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Culture of Product vs. Culture of Code
I was talking to Luke Melia of Weplay.com about various cultures of startup companies. We compared two ideas that we referred to as a culture of product and a culture of code. They similar in concept but require defining.
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Counting Frequencies of Frequencies
Lots of people forget about the usefulness of the core utilities (the tools available in Bash). I am even pretty guilty of it at times with such quick and easy things like Perl, Ruby, or Python that allow you to process items from the command line. However, they load up an entire interpreter. It is…
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Getting a Random Record From a MongoDB Collection
One of my issues with MongoDB is that, as of this writing, there is no way to retrieve a random record. In SQL, you can simply do something similar to “ORDER BY 1” (this varies depending on your flavor) and you can retrieve random records (at a slightly expensive query cost). There is not yet…
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Sharing a Screen Session
Anyone who has spent any time in a shell and has been cut off while working should know about screen. If not, then I recommend reading up on it (here or here). But I’m not here to tell you about screen as a general tool, I want to show you how to use it for…
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Stopping Curb From Segfaulting
While trying to get the curb gem up and running using Ruby 1.8.7p174, I kept getting segmentation faults. I Google’d around and really wasn’t able to come up with much other than lots of people saying not to use ports here. Since I don’t use Mac Ports, I use Homebrew, I figured this wasn’t an…
