I spent a week by the pool in Egypt with my girlfriend, relaxing and…hacking. The lack of WiFi meant I had to rely on instinct and intellect to get me through my pet project and it proved a worthy exercise … Continue reading
Clojure’s atoms let one transactionally and atomically store values. When one uses an atom, Clojure manages the mutation of the value and guarantees atomicity. Such a feature is very useful in a highly concurrent application. Much like Java’s Atomic* classes, … Continue reading
I’ve previously written on the wonders of Clojure’s agents, giving the programmer a wonderfully easy way of writing asynchronous code with very little effort. Here’s a slightly more complex example for those wanting more context. Combining Futures and Agents We’ll … Continue reading
I made a schoolboy error. I ventured down the road named “Thinking your tools are broken instead of your code”. I haven’t done that in years. There’s nothing wrong with the Findbugs plugin for Maven. If you want to scan … Continue reading
Just some of my notes on looking over SOA related theory. What is “SOA”? Service Oriented Architecture is a means of exposing business services separately from their platform and codebase in order to provide local and/or remote invokation of said … Continue reading
I use LaTeX to take notes, record TODO lists, the shopping and everything in between. Oftentimes, I’ll need to copy my notes to somewhere: a wiki, this blog, or to put in an email. It’s at this point I need … Continue reading
I strongly believe that if you want to build awesome software, then every aspect of it needs to be as good as you want the final product to be. It is often the case that aged software shops will have … Continue reading
I was browsing reddit this afternoon and came across this post. It’s an interesting concept to explain. I mean, what is an interface in Java? I thought through the best way to explain this to someone who doesn’t understand OO … Continue reading
It doesn’t get much more amusing when you’re coding day-to-day:
My fancy-dancy and super-awesome SheevaPlug has certainly settled in at home. It exposes my media from my NAS so I can access it anywhere; runs transmission-daemon headless for all the ISO downloading of open source software I do; runs subversion/svn … Continue reading