Musings of Performance Past I once worked in a bit of dream scenario. My job was simple: render a web page. Lots of times. Generally this involved background processing and caching, which I found to be fun
Next Big Adventure This has been a busy year! My last job gave me a crash course in management, which was a huge opportunity to learn about working with people and how to help grow developer
New Challenges Await Friday marks my last day working at nbcnews.com. I've gotten do a lot of great things, from throwing down with RavenDB to hopping on some serious Node.js bandwagons. I've even migrated
lambda calculus Practicing Functional Programming: Logic Most of what I want to write about today can be found in Chapter 3 of An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus, by Greg Michaelson. However, I'll be working through it
lambda calculus Practicing Functional Programming: Vectors I've been on a bit of a functional programming kick lately, and it's all starting to click. I came across some vector math for character movement in games, and it seemed like a
bash Finding Missing Handlebars Views Just a quick post about a solution I thought up to finding missing handlebars views in my project. grep -oEr "{{> [-a-zA-Z0-9\/_]+" ./app/server/views | grep -oE "[-a-zA-Z0-9\/_]+$" | sort
emacs Colorful Comment Markers in Emacs Earlier this year I switched to a (mostly) monochromatic theme for coding in emacs. It has been a great experiment so far. I even tried switching back to a colorful theme the other
Node.js A Toy Leveled Cache in Node.js I wanted to try an experiment around improving caching performance in Node.js while using redis. One of the ideas I came up with was to build a leveled cache that can work
Programming On Empowerment Through Declarative Programming Lately I've been pairing with my good friend, Caleb Gossler, on some atypical Node.js at work. To be honest it's not the most interesting work to talk about. Rather than go into
emacs On Running Node.js Applications in Emacs Each day I find myself integrating more and more of my workflow into emacs. This time I realized that it would be nice to be able to run my applications without having to
emacs Movement for Reading in Emacs I use the usual emacs keybindings for moving the cursor around in the buffer. Usually this is more about positioning the cursor for making edits, but more and more I find myself using
emacs Old Habits Die Hard Next up on my little emacsian adventure: changing windows. Guh! C-x o just doesn't work for me. I'm too young to have this deeply ingrained in my head. I cut my teeth on
emacs On Emacs and Node.js Testing Workflow Making it easy to lint your JavaScript is a good step, but it's pretty helpful to be able to execute your tests from within your editor. I'm on a certifiable emacs kick lately,
Node.js On Emacs and Node.js Workflow One of the things I miss most about my time in Microsoft's kool-aid pitcher is the tooling. It had this great way of making you feel nice and cozy within the bounds of
Meta Silly Mistakes Have you ever been in the middle of writing a function, and a bright idea hit you like a piano out of mid air, or suddenly interrupted by a flash mob? Me, too.
Go Go: Range is by Value TL;DR: The value for each item in a range loop is not by reference. Instead, use the index index := range foos.Bars and index to the item &foos.Bars[index]. I
GitHub Whimsy As it turns out, I'm really bad at following through with plans. I recently intended to dig through algorithms in Go, but here I find myself doing whimsical things with my time instead.
Monkey Patching in Node.js Disclaimer: I am confident enough to make my own mistakes. My advice in this post is based on my own experiences. All code in this post is for demonstrative purposes only, and should
Sort Go Algorithms: Sorts I started with Go's sort package for some inspiration on how to build the API for my implementations. It is nice to be able to look at other approaches, especially when I'm more
Studies Algorithms in Go Lately I have been learning a lot about Go. I decided a great independent study subject would be to review Algorithms, Fourth Edition in the context of Go. However, this presents a few
New Game Plus Time for a blog reboot. This time, I'll forgo the usual compulsion to build my own blogging platform. As it turns out, this is mostly a solved problem in 2014, which frees me
RavenDB RavenDB 2.0: Replication Stats The Replication bundle now includes a responder for reporting its stats. To access it, make a request to this Url on your raven server: /databases/<database>/replication/info. The response will
RavenDB RavenDB 2.0: Replication Configuration Raven Studio got some love in RavenDB 2.0. You can download an unstable build from Raven's site to check it out (which I strongly encourage). Among the many changes to the studio
RavenDB RavenDB: Learn to Use the HTTP API If you haven't spent some time with RavenDB's HTTP API, it would definitely be worth your while. Learning to query Raven directly from a URL will open a lot of doors to figuring
MapReduce Write Your Own Map/Reduce MapReduce first came to my attention while exploring RavenDB. It's a great product, and I really enjoy the way it makes you think about writing your applications. The hard thing to get used