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Let Nunes Do It 19 Apr 2013 | 12:20 am
In which I release Nunes to a soon-to-be-more-instrumented world.
An Instrumented Library in ~30 Lines 24 Jan 2013 | 01:00 am
lmao if you don’t make it easy for users of your library to log, measure and graph everything.
Booleans are Baaaaaaaaaad 10 Oct 2012 | 10:10 pm
In which I encourage the use of state machines because they rock.
Four Guidelines That I Feel Have Improved My Code 6 Jul 2012 | 03:00 am
I have been thinking a lot about isolation, dependencies and clean code of late. I know there is a lot of disagreement with people vehemently standing in both camps. I certainly will not say either s...
Misleading Title About Queueing 6 Mar 2012 | 06:00 am
I don’t know about you, but I find it super frustrating when people blog about cool stuff at the beginning of a project, but then as it grows, they either don’t take the time to teach or they get all ...
More Tiny Classes 7 Feb 2012 | 02:00 am
My last post, Keep ’Em Separated, made me realize I should start sharing more about what we are doing to make Gauges maintainable. This post is another in the same vein. Gauges allows you to share a ...
Keep 'Em Separated 5 Feb 2012 | 08:00 am
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What a Year 2 Jan 2012 | 08:00 am
The last 12 months have been nuts. My health and professional/personal life were completely at odds. Between January and August, I had three hernia surgeries. As if that wasn’t enough for one year, t...
Acquired 6 Dec 2011 | 07:00 am
Several times over the past few years, I have stated that GitHub is probably the only other place I could see myself working. Today, it is official. All of Ordered List has joined GitHub. Maybe somed...
Creating an API 2 Dec 2011 | 04:00 am
A few weeks back, we publicly released the Gauges API. Despite building Gauges from the ground up as an API, it was a lot of work. You really have to cross your t’s and dot your i’s when releasing an ...
