This is a wonderful poem by Walt Whitman where he explores how the formalization of science and nature robs it of it’s mystery and wonder. If you’re a programmer who has done any time at a University, you’ll recognize Whitman’s sentiment. It first appeared in the “By the Roadside” section of the standard 1892 edition […]
Someone just arrived at my blog by Googling: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THESE PEOPLE IN THE US WITH THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS A reminder of the hard problems Google’s engineers are working on.
Every primary and high school curriculum should include a mandator web programming course the same way it includes math and a first language. When’s the last time you used pythagoras? How about Euclids proof of the infinitude of primes? Both of these are popular in high school math curriculums. My sister one of the best chef’s […]
July 27, 2011 | Code | No comments
I got a question in the comments of my previous post re this, so I’m going to weigh in real quick: I’ve used CVS, Subversion (SVN) and Git and dabbled with a few commercial products. Use “git”. Here’s why: If it’s not already the most popular, it will be soon. It is used for the […]
July 24, 2011 | Code | 2 comments
I’ve been asked this question twice in the last 2 weeks by people wanting to write their first Web application. So I’m going to answer it here for anyone else interested: If you want to write Web applications you need to learn the following languages: Javascript, PHP, HTML, CSS and SQL. It sounds like a […]
July 23, 2011 | Code, perl, PHP, Technology, Which programming language | 42 comments
I thought I’d share a little moment I had recently. We rolled out a new version of Feedjit a few days ago. Nothing changed on the user interface – so no new user features. It was mostly performance enhancements on the back-end servers. The new code was the results of many weeks of research and […]
May 27, 2008 | Code | No comments
I put some cross-cluster traffic throttling in place yesterday using memcached – which rocks btw. In the last 12 hours I’ve blocked three sources – two were rogue crawlers from broadband ISP’s. The other was MSN’s live search crawler which is requesting more than 1 page per second sustained over 30 seconds. If it was […]
March 23, 2008 | Code | No comments
Another thing I googled until I was all googled out and couldn’t find an answer, so for future explorers who pass by here, here’s the fix… If you’re running munin and you suddenly notice the number of netstat passive connections is constantly increasing in a linear fashion, rest assured it’s not your server that’s busy […]
March 15, 2008 | Code | 3 comments
I’ve been uncool for some time now. In 2000 when Java was really beginning to kick ass I grabbed a Java book and wrote some code. And I decided I was getting stuff done faster in Perl so I stuck with it. I felt like a dork who was playing with his bigwheels while the […]
March 11, 2008 | Code | No comments
From the nginx docs under Known Problems: 3. Nginx may laugh at your Perl code and hit on your girlfriend.
March 6, 2008 | Code | No comments