A little bit about aspect oriented programming (AOP)
For the last few couple of years, as the hardware kept getting cheaper and more powerful, the programming languages core concern has been moved from performance to clarity and maintainability.
While in the past you had to keep asking yourself which algorithm was the best to, say, iterate over [...]
After a little more than one year of heavy code production and few innovations, although I could explore some interesting stuff like WCF and RESTful, our team finally got a time to “invent” something new. This time, we have to rewrite a legacy system (mainly a single stored procedure *arghh*) that verifies the clients with [...]
The "Beyond The Buzzwords" series is focused on giving those who are starting to write automated tests a practical overview, so that they begin to get a grasp on the mechanics of doing it. Also, to encourage those who don’t do it yet to begin doing so. That said, the idea is to not be [...]
This post is going to be the first of a series "Beyond The Buzzwords" of two (maybe three). This being a subject that has been getting some hype everywhere now doesn’t seem to be the kind of thing you would normally see here. We generally like to talk about the state of the art, and [...]
Today’s post is about more than a simple punctual matter that I’ve come across at some moment in my day to day activities or on my restless nights of endless hacking.
Despise my overall remarkable programmer geekiness, I am first and foremost a philosopher. As a consequence to that, I love to I/O - big essays [...]
This remembers me of the good ol’ crazy nonsense errors from Oracle:
The screen is all blurred to maintain privacy because that’s my work PC.
I’ve got this pretty awesome message by trying to save a file during a build. That’s the kind of thing that makes a programmer day.
Imagine the following scenario: You have a project that you just developed in your local machine and want to deploy it into the CI (Continuous Integration) and approval environments. In this project, there is a configuration file (app.config) that contains a few settings, for instance, connection strings and log file directory.
Quite common isn’t it? So, [...]
Today I’m going to show some very short snippet about posting files with ruby, and receiving them in a rails controller.
For all examples I’ll be using the rest-client gem (”sudo gem install rest-client”).
The fist thing we’re going to do is to implement a very basic file post in ruby - there is basically two methods:
You [...]
A quick tip for those who want to get a grasp on what CouchDB actually is before actually going to the trouble of setting up the whole environment (Erlang + CouchDB installation process seems to be a pain on Windows).
A friend of mine, who got all hyped about it when I told him about CouchDB [...]
It has been around 4 months that I have been playing with ruby and rails for personal projects and the fun and efficiency of working with it is pretty much awesome to say the least - specially since I love doing web applications and, even though I enjoy developing with C#, I totally hate doing [...]
