Recently, I finished migrating this blog from WordPress to Pelican, a Python-based static site generator. Instead of manually converting dozens of posts, I built a collection of Python scripts to automate the extraction and conversion process. The …
read moreWhat: Shading is the process of making two versions of a dependency available at compile time to Java code.
Why: Two versions of a dependency otherwise will “shadow” or conflict with each other on the classpath if they share the …
read moreWhat: The Bazel sandbox is an isolation mechanism that ensures targets only have visibility of specified files.
Why: The sandbox ensures Bazel targets are compiled and tested with exactly the same files across different build hosts, enabling hermetic …
read moreCurrency inputs seem to be a forgotten area of standard libraries. Even the batteries included .NET MVC framework doesn’t really answer the question for you. They often are omitted completely, and the community variants are many and buggy. This soup of conflicting standards over a very basic problem brings …
read moreI’ve recently gotten a new project where I’m having to pick up a slew of new skills, including Facebook’s React JS library. As with learning any new library, it can be easy to get “tutorialized”, but harder to get truly proficient. Effectively you need to move to …
read moreNot too long ago a Internet of Things (IoT) startup posted a impassioned piece on how their cloud provider had changed their billing procedures, and nearly drove the startup out of business. They had put significant functionality behind a cloud provider, given themselves no way to update their products, no …
read moreWhen I taught at my local community college, I could identify my best students quickly.
They were on time.
They showed up on time. They did the homework on time.
They had prepared for class ahead of time. They read the chapter before class. They had reliable transportation. They were …
read moreI recently had a project that had me delving into the following blog post on assembly versioning: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jjameson/2009/04/03/best-practices-for-net-assembly-versioning/
The blog post had a couple of problems. The first that came to mind was that the linked examples were using Team Foundation …
read moreWhen I wrote previously about refactoring I introduced the clean coding concepts of creating a table of contents , removing duplicated instructions , and never remembering more than is required .
There often isn’t much disagreement from developers over removing duplicated instructions . Never remembering more than is required sometimes conflicts with style …
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