Thread Pooling in Go Programming

After working in Go for some time now, I learned how to use an unbuffered channel to build a pool of goroutines. I like this implementation better than what is implemented in this post.  That being said, this post still has value in what it describes. https://github.com/goinggo...

Why Go Programming

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 Protips™

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”.

Gemify your assets

Rails 3.1 introduced the asset pipeline, which make it easy to include versioned external assets as application dependencies.

Turbolinks animated page transitions

Since I’ve seen the new Basecamp, I fall in love with it.

Unobtrusive JS

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Erlang

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!

UP: A Jekyll theme

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...

Things that make me dislike Java

So, I just compiled a little list of things that, I believe, make me dislike Java everyday a little more.

Rails AJAXSpin

A couple of days ago I wrote about how to build a simple and non intrusive AJAX status with CoffeeScript in RubyOnRails.