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Children Should Learn Programming Along With Reading and Writing

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Karl

Boing Boing posts a TEDx talk from Mitch Resnick, of the MIT Media Lab, and creator of Scratch, and a good discussion ensued: “Kids should learn programming as well as reading and writing”. Make sure to watch the talk as … Continue reading →

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NPR posts a news app HOWTO, along with code

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Karl

NPR.org: “How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing”. Python (Flask, Fabric, Jinja) and Amazon EC2. A nice walk through with code for contribution and reuse.

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Mozilla’s Save For Later

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Karl

The team at Mozilla posted a great piece documenting their idea and design process for what may be a new feature set in Firefox: “Save For Later”.

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John Allspaw: “On Being A Senior Engineer”

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Karl

Absolutely one of the best posts on what I consider to be the responsibilities of my work and what I aspire to practice, John Allspaw has written required reading for anyone looking to become a Senior Engineer or anyone who … Continue reading →

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Storm: the Hadoop of Realtime Stream Procesing

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Karl

This presentation was great to get a peek at what Twitter’s Storm was about: YouTube: PyCon US 2012: Gabriel Grant: Related: Twitter Engineering: “A Storm is coming: more details and plans for release” GitHub: Storm

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Thought Provokers From Python’s Guido Van Rossum and Clojure’s Rich Hickey

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Karl

At Strange Loop 2011 Clojure’s Rich Hickey gave a presentation (video) on programming and simplicity that rankled some feathers and triggered a heated discussion at reddit. Duncan McGreggor, decided to contact Python’s Guido Van Rossum to interview him about his … Continue reading →

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Talk: “The Web Browser is a Transitional Technology”

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Karl

Allen Wirfs-Brock, a Mozilla Research Fellow, at YOW 2011, defined what he considers the current era of computing, and some exciting elements of where we are and where we are going in his talk “The Web Browser is a Transitional … Continue reading →

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Al Sweigart: “Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program”

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Karl

Author of “Invent with Python”, Al Sweigart, makes the case for teaching programming skills while enabling children to accomplish something, like making a game, not as an end in and of itself, in “Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program”. … Continue reading →

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Using EasyMock

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Karl

Good refreshers: IBM developerWorks: Elliotte Rusty Harold: “Easier testing with EasyMock”. Mocking in Java: jMock vs. EasyMock.

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Steve Klabnik: Nobody Understands REST or HTTP

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Karl

Steve Klabnik outlines some best practices in API design in “Nobody Understands REST or HTTP”, some of which I admit I need to follow more consistently. As he states in the end: Seriously, most of the problems that you’re solving … Continue reading →

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