I've been spending some time going through Philipp Oppermann's amazing blog series, Writing an OS in Rust. Digging into operating systems has been on my todo list for years now and I couldn't pass up the opportunity when I ran across this series on Hacker News. Phillip has done a…
What's a Database?A database is an organized collection of data 1. Data is stored on disk and in memory in a manner that maximizes reading data in complex ways. Why a Database?Databases are extremely good at complex queries. They also excel at managing concurrency, data integrity and redundancy.…
ConsistencyConsistency is important. Make sure that what you think you're building is actually what you're building. If you're developing and testing in a Window's environment but are intending to deploy to a Linux environment you're going to get unexpected results. If you're using Python 2.7 on your development machine…
I've recently been proof of concepting a new idea for work. It involves local and external access to MySQL servers. While transitioning from local development to a Vagrant VM I discovered the VM couldn't access my host local MySQL server. Googling turned up some obvious answers, find my.cnf and…
I participated in MUDJAM on Itch.io last year around this time, putting together a very simple, low feature deliverable, BerkMud. If the title doesn't tell you, it was How to Train Your Dragon themed. It wasn't my first foray into building a mud but I wanted to do something…
Not a real technical post but still corresponding to something I've recently had a hand in (or two, writing roughly 25k lines in two weeks)... Carsforsale.com released our first incarnation of a consumer facing (for all you car buyers out there) Android application. Check it out!…
First, this is a condensed version of a well written post that can be found here. I'm posting this as reference for myself and for those of you who just want the nuts and bolts. I was recently working on an incomplete project that leveraged CKEditor for a WYSIWYG editor.…
Android AssetsAndroid devices come in all shapes and sizes and display resolutions. This means providing uniform assets across devices is tedious and somewhat complicated. DP (Density Pixel)Google created a special type of unit, dp (density pixel), to make dealing with assets easier. How is that easier?This unit generalizes…