Most of the open source projects we share with you on InfoQ increase the capabilities of another library or technology. MongoRepository is different in that it intentionally limits the capabilities of the underlying library. We’ll let Rob Janssen why it does this in his own words.
A General Guide to Testing New Software ProductsSo you’ve been asked to test that new version of your software product. Your colleagues on the development team have been working away for months and at long last the much-anticipated release has landed on your desk for testing.
How GameCube/Wii emulator Dolphin got a turbochargeSomething remarkable is happening with Dolphin. The GameCube and Wii emulator has been around for more than a decade now, which is a long time for an emulator to be in active development. It was born as a rough, limited GameCube emulator before growing into a bustling open source project in 2008.
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Redis cluster, no longer vaporware.Recently I’ve read a tweet from Yehuda Katz in which he suggested an interesting idea, as an alternative for using nil as a result from a method: to use a symbol instead.
Symbols: The New Return Codes? (Pt. 2)In this previous post we’ve considered the benefits and inconveniences of using nil and symbols as return values in a method. Now we’ll evaluate the possibility of throwing an exception, and yet another alternative: using a closure.
move fast & break nothingI've given a lot of talks and written a lot of blog posts about software development and teams and organizations. Probably one way to sum them all up is: more communication.
Heavybit Library — Amber FengHey guys. Thanks for coming. I'm Amber. I lead the project engineering team at Stripe. I've been there for around three years now and I spend a lot of my time there working on the API, building things on the API, generally trying to figure out how to scale our API.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
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