Re-posted from Telia’s tech blog. What’s the deal with ClojureScript? How can you justify picking such a “niche” language? I have recently experienced a “wow” session, demonstrating the productivity gains of ClojureScript and the interactive development it enables thanks to its REPL. I would like to share the experience with you. (If you have neverContinue reading “Experience: Awesome productivity with ClojureScript’s REPL”
Recommended Readings The economics of reuse – developing code for reuse costs much more than for one need – it might cost 300% more to develop and save you 75% of work when (re)using it instead of developing from scratch (if one of the factors goes down, the other one typically goes down too). Summary:Continue reading “Most interesting links of April ’14”
I never remember what some of these HttpServletRequest methods return so here is an example:
Recommended Readings Development Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – summary: there are no rules that apply to names, do not assume anything (my favourite: 12 + 13) Nathan Marz: Principles of Software Engineering, Part 1 – Nathan has worked with Big Data at Twitter and other places and really knows the perils or large, distributed, real-time systems andContinue reading “Most interesting links of February ’14”
Recommended Readings Society HBR: Want to Build Resilience? Kill the Complexity – a highly interesting, thought provoking article relevant both to technology in particular and the society in general; f.ex.: more security features are bad for they make us behave less safely (risk compensation) and are more fragile w.r.t. unexpected events. “Complexity is a clearContinue reading “Most interesting links of December ’13”
Setting up the new Google Universal Analytics (still in beta) is not completely obvious. You normally won’t be able to send events from localhost and it will claim that “Tracking Not Installed.” Here are some tips how to use Analytics from localhost and test it.
Chrome Development Tools and similar ones are great for interactive, exploratory coding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS – but the changes aren’t persistent and the tools haven’t the power of a programmer’s editor. I’d like to be able to use a powerful editor yet be able to see changes to JS/HTML/CSS without having to save-[compile]-reloadContinue reading “Tools for Editor – Browser Integration for Interactive JS/HTML Development”
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