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Why I like Redis
I’ve been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently. Redis is typically categorised as yet another of those new-fangled NoSQL key/value stores, but if you look closer …
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 403 posts.
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Comet is dead, long live websockets
I've just had a chance to play with the implementation of websockets in Googles Chrome browser. This post started me off. After a small am...
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How we use IRC at Last.fm
Everyone that works at Last.fm is typically connected to our IRC server. We have different channels per team, as well as a company-wide channel, and a few channels dedicated to automated monitoring.
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Magic Ink
This draft was released March 15, 2006. Please email comments to bret worrydream.com . You can also download the PDF .
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This must already exist
I encounter this feeling frequently. I have a sudden need (or idea) and I realize that such and such a tool or service must already exist. As a software engineer, I’ve learned to not let that feeling pass. Usually, it’s a chance to learn something (because usually it does exist) and sometimes it’s a chance to to build…
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Mastering The Fourier Transform in One Day
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Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge
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To erlang or not to erlang: That is the php question.
Persistent PHP processes in Erlang/OTP. “It’s so easy, in fact, that I now use it to debug WordPress functions from within Erlang.”
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Twisted Python's lead hacker discusses Tornado
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
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Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone
First mistake, drinking the CSS Kool-Aid Several weeks ago, I started designing the layout for my threaded comments on a social news site that I'm building. I had created a down and dirty layout using nested tables. It was ugly, and used nested tables but it worked. I was then paralized by guilt. I couldn't let the…
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Why PHP won
When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for com...
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The impact of language choice on github projects
Although I spend a lot of my play-time fooling about with other languages, my professional and released code consists of Python, C, C++ and, alas, Javascript. I've lived in this tiny corner of the magic garden of modern software development for 10 years, and I'm itching to strike out in a different direction for my…
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All my methods take 316 arguments, and I like it that way
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Why Did M.I.T. Switch from Scheme to Python?
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