
These days I’m noticing myself saying more and more frequently that Duck Typing is great, except when it’s not.
An amusing issue that briefly cropped up...
0 replies - 3372 views - 10/28/12 by Oliver Hookins in Articles

There are a lot of ways to cache data. You can cache a piece of
data, a query, a page fragment, an entire page, or an entire website.
You can cache...
0 replies - 5334 views - 10/03/12 by Dan Wilson in Articles

What could be more boring than capturing credit card data on a form? Well, it's actually not that boring -- since you may want to encrypt this particular data,...
0 replies - 2988 views - 09/24/12 by Alan Skorkin in Articles

My first chance to do serious concurrent programming was using C++ on
Windows in the 90s, on NT, where async programming was done with
IOCompletionPorts....
1 replies - 3801 views - 09/19/12 by Rob Williams in Articles

The wife is interested in learning programming so she has been doing the Code Academy
JavaScript course. It’s incredible to observe a person...
0 replies - 1071 views - 09/19/12 by Rob Galanakis in Articles

We've all heard that the only way to get good at fixing bugs in through
experience – the school of hard knocks. Experienced programmers aren’t
afraid...
1 replies - 8062 views - 09/08/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Use this Gem to programmatically take
screenshots of websites with this completely open source and free
library. We have also provided easy-to-follow...
0 replies - 2787 views - 08/09/12 by Dominic Skinner in Uncategorized

The content of this article was originally written by Adron Hall on the New Relic blog. Welcome to a double feature blog entry for Part 3. I’ve gotten a lot...
0 replies - 2061 views - 08/08/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

This is a 3 hour tutorial I wrote for and gave at OSCON 2012.
Here is the summary:
This tutorial will introduce the features of MongoDB by building a...
0 replies - 5693 views - 07/29/12 by Steve Francia in Articles

What follows is my experience with Java, PHP and Ruby. I mainly use PHP
as a dynamic language that supports duck typing but also the definition
of...
0 replies - 6351 views - 06/25/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

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The content of this article was originally posted by Thomas Risberg at the Cloud Foundry blog. JRuby Rails applications can be deployed to CloudFoundry.com...
0 replies - 5379 views - 04/19/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

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When I first started working at CashStar.com
three and a half years ago, I had heard about PCI before, but I didn't
really know what that meant. Since we...
0 replies - 7465 views - 03/19/12 by Ken Cochrane in Articles