Some great links for 05/17/2019
Interesting account of all the ways that SQL sucks and of course a proposed fix!
A really fun project! I wonder if this could be for an independent study?
tags: gazebo ROS balance model robotics
A very useful list of depth cameras.
tags: camera depthcamera robotics
Some suggested best practices when designing URLs for REST apis
tags: rest api design best practices
Some obscure fun facts about Unix time
tags: programmers unix esoterica time
Some great links for 05/16/2019
A great analysis of this terrible example of the impact of bugs
tags: software 737 bugs testing airplane warstories quality
This article answers a question that I get frequently from my students.
Some great links for 05/10/2019
Good introduction to Cloud Computing and Machine Learning
tags: elasticity scalability machinelearning
Another crazy useful tool for programmers.
tags: utilities search tips cli file
If you’re getting a web api to work, this seems like a great alternative,
tags: cli utilities http web tools Rest
Some good pointers in here!
tags: tips utilities tools productivity cli
Some great links for 05/07/2019
Pretty cool way to instrument rails code. Not sure how performant it is though.
tags: rails instrumentation monitoring
Some great links for 05/06/2019
Useful gem to have in your toolbox.
Another nice trip through upgrades to Rails for 6.0
Some great links for 05/02/2019
Unusual article not about computers, still with some excellent lessons.
tags: competence checklists normalization
Ok there are a million posts like this but this one had a few ideas I wanted to remember
A whole bunch of very useful cases and how to do them with git.
Some great links for 04/24/2019
Interesting to see a brand new language come out of research.
Some great links for 04/23/2019
Joe Armstrong is a famous person in Erlang circles. He passes away yesterday.
tags: OO oop object oriented
Some great links for 04/22/2019
Combining multiple services in a container makes local development easier.
Good tips on basic dB optimization. Especially for Heroku and Postgres
tags: optimizing rails performance scalability database scaling scale
Direct competition to Codeclimate
Another interesting article about formatting and plugins
tags: code formatting engineering ruby rubocop
New cool feature in ruby?
Some great links for 04/17/2019
This really works! I've been experimenting with full text search in postgres with Heroku and there's a fair amount of documentation around.
tags: fulltext postgres performance ruby scale