Thursday, February 24, 2022

In Search of "Code Design"

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I’m an “agent" now? I must be important...   I forgot to cross-post here... I wrote a thing about "code design," it's a ...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Advanced Memcached at Flickr

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Optimizing Caching: Twemproxy and Memcached at Flickr ... a post I wrote about some work I did at Flickr:  code.flickr.net .  TLDR; I delive...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Javascript and Rails, together at last (on Vert.x)

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Vert.x:  Catching My Attention I recently attended an awesome  talk by Steve Pousty  on Vert.x, and I found this technology so intriguing...
Friday, October 03, 2014

A Rails Enthusiast’s take on MEAN.js

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Is MEAN.js Node's answer to Rails?  Following the famous blog demo creation using the MEAN.js stack. How does developing with MEAN co...
Monday, February 10, 2014

How to get good software from contractors

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OR  Working with codecraft (me) I think I have said before, the purpose  of software development is to produce good enough software as q...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Using a module to share common association logic in Rails

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UPDATE:  If I did this again, I would consider packaging the code as a Concern I recently wanted to DRY up some repetitive Rails associati...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

An old crack at a stream processing framework. WAS: Building procedures with composition

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Often developers need to model a multi-step process.  Also common is the need to reuse pieces of the process:  maybe the steps are the same...