Atomic Spin

Extracurricular Activities • Apr 05, 2012

BASIC: Cross-Platform, Cross-Generational

A brief history of BASIC and some reasons to believe it is still useful today as a beginner's language.

Developer Tools • Apr 04, 2012

Simple Remote Pairing with wemux

wemux is a script that simplifies the management of shared tmux sessions.

DevOps & System Admin. • Apr 03, 2012

Setting up BIND9 and DHCP3 on Ubuntu with Dynamic DNS

Learn how to set up a DNS/DHCP server on Ubuntu with BIND9 and DHCP3-server to perform Dynamic DNS updates, also troubleshoot common problems and errors.

Embedded Systems • Mar 30, 2012

Common C Preprocessor Mistakes

Ruby on Rails • Mar 26, 2012

A Single CI Task for Rails

Want to run database and test tasks together in continuous integration? This might help.

Developer Tools • Mar 20, 2012

Learn Vim with Spaced Repetition

Resources for using a spaced repetition algorithm to learn Vim and its commands.

Developer Tools • Mar 19, 2012

Hate-Driven Development

An inverted TDD workflow—intelligent code-editing features allow you to speculate what a test looks like and let the editor create declarations for you.

Web Apps • Mar 19, 2012

Dynamic Rails Routes with Warden Devise and Constraints

Rails recently added a constraints option to routes which allows you to dynamically define routes based on the request coming in.

Embedded Systems • Mar 16, 2012

Using text.parsec.indent to Parse an Indentation-Sensitive Language with Haskell’s Parsec Library

An example of using Text.Parsec.Indent to parse an indentation-sensitive language in Haskell using Parsec.

Embedded Systems • Mar 15, 2012

Simple Fixed-Point Math

A quick introduction/tutorial on simple fixed-point math.

Web Apps • Mar 14, 2012

Node.js and Asynchronous Programming with Promises

Using promises in Node.js development can help you avoid callback hell when you inevitably have to deal with I/O bound operations.

Functional Programming • Mar 13, 2012

Some Notes on Clojure Performance

Laziness is amazing. As Debasish Ghosh explained on his blog, laziness lets you effectively reify and compose loops.