For the past 20 years I have been writing server based and application software on the Microsoft stack. First in C/C++ leveraging the Win32 API and then in C# when .Net first was released. Over the past few months I have realized that trying to build scalable code on the Microsof...
Git has a lot of features, and I bet that 90% of who use it (including me) doesn’t know half of them. Well, maybe, someday, one of those “unknown features” can “save your life”. So, I decided to compile a small list of useful git commands, tips and t...
Rails 3.1 introduced the asset pipeline, which make it easy to include versioned external assets as application dependencies. Probably you will find almost any JS library you want, already Gemified, but, if it is not the case, you can Gemify those libraries by your own, and I can...
Since I’ve seen the new Basecamp, I fall in love with it. It’s fast, had sleek animations in page changes and so on. Well, I put one thing in my head: “if they can, I can”. So I worked. Can get a really good speed with a 1Gb RAM + SSD HD from DigitalOcean...
One of the principles of Unobtrusive JS is the “separation of functionality (the “behavior layer”) from a Web page’s structure/content and presentation”. A small example: <a href="#" onclick="SomeObj.someAction(2)">Do some actio...
So, I just bought “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks”. I’ve read the Ruby chapter, not big deal at all, so I slipt it. I also skip Io, Prolog and Scala (for now), and then, fall in Erlang! I’ll explain it better another day, but, as you may know, Erlang is a...
After a while using Jekyll Bootstrap, I just realized that it was so much bloated. Then, few days ago, I forked the old Zach Holman’s blog, and started to tweak my own theme based on theirs (that now is opensource). At first, I like it, but after a while, I just start think...
So, I just compiled a little list of things that, I believe, make me dislike Java everyday a little more. This is not a hateful flamewar-guided post. Just my thoughts about a subject. Java has a lot of good points. Starting with community, specs, lot of libraries and so on. I use...
A couple of days ago I wrote about how to build a simple and non intrusive AJAX status with CoffeeScript in RubyOnRails. I decided to use my spin in more projects, so, I just gemified it. It is really very simple to use and looks nasty =) You can check the installation steps here...
My desktop Well, it has been a while since I replaced my old (but gold) bash by the great zsh. Anyway, I have my personal computer and my job computer, and, like almost every developer, I create aliases and scripts for everything I have to do repeatedly. Automate all the things!...