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The Rest Of The Story 29 Nov 2011 | 05:00 pm
About a week ago, I mentioned in passing to an old co-worker on Twitter that Yammer was moving some of our stack from Scala to Java. A few days later, Donald Fischer (the CEO of Typesafe) emailed me a...
You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance 7 Oct 2010 | 03:00 pm
I’ve seen a number of distributed databases recently describe themselves as being “CA” —that is, providing both consistency and availability while not providing partition-tolerance. To me, this indica...
FOSS and Male Privilege 27 Aug 2009 | 03:00 pm
From the comments on the LWN thread, FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software: Bruce Perens Can we say that women aren’t joining because they, as a population rather than as individuals, ...
How Not To Fix A Security Bug 14 Jun 2009 | 03:00 pm
November 25th, 2008 Tadayoshi Funaba opens Bug #794 in the Ruby Issue Tracking System describing a segmentation fault when huge decimal strings are converted into BigDecimal instances. November 26th...
What Makes Jersey Interesting: Injection Providers 16 May 2009 | 03:00 pm
Ok, let’s get back to the geeky stuff. Another interesting thing about Jersey (in addition to parameter classes) is the way it uses dependency injection. Jersey doesn’t have an abstract base class f...
Ruby and Male Privilege 10 May 2009 | 03:00 pm
Act One I read this today: A female computer science professor wrote: [A]t a conference in France, a male speaker (French), who was speaking about the importance of testing, showed an overhead slid...
When Formality Works 7 May 2009 | 03:00 pm
On his blog, Yehuda Katz writes: One of the things I love the most about the Ruby community is how easy it is to try out small mutations in practices, which leads to very rapid evolution in best prac...
What Makes Jersey Interesting: Parameter Classes 2 May 2009 | 03:00 pm
For folks who have known me for a while, this may come as a bit of a shock: these days I’m spending a lot of time working with Java. And I’m having a lot of fun. lol wut No really. This is due in n...
