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Evolutionary purpose
http://www.nevercertain.com/2010/09/26/evolutionary-purpose.html
Chatting with James (click to toggle). September 26, 2010. I am really interested in how our minds work. Not having a background in neuroscience, neurobiology, or neuro-anything for that matter, I'm currently limited to reading lighter material on the subject until my understanding goes deeper. I've read books that cover the social side of how our minds (fail to) work (e.g. The Drunkard's Walk. And some that are more technical (but still light) such as How We Decide. And On Being Certain. Unless I'm miss...
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Ask the right questions
http://www.nevercertain.com/2010/02/22/ask-the-right-questions.html
Chatting with James (click to toggle). Ask the right questions. February 22, 2010. A few months ago, my friend Patrick Caldwell. Started a series of blog posts about how to land a programming job ( Part 1. Can I use Open Source Software? These policies limit your experience and growth. To take this idea to an extreme consider if you could only use a proprietary language and framework invented by the company you work for. How useful is that experience to you or your future employers? You'll likely goof of...
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RoboSpecs - Android testing with Scala
http://www.nevercertain.com/2011/05/04/robospecs.html
Chatting with James (click to toggle). RoboSpecs - Android testing with Scala. May 4, 2011. I recently published Robospecs. Robospecs helps you write Android applications. Robospecs doesn't really do much itself. The real work is done by Robolectric. Specs2 is a great testing framework for Scala. Specs2 provides a elegant DSL for writing tests and assertions. It's a fantastic framework to use to test either Scala or Java code. See specs2.org. This project uses SBT. Blog comments powered by Disqus.
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Building Android Apps with Scala - simple-build-tool
http://www.nevercertain.com/2011/02/03/scala-android-intellij-win-part-2-simple-build-tool.html
Chatting with James (click to toggle). Building Android Apps with Scala - simple-build-tool. February 3, 2011. This is part 2 in my series on getting started with Android development in Scala using IntelliJ. If you haven't already then check out Part 1 - Prerequisites. A quick aside before we begin. Requiring a GUI to build my software would prevent me from automating that process in any manageable way. The secondary reason for eschewing dependency on a GUI is so that I am free to pick whichever GUI ...
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Plant Test Factory for .NET
http://www.nevercertain.com/2010/09/01/plant-test-factory-for-dotnet.html
Chatting with James (click to toggle). Plant Test Factory for .NET. September 1, 2010. I couldn’t find anything like that for .NET. NBuilder. Is in that area, but feels too heavy handed for what I wanted. Plant’s features at the time of this writing are. Object creation via properties. Object creation via constructor arguments. Overriding default property and constructor argument values. Lazily evaluated property and constructor argument values. Allowing multiple named definitions for one object.
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SBT is not usable
http://www.nevercertain.com/2013/03/10/sbt-is-not-usable.html
Chatting with James (click to toggle). SBT is not usable. March 10, 2013. SBT - (Not so) Simple Build Tool. SBT is not usable *. A few weeks ago I spent a week helping a project team during their Iteration Zero. The team is building a web application using Play. Since I haven't spent time with SBT in quite a while I had to re-learn some of its concepts. My pair and I even stumbled across a gist of mine. I'm not exactly sure what was going on in my head when I wrote that gist, but it. And a few pain points.
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The Mind of a Mnemonist
http://www.nevercertain.com/2010/10/12/the-mind-of-a-mnemonist.html
Chatting with James (click to toggle). The Mind of a Mnemonist. October 12, 2010. I just finished reading The Mind of a Mnemonist. By AR Luria. The book is an intriguing glimpse into a different way of thinking. Luria describes several sessions and written exchanges with Solomon Sherashevsky. And an incredible memory. The book covers Luria's interactions with Sherashevsky over the period of about 30 years. That is probably also worth a look. Blog comments powered by Disqus.
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Scala and Ruby Rosetta Stone
http://www.nevercertain.com/2011/08/17/scala-ruby-rosetta.html
Chatting with James (click to toggle). Scala and Ruby Rosetta Stone. August 17, 2011. I write a lot of Ruby at work and Scala in my spare time. I thought others who know one language but not the other might find a rosetta stone for the two languages useful. For a more thorough rosetta stone for a variety of languages check out Rosetta Code. Case statements and pattern matching. Both Ruby and Scala support the idea of Mixins. They are known as modules and traits in Ruby and Scala respectively. Lastly, the...
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D. Patrick Caldwell on Software Engineering: February 2014
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D Patrick Caldwell on Software Engineering. Another programmer trying to enhance his craft through information sharing and socialization. Friday, February 7, 2014. Sending Java Stack Traces to Loggly. Recently at my new Autopilot. Contract, I was tasked with configuring some of our applications to send log entries to Loggly. Once we had the environment configured, we configured log4j following Loggly's Log4j Setup. This was a little bit confusing because the setup document reads:. Not really being a Java...
