mainguy

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• Cloudflare Dashboard Down?

  by mainguy on 4/24/2024, 1:15 PM with 12 comments

• Show HN: Immersive VR Digramming Tool

  by mainguy on 3/25/2024, 12:57 PM with 1 comments

• by mainguy on 3/28/2023, 2:46 PM with comments

• by mainguy on 3/15/2023, 4:21 PM with comments

• by mainguy on 1/24/2023, 9:15 PM with comments

• by mainguy on 1/10/2023, 6:54 PM with comments

• A-Frame, build immersive VR/AR on web using HTML/JavaScript

  by mainguy on 1/9/2023, 3:45 PM with 4 comments

• by mainguy on 8/23/2022, 1:20 PM with comments

• by mainguy on 3/18/2022, 11:38 AM with comments

• Difference between source code and environments for non-tech people

  by mainguy on 9/17/2020, 6:38 PM with 0 comments

• Id.heroku.com Down?

  by mainguy on 8/12/2020, 7:37 PM with comments

• Amazon Busted?

  by mainguy on 7/10/2020, 4:56 PM with 1 comments

• State of programming languages 2018

  by mainguy on 1/19/2018, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• Thoughts on Software Architectural Thinking

  by mainguy on 7/12/2017, 2:57 PM with 0 comments

• University of Life (proceeds benefit autism speaks)

  by mainguy on 2/27/2017, 7:00 PM with comments

• Yet Another Take on Software Developer Archetypes

  by mainguy on 2/14/2017, 3:37 PM with 0 comments

• TortoiseSVN 1.8.4-1.8.8 loses merge tracking info

  by mainguy on 1/25/2017, 1:34 AM with 0 comments

• Five simple steps to select the ultimate software development tool

  by mainguy on 12/8/2016, 3:57 PM with 0 comments

• Female programmers and asking questions

  by mainguy on 9/13/2016, 12:58 PM with 0 comments

• Impending death of the java browser plugin

  by mainguy on 5/4/2016, 10:44 AM with 0 comments

• Raspberry pi 3 headless install for non-noobs

  by mainguy on 4/25/2016, 1:19 PM with 0 comments

• Do you test or operations and business processes?

  by mainguy on 4/15/2016, 11:58 AM with 0 comments

• Database Administration in the Enterprise

  by mainguy on 4/7/2016, 2:46 PM with 0 comments

• Let it crash (for dummies)

  by mainguy on 4/5/2016, 2:15 PM with 0 comments

• Process versus flexibility

  by mainguy on 1/28/2016, 12:37 AM with 0 comments

• Navigating the Internet of Things

  by mainguy on 1/26/2016, 2:21 PM with 0 comments

• Lies, Damn Lies, and Virtualization

  by mainguy on 12/7/2015, 7:40 PM with 0 comments

• by mainguy on 12/7/2015, 7:39 PM with comments

• The (slightly tongue in cheek) role of the database administrator

  by mainguy on 9/22/2015, 12:09 PM with 0 comments

• How to design a useful JavaScript framework

  by mainguy on 9/15/2015, 12:41 PM with 0 comments

• Why I'm pushing your buttons

  by mainguy on 9/10/2015, 6:35 PM with 0 comments

• Real world internet of things

  by mainguy on 9/8/2015, 1:23 PM with 0 comments

• ANSI-92 SQL, please use itsome traditions should change

  by mainguy on 8/10/2015, 6:27 PM with 0 comments

• Using Amdahl's Law, Gustafson's Law and UX Stretching

  by mainguy on 6/15/2015, 1:45 PM with 0 comments

• The Programmers Code

  by mainguy on 6/12/2015, 5:31 PM with 0 comments

• Simple thoughts versus simple solutions

  by mainguy on 6/5/2015, 2:24 PM with 0 comments

• The myth of async JDBC

  by mainguy on 5/26/2015, 5:12 PM with 0 comments

• Installing Varnish on Centos

  by mainguy on 5/26/2015, 3:16 PM with 0 comments

• The Hazard of Not Taking Things Personally at Work

  by mainguy on 4/22/2015, 3:57 PM with 0 comments

• Virtualbox guest additions on Centos 7 minimal image

  by mainguy on 3/19/2015, 3:44 PM with 0 comments

• Accuracy versus Precision

  by mainguy on 1/16/2015, 2:05 PM with 0 comments

• The trail of tears architecture anti-pattern

  by mainguy on 1/15/2015, 5:38 PM with 0 comments

• Minecraft is the new Doom

  by mainguy on 1/5/2015, 3:20 PM with 0 comments

• Why software estimates change and inflate

  by mainguy on 12/4/2014, 2:51 PM with 0 comments

• Jvm a quick a dirty way to easily change java versions in OS X

  by mainguy on 11/26/2014, 1:26 AM with 0 comments

• Why osx sucks and you should use ubuntu instead

  by mainguy on 9/26/2014, 12:56 AM with 7 comments

• It's not NoSQL versus RDBMS (for dummies)

