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Erlang Brush for SyntaxHighlighter
09/15/2009 erlang(20)pitance(3)syntaxhighlighter(1)While adding SyntaxHighlighter support to Pitance, I went ahead and put together a very simple Erlang brush.
Pitance: Template and Snippet Infrastructure
09/13/2009 beepbeep(6)pitance(3)After several months of work, it is finally time to take the curtain off of Pitance. Pitance is an infrastructure for sharing and managing reusable templates and snippets, including a command-line client and an HTTP/JSON API.
Load Balancing Across Erlang Process Groups
09/12/2009 erlang(20)A quick look at a slightly novel solution for balancing load across process groups when building Erlang systems.
Changing Mimetypes for Text Responses in BeepBeep
09/03/2009 beepbeep(6)A quick post on how to change mimetype in BeepBeep micro-framework for Erlang.
Paper Review of "Hints On Computer System Design"
08/21/2009 software-engineering(11)computer-science(5)My second paper review, in which I review Butler Lampson's Hints on Computer System Design, an excellent paper which takes a look at a variety of hints for good software engineering.
Paper Review of "A Transaction Model"
08/18/2009 software-engineering(11)computer-science(5)transactions(1)Here is my first attempt at putting together some thoughts on a computer science paper, in this case Jim Gray's A Transaction Model from 1980. It is an excellent paper which pushed me to think about my current work project in a broader light, and also inspired some ideas about potential future side-projects to experiment with.
Success and Dancing Shoes
07/31/2009It's been a strange couple of weeks; perhaps even a strange couple of years. But the dancing shoes are still on, dancing for position, and waiting for luck.
Several Approaches to Versioning Files in PHP
07/28/2009 php(2)Another problem I ran into at work recently is how to include versioned static files into a PHP frontend. Here I take a look at a couple of possible approaches, although neither of them are particularly overwhelming in their beauty, they seem to be workable.
Distinguishing Strings from Lists in Erlang
07/24/2009 erlang(20)A quick look at the very very simple solution I have arrived upon for distinguishing between strings and lists in Erlang.
Freebase Hackday and Image Game
07/12/2009 freebase(1)acre(1)I had a great time at Freebase Hackday 2009, and got to work with some of the Metaweb team to put together a simple Image Game which allows users to discover images for locations which haven't yet had an image associated with them.
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