Some great links for 06/16/2019
Ten Reasons Why I Don’t Like Golang I thought I wanted to learn golang, now I am not so sure… tags: golang critique [complaints](ht...
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Ten Reasons Why I Don’t Like Golang I thought I wanted to learn golang, now I am not so sure… tags: golang critique [complaints](ht...
Read more →Enhanced Shell Scripting with Ruby Really nice summary of using ruby for scripting. tags: how to scripting ruby howto shell Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
On not using ROS for your robotics startup | The Construct Excellent article outlining the case for and against using ROS. tags: ROS advice robotics startup Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Plotly | Make charts and dashboards online An amazing graphing and plotting web site tags: plotting charting visuals visualization Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
CSS Flexbox Nav Bar – Building a Blog, Part 1 Flex box is a newish css feature that is subtle but very useful. Of course, all of css is subtle! tags: [nav](https...
Read more →We Can Do Better Than SQL Interesting account of all the ways that SQL sucks and of course a proposed fix! tags: critique sql [Bobble-Bot](https://...
Read more →How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer A great analysis of this terrible example of the impact of bugs tags: [software](https://www.diigo.com/user/pitosalas/softwa...
Read more →Podcast: Can Machine Learning Solve the Challenges of Cloud Computing? | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) | Brandeis University Good introduction to Cloud Computing and Machine Learning tags: [...
Read more →Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with Prometheus Pretty cool way to instrument rails code. Not sure how performant it is though. tags: rails instrumentation monitoring Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
How to Schedule Cron Jobs in Ruby With the Whenever Gem Useful gem to have in your toolbox. tags: tutorial ruby [Cron](https://www.diigo.com/use...
Read more →How I Almost Destroyed a £50 million War Plane and The Normalisation of Deviance. Unusual article not about computers, still with some excellen...
Read more →Microsoft Launches Bosque: An Open Source Programming Language Interesting to see a brand new language come out of research. tags: open source programming language microsoft Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Why OO Sucks Joe Armstrong is a famous person in Erlang circles. He passes away yesterday. tags: OO oop object oriented Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Dockerize the multi-services application for local development Combining multiple services in a container makes local development easier...
Read more →textacular/textacular: Textacular exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacularwill extend ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun! This really works! I’ve been ...
Read more →Faster PostgreSQL Counting More abo!ut performance of Postgres tags: postgres performance [postgresql](https://www.diigo.com/user/p...
Read more →How do I know whether my Rails app is thread-safe or not? Quite good explanation of thread safety in Ruby apps tags: ruby threads rails threadsafe Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Maintain the “GitHub flow” with Gitpod, an online, browser IDE – JAXenter Looks quite useful if it works nicely. tags: ide online github Public Sans Could be useful! tags: font Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Hire People or Optimize Processes: A cost-benefit analysis for engineering leaders Perspective on the payback of hiring more pe...
Read more →Don’t confuse Ruby’s ‘throw’ statement with ‘raise’ (Example) Wow this is a really good one. I didn’t know and have to make sure I clear this up in my mind! tags: ruby [...
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