  by mainguy on 8/18/2014, 1:38 PM with 0 comments

• Things to remember about information security

  by mainguy on 8/15/2014, 6:25 PM with 0 comments

• Reducing ORM code bloat in java

  by mainguy on 8/11/2014, 1:12 PM with 0 comments

• Success, Failure, and Tradition

  by mainguy on 6/23/2014, 10:11 PM with 0 comments

• We are not our code

  by mainguy on 6/20/2014, 1:12 PM with 2 comments

• Through the looking glass architecture antipattern

  by mainguy on 6/18/2014, 12:56 PM with 0 comments

• Women In Technology

  by mainguy on 6/10/2014, 12:51 PM with 0 comments

• Testing Love and Polyamorous TDD

  by mainguy on 5/28/2014, 1:01 PM with 0 comments

• The brokenness of Java RMI in the cloud

  by mainguy on 5/9/2014, 6:21 PM with 0 comments

• Adsense is down

  by mainguy on 12/5/2013, 2:08 PM with comments

• Web framework popularity over time via Google trends

  by mainguy on 11/22/2013, 4:55 PM with 1 comments

• Fun with iso-8859 and utf-8 character encodings

  by mainguy on 11/17/2013, 9:12 PM with 0 comments

• Is anyone running azure in production?

  by mainguy on 10/21/2013, 5:13 PM with 0 comments

• MQTT over websockets with javascript, apache, and active mq

  by mainguy on 9/20/2013, 1:47 PM with 0 comments

• Unflattering commentary on rackspace cloud security

  by mainguy on 8/23/2013, 1:32 PM with 0 comments

• Scientists make new battery from wood

  by mainguy on 7/17/2013, 12:37 PM with 0 comments

• Java's problem is that Jidigava idigis gididibidigeridigish

  by mainguy on 6/11/2013, 1:39 PM with 0 comments

• Software is design, how ruby is better for that job than java

  by mainguy on 6/6/2013, 1:36 PM with 0 comments

• Fixing Perverse Incentives in Software Development

  by mainguy on 5/29/2013, 1:33 PM with 0 comments

• When to refactor code

  by mainguy on 5/16/2013, 12:28 PM with 17 comments

• DBMS pagination on Oracle and MySql

  by mainguy on 2/14/2013, 12:06 AM with 0 comments

• Effectively Communicating Software Requirements - Part 1

  by mainguy on 7/25/2012, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• Equals and hashCode for dummies (again)

  by mainguy on 7/13/2012, 11:43 AM with 0 comments

• Fixing hibernate, db2, and derby boolean compatibility problems

  by mainguy on 6/22/2012, 11:47 AM with 0 comments

• Google acquires meebo

  by mainguy on 6/20/2012, 10:44 PM with 0 comments

• Java hashcode performance boost

  by mainguy on 5/31/2012, 3:53 PM with 1 comments

• On API design (or how to shoot yourself in the foot with HashCodeBuilder)

  by mainguy on 5/16/2012, 4:53 PM with 0 comments

• Clean code is an important quality, but not THE most important

  by mainguy on 5/8/2012, 12:12 PM with 0 comments

• Java programmers, code to the interface, even if it's a class

  by mainguy on 4/25/2012, 10:45 PM with 0 comments

• Ya aint gonna need it until ya need it

  by mainguy on 4/18/2012, 12:12 PM with 0 comments

• All java architects read this

  by mainguy on 4/17/2012, 11:14 PM with 0 comments

• The Notoriously Tricky "Step 0"

  by mainguy on 4/10/2012, 11:30 AM with 0 comments

• Exploiting the cloud for personal productivity

  by mainguy on 4/2/2012, 10:48 PM with 0 comments

• Always Pull Branches When Merging

  by mainguy on 3/29/2012, 9:35 PM with 0 comments

• Lotus Notes, a Lesson in Poor User Experience

  by mainguy on 3/26/2012, 9:42 PM with 0 comments

• The VB Model Versus The Delphi Model

  by mainguy on 3/23/2012, 12:05 PM with 2 comments

• Disruptive change fuels innovation, innovation creates disruptive change

  by mainguy on 3/22/2012, 12:02 PM with 0 comments

• Being too early devalues your time

  by mainguy on 3/20/2012, 11:31 AM with 0 comments

• JMS and web services are BOTH scaleable

  by mainguy on 3/19/2012, 10:47 PM with 0 comments

• Aggressive control freaks make great programmers

  by mainguy on 3/1/2012, 10:16 PM with 1 comments

• How to fix Rails, Mongoid, MongoHQ, and Heroku problems

  by mainguy on 2/28/2012, 1:16 PM with 0 comments

• Governance Gone Wild (Appropriate for work)

