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War Card Game in Python
12/02/2012 python(48)A simple implementation of the war card game in Python, made for an interview some time back.
Reflection on RethinkDB
12/02/2012 rethinkdb(1)I spent a couple of hours reading up on and working through an example project using RethinkDB, and it seems like a great tool, as long as its performance and scalability stories prove themselves out with large scale usage.
Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder
11/26/2012 software-engineering(11)management(4)One of the most destructive ideas is that you can dig out of a hole by doing what you're already doing, but doing it harder. This doesn't work, but it does breed and kill your heroes, and alienate everyone else.
Configuration Driven Behavior
11/25/2012 software-engineering(11)architecture(6)As the SocialCode engineering team pursues building technical leverage, one of the ideas we've been exercising is configuration driven behavior. This post discusses what configuration driven behavior entails, and why we think it's a useful idea.
Extraction: Get Metadata from HTML Documents
11/23/2012 python(48)extraction(1)As part of a toy project I'm playing with I needed to extract titles, summaries and images, so I threw that together as the extraction library.
Social Hierarchies in Engineering Organizations
11/04/2012 software-engineering(11)management(4)When things get bad, people start complaining about percieved social hierarchies. Few things piss off the already angry engineer like knowing they're less important than an architect.
Creating Multi-Worksheet Excel Docs with xlwt
11/04/2012 python(48)excel(1)xlwt is a great little Python module, this tutorial walks through the steps of using it to create a multi-worksheet Excel with cross-referencing formulas.
Building Technical Leverage
11/04/2012 software-engineering(11)architecture(6)The aim of a development group is to build business value. Building technical leverage is the focus on increasing the business value a development group delivers over time.
Hosting a Paper Reading Group
10/28/2012 software-engineering(11)management(4)Once again we're experimenting with a paper reading group for our engineering team, this time with more success than previously, albeit in an unintended direction.
Why Pagination Was Hard at Digg
08/25/2012 digg(3)Can Duruk wrote up some tips from his experience at Digg, and one of them was about pagination. Let's talk about that.
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