Stevey’s Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile
That has got to be the most effective piece of recruiting/evangelism I’ve ever read, bar none. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile.html
View ArticleThe Fishbowl: Comment Your Performance Hacks
Or restated as comment your code that “makes it work” without changing functionality. Super solid advice. (I just went digging for the relevant classic JWZ rant on the Netscape FTP module, but I can’t...
View ArticleGoogle Code: google-rfc-2445 recurrences
Google Calendar’s implementation of RFC 2445 repeating events. Apache 2.0 license. Java. http://code.google.com/p/google-rfc-2445/
View Articlesubtlety : create feeds for SVN repositories
Finally a Suversion replacement for my aging cvs2rss script. You don’t have to maintain the repository for it to work, and no more install Trac just to get a feed! (via) http://subtlety.errtheblog.com
View ArticleLabnotes » method_missing: best saved for last
I take this as being a symptom of the Ruby design aesthetic, which as a community exhibit an inordinate fondness for conjuring tricks....
View ArticleNBL
“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say they wouldn’t use Ruby because it lacks automated refactoring tools. Ruby doesn’t actually need them in the way Java does; it’s like refusing to...
View ArticleAvi’s “Web Heresies” was the session at OSCON with the most presenters in the...
And it rocked. OMG, yes it did. So sad I’m not arriving at Etech until Monday night and will miss Applied Web Heresies. http://smallthought.com/avi/?p=20
View ArticleSolving FizzBuzz in XSLT 1.0
Presented without comment — beyond a little smirking. (via) http://dev.aol.com/blog/mdavidpeterson/2007/03/14/fizz-buzz-in-xslt-1.0
View ArticleTwitter from TextMate
Every since I heard about this, I’ve been thinking this could be adapated to be actually useful if instead of Twitter it posted to snippets site, like pastie or pastebin...
View ArticleLiminal Existence: MapReduce in 36 lines of Ruby
Amazing what you can do with a higher order functional language, and a couple of good libraries. Short step to (1..100).each { ec2.spin_up }.dmap { hard problem }.inject { take over the world }...
View Article“[the] Research Barrier, when an app is big enough that the developer...
I spend a huge amount of my day doing “research” … when I’m not doing “archeology”. http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3405
View Articler0ml.net: History teaches us …
r0ml explores the secret Catholic bias present in Java enterprise development. (in case the hair shirts weren’t a dead giveaway) http://r0ml.net/blog/2007/09/08/history-teaches-us
View ArticleOAuth in PHP (for Twitter)
Mike released HTTP_Request_OAuth today, so I spent a little while this evening coding up Service_Twitter as helper class for making OAuth authorized requests against the Twitter API. Both are early...
View ArticleDo not treat Flickr photo ids as integers.
Every now and then this bites us over here at Flickr as well. http://blog.driftr.com/post/20
View ArticleWorking Notes on Consistent Hashing
Nice to see consistent hashing go from obscure to blindingly obvious in a few short whitepapers. Dynamo is certainly the sexiest discussion of distributed hash tables (DHTs), while Programmer’s...
View ArticleA Couple of Caveats on Queuing
Les’ “Delight Everyone” post is latest greatest addition to the 17th letter of the alphabet for savior conversation. And believe me I’m a huge fan, and am busy carving out a night sometime this week to...
View ArticleTry Coding Dear Boy
Several times a week I get an emails like, “Can you explain how Flickr does XYZ? I’m hoping there is a nice packaged solution for this.” XYZ can be anything from “draw tag maps”, to “click in place...
View ArticleWhy I love everything you hate about Java « Magic Scaling Sprinkles
NK: “All that boilerplate is really important when you work at massive scale and where efficiency really matters.” More meditations on the coding for scale question and the role of cleverness and...
View ArticleWikimedia has a users RPE of 30mil
“Wikimedia Foundation currently employs 14 technical people (not all of whom are developers). At 400 million readers/month (as of February 2010), that’s about 1 developer per 30 million users....
View ArticleCode Kata: oldie, but goodie.
Back in 2007 the Pragmatic Programmers posted a series of code kata in the style of Are you one of the 10%. Probably worth re-visiting if you’ve never done them. http://codekata.pragprog.com/
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