Development

because GOTO is bad.

Upon my noticing that I hadn’t written a fresh Post in nearly 22 months.

A recounting of our time spent in struggle with rvm and native Gem builds.

A portion of our journey was plagued by npm modules with native gyp builds.

That’s my ongoing tutorial / snippet project.

My first npm module. Because I felt I finally had a good idea for a useful one.

Back in my day, we declared a Function as a function.

That special time in a Developer’s life when a system that they’ve nurtured and cared for goes rogue, leaving behind it a desolate swath of blood & destruction.

A reflection upon my career to date – a more poetic take on my CV than the prose of my resumé – as viewed through the lens of the JavaScript langauge .

Sure, there was a bit of data munging & aggregation going on, but it was essentially just a pub/sub pass-thru … so why couldn’t the Server keep up?

Our library of choice is bluebird, which is – as it claims – a highly performant implementation of the Promises/A+ standard.

In my opinion, this code snippet captures the most powerful aspects of ECMAScript.

I had to go through this entire process twice – once on my work Macbook Pro, once on my identical home verison – so I figured I’d might as well write all of this crap down in the hope that it may reduce the shock and awe of future migrators.

As much as this is a theoretical question, I believe I came up with some answers, and they are made manifest in the @cr_wookie Personality Engine.

I’m not exactly sure how many bots are out there – here’s a nice wiki being kept of them – but I can imagine mine’s not the only one that’s pulled off a retry logic FUBAR like this one.

Really, that’s it. That’s my useful tip. Everything else is just me telling you a story about it.

I’ve screwed the pooch on two separate occasions in the few months I’ve worked for my new employer. My instincts say I’m shooting too fast from the hip, and there’s some fine balance I can’t quite seem to grasp.

How the heck can I make local revs to the App and proxy them through the FB back-end while still keeping the App running live for my millions of satisfied customers</sarcasm>?

Where can one find this magical all-important String?

I woke up to discover that I’d unintentionally sent Direct Messages to all of the followers on my personal Twitter account.

Specifically, I wanted to tack some Twitter search features onto it, and I was very impressed with how this library has been built.

Ruby provides some nice features for when you’re building hand-rolled health checking tools. And there are some sshd tricks to be played, too.

I spent three weeks (please don’t laugh) worth of my daily commute writing assertions for the core language, the standard packages, plus ActiveRecord and other common gems.

Because Tomcat keeps dying after about 36 hours. So, I’m gonna enable debugging and JMX remoting so that I can put JConsole to work.

I was sitting at Cafe International and setting up RadRails when the HD on my two-week-old MacBook Pro 2008 went into beachball-of-death mode.

How to get the standard pre-packaged install of Java SE 6 for OS X Leopard to share its toys with Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede.