I don't tend to put a lot of personal content into this blog of mine, but that's exactly what I have today. You see, yesterday my 4th grader daughter's school held a presentation for the students and their families on teaching writing to kids, which included some time for both …
This morning's release didn't go so well. There was a problem with account opening -- some unintended interaction due to turning off a feature -- and we had to roll back the release. The problem wasn't in our team's systems; they didn't have an issue (this time) but we will still need …
Posted Wed 06 April 2016 by mcherm in Software Development
So, this is the second time that I have taken a look at the programming language Ceylon. Ceylon is a language which is currently being sponsored by Red Hat. It fits into the space of languages in the same family with Java, but attempting to build a mondern strongly-typed …
Posted Sat 27 February 2016 by mcherm in Programming
When you are writing middleware (be it SOAP services, REST APIs, or something else) an important point to realize is that *Back Ends Fail*. They fail in strange and interesting ways. Code for talking to back ends should always be robust: it should never make a call without some timeout …
Posted Wed 23 July 2014 by mcherm in Programming, Technology
Today is the deadline for providing public comment to the FCC on whether to classify broadband communications under Title II -- basically, whether or not to enforce Net Neutrality in a way that works. The following is the letter that I submitted (by email, since the FCC's website for posting comments …
Posted Tue 15 July 2014 by mcherm in Politics, Technology