About This Weblog
I develop software, something I find endlessly fascinating. My current position requires me to write blog-like articles for the company's website, this blog contains all of the articles that don't quite fit with the corporate blog's topc, enterprise search. You can learn more on the about page.
All Your HBase Are Belong to Clojure
Posted on 12 Jan 2012
I’m sure you’ve heard a variation on this story before… So I have this web crawler and it generates these super-detailed log files, which is great ‘cause then we know what it's doing but it’s also kind of bad ‘cause when someone wants to know why the crawler did this...
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Java Doesn't Need to Be So Bad
Posted on 04 Dec 2011
I do a lot of Java coding and I enjoy it. I admit that there is a lot of typing, often a lot of boilerplate and getting even simple tasks done can involve too much work. Most of the tools that try to fix these problems trade one moment saved...
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Blogging With Emacs
Posted on 09 Oct 2011
I don't want to waste time explaining why I use Emacs all day, every day, and eschew more traditional development environments. Either you already use Emacs and I'm preaching to the choir or you don't and are very unlikely to read this article. I will keep it short: Emacs is...
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