This post is a little overdue :( In June I presented at QCon NYC on using GPUs. It was a great chance to catch up on all the changes to C and C++ that I have missed out on in recent years. You can …
After watching Clang MapReduce – Automatic C++ Refactoring at Google Scale I was struck with the idea that this could help with the upgrade problem. Almost every application uses libraries. …
Refactoring is a key practice to improved code hygiene. Making refactoring part of your next project is one thing but if you have just joined a team or project with a significant amount of debt how do …
oh-my-zsh is framework for managing zsh configuration. The default configuration adds some interesting enhancements. The following shows all the Java files in the current and sub directories. ls …
Yesterday I presented a talk entitled Introduction to Continuous Delivery at AgileDC. The audience was great and the room packed which is always a recipe for success. I really enjoyed talking about …
I am really syched about talking at AgileDC tomorrow. The topic of my talk is an Introduction to Continuous Delivery
Small systems grow with success. As these systems grow they often take on more and more functionality either directly into the main system component or into sub-systems. As the systems grow in …
Reverse proxies have been around for a very long time and depending on your application either interesting additions or a key element to your architecture. Despite their long history I was recently …
I have always been interested in text processing systems. This is probably rooted in the time that I discovered computing and programming. At that time the state of the art was ROFF (T)ROFF and a …
During a recent discussion about open source development we wondered how long these projects lasted. In particular if there was a rapid drop off in activity. One of the great things about recent open …