An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement
I use Org-Mode excessively for taking notes, publishing, and even presentation. As a programmer, most of the stuff I write has snippets of source code from various languages. I always feel that well formatted, syntax highlighted code is easy to read in published documents. It is possible to mark a ...
HBase 0.90.3 needs Hadoop common 0.20-append branch in order to not lose data. More information about this can be found "Getting Started" section of HBase guide. However, there is no official release of Hadoop common 0.20-append binary. In order to have consistent and right ...
Today, I upgraded the memory on my Macbook Pro (2010) from 4 GB to 8 GB. One of the main reasons for the memory upgrade was to be able to run Mircosoft Windows 7 virtual machine using Oracle VirtualBox. However, I noticed that VirtualBox was not able to see more ...
I enjoy reading XKCD. One of the recent comic that I enjoyed the most was published last week, titled "Permanence", that was about naming servers.
One of the reasons that I enjoyed this the most was due to the fact that I can totally correlate this comic to my behavior ...
Today, I planned to go back to the basics by taking 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs offered by MIT OpenCourseWare. I'll save the reason behind it for another post.
For running the programs that are used in the class, I decided to use MIT/GNU Scheme ...
I have been following Test-Driven Development for a few years now. Even though TDD is widespread, often I come across a few friends who aren’t very familiar with TDD approach. It took a while for me to really appreciate TDD since I was introduced to it. When I demonstrated ...