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Just In Time Development
Since the dark ages of yesteryear Squeak has had a very interesting button in its Debugger – “create”. Today we’re going to teach it a new trick. Suppose you write a test, showing how Foo s bar . Your...
View ArticleThree approaches to ambiguous grammars
We have many tools in our parsing toolbox. Today let’s look at how three different parsing techniques handle ambiguity caused by choice. First, yacc. yacc handles ambiguities in your grammar with, if...
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Comments are important
Nat Pryce wrote a fun little library the other day called code-words. It rips your source into words, and turns the words into a wordcloud. In short, a visual representation of the most common words in...
View ArticleEnhancing peer review through GitHub
You love GitHub. Of course you do. You love peer review. You especially love sending a pull request back asking for nits to be picked. So when your submitter claims to have addressed your concerns, how...
View ArticleManaging multiple GitHub repositories
We all know GitHub is a fantastic way to collaborate on software. It has a fairly basic issue tracker, but it serves most purposes well enough. But if your code base is spread across several...
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Documenting an HTTP API with Swagger
I recently tried out Swagger, for documenting an HTTP API. The big win with Swagger is that it provides a sweet HTML UI to browse your API docs and experiment with sending requests and viewing...
View ArticleGrunt uglify file specs
I struggled a bit finding relevant examples of Gruntfile configuration for Uglify, so having solved a few specific problems myself, here’s what I came up with. This is just a snippet from the whole...
View ArticleGetting back into front-end web development
I’ve been working on a small SPA (Single Page Application) – just HTML, CSS and JavaScript statically served and doing its thing entirely in the browser. I learned a great deal throughout the project,...
View ArticleThings I wish I’d known about Google Docs
I have had cause to write a lot of Google Docs recently, which leaves me furnished with a stock of interesting observations that others might find helpful. With no further ado… It doesn’t auto-number...
View ArticleAutomating pre-deployment sanity checks with Grunt
Grunt is a great tool for building, running and deploying ‘Single Page Apps’. I have a single grunt command to build and deploy to S3 for production, but recently I added some extra functionality to...
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