  by mainguy on 2/24/2012, 2:06 PM with 0 comments

• Architectural Antipattern: Through The Looking Glass

  by mainguy on 2/22/2012, 1:23 PM with 0 comments

• The Best Practices Myth

  by mainguy on 2/20/2012, 2:14 PM with 1 comments

• People are not interchangeable cogs, they are more like the wind

  by mainguy on 2/10/2012, 1:23 PM with 0 comments

• The difference between Black Swans, Flying Green Monkeys, and Unicorns

  by mainguy on 1/24/2012, 2:18 PM with 0 comments

• All software is a commodity

  by mainguy on 1/14/2012, 12:46 PM with 2 comments

• Java classes, objects, and instances demystified (hopefully)

  by mainguy on 12/16/2011, 1:12 PM with 0 comments

• Java collections framework for newbies

  by mainguy on 12/9/2011, 1:16 PM with 8 comments

• The different between a team of individuals and team of teammates.

  by mainguy on 12/8/2011, 1:29 PM with 0 comments

• How to ask intelligent questions (updated and simplified)

  by mainguy on 12/2/2011, 1:17 PM with 0 comments

• Stop Branching Agile is soccer, not american football

  by mainguy on 11/3/2011, 12:13 PM with 3 comments

• I beat ruby on rails by six months

  by mainguy on 11/2/2011, 10:57 PM with 0 comments

• Is Google down?

  by mainguy on 10/25/2011, 11:57 PM with 1 comments

• Gorillarinas, putting the agile skirt on a waterfall Gorilla

  by mainguy on 10/24/2011, 11:28 AM with 0 comments

• Promiscuous programming

  by mainguy on 10/19/2011, 1:09 PM with 0 comments

• Two factor developer personality scoring

  by mainguy on 10/14/2011, 12:43 AM with 0 comments

• My javascript parseint("08") suprise

  by mainguy on 10/12/2011, 11:03 PM with 0 comments

• Jira, pivotal tracker, and playnice.ly compared for bug tracking

  by mainguy on 10/11/2011, 12:15 PM with 0 comments

• Three things worth knowing.

  by mainguy on 10/8/2011, 1:56 AM with 0 comments

• Should I use mongodb, couchdb, or redis?

  by mainguy on 10/6/2011, 12:52 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon silk is based on webkit with SPDY added

  by mainguy on 9/28/2011, 7:44 PM with 0 comments

• The six diseases

  by mainguy on 9/26/2011, 12:50 PM with 0 comments

• Using git in an agile team

  by mainguy on 9/23/2011, 2:23 PM with 0 comments

• Cross platform mobile development with phonegap, rhomobile, and titanium

  by mainguy on 9/21/2011, 12:28 PM with 0 comments

• What's the big diff between homebrew and macports?

  by mainguy on 9/20/2011, 12:47 PM with 7 comments

• Using devise for authentication in Rails 3 (for dummies)

  by mainguy on 9/13/2011, 9:34 PM with 0 comments

• Defining IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS for the cloud (with examples)

  by mainguy on 9/12/2011, 12:48 PM with 0 comments

• Another Ruby 1.9.2 gotcha hashes are not arrays

  by mainguy on 9/10/2011, 12:40 AM with 0 comments

• Maven central compared to rubygems.org

  by mainguy on 9/9/2011, 12:17 PM with 0 comments

• Playing games can be good for you

  by mainguy on 9/8/2011, 8:56 PM with 0 comments

• Lucid charts and Gliffy for online diagramming

  by mainguy on 8/30/2011, 1:46 PM with 0 comments

• Push versus pull deployment models for application servers

  by mainguy on 8/23/2011, 12:05 PM with 0 comments

• Groupon makes me tired (are you tired too?)

