Software Development
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REST Tooling
In section 6.3 of Roy’s dissertation, he explains how REST applies to HTTP. But the implementing a RESTful approach requires painstaking…
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Mandrill: Email infrastructure from MailChimp
Mandrill is an email infrastructure service that started as an idea in 2010. That idea became reality in 2012, when…
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R: Applying a function to every row of a data frame
In my continued exploration of London’s meetups I wanted to calculate the distance from meetup venues to a centre point…
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Go for Java Programmers: Simple Types
Part of the Go for Java Programmers series Before we get into custom types, and Go’s version of object-orientation, let’s…
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The “Uncanny Valley” of L3 Cache Contention
While preparing for my talk at QCon SF 2014, I wanted to investigate a theory around how micro-benchmarks are not…
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Prototype Driven Development
When starting a new software project, the number of unknowns is huge. We have learned the hard way that one…
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Why you want to give up coding
A background story A friend of mine worked as a Tech Lead, let’s call them Jo (not their real name)…
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Static Typing Is Not for Type Checking
In his post “Strong typing vs strong testing” Bruce Eckel described the idea, that statically (or strongly) typed languages don’t…
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Unit test life?
You can not program without testing. You write unit tests first and then you write your code. (Well, I know…
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