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.
Embedded Systems • Feb 24, 2012 TDD Comes to Arduino I want to share an example so simple, and a list of instructions so complete, that pretty much anyone can start to do TDD in embedded.
Embedded Systems • Feb 14, 2012 How to Write Good Requirements Writing good requirements is hard. Here are some tips that will hopefully make the process more clear.
Web Apps • Feb 08, 2012 CSS3 Transitions – Spicing Up DOM Changes CSS3 transitions can be a nice addition to web applications when used properly. Here are a few tips on when and how to user them.
Developer Tools • Jan 28, 2012 Less Perplexing Terminal Multiplexing with tmux As a professional problem solver, I spend a considerable portion of my day working at a command prompt within a terminal multiplexer called tmux.
Development Practices • Jan 24, 2012 Designers Are More Valuable than Programmers Insights as to how developers practice design and an assertion of the diminishing value of the "coder" mindset.
Project & Team Management • Jan 05, 2012 Practicing ‘Agile’ Doesn’t Necessarily Make You ‘agile’ Practicing ‘Agile’ Doesn't Necessarily Make You ‘agile’
UX/Design Tools • Dec 29, 2011 Puppet + Gephi: Visualizing Infrastructure as Code Gephi can be used to effectively explore Puppet resource dependency chains by visualizing a graph of relationships created by Puppet in the DOT language.
Ruby • Dec 20, 2011 Adding Client Connections and Binary Data to em-websocket Details of a recent project to augment the em-websocket gem to support client connections and binary data transfer.
Extracurricular Activities • Dec 07, 2011 Common SSD Pitfalls Solid state drives, due to being relatively immature and expensive when compared to hard drives, an ideal setup can be difficult to attain.
Embedded Systems • Dec 05, 2011 SVUnit Brings TDD to Logic Design Unit-testing and TDD could benefit logic design, since ASIC bugs are expensive to fix. SVUnit is a promising endeavor for the Verilog crowd.