Blog Articles - page 3

• October 23, 2011 DevOps | Rant | Heroku | Server | Cloud | Nginx | Varnish

  Why I Find Heroku Suboptimal

  

  Heroku is great. It basically allows you to avoid growing-up. The deployment itself couldn’t be simpler, and when browsing their web interface for available add-ons, I feel like a child in a candy-store. But I’ve outgrown it.

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• March 24, 2011 JavaScript | Browser | Web

  Cross-Domain, Cross-Browser AJAX Requests

  

  This article describes how to make cross-browser requests, in all browsers (including IExplorer 6), using web standards along with fallbacks and without using a proxy or JSONP (which is limited and awkward) – as long as you control the destination server, or if the destination server allows.

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• May 25, 2010 Rant | Python

  I hate NULL and all its variants!

  

  How many times have you had a chain of methods like this (example showing BeautifulSoup in action) …

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• February 20, 2009 Best Of | VoIP | FreeSWITCH | JavaScript | Perl

  FreeSWITCH - Tips for Creating a Dialer

  

  FreeSWITCH is a free and open source application server for real-time communication, WebRTC, telecommunications, video and Voice over Internet Protocol. Let’s build a VoIP dialer with it.

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• February 1, 2009 Languages | Rant | Perl | Python | Java

  Using the Best Tools in Programming: Not Really Doable

  

  There's something that bothers me when it comes to starting a new project. You can't really use the best tool for a certain job, if that tool is not integrated with the rest of your platform. Let me explain.

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