Reactive programming is a concept that is finally gaining some popularity among programmers. It makes it easier to think in data flows and to manage and work with them. Instead of imperative programming, you’re thinking about code as a series of processes that take place on streams. This is similar to the conceptual shift to […]
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There comes a time in the life of every Ruby on Rails project where you and your team will end up with long running tests. Rails tests can contain factories, fixtures and lots of setup procedures before tests are executed, and all of these can contribute to major slowness in the test runs. I’ve seen […]
As part of a prototype/exploratory project in March 2016, I explored how to build a GraphQL server using Node.js and interfacing with a MongoDB database using the Mongoose library. The best reason to use GraphQL is if you have multiple frontend clients that communicate with your backend and they each have differing data needs. For […]
I was in Montreal, Canada for the PyCon Canada 2017 conference and presented on the ideas and philosophy that are present within the Python programming language. I covered how the Python language influences your coding style and how that coding style is now in the mainstream and has made its way into other programming languages. […]
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JSON C++ Tutorial
If you want to learn how to parse and generate JSON with C++ you have come to the right place. JsonCpp is a good solid C++ library to work with. The code samples below show that you can easily work with C++ and JSON files. What’s interesting about JSONCPP is that Google uses it in […]
While taking a part-time computer science class, I built a Smalltalk-based web app using the Seaside.st web framework. The project was a software prototype for a restaurant ordering system. The goal was to design a user interface that allowed a customer in the restaurant to use their iPhone or some other smart phone to quickly […]