Experiences in Software Development at AboutUs
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Sam Goldstein
22 Aug 2011Cassandra Truncate Means Slow Test Suites
How using Cassandra's truncate (or clear_keyspace) command made our tests super slow, and how we sped them up. -
18 Jul 2011
Managing Cassandra's Schema from Rails
Our approach to managing our cassandra cluster's schema using rails, rake, and capistrano. -
Ward Cunningham
03 Jul 2011Getting Started Exploratory Parsing
A parser reads text to discover structure and meaning. For example, a C language parser can read a C program and understand in a real sense everything that the program has to say. Contrast this to a pattern matcher... -
17 May 2011
Agile vs. Open Source: They're Actually a Little Different
We usually think of Agile and Open Source going hand in hand but there are some significant differences between an Agile organization and an Open Source one. -
Matt Youell
05 May 2011Rodents Of Unusual Size
Communication via Github is a great way to share knowledge -
Brad Heller
03 May 2011One and a Half Minds are Better: Learning by Pairing
Hi I'm new here! My name is Brad Heller and the guys have been been teaching me about AboutUs.org's technology via one of our favorite agile practices -- pairing! -
JD Huntington
02 May 2011Agile Metrics: Tracking Numbers that Matter
Being agile by avoiding some work altogether. -
29 Apr 2011
Meet The Kanban Board
Meet the Kanban board. We use it to organize our work and radiate information around our office. Quick, it's broken and we need to fix it... -
22 Apr 2011
Playing With Sedgewick's Data
Sedgewick wants CS students to learn from real data. I give it a try rummaging through the many datasets he offers online in support of his introductory algorithms textbooks. -
19 Apr 2011
Our Continuous Integration Is A Big Red Flashing Light
How a hardware hacked Teensy microcontroller and vacation light timer makes our continuous integration awesome. -
Thomas Luce
18 Apr 2011Sort == Srot
How locales can effect sort-order -
08 Apr 2011
Initial Commit
This is the first post for AboutUs' programming blog. I describe our hacker-centric blogger setup powered by git, jekyll, and nginx.