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Routing for a Singleton Resource on Rails 2
The routing solution to a singleton resource on Rails 2
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Objective-J
The guys behind 280 Slides have released a new open source extension to the Javascript language known as Objective-J and a new Javascript framework... more »
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How To Use Custom Classes (AS2)
"People often say they’ve read tutorials and they still don’t get it. I understand - when I’m learning something for the first time I often find... more »
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A Review - Painting the Web
A book review of Painting the Web, a primer on SVG and Canvas animation
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VS2005 & VS2008 compatible project files
Getting a project file to work in both VS2005 & VS2008 can be a challenge. All you need to do is add IDE version specific lines and there you go!
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Write a Hadoop MapReduce job in any programming language
Hadoop is a Java-based distributed application and storage framework that's designed to run on thousands of commodity machines. You can think of it as... more »
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Javascript: Implicit variables are global
When, within a function, you assign a value to a variable you are not declaring, Javascript implicitly declares it as a global variable, making it... more »
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John Resig - JavaScript Benchmark Quality
JavaScript Benchmarks aren't adapting well to the rapid increase in JavaScript engine performance. I provide some simple tests for verifying this and... more »
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From Photoshop to code - step 1, analyzing the original design
In this entry i’m going to talk about the first step in the process of taking the UI definitions from your designer and converting them to a live... more »
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Ruby: Evil hook methods?
I have come to realize that there are a few hook methods I really don’t like in Ruby. Or actually, it’s not the hook methods I have a problem with -... more »
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Java arrays and primitive types should (perhaps) be deprecated
I have been brushing up on my Java skills this year. For 2 years I did mostly Ruby and Common Lisp development. I think that Lisp is a great research... more »
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The Liskov Substitution Principle for "Duck-Typed" Languages
OCP and LSP together tell us how to organize similar vs. variant behaviors. I blogged the other day about OCP in the context of languages with open... more »
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Writing Mahou; a Cappuccino Image Search
I spent most of the day getting to know Cappuccino and developing a simple but slightly interesting application with it. First I'll quickly skim over... more »
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Professional Deployment and Operation of Web Applications
How professional IT organizations save time and money in deployment and operation of web applications.
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Software Development - Who should be the brand ambassdor ?
Here are some of my personal recommendation if we consider people from "real" world for some of the languages,tools and methodologies we use daily ... more »
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How to throw checked exception? or how Generics broke java?
java Generics was born in sin, but it also breaks java exception model.
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NeverBlock: Non-Blocking Database Adapters
NeverBlock is a library, using Ruby 1.9 fibers that allows developers to write non-blocking, concurrent code in a transparent manner.
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Possibly The Best Way To Be A Great Programmer: Be Brain-Healthy!!
I am a programmer, therefore my brain is my most important tool to invest in.
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How to randomly reorder an ArrayList and refresh the ComboBox contents at runtime
In this short article, we will take a look at how to randomly reorder an arraylist and update the contents of the ComboBox at runtime, each time the... more »
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CSS shadows - A drop shadow roundup
A comprehensive listing of CSS and JavaScript techniques to create browser based drop shadow effects.
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The New Classics of Computer Science
A look at some of the under-rated texts of Computer Science. We all know about TAOCP and SICP, but sometimes we forget about some of the lesser... more »
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forkjoin updates
An updated jsr166y package is available. The changes are mainly focused on internal reducing overhead and improving scalability.
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Why Scala?
Slides from al3x at Twitter on why they're using Scala
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