If there’s one thing to know about distributed systems, it’s that they have to be designed with the expectation of failure. It’s also safe to say that most software these days is, in some form, distributed—whether it’s a database, mobile app, or enterprise SaaS. If you have two different processes talking to each…
Amber on Rails
(TL;DR: rr from git can record and replay 64-bit programs. Try it for yourself !)
Disclaimer: This software is not ready. I am using it and it is stable but I still have to make it feel great , if you have suggestions I would be glad to take them. I wrote a list of work that I will attempt in the future.
Discover why we chose AngularJS style guide for flawless code organisation and optimisation.
A post by August Lilleaas, published March 20, 2014.
Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we've built ...
One of the more interesting design challenges with go-github (and subsequently the one that results in the most questions) is the use of pointers for most all of the fields in our structs that are marshaled and passed to the GitHub API. After a fair amount of trial and error, I settled on the approach that I’m going…
An introduction to the Go context package.
When learning a new programming language, I tend to write two things with it: a language interpreter (usually a FORTH-like language or Brainfuck if I'm feeling lazy), and a HTTP server. Sometimes, just as a challenge or a way to quench my boredom, I do this even though I've been working with a particular language for…
The Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL has resulted in a fair amount of damage across the internet. The bug itself was quite simple and is a textbook case for why programming in unsafe languages like C can be problematic. As an experiment to see if a safer systems programming language could have prevented the bug I tried…
R is a very powerful open source environment for data analysis, statistics and graphing, with thousands of packages available. After my previous blog post about likert-scales and metadata in R , a few of my colleagues mentioned that they were learning R through a Coursera course on data analysis . I have been working…
Originally published on CodeGangsta on May 19, 2014. Restored here to preserve the legacy Martini/Golang archive. It’s never easy to take honest criticism, especially when the target of the criticism…
I’m trying to build a jigsaw puzzle. I wish I could show you what it will be, but the picture isn’t on the box. But I can show you some of the pieces that snapped into place this year, and try to share a context for why they mattered so much to me.
Dev build 3063 is out now, with a few small improvements. There is now an equivalent to the OSX command line tool on windows: subl.exe. While the basic functionality was previously available via just passing sublime_text.exe command line arguments, because it was a windowed application rather than a console one, it…
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
