January 2012
17 posts
The Word of Notch →
On the virtues and uniqueness of products built by tiny teams.
December 2011
24 posts
Go Slow to Go Fast →
Amazon Has Drastically Changed the Way →
Yep, even though I switched from a first-gen Kindle to an iPad.
Deprecating a Legacy Subsystem in Rails →
Wherein the plane is rebuilt whilst flying.
Minitest Quick Reference →
How designers and engineers can play nice (and... →
Using JavaScript and ClojureScript →
On why it’s not straightforward and how to work with it.
ribbon/catchup: reading new commits →
Looks handy, trying it out.
Concurrency in JRuby →
Now you know. JRuby::Synchronized is new to me; it extends Java’s intrinsic object locks to Ruby classes. Neat.
Writing Ruby Scripts That Respect Pipelines →
Useful bits on properly coloring output and reading files from standard input.
Thrift: The Missing Guide →
Thrift made less cargo cultish.
Programming With Nothing →
Lambda, lambda, lambda.
Dropwizard is a Java framework for developing... →
More practical Java bits.
The key value store everyone ignored →
PostgreSQL’s hstore type, groovy.
The Modern Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or... →
I’ve been looking for a “practical way for Ruby weenies to use Java” guide for a while. And here it is.