Ido Green’s Web Workers: Multithreaded Programs in JavaScript (O’Reilly, 2012) is a dive into the emerging API of Web Workers. It’s a short book–at 46 pages, it may as well be a chapter from another technical book–but it’s free of fluff, and laser focused on one topic, and one topic only. But this is just […]
A Software Architect On Chris Eppstein's Coderwall: A software architect lives to serve the engineering team — not the other way around. And ten more aphorisms just like that. (tagged: Chris Eppstein software architect software engineering ) Behold the Boötes void, the spookiest place in the cosmos At io9: There is another, albeit more radical […]
Phew… a few days into Q3 before I realized that I hadn’t taken a moment to reflect. A reflection on the pace of things, perhaps? For those playing along at home: the original 2012 goals post, and the Q1 check-in post. And now… the Q2 check-in:
Requiem in the Key of Prose By Jake Kerr, at Lightspeed Magazine. Read this. 100% A+ ★★★★★. Seriously, one of the best bits of short fiction I’ve read all year. (tagged: fiction ) The Dog That Voted and Other Election Fraud Yarns Kevin Drum, writing at Mother Jones: Still, Republicans argue, anyone can obtain a […]
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part II: Working with strings Nice round-up by Peteris Krumins, with good explanations. (tagged: bash ) Shall we use Clojure A presentation by Andrew Jones. Have you heard all these points before? Hear them again. (tagged: Andrew Jones Clojure ) Guide to CSS support in email At Campaign Monitor. Looks handy. (tagged: […]
I was intrigued by this recent post by Elisabeth Hubert, “Agile is Wrong for UX”. I was curious what her thoughts were on how to best fit the user experience role into an Agile project, as I haven’t seen anyone write much about this. Unfortunately, my enthusiasm waned when I came to this: Most of […]
You’re hurrying. You have somewhere to be. You need a shower first. You run into the bathroom and slam the door. You hop into the tub and turn the knobs. Someone comes into the bathroom after you. (Hadn’t you shut the door? Locked the door?) You wait for them to leave. (Are they taking a […]
I thought that I might be the target audience for this book, but I was mistaken. In the preface of Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod (O’Reilly, 2012), author Michael Snoyman describes this book as “for” two groups: The first group is long time Haskell users–already convinced of the advantages of Haskell–who are looking […]
buy Russian whiskey Clojure and Backbone.js vinyl microscope Which, to me, is funny because: (1) I don’t recall ever blogging about Russian whiskey, (2) I’ve definitely never blogged about Clojure and Backbone.js in the same breath, and (3) there were three searches for “vinyl microscope”. 1 “Search Term” Haiku is a series wherein I examine […]