Matt Brubeck: Planet Matt

Bookmarks: Potion, a Short Pamphlet

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:09:25 +0000

A programming language by why the lucky stiff.

Asides: 10 minutes from Seattle: "Are we in Portland yet? Why are we not there yet?"

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:02:35 +0000

10 minutes from Seattle: "Are we in Portland yet? Why are we not there yet?"

Bookmarks: Startup Law 101

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:31:35 +0000

"For early-stage startups and their founding teams."

Bookmarks: Google Code Blog: Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series: Suggestions for Better Performance

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:04:59 +0000

"A few small things you can do to improve performance of your HTML5-based applications. Our focus here will be on performance bottlenecks related to the database and AppCache."

Bookmarks: Official Google Research Blog: Google Fusion Tables

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:26:03 +0000

Looks like a new competitor to blist/Socrata: "You can upload tabular data sets and share them with your collaborators or with the world. You can choose to share all of your data with your collaborators, or keep parts of it hidden."

Bookmarks: Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Android Scripting Environment

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:01:11 +0000

"Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Lua and BeanShell are currently supported, and we're planning to add Ruby and JavaScript support, as well."

Bookmarks: Describing the Habits of Mind

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:23:00 +0000

"They are the characteristics of what intelligent people do when they are confronted with problems, the resolutions to which are not immediately apparent."

Bookmarks: Xerox PARC's Bayou Project

Fri, 29 May 2009 17:51:28 +0000

"The Bayou system was designed to support collaboration among users who cannot be or choose not to be continuously connected."

Bookmarks: .: Quirkey.com :: Code :: Sammy :: Quirkey NYC, LLC :: Aaron Quint :: Web Developer :: Brooklyn, NY :.

Mon, 25 May 2009 20:17:46 +0000

"Sammy is a tiny javascript framework built on top of jQuery inspired by Ruby’s Sinatra." Looks like a nice lightweight alternative to JMVC, at a tiny fraction of the size (3 KB gzipped).

Bookmarks: Flare - GREE Labs

Mon, 25 May 2009 20:12:43 +0000

Yet another DHT, with memcached interface and Tokyo Cabinet back-end, and a fairly complete replication/partitioning/proxy/failover system. I think it's just highly-specialized OCD that keeps me cataloguing these at this point.

Bookmarks: js-test-driver - Google Code

Sun, 24 May 2009 02:55:00 +0000

"The goal of JsTestDriver is to build a JavaScript test runner which: 1. easily integrates with continuous builds systems and 2. allows running tests on multiple browsers quickly to ease TDD style development." Developed by two Google engineers.

Bookmarks: Changes to JavaScript, Part 1: EcmaScript 5

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:21:39 +0000

Google TechTalk slides and video.

Bookmarks: Seattle Public Utilities -- Natural Lawn Care

Sun, 10 May 2009 18:18:34 +0000

Bookmarks: fabien's minigems at master - GitHub

Mon, 04 May 2009 16:11:51 +0000

"A lightweight drop-in replacement for rubygems to facilitate faster loading of gems as well as reducing memory consumption considerably."

Bookmarks: Prgmr.com brand Xen VPS

Mon, 04 May 2009 03:25:16 +0000

From $4/month for 64MB/1.5GB.

Bookmarks: Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:39:16 +0000

"This is the Hg-Git plugin for Mercurial, adding the ability to push to and pull from a Git server repository from Hg." From the folks at GitHub.

Asides: started working on Project Euler again. Just hit Level 2!

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:43:12 +0000

started working on Project Euler again. Just hit Level 2!

Asides: I got at call at 3am asking me to "restart the database please." It was a wrong number. Man, I do not miss that at all.

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:40:22 +0000

I got at call at 3am asking me to "restart the database please." It was a wrong number. Man, I do not miss that at all.

Reading: Language Mavens, Tool Mavens

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:38:48 +0000

Shared by Matt Brubeck

So true. I'm a language maven, but most of my co-workers are tool mavens.

Oliver Steele writes about the divide between language mavens and tool mavens. In short, if you use a fancy IDE like IntelliJ but an older language like Java, you’re a tool maven. If you use a fancy language like Ruby but a minimalist editor like vim or TextMate, then you’re a language maven.

You’ll probably find the habits of the opposite camp fascinating, like watching a National Geographic documentary about the native peoples of some far-away land. I suspect the two groups have much they can learn from each other.

Weblog: 11 Mar 2009

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:06:10 +0000

position:fixed in Android Webkit

Good news for mobile web developers! In the latest development build of Android ("cupcake"), WebKit supports iPhone touch events and CSS3 animations/transforms. This means that Richard Herrera's iPhone fixed positioning hack will soon work Android too.

The WebKit CSS Animation demos also work, but lack of hardware acceleration in Android makes them painfully slow compared to the iPhone.

Weblog: 5 Mar 2009

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:16:16 +0000

Async Map and Fold in JavaScript

My latest experiment is an implementation of asynchronous/parallel "map" (and other array functions) in JavaScript and Oni. Oni is a "structured concurrency language" embedded in JavaScript. For my source code and commentary, see oni-map at GitHub. You can leave comments at GitHub too.

All this time reading Real World Haskell must really have warped my brain if a simple testing framework for a JavaScript program has got me thinking about higher-order functions and concurrency semantics...

Photos: Otters

nobody@flickr.com (mbrubeck) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:57:49 +0000