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Category Archives: Code
JSON and JSONlines from the command line
At Swoop we have many terabytes of JSON-like data in MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, HDFS/Hadoop and even Amazon Redshift. While the internal representations are typically not JSON but BSON, MsgPack or native encodings, when it comes time to move large amounts … Continue reading
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Tagged command line, jq, json, jsonlines, jsonpath, shell, Swoop, underscore, underscore-cli
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One more vote for functional languages
I’ve been doing a lot of work on startup anti-patterns recently so it seems fitting that I look at other things through that lens. Every few months I fall into the same debugging anti-pattern: I start using a debugger to … Continue reading
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Tagged code, debugger, debugging, functional programming, Ruby, Software Development, VBA
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The fastest way to learn a new programming language
In school, I used to pick up new programming languages for fun. I could take my time to learn & explore them in whichever way felt right, without pressure. I implemented for fun and the code rarely ended up in … Continue reading
Posted in Code, Swoop
Tagged learning programming languages, Lua, Programming, software, Swoop, TDD, technology, test-driven development
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One line Tropo debugging gem
I’ve worked with Tropo, a cloud telephony platform, for a few months now, primarily using the Ruby scripting API. Tropo’s script execution model is a bit strange–the script file is pre-pended with a bootstrap block of code and the combined … Continue reading