http://nickelcode.com penny for your thoughts, nickel for your code Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:42:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://nickelcode.com/2008/12/23/happy-holidays/ http://nickelcode.com/2008/12/16/an-idea-scripted-c-for-aspnet-development/ [update]: Some clarification (in it's favor!) on Mnesia's limitations thanks to commenter Gleb Peregud "The Cloud". Infrastructure as a resource. Whether or not you've bought into the hype (or HiPE as you prefer :D ) some of the largest software/IT companies in the world are throwing piles of cash at this idea of a hardware-service. But, for the purposes of new web applications that are looking to take advantage of hardware scaling to meet demand, there's a lot of work to be done. For a quick roundup on some of the issues facing web applications with the EC2 platform you can check out Tony Arcieri's Post on Rails with EC2. Just as Tony Points out in his article, Erlang has a lot of tools ready made for these demands, and, with the added side benefit of proven stability/scalability in intense environments, it's certainly worthy of some consideration for your next cloud ready app.]]> http://nickelcode.com/2008/12/15/erlang-and-cloud-computing-a-fine-pair-indeed/ http://nickelcode.com/2008/12/12/functional-programming-is-harder-than-object-oriented-programming/ here. Since I graduated from college, I've sort of stuttered and started when it came to coding in my free time. I knew that I loved to problem solve, and I got great satisfaction out if that aspect of programming (its why I do it for a living), but that didn't seem to be enough to keep me interested for more than a few weeks/months. I'd always get tired of it, and wonder how the people doing crazy things like hacking the Linux kernel kept at it. For years no less! What follows are a few observations on how to keep programming fun when you're doing it in your free time.]]> http://nickelcode.com/2008/12/08/developing-for-fun-some-observations/ delicious-user-top So if you stopped by last week you saw that I hacked together the github-repos javascript plugin for my new forum, erlanguid, to pull a users github repo information and display it in their posts. It was so easy that I got kind of plugin happy and decided to do a few more for my forum. The latest pulls the users top links for a given tag or tags from Delicious.com. Here's how to use it!]]> http://nickelcode.com/2008/12/06/delicious-user-top-javascript/ In the commit you'll notice that there are two files that got changed. The output for the Textile, and adding the gem to the environment.rb. Other than that all I had to do was install the gem in both dev and production, and unpack it in production. This is certainly a short post, but I have to say that when you've used Rails enough to know exactly what to do in a given situation, that "todo" ends up being a very light undertaking. Make no mistake, Rails is the framework of the future.]]> http://nickelcode.com/2008/12/05/adding-textile-to-happenings-with-redcloth/ happenings for deployment (learning capistrano), I put together a really nice presentation on SharePoint basics for my user group, and also because I've been putting together a new forum! [...]]]> http://nickelcode.com/2008/12/05/erlanguidcom-coming-along-nicely/ GitHubBadge javascript pluggin into my new forum, erlanguid.com, I decided to create my own version that will work with multiple possible elements in the page (as is necessary in a forum). It should be noted that I am by no means a javascript expert and I used Dr. Nic's pluggin as reference for some of my code. Credit where credit is due: Thanks Dr. Nic! Via some jQuery 1.2.6 goodness and a little bit of elbow grease, I seem to have it working alright. I'll quickly walk you through the code and how to make use of it should you so desire! ]]> http://nickelcode.com/2008/11/27/github-repo-information-in-your-webpages/ brand new to me when one of my clients/bosses Kris Kniaz stopped by my desk and told me about it. He pointed me at their site and at first it was a little vague what the software was trying to accomplish but about 2 minutes into reading it over I realized I was looking at C# filtering! ]]> http://nickelcode.com/2008/11/21/postsharp-filters-for-c/