  by mainguy on 8/18/2011, 6:59 PM with 0 comments

• The overhead of annual enrollment in the US

  by mainguy on 8/16/2011, 12:58 PM with 0 comments

• Heroku is a bus, Engineyard is a car

  by mainguy on 8/15/2011, 12:20 PM with 4 comments

• The economics of scaling software development teams

  by mainguy on 8/12/2011, 4:50 PM with 0 comments

• Ruby 1.9.2 changes and i18n development on Mac OSX

  by mainguy on 8/11/2011, 12:18 PM with 0 comments

• Git and github are not change management tools (rewriting history in git)

  by mainguy on 8/10/2011, 12:14 PM with 14 comments

• Avoid Bowfinger Syndrome

  by mainguy on 8/9/2011, 1:06 PM with 0 comments

• Simulating a "sleep()" function in javascript

  by mainguy on 8/8/2011, 12:56 PM with 0 comments

• Adding methods at runtime in ruby, javascript, and java

  by mainguy on 8/5/2011, 1:32 PM with 0 comments

• Object Oriented Javascript (For beginners)

  by mainguy on 8/4/2011, 1:24 PM with 0 comments

• Git for dummies (Really, git is Not for dummies)

  by mainguy on 8/3/2011, 11:27 AM with 0 comments

• The difference between urgency and importance

  by mainguy on 7/11/2011, 6:04 PM with 0 comments

• How to decide between NOSQL and RDBMS

  by mainguy on 7/7/2011, 6:26 PM with 0 comments

• Technology evaluation matrix (ubuntu/redhat/suse)

  by mainguy on 6/23/2011, 6:59 PM with 0 comments

• Hey GOF, It's not a good metaphor unless you can drop it on your foot

  by mainguy on 6/8/2011, 5:53 PM with 0 comments

• Coaching a winning team

  by mainguy on 6/7/2011, 6:42 PM with 0 comments

• The ruby and java fightclub

  by mainguy on 5/16/2011, 6:08 PM with 0 comments

• Productivity, billable hours, and expert craftsmen

  by mainguy on 5/10/2011, 7:00 PM with 0 comments

• The difference between scalability, performance, efficiency, and concurrency

  by mainguy on 5/2/2011, 5:25 PM with 0 comments

• Computus algorithm in scala and java

  by mainguy on 4/23/2011, 1:24 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon EC2 and designing for cloud computing

  by mainguy on 4/22/2011, 12:13 PM with 0 comments

• How important is the devops movement?

  by mainguy on 4/21/2011, 1:36 PM with 0 comments

• Parsing rss with java and jruby

  by mainguy on 4/20/2011, 5:37 PM with 0 comments

• If its stupid but it works, it's still stupid, it just also happens to work.

  by mainguy on 4/18/2011, 3:27 PM with 0 comments

• Simpler software estimates

  by mainguy on 4/15/2011, 6:04 PM with 0 comments

• Ruby on rails and groovy/grails comparison

  by mainguy on 4/8/2011, 1:52 PM with 4 comments

• Google app engine to resize images

  by mainguy on 4/7/2011, 7:40 PM with 0 comments

• Do you need JMS/MQ series, or are simple web services good enough?

  by mainguy on 4/7/2011, 5:36 PM with 0 comments

• Monoglot developers are like Stereotypical Arrogant Americans

  by mainguy on 3/28/2011, 12:50 PM with 0 comments

• Hard, difficult, or merely overcomplicated?

  by mainguy on 3/25/2011, 7:49 PM with 0 comments

• Example of the difference between ruby and java

  by mainguy on 3/24/2011, 6:07 PM with 0 comments

• Excellent customer service requires fixing broken windows

  by mainguy on 3/21/2011, 6:13 PM with 0 comments

• The difference between agility and speed

  by mainguy on 3/19/2011, 2:39 PM with 0 comments

• Change management in a chaotic environment

  by mainguy on 3/18/2011, 10:42 PM with 0 comments

• Anti-fragile software

  by mainguy on 1/29/2011, 7:28 PM with 0 comments

• Is time a side effect of universal expansion?

  by mainguy on 1/22/2011, 4:49 PM with 2 comments

• Your enterprise domain model should not be represented in code

  by mainguy on 1/5/2011, 2:27 PM with 0 comments

• Making the MQ versus RPC decision

  by mainguy on 12/28/2010, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• Cloudbees, a cloud based Continuous Integration server using hudson

  by mainguy on 12/27/2010, 3:36 PM with 0 comments

• Install opennms on ubuntu for network discovery and monitoring

  by mainguy on 12/26/2010, 1:52 PM with 0 comments

• Dude's Law Value = Why / How

  by mainguy on 12/16/2010, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

• ALERT EMERGENCY FIX REQUIRED

  by mainguy on 12/15/2010, 8:08 PM with 0 comments

• Db2 lock levels and mvcc

  by mainguy on 12/9/2010, 6:55 PM with 0 comments

• Why you should purchase Intellij Idea

  by mainguy on 11/27/2010, 2:12 PM with 0 comments

• Windows 8 leaked on craigslist

  by mainguy on 8/7/2010, 5:47 PM with 0 comments

• Cavemen, exploding nails, and software development

  by mainguy on 5/21/2010, 3:56 PM with 0 comments