Coding Architect

Graham Brooks: Architect, Software Engineer Over the years I have been described as a programmer, analyst programmer, software developer, software engineer and many other derivation of software X professional.

Working on a small program recently I found a quirk in next_permutation.

I like Emacs.

Over the last 30 years I have used a lot of computers ranging from teletypes to laptops.

Quotes: Things that inspire and be remembered “If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;" Kipling

“All truth passes through three stages.

Just over 20 years ago Jack W.

Removing duplicate code is a great way to improve the internal quality of your application code.

This post is a little overdue :( In June I presented at QCon NYC on using GPUs.

After watching Clang MapReduce – Automatic C++ Refactoring at Google Scale I was struck with the idea that this could help with the upgrade problem.

Refactoring is a key practice to improved code hygiene.

oh-my-zsh is framework for managing zsh configuration.

Yesterday I presented a talk entitled Introduction to Continuous Delivery at AgileDC.

I am really syched about talking at AgileDC tomorrow.

Small systems grow with success.

Reverse proxies have been around for a very long time and depending on your application either interesting additions or a key element to your architecture.

I have always been interested in text processing systems.

During a recent discussion about open source development we wondered how long these projects lasted.

I came across this post by Michael Norton and thought I would reference it here: Stabilising Velocity Michael makes some keen observations on both causes and effects of unstable velocity.

If you have already added gem ‘mysql2’ to your Gemfile but get a message saying that it is missing when you try to migrate Make sure that you have installed libmysql-ruby sudo apt-get install libmysql-ruby This one caught me out on the weekend and it took

I was playing about with Capistrano over the weekend.

Over the past year I have been involved in preparing quite a few documents, proposals, presentations etc.

When Apple announced the new App Store for OS X I have to say I was a little underwhelmed at the prospect and did not think the new store would hold much interest.

One of the great things about working at a consultancy is that I get to meet a wide range of interesting clients with interesting problems that need solving.

Progressive Enhancement is a web development technique or pattern.

I have a long history with text editors and I have always been facinated with the different flavours of interfaces and capabilities.

Haml is a markup language for generating xml and other markup - most popularly HTML.

Watching the white horses on the Hudson today and wondering why I am flying on a day like today.

A good day of discussions in Chicago today.

Taking a leaf out of the XP book and in particular test driven development I have had some successes in using this idea when doing a presentation.

After tweeting that I wanted to have suggestions for blog entries I got a single reply asking for my thoughts on DAO and unit testing – essentially asking should DAO be unit tested.

I started writing this post quite some time ago but never got around to wrapping up the loose ends.

Finding problems in the layout of web pages is just plain hard.

Fascinating TED video on using mushrooms to create materials with plastic characteristics.

Last week I happened to be in Dallas for a client and was invited along to the Dallas Geeknight held at the ThoughtWorks offices there.

For sometime I have been wondering how best to manage all the information that collects in my laptop.

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I just came across this post and want to remember it so posing here. http://doublebuffered.com/2009/02/11/optimizing-build-times-for-large-c-projects/.

This is a very interesting article http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?

After installing WebloggerMode some time ago I had not gotten around to trying it out so I thought I would take it for a spin with this entry.

When performance testing a web application (as in raw operations per second) I have seem many people try to benchmark their new system against the agreed performance level right off the bat.

I have been catching up on my reading recently and one of the books I have been trying looking forward to reading is ReleaseIt.

So it has been 7 days since buying an iPad.

I had a few moments today to get reacquainted with Ruby and Rails programming.

There are some quirks to the way the apple bluetooth keyboard works with the iPad.

Today I took my new iPad for a day at work: A colleague had a 3G card for his laptop and shared the connection.

There has been a lot of hype around the iPad and I have to confess that after watching the original advertisement I was hooked.

Post/Redirect/Get or Redirect after Post is an HTTP interaction pattern that can be used when developing web applications.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has been around for a very long time (1988) and Instant Messaging (IM) for even longer – although IM did not become really popular until the mid 90’s with the emergence of GUI clients.

Why do application developers think that adding more functionality is always a good thing for the user?