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How Facebook Ships Code
coding, startups, facebook, culture, developer-driven culture
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,544 posts.
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JQuery 1.5 promises a better future.
One of the new features of the unreleased JQuery 1.5 is a new $.ajax module. Apart from many bug fixes, the most interesting, and useful par...
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"I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems."
I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems. What do I mean by that? Well, think about version control systems before the cryptographic-DAG systems, and especially Git, came along. Everyone (everyone you'd want to work with, at least) agreed that a version control system was…
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Why You Can't Hire Great Perl Programmers
Programming is a skill in demand. Programming can get you a job. A guide to finding good programmers, Perl and otherwise.
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Scala == Effective Java?
I started reading Joshua Bloch's Effective Java last week. I'll have to admit that I haven't read it before, but only because I've been told...
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MongoDB, Data Durability and Improvements coming in 1.8
Last weekend I tweeted two links to two tweets by a poor guy who apparently got his MongoDB database into an unrecoverable state during shutdown whilst upgrading to a newer version. That tweet quickly made the rounds, and the next morning I saw myself staring at replies stating that it was all his fault, because he…
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A Healthy Diet For The Mind
I've been enjoying teaching Intelligent Systems again this semester. A big part of the fun is re-reading old papers. I had a lot of fun re-reading and thinking about the ideas in William Clancey 's classic paper, Heuristic Classification . Long-time readers may recall me mentioning this paper in a long-ago post about…
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A Note About Git Commit Messages
I want to take a moment to elaborate on what makes a well formed commit message. I think the best practices for commit message formatting is one of the little details that makes Git great. Understandably, some of the first commits to rails.git have messages of the really-long-line variety, and I want to expand on why…
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GameBoy Emulation in JavaScript: The CPU
In the first of this series of articles, I'll look at how a CPU can be emulated through JS, and start building an emulation core for the GameBoy console.
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PHP 5.3.3 hangs on numeric value 2.2250738585072011e-308
I stumbled upon a very strange bug in PHP; this statement sends it into an infinite loop:
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Maze Generation: Eller's Algorithm
Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more!
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Vim plugin makes Ruby blocks into text objects
Ever since learning about Vim’s text-objects I have wished that there was a way of selecting blocks in ruby code. Well, now there is. Today I am releasing a plugin that creates a custom text object for selecting ruby blocks . Merry Christmas!
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Common Mistakes as Python Web Developer
A short list of common mistakes in Python web applications in terms of security and architecture.
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Write code like you just learned how to program
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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How a Vim user converts to Emacs
For many years I thought that the heretics of the Emacs clan [1] were clearly insane – the followers of Vim were obviously following the True Path. And then I was snared by the dark side. My …
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Impact HTML5 Game Engine released
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact is now ready. It took some time, but I think it was worth it. I'm proud of what I have achieved and I hope you'll like it too.
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A crazy Ruby quine: a spinning globe.
RubyConf に参加するためには、やっぱり 山手 quine みたいに東京限定ネタは通じにくいですよね。これからは Quine もグローバルでないといけないと感じました。 でも世界的に有名な環状線とか知らないので、世界的に有名な回るものを書いてみました。 v=0000;eval$s=%q~d=%!^Lcf<LK8, _@7gj*LJ=c5nM)Tp1g0%Xv.,S[<>YoP 4ZojjV)O>qIH1/n[|2yE[>:ieC "%.#% :::##" 97N-A&Kj_K_><wS5rtWk@*a+Y5 yH?b[F^e7C/56j|pmRe+:)B "##% ::#########…
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Building blocks of a scalable webcrawler.
In my last semester as a student, I had the chance of working for an awesome company ( Acquia ) on a very interesting project. It all started with a post over at Dries Buytaert's blog. He is the CTO and co-founder of Acquia (and Mollom), inventor of Drupal, open-source celebrity and also knows a thing or two about…