a non-reflective anti-glare coating and is housed in a 10.8-pound business black cabinet with 0.75-inch black bezels. A small round HP logo is affixed to the bottom bezel, and five buttons are positioned off to the right.

The cabinet is supported by a black hinged stand that provides a little over 5 inches of height adjustment and 35 degrees of tilt adjustment. It also allows you to rotate the panel 90 degrees in either direction for portrait mode viewing but it doesn't automatically rotate the image. You'll have to use your graphics card's control panel to flip the image. A small round pad on the base lets you swivel the entire monitor (including the base) 360 degrees, but the base is a bit too large and heavy, and the movement is awkward at best. The stand can be removed if you prefer to mount the monitor on a wall using the four VESA compliant mounting holes.

There are two downstream USB ports on the left side of the monitor and one upstream port around back. All USB ports use the older (and slower) USB 2.0 protocol rather than the newer (and faster) USB 3.0 protocol found on monitors like the Acer B296CL and the Dell P2314T. Also at the rear of the cabinet are VGA, DVI, and DisplayPort 1.2 video inputs. You don't get an HDMI port or speakers on this monitor, omissions that would be more glaring if the 271i was geared towards consumers rather than business users.

The 271i has limited picture adjustments. In addition to brightness, contrast, and color temperature you can adjust sharpness, enable video overdrive (to reduce blurring) and dynamic contrast ratio, and set black stretch (black level). Power management consists of a sleep timer and a power saver mode that shuts down the backlight when the monitor detects the absence of a video signal.

HP protects the 271i with a three-year warranty. Inside the box are VGA, DisplayPort, and USB cables as well as a resource CD containing drivers, a user guide, and HP's Display Assistant software. Display Assistant lets you change picture setting using a keyboard and mouse and includes a Desktop Partition utility that lets you manage window partitions. It contains a set of predefined window regions and allows you to create your own custom regions. There's also a Power Saving feature that lets you schedule when the monitor will go into Stand-by mode or Power off mode.

Performance

The 271i's 27-inch IPS panel performed admirably. It displayed all shades of gray from DisplayMate's 64-Step Grayscale test and showed no evidence of tinting or color tracking errors. Viewing angles were wide with no appreciable color shifting or loss of luminance.

Colors looked sharp against the panel's dark black background and were reasonably accurate out of the box. On the chart below each box represents the ideal coordinates for each color, as determined by the CIE (International Committee on Illumination). The colored dots represent the actual measured coordinates taken in our lab. As you can see, red and green are very close to their ideal zone while blue is spot-on. While displaying scenes from the BBC production of Planet Earth on Blu-ray, colors appeared well saturated and skin tones looked natural.

The 271i did a fantastic job of displaying small text on the Scaled Fonts test. Size 7 Arial fonts set to 5.3 points (the smallest font on the test) were crisp and well defined, a big plus for those who wish to view multiple pages on a single screen.

The 271i used 26 watts of power during testing, which is exactly what the 27-inch Viewsonic VG2732m-LED used and a bit more efficient than the HP Envy 27 and the AOC i2757fh, both of which used 30 watts.

The HP EliteDisplay 271i is a good choice for business users who want to move up to a big screen monitor but need to stay within budget. Its ergonomic stand allows you to adjust the screen for the most comfortable viewing position and can rotate the panel 90-degrees. Moreover, its IPS panel displays rich, accurate colors and good grayscale reproduction. Additionally, users who work with multi-page documents will appreciate how the 271i handles small text. For businesses that require more connectivity options and more IT-friendly features, our Editors' Choice for big-screen business monitors, the NEC MultiSync EA273WM, delivers the goods but it's more expensive.

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Jon Bon Jovi Walks Fan Down The Aisle At Her Vegas Wedding! (Photos)

Jon Bon Jovi is not only talented but seems to be a really nice guy!

The singer made one fan a very happy bride when he walked her down the aisle over the weekend in Las Vegas!

Australian bride Branka Delic began an online campaign on Facebook to have Bon Jovi walk her down the aisle when she married Gonzalo Cladera.

Delic’s Facebook page, “Bon Jovi, Walk Me Down the Aisle?” received almost 1,800 likes when it attracted media attention.

