Monday, July 30, 2012

A little Gotcha with asynch and Streams

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I stumbled across a little gotcha using async with Node.js Streams : you can easily corrupt your output if you are not careful. Node.js S...
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Monday, July 02, 2012

You Cannot Correctly Represent Change Without Immutability

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The title of this blog post is a quote by Rich Hickey, talking about the Datomic database. Its a beautiful statement, at once illuminating ...
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Friday, June 29, 2012

Gradle CoffeeScript Compilation

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As I'm working on rebooting JavaScript support in Tapestry one of my goals is to be able to author Tapestry's JavaScript as CoffeeS...
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Getting CrashPlan to work on Mac after JDK 1.7 upgrade

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After upgrading my Mac to JDK 1.7, I noticed that CrashPlan stopped working. Given just how much trouble I got in a ways back when I lost...
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Friday, June 08, 2012

Latency numbers every programmer should know

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This is interesting stuff; Jonas Bonér organized some general some latency data by Peter Norvig as a Gist, and others expanded on it. Wha...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Synchronized Considered Harmful

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New flash: concurrency is hard . Any time you have mutable data and multiple threads, you are just asking for abuse, and synchronized is s...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Things I Learned at Hacker Bed & Breakfast

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You can spend any amount of money on Scotch, and it keeps getting better A Java instance field that is assigned exactly once via lazy init...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Yet More Spock Magic: Mocks

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Spock's built-in mock object capabilities are just a dream to use ... unlike other systems I've used, it doesn't get in your wa...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Yet Another Bit of Spock Love

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I'm gradually converting a back-log of existing tests to Spock ... and some of them convert so beautifully, it hurts. Here's an exa...
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Friday, March 09, 2012

Node and Callbacks

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One of the fears people have with Node is the callback model. Node operates as a single thread: you must never do any work, especially any ...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Plastic: Advanced Example

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Plastic is Tapestry's built-in Aspect Oriented Programming library, which primarily operates at the byte code level, but shields you f...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Tests: Auto Launch Application, or Expect Running?

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Does your test suite launch your application or expect it to be running already? This question came up while working on a client project; I...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

LinkedIn Etiquette

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I've used LinkedIn for many years now, long before I joined Facebook ... I liked the concept of never losing contact information with b...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Tapestry Advantages

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A summary of a discussion about the advantages of Tapestry over Struts : Exceptional exception reporting Significantly less code Live cla...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Tapestry 5.4: Focus on JavaScript

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Tapestry 5.3.1 is out in the wild ... and if Tapestry is to stay relevant, Tapestry 5.4 is going to need to be something ...
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Review: Gradle Class with Luke Daley

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Last week, Luke Daly arrived in Portland to teach a three day Gradle class; the folks at Gradleware were nice enough let me audit the class...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Hackergarten in PDX - Friday January 20th

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Merlyn Albery-Speyer is organizing a Hackergarten while Luke Daley (creator of Geb , and Gradle committer) is in town to run an in-depth...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Adding "Ajax Throbbers" to Zone updates

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A common desire in Tapestry is for Zone updates to automatically include a throbber (or "spinner") displayed while the Ajax update...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Dissecting a Tapestry Operation Trace

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I'm helping out a client who is having a problem using Spock and Tapestry 5.3 together. The Spock/Tapestry integration was created for...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Mac Tips: Preventing Aperture from Launching

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Since I tend to connect and disconnect my Android phone to my Mac pretty often, I got frustrated that it kept launching Aperture every time ...