This started out as a quick project to see about taking a component of our service and migrating it from Python to Go. We’ve been talking about migrating services from the semi-monolithic version to more loosely coupled – the general idea is to move to Thrift oriented services. We have a core component of our system …

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In the begininning there was main() and that was good. But under the surface that has changed, it’s still main() but what really happens is dynamic linking, exit handling resources… We’re even throwing garbage collection in for good luck. But, it’s still main(). Why? If you do anything that’s isn’t linear programming …

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As seen on a thread on Hacker News about Fizz Buzz and “interesting” functional ways to solve it. Realized that there are many ways to boil the ocean, but this feels like a nice compromise between data/program separation and language. Note this is using a “Bazz” variant of the FizzBuzz problem where Bazz is printed …

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One could say I’ve got too many projects with too much free time, but another way to look at things is that constant exploration can put a smile on your face. I’ve been working on a few projects: GearTracker (http://geartracker.com**)** This is my big project, which I **really need **some product marketing help on. …

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One of the big challenges is getting backbonejs and requirejs working together without jumping through lots of hoops. After reading quite a few blog posts, stackoverflow answers I finally came up with a simple canonical solution to the problem. The assumed directory layout is something like: 1static/ 2 app/ 3 config.js …

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It’s all about CoffeeScript (and quietly about Ruby). Why do people feel the need to remove punctuation? I came across the following code snippet: 1class TenFarms.View extends Backbone.View 2 constructor: -> 3 functions = _.difference _.functions(this), _.functions(TenFarms.View.prototype) 4 _.bindAll.apply _, …

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Was going to post this to stackoverflow, but the question was deleted before I posted. Turned out it was a fun exercise in writing a short program. 1def head(f_in, f_out, count=20): 2 all([not f_out.write(l2) for l2 in [line for line in f_in][:count]]) 3 4head(open('/etc/passwd'), open('/tmp/p', …

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Sitting on hold with AT&T and what I’ve really noticed is besides being on the phone with them for an hour is how customer service is handled. They’ve done everything “right” however what’s interesting is to think about how the dialog has gone as it compares to all of my training via Vail/Northstar Ski School. The …

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Was looking around for a mail handler for Tornado, found it pretty amazing that it didn’t exist. Since I’ve only written on commercial SMTP server and have been playing with just about everything in Tornado Web at this point I figured it wasn’t too much work to whip one out. So, instead of using annoying little …

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I’m sure there’s a more general title for this kind of object, but the challenge came up and here’s what I put together. The basic idea is to have a python class that only recomputes something hard when one of the attributes is modified. It doesn’t make sense to recompute on every modification, nor does it make sense …

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