I've been doing a lot of work lately on moving to the cloud. A couple of years ago we started using AWS and our first move was a "lift-and-shift": we just re-created at AWS the same servers we had previously in our data center. Two years …
Posted Sat 07 January 2017 by mcherm in Programming
I am attending Dockercon and I thought I would try a little experiment. I will try writing up my understanding od Docker before the conference and after, and see how much my view has changed. So, without further ado, here is my "before" review of Docker:
Posted Mon 20 June 2016 by mcherm in Programming
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
In the Python discussion group, Skip Montanaro posted the title question: what's the "right" way to abandon an open source package?
He got one detailed and helpful answer from Ben Finney.
It was an excellent question and an excellent response. I thought it was worth sharing here.
Posted Tue 08 July 2014 by mcherm in Programming
I have had people tell me things like "You should never throw an exception to return a value in an unusual case, exceptions are only supposed to be used for error conditions." And I HATE it when people say things like this.
There are a couple of audiences at play …
Posted Fri 24 January 2014 by mcherm in Programming