Archive for the ‘development’ Category
Learning Go (and reflect-ing on what’s possible, too)
It’s been a few days since my last Go post; my apologies. I know everyone out there was feverishly clicking refresh. Relax my babies, there’s more content on the way. This time, we’re going to look into the reflect package, which provides the introspection support found in Go. If you’ll recall, before my last post, [...]
In: development, Go, open source
Learning Go (and serializing objects with it, too)
I had intended to make my next target the Go RPC services, simply because RPC is cool. Nothing makes me happier than pressing a button on machine A while watching the LED on machine B flash. Nothing. As I got into the RPC code, I realized that underlying data serialization was handled by the gob [...]
In: development, Go, linux, open source
Learning Go (and integrating with inotify, too)
Go provides a native interface into the Linux inotify system. What’s inotify? According to the man page, the inotify API provides a mechanism for monitoring file system events. It can be used to monitor individual files, or directories. There are a series of system calls available providing access to inotify. Here’s a quick run down of what [...]
In: development, Go, linux, open source
Learning Go (and reading Tar files with it, too)
Over the past couple of days, I’ve taken an interest in Go. I’ve gone through the bulk of the documentation. I’ve read the tutorial, the Effective Go documentation, and a collection of other works available on the documentation page. I’m really taking quite a liking to it. Why? It’s quite expressive. This was one of the [...]
In: development, Go, open source
Python 3: Object Oriented Programming
Packt has been sending me books for a bit now. Generally, I read them and post an honest review. They’ve got a track record of sending some good stuff. This time, I got a shiny new copy of Mr Dusty Phillips’ Python 3 Object Oriented Programming. This was a very well written book. Quite honestly, [...]
In: books, development, python
The 2010 Open Source Awards
Packt Publishing distinguishes top OSS projects annually via their Open Source Awards. Nominations close on September 17th, so take a minute to submit your favorite OSS project. For a bit more information, see the following link. Open Source Awards Home They’ve really turned out to be a great company to work with, so take a [...]
In: books, development, open source
KOI8-R & 7-bit ASCII
I’ve been brushing up a bit on foreign encodings over the past few days, and I came across a rather interesting property of the KOI8-R Cyrillic encoding that I wasn’t aware of. This, of course, makes sense as the vast majority of work I do is either in good ‘ol fashioned ASCII or shiny new [...]
Review: Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging
Over the past few months, I’ve gotten to know the folks at Packt publishing quite well. In addition to doing a bit of writing for them, I’ve been asked to review a small handful of books. A few weeks ago they sent me a copy of Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging, by Karen M. Tracey. [...]
In: books, development, django, python
"phrase from nearest book" meme
via http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2008/11/phrase-from-nearest-book-meme.html Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Here’s mine, from The Art of Agile Development by James Shore [...]
In: development
