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The theater actually dates back to the 1960s, when it was known simply as the Las Vegas Drive-In. Yet West Wind has been left to carry the flag on its own for a while now. The full recipe list and schedule is available at the restaurant’s website, and include items such as fire roasted whole trout with truffled asparagus salad and farro risotto with onion cream, preserved lemon and spinach.You’d think a town that’s all about entertainment would have more than one traditional drive-in movie theater. Diners can order meal kits for curbside pickup or delivery, complete with pre-measured ingredients - and then watch a 15-minute pre-recorded video of Hines giving step-by-step instructions on how to cook each dish. This week, James Beard Award-winning chef Maria Hines of the organic-focused Wallingford restaurant Tilth is offering an interactive takeout option. Tilth Chef Maria Hines Offers Meal Kits with Mini Video Cooking Lessons Now, there’s a virtual pre-ordering system that has just launched in partnership with the app WhatsGood, allowing shoppers to pre-pay online in one transaction, thus limiting contact with vendors and other people at the market. All markets have instituted strict safety guidelines, including reconfiguring layouts, telling customers not to touch products, and eliminating hot food. It follows the reopenings of other Neighborhood Farmers Markets around the city, including ones in Ballard, the U District, and Columbia City. Capitol Hill Farmers Market Reopens, and There’s Preordering AvailableĪfter several months of being shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Capitol Hill Farmers Market is preparing to open again this Sunday from 11 a.m. “It’s just a fun collaboration,” says restaurateur Brian Canlis. for another round of flicks, including “The Muppet Movie,” “Do the Right Thing,” and “Top Gun.” Swedish and the Seattle International Film Festival helped out on the project, which is only open this week and next. This week’s films (“Just Mercy,” “Get Out,” “Back to the Future II,” and “Groundhog Day”) sold out within minutes, but tickets go on sale Friday at 3 p.m. Tickets are $50 per car, with 100 percent of those sales going to Black Farmers Collective, an organization of urban food system activists. Though it’s still closed for dine-in services, Queen Anne’s iconic fine-dining destination Canlis has opened its parking lot as a drive-in movie venue, offering dry-aged burgers, nachos, popcorn, ice cream sandwiches, and other snacks. Going out for dinner and a movie is possible again at a social distance. Have info to share? Email intel to Canlis Debuts Parking Lot Drive-in Movie Theater with Burgers and Snacks Welcome back to Eater News, a semi-regular round-up of mini news bites. More time and more effort mean more money. This would require more time and more effort to be spent on re-testing the software after those changes are made, because we need to make sure we catch all the bugs before we release the modified version of the software. Every change to a software component opens the possibility of introducing bugs into the software. So, as there are frequent changes to a software component the probability of introducing bugs increase. If a software component has multiple reasons to change, then the frequency of changes it will increase. But what is the problem if our class has more reasons to change? So now we could rewrite the principle, “Every software component should have one and only one reason to change”. Why it is so important in software field that each component should have one and only one responsibility?īecause in place of the term responsibility we could put a new phrase “reason to change”. If we think of the Swiss Army Knife as a software component, it violates the Single Responsibility Principle, for the reason that it has multiple responsibilities. Although a Swiss Army knife is a versatile and highly regarded tool, the rules change when it comes to software. Why?īecause it's a metaphor, a Swiss Army knife is a combination of a number of useful tools, each with a distinct purpose like a mini scissor, screwdriver, and so on. So, component can be a class, a method or a module.Īs you can see, I have introduced this article with the image of a "Swiss Army Knife". But the term software component could also refer to a method or a function or even a module. When we say software component, if we are talking in the context of an object-oriented programming language, the first thing that comes to our mind is the class. The SRP says that “Every software component should have one and only one responsibility”. “S” in SOLID stands for Single Responsibility Principle, often abbreviated and referred to as “SRP”. Now it is time to start to talk about the first of five SOLID rules, the Single Responsibility Principle. In the last article I talked about Clean Architecture and SOLID Principles. 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The real cost is buried in day-to-day development, there’s no promised flag-day deadline to miss, and there’s no frustrating feature freeze. Migrating the smaller/simpler legacy controllers are also excellent projects for interns, student work experience or new hires getting up to speed. It also means you can migrate legacy controllers on a case-by-case basis as time and resources allow. This approach has two immediate advantages: you can develop all new features immediately on Laravel as well as use Laravel features and facades within the legacy framework. Otherwise, it hands off to the legacy framework. With the in-place migration, we add Laravel to our application so that it has the first opportunity to service a request (route). This estimate is tough to get approved by the higher-ups! Plus, have you ever met a development project that finished on time? That six months can creep to a year and even beyond very quickly. For a commercial project, it puts a real cost on the migration: ( number of developers * monthly salary * n months ) + the opportunity cost of the development freeze where n will realistically be six months at an absolute minimum. In any project, commercial or open source, this is a difficult argument to make. It means pausing all feature development and rewriting the application completely. Your gut feeling may lean towards a flag day-“let’s just get this done”-but it is the more drastic path. There are two possible approaches to migrating your application to Laravel: a flag-day or an in-place/side-by-side migration. You should also note the IXP Manager project has a single full-time developer plus me when time allows. Over the course of nine minor releases of V4, we migrated from ZF1 to Laravel finally completing the project with V4.9 released in January of 2019.Īdmittedly, a two and half year transition sounds like a long time, but this was an in-place migration where Laravel handled new and migrated controllers while anything still to be migrated fell back on ZF1. In 2015, we released V4 of IXP Manager which was a framework transition release. Zend Framework 1 went end-of-life in 2016, but its obituary was written a couple of years before that. It has run on Zend Framework V1 (ZF1) since 2008. IXP Manager is an open source tool we developed at INEX for managing IXPs (internet exchange points-network switching centers which facilitate the regional exchange of internet traffic between different networks). You can get each monthly issue in digital and print options or buy individual issues. If you'd like more articles like this one, become a subscriber today!. 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Launches MantaRay, Nokia’s intelligent network management and optimization solutions portfolio, including MantaRay Energy, which combines Nokia’s capabilities to optimize the energy consumption in mobile networks with Artificial Intelligence.Įspoo, Finland – Nokia today announced the global launch of new products to further enhance its industry-leading AirScale baseband portfolio that combines ultra-high performance and capacity, with extreme energy efficiency.Expands its extensive Radio portfolio with Pandion Multiband Remote Radio Heads and Shikra outdoor and indoor small cells.Introduces Ponente an ultra-performance, 5G-Advanced baseband control card.Unveils next-generation baseband capacity cards powered by latest ReefShark System-on-Chip technology: Levante for ultra-performance and Lodos for high-performance ready for 5G-Advanced and future-proofed for exponential traffic growth.Nokia launches ultra-performance AirScale baseband and brings the power of Artificial Intelligence to mobile networks The names are really something who are featured on the site. 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