Software Development
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My Thoughts on Go
Meh I have been working on a project that needs to run as small-footprint native code. I’ve been doing C…
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Git: Going back to a specific date time and retrospective tagging
I’m a fairly happy Git user :-) It’s and excellent product and a great improvement on CVS, SVN, SourceSafe, PVCS…
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Neo4j: Finding all shortest paths
One of the Cypher language features we show in Neo4j training courses is the shortest path function which allows you…
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Revisiting the First Rule of Performance Optimisation: Effects of Escape Analysis
In an earlier post I wrote about how to start optimising for performance. If you haven’t read the post I would…
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Designing a Disruptive Technology Strategy
Growing up, my sister Christina was always interested in architecture and I wasn’t–at all. She was constantly visiting houses, churches,…
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The Product Strategy Defined
Summary Creating a successful product requires attention to the details, from getting the user interaction and the visual design right…
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Spark and Cluster Computing
In this post I’ll mention the first paper at which Spark is introduced, Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets. This post…
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Does TDD really lead to good design?
Recently I tweeted that TDD can’t lead to a good design if we don’t know what good design looks like.…
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It’s okay for academic software to suck
Bozhidar Bozhanov wrote an blog post titled “The Low Quality of Academic Code“, in which he observed that most academic…
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