Javascript-off Unfriendly, And Proud About It
Your site should work even with javascript turned off, they say. I strongly disagree. First, it is a lot of effort to make a function-heavy site work without javascript. You’veContinue reading
Runtime Classpath vs Compile-Time Classpath
This should really be a simple distinction, but I’ve been answering a slew of similar questions on Stackoverflow, and often people misunderstand the matter. So, what is a classpath? AContinue reading
Keep As Much Stuff As Possible In The Application Itself
There’s a lot of Ops work to every project. Setting up server machines, and clusters of them, managing the cloud instances, setting up the application servers, HAProxy, load balancers, databaseContinue reading
Replacing a JSON Message Converter With MessagePack
You may be using JSON to transfer data (we were using it in our message queue). While this is good, it has the only benefit of being human-readable. If youContinue reading
Programming Puns
Though not strictly puns, I tried to make them sort-of funny: – What are you doing on this bench with a bank slip and a marker? – Benchmarking our transactions.Continue reading