“Because nothing blocks, less-than-expert programmers are able to develop fast systems.” http://nodejs.org Birds Eye View of Node.js I’m sure you’ve all seen/heard stuff about using real-time websockets — this guy used node.js but a lot of ppl don’t know that there is so much more to this framework than meets the eye. First off, it [...]
If you are like me you probably have to be working in several different languages at any given time and monitoring more than a handful of daemons. Sometimes your tests do not catch crucial items that they should be catching. As my loyal readers might already know I do not consider myself as knowledgeable about [...]
Many people utilize the DOM based parsing methods available in easy to use libraries throughout most languages but few ever need to utilize the power of SAX. Let me invite you to the party! We’ve all been there — we need to parse an xml document so we pull out some xpath expression and get [...]
Sentiments found on hackernews and dzone recently regarding Perl: “fuck a bunch of perl monk motherfuckers!” “perl sucks!” “perl can suck a dick!” ok, well that was slightly exagerrated =) but .. so seems the sentiment sometimes browsing certain portions of the net (dzone, hackernews, etc.) Really, imo perl was one of the first dynamic [...]
Was on the nosql mailing list the other day and I ran across a message from Cliff Moon trolling it up “I find the name of your database to be extremely racist.” To tell you the truth I usually am ctrl-D’ng (mutt mass deleting) all threads from this mailing list since I just do not [...]
I got wind of the play framework a couple of months ago and have been passively reading their mailing list each day. I have to say — it’s very active and the framework is just top notch. We here at telematter have used a lot of the frameworks in ruby land and our main app [...]
Over at work we (I) have been getting pretty fed up with ruby lately. There is way too much fanboyism and not enough code. So I’ve been looking at doing things in different frameworks lately. This of course always leads to me having to try out new languages that I might have only looked at [...]
So…. I got drunk a week or so ago and decided I’d start my own programming language. this is not the first time I have done this — back 7-8 years ago when I was in school I did the exact same thing. I program in ruby and java most everyday and love the speed [...]
Was looking at an application the other day (that will rename nameless but any enterprising lad should be able to figure out what it is). It looked like we were clocking in at a whopping One point something requests/second. WHAT THE FUCK!? I immediately focused my attention with mytop trying to find slow queries. Found [...]
In case you didn’t know we parse poker hand histories on our website, Bluff.com. This parsing takes place in java. In the past we used to call out to our parser from ruby using something like this: ENV[’LC_CTYPE’] = ‘en_US.UTF-8′ IO.popen("java -cp \"#{classpath}\" com.bluffware.BluffParse #{xtra}" +handfile) do |f| @xml = f.read end Of course once [...]