The 51-year-old singer heard about it and happened to be performing at the MGM Grand Garden Arena the same night as Delic and Cladera’s wedding.

The chapel where the couple planned to tie the knot, Graceland Wedding Chapel, is where Bon Jovi married his wife Dorothea in 1989. The couple said they had always planned to marry there since Delic is such a huge Bon Jovi fan.

Jon Bon Jovi had a limo pick the couple up to meet him at 4:30.

Branka said, “We almost forgot we had gotten married we were so excited about Bon Jovi being there.”

She said she was just in awe when she met the singer, joking, “I think I creeped him a bit too, I think he thought I was a creep because I kept staring at him and touching him. He looked so much better than I thought he would. I kept saying to him ‘I can’t believe you took time out of your schedule for me.’ Who am I? I’m a nobody. He deserves all the success he’s got.”

Delic received a special souvenir from the chapel.

“They gave me a copy of his marriage certificate, so I’ve got the best souvenir of my life. All the photos from my wedding and his certificate, it’s all going above my bed when I get home.”

Jon Bon Jovi congratulated Branka Delic and Gonzalo Cladera on Twitter after the ceremony.

Branka Delic later posted on Facebook, “MY MAN!! I have memories for life which I’ll never forget. Such an amazing man take time from his schedule to come walk this crazy Aussie own the aisle… Jon….. I salute! You’re everything I ever imagined, an amazing and generous being…. SO FREAKIN WOW!!
7am and still in Vegas Partying…. YOU MADE MY LIFE BABY!!”

Branka said he was everything she hoped he would be. She said of Jon, “You hear about famous people being stuck up but he was just divine.”

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Review: Bridget Jones older, shallower and boring

This book cover image released by Alfred A. Knopf shows "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy," by Helen Fielding. (AP Photo/Alfred A. Knopf)

This book cover image released by Alfred A. Knopf shows "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy," by Helen Fielding. (AP Photo/Alfred A. Knopf)

"Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Helen Fielding

Time has dulled Bridget Jones.

It has also left her neither wiser, more relaxed nor comfortable with the person she's become and the people she counts as her friends.

That's both good and bad because in Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy," the British heroine — whose sense of self was so strong and so entertaining in the first two novels that it created an archetype of self-determination belaboring amusing bouts of self-confidence — is lost amid social media, parental responsibility and trying to impress the moms at school.

So how, now, is Bridget Jones at 51? Content in marriage to Mark Darcy? Happily ensconced in having quit smoking, raising two children and avoiding the trap of being a smug married woman?

In a word, no. Darcy is dead and Bridget is a single mother to their two children, dating a man whose age is around half her own while her best mates find themselves vacillating between adult responsibility and living their lives as the unfettered and unbound twenty- and thirty-somethings they used to be.

It's been nearly 20 years since "Bridget Jones's Diary" was published in 1996, vaulting Fielding from freelance reporter to one of Britain's best-known and most popular writers. The 1999 sequel, "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," continued Bridget's bold, if not brassy, tales.

But it seems that fear of being a 51-year-old single parent raising two young children in the age of social media is too much for her.

Fielding strives throughout the book to add relevance to her character's life and all of its foibles, mishaps and happy accidents. It's just not enough, though not for lack of trying. Perhaps that's an echo of the time that Bridget and her readers live in, with the short bursts of information, a focus on the quick and a general intolerance for taking time to do things.

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Is This LG's New Curved Banana Phone?

There are only two ways to curve a phone. Well, too main ways. Samsung's repping the horizontal axis approach with its Galaxy Round. But someone's gotta go banana-style, right? According to leaked renders dug up by Engadget, LG is on it. Welcome to the weird future.

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Upgrade To Smart Plasma Cheaply, EVO Your Internal Storage, Free Fries

I have the Panasonic ST60 sitting on my bedroom dresser because I haven't had time to wall mount it yet. It's stunning, total overkill for a bedroom, and double the price of this Pansonic S60 we've got for you today. $600 is a small price to pay for 50 inches of Panasonic's legendary, smart plasma. [Panasonic]

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