I recently needed to run a Windows application (TurboTax Business) on my Macbook. I know about Parallels, dual boots, etc but those either cost money or seemed like too much work. Based on my experience with the incredible pain of getting a modern … [Read more]
Take a Detour, Love Your City
Last week, Andrew Mason, founder and former CEO of Groupon, launched a new company. The company, Detour, makes “immersive, location-aware audio walks”. Just like Uber turns your GPS-enabled smart-phone to your personal driver, Detour turns your phone … [Read more]
Learning ClojureScript and Om
I missed a few weeks (months?) of writing about my learning sprints, because I've been way out of the routine that let me do independent work. At the end of April, I went to RailsConf in Chicago and had tons to process from everything I learned … [Read more]
Fast Rails Tests Through Behavior Verification
[This was originally posted on Manilla's tech blog, which is no longer up. RIP Manilla] Most Rails developers have a love/hate relationship with their tests. We love testing, we love writing tests, we love the confidence that a robust test suite … [Read more]
Software Talks for the Ages
Sturgeon's law applies to talks. Despite the best efforts of conference organizers and speakers, most talks about software are too narrow, to vague, too detailed, too specific to the time when they were given. (Don't anyone take offense, I've given … [Read more]
Pedestal Tutorial Part 2 – Notes and Thoughts
I finished working through the 2nd half of the Pedestal App tutorial (see my notes on the first half) and I continue to be very impressed with it, especially when you consider that it's at version 0.2. Rather than switch to another topic for my next … [Read more]
Pedestal Lightning Talk Notes
Tonight I gave a lightning talk about Pedestal at the San Francisco ClojureScript meetup. I'm still working through the tutorial so my understanding and experience are both limited, but this was a good chance to gather my thoughts. Most people … [Read more]
Pedestal Tutorial Part 1 – Notes and Thoughts
[UPDATE: Notes on Part 2] I've been working through the excellent Pedestal tutorial and I am genuinely excited about Pedestal. So excited about @pedestal_team - the last time I was this excited about a new technology was Ruby on Rails in 2005. … [Read more]
Notes on Web Apps in Clojure+ClojureScript with Pedestal
My study project for the month is the Pedestal web app library by Cognitect. I've mentioned it before, but it's worth repeating: the best page to understand what Pedestal is for is What I’ve Learned About Making ClojureScript Applications With … [Read more]
Sprint Continuation – Pedestal
I continued working on the Pedestal Tutorial this week. I'm going to continue working on it for the next 2 weeks. I'm about halfway done with Part 1. I ran into some problems on Simulating Service Push, where it wasn't recognizing a method in one … [Read more]