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  What’s In Chris’ Brain – Christmas 2009 Edition

  12.22.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  With Christmas quickly approaching, it’s time to dump all the junk rattling around in my head and into the blog. I hope you have a great holiday season.
  Concurrency is coming, better be ready

  The Continuation Mondad in Clojure. Even if you hate Lisp (I’m looking at you, Kevin) or don’t give a damn about [...]

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  What’s In Chris’ Brain – Blog Experiment Version

  11.26.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I had a few drinks last night with my fellow Milton-area PHP developer and we got to talking about a lot of different topics. I will summarize a few of them here:

  Concurrency is still drawing significant interest from me

  I recommended my friend check out Tim Bray’s Concur.next series (yes, I know I’m whipping this [...]

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  The Scary Future World I Will Program In

  11.12.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  A lot of the reading I have done on the Internet in the last few years has led me to the following conclusions about the future world I will be programming in:

  It will require manipulating exponentially more data than now
  It will require you to understand both parallel processing and concurrency (although to this simple programmer’s [...]

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  Next-Gen Work Projects

  11.05.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  We are contemplating the next generation of our XML feed processing applicatioin and discussing what technologies we want to use. Personally, I was pushing for Twisted because of it’s support for concurrency and, well, it’s Python. The main dev on the project (it is currently a Perl application) likes Java, as does our [...]

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  Open Source Is Really About Documentation – Twisted vs. Tornado

  09.14.09 | Permalink | 27 Comments

  I think I can give you an executive summary of this blog post: if the documentation for an open source project sucks, nobody but the most hardcore developers will use it.

  What has prompted this incredibly brilliant stating-of-the-obvious? The reaction by those in the Twisted community over Facebook’s pre-emptive strike in the non-blocking Python-based [...]

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Facebook should've be written in unicornSchemaLang, because everyone *knows* that PHP is no good for anything, right?

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