[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21686] Shutter Island [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21686] by Dennis Lehane [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10289] My rating: 4 of 5 stars [http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/812773372] I'm probably not the only person who thought Shutter…
[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/711901] Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/711901] by Marcus Luttrell [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/379290] My rating: 4 of 5 stars [http://www.goodreads.com/…
[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13223330] So Paddy got up - an Arsenal anthology [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13223330] by Andrew Mangan [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5361034] My rating: 4 of 5 stars [http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/807367471] It's very different…
When graphing large sets of data, plotting fewer points but still representing the data visually can be challenging. Loading 500 vs. 5000 points can help improve load time and reduce system resources. A co-worker pointed me in the direction of a downsampling plugin [http://flot.base.is/] for flot charts…
This is a guest post from Judge Maygarden [https://twitter.com/JudgeMaygarden]: > I've tried diving in to test-driven development (TDD) a few times over the years. For some reason, it's never really stuck with me. So, I went looking for literature critical of TDD. This…
Using actual files is not an ideal solution for unit testing. You should have some sort of interface that duplicates what's in a file. Unfortunately, the current solution I'm working on doesn't have an interface (yet!). I thought about storing the files in the…
I was working on a difficult problem last week at work. I had a list of times and I needed to find the overlapping periods (if any). Here's a simple example, if we have 3 periods of time: * 3/24/2013 5:00am - 3/24/2013 7:…
I have a bad habit of buying 3 or 4 books when I already have 20-30 books waiting to be read in my backlog. It doesn't help when I get an email every morning from Amazon about their kindle daily deals [http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?…
We are working with Amazon EC2 at work and a coworker wrote up a story to help explain EC2. Enjoy. > There once was a King named King ComputerCorp who wants to build a nice town for his people. So he set out to find other Kings who have done…
Sometimes knowing the exact time is important. If you are trying to sync data between GPS or other values that are synced to satellites, getting the atomic time from an NIST server is required. I created a method of getting the current time from one of several time servers at…