Tag Archive: programming

Mar 13

Nifty Things for Week Ending 13 March

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER Philosophy & Lessons Learned 7 timeless lessons of programming ‘graybeards’ | ITworld Monitoring IEEE Xplore Abstract – Tracking Transaction Footprints for Non-intrusive End-to-End Monitoring Blast from the Past Oooh Shiny! Magpies don’t know what’s just enough! » Ramblings Raspberry Pi Intertech’s Complete Raspberry Pi Class Materials – …

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Feb 27

Nifty Things for week ending 27 February 2015

Cloud Computing fog – The Ruby cloud services library Docker SocketPlane strives to alleviate Docker networking challenges – TechRepublic Java Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (and showing how to fix it) The KeY Project — Integrated Deductive Software Design Programming DynJS | An ECMAScript Runtime for the JVM Social Consciousness …

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Feb 13

Nifty Things for Week of 13 February 2015

Programming How to Pair Program — Medium An introduction to visual programming using NoFlo | Rawkes Doctor Who game helps kids to learn to code | Ars Technica Freebies Get 2GB of free Google Drive storage by checking your internet security settings | ITworld — Only good thru 17 February. Data More Data, Less Accuracy …

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Feb 01

Nifty Things for Week of 30 January 2015

Big Data Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster — for certain tasks and data sets, hadoop is not the best choice. maxogden/dat — Dat is an open source project that provides a streaming interface between every file format and data storage backend. Cloud Computing Docker on a raspberry pi | Xebia …

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Jan 23

Nifty Things for Week 23 January 2015

Animation ‘Robot Chicken’ Animator Uses Nintendo Power Glove As Tool (Video) Career What’s a Pain Letter? – Human Workplace Forget Cover Letters – Write A Pain Letter, Instead! – Forbes How To Write Your Human-Voiced Resume – Forbes These Ten Zombie Phrases Are Killing Your Resume – Forbes Making MarkForged Lets You 3D Print With …

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Jan 09

Nifty Things for Week 9 January 2015

Networking Indigo Virtual Switch Project Floodlight — Open Source SDN Cloud Make No Mistake: Mesosphere is Going After OpenStack 5 PaaS anti-patterns Cloud Computing Basics — Platform as a Service (PaaS) DevOps The Three Question DevOps Litmus Test Three More #DEVOPS Litmus Tests ARE YOU REALLY DOING DEVOPS? 8 PREREQUISITES YOU MUST CONSIDER DevOps Bookmarks …

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Dec 19

Nifty Things for Week of December 19

These are various and sundry interesting things I’ve come across during the week. Random The Icelandic word for raccoon is þvottabjörn which means “laundry bear.” — @SamuelMoen All the Pretty Things Christmas Experiments: Advent Calendar of Open Web Technologies Cloud Computing StackStorm vs. AWS Lambda: Event-Driven Computing vs. Event-Driven Operations AWS Lambda Announcing Snappy Ubuntu …

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Sep 12

Class is Class, and Instance, Instance, and never the twain shall meet

More about methods, it’s inspired/spurred by a comment on methods, public_methods, and private_methods by Pit Captain. It also corrects some misconceptions I had (and may have (wrongly) given others). I’ve added a new category, “eating crow” for this and any other postings where I step back and re-evaluate my posts. This is to keep me …

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Sep 11

methods, public_methods, and private_methods

Ruby’s Object has a method, methods. You can use it to see the methods which an object has. Sort of. In this post I’m examining methods, public_methods, and private_methods as well as some of their implications.

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Sep 11

universal cat redux

I have a neglectful relationship with inject. That is, I neglect to remember that it exists, having worked for so long with other languages which are “unfamiliar with the concept”. Amos King’s blog entry on Inject & Me – BFFs got me to thinking that ucat (see cat on steroids (or cat on a hot …

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