ElegantCode

A software blog

22 Jun
2011

Why Software Development Will Never be Engineering

I always find it rather interesting when academics try to quantify generalized metrics about software development. Things like: per lines of code, there will be X number of bugs. Statements like: it has been empirically proven that “blah” affects the development of software in some way “blah.” These are all interesting thoughts, but software development […]

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21 Jun
2011

Exploring CoffeeScript Part 1 – And Then There Was Coffee

Those of you who have been reading this blog lately know that I?m quite enthusiastic when it comes to JavaScript. As the common behavioral language of the web, JavaScript has been making its way into other aspects of application programming over the last couple of years, notably with server-side frameworks like Node.js and NoSQL databases […]

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18 Jun
2011

Git on Windows: Creating a network shared central repository.

I was doing some basic Git training for a customer this past week and they asked about how to setup their repositories to push/pull from a network share. I thought it would be simple and we spent a few minutes in class trying to accomplish it. We stopped trying in class and I took it […]

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18 Jun
2011

Nancy on Hanselminutes and the awesome community behind it

A week ago I was invited to participate in he Hanselminutes postcast by Scott Hanselman to talk about Nancy and Micro Web Framework. The recording for episode #270 can be found at Nancy, Sinatra and the Explosion of .NET Micro Web Frameworks with Andreas Håkansson I had a great time talking to Scott, who is […]

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15 Jun
2011

Jetty Startup Problems Due to Entropy

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On the MMO I’m working on, we do quite a bit of service monitoring via jetty.  Things like having a URL that reports back version information for a component, or a page full of statistics showing recent activity, or a way to trigger a self-check in a component to determine if the component is sane […]

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