Design

In today’s post I’ll cover some of the potential use cases for AWS DynamoDB, why you might want to use it or not. ...

A quick tip post on using Knockoutjs to create a certain type of common web UI component. The short and sweet summary is that I’ll show how to create a shuttle control using two select boxes that are bound to arrays of Javascript objects (instead of simple value types) using Knockoutjs. Before getting to that though I’ll provide some background on the various component used to create the UI. ...

So you have a lot of data from something. What’s happens next? Where does the data go after point of capture? The data in question could be analytics gathered from application performance, click logs from a website, search data from a search engine, traffic flow data from a state agency’the point being that there is a lot of it. The given examples share use cases with some of the things covered by the much abused phrase “big data”, this post will touch on that concept lightly. The main point of today’s post though is to briefly cover one approach to thinking about how to store a bunch of data whatever it happens to be. ...

A short post on the priorities of hobby projects, 1st draft projects, final production grade applications. As per the post tag the below is only 1/4 serious and 3/4 for fun. Hobby / 1st drafts: Novelty (Can I use this new shiny thing?) Performance (Can I make this new shiny thing go faster too??) Reliability (Oh yeah–it fails sometimes, but I just restart it.) Correctness (Wait you mean it was supposed to solve problem X and not problem Y???) As in: I want to try something new that’s fast, usually works, and normally returns me the right thing (for what I thought I was solving). ...

In this post we’ll discuss what it means for a piece of software to be done (if ever) and some of the implications of that. ...