The chance that you are reading this blog post on a device with a multicore cpu is increasing on a daily basis which is why everybody is talking about concurrency now. Concurrency for our web applications and API backends means that we’d like our htop to look like this: I’ve recently been to a really […]
Preface In the last 10 years many new text editors became available for Mac OS X. Since I have tried most of them I wanted to give an overview and a brief description about each one of them. This is for developers that are looking for decent editors on the mac to get their job […]
In my last post I compared several online backup services and decided that Crashplan was my personal winner when looking at the features and the price. In the following weeks a couple of people started to complain about the slow transfer rates to their backup servers. I also tested the upload speeds from several networks […]
Backups, the everlasting topic. Years after several hard drive crashes, after manual backups and semi automatic backups I’m still thinking about the right solution. Current Setup Currently I’m using an USB / SATA adaptor to connect various hard drives without enclosure to my computer to run Time Machine semi automatic backups. With OS X 10.7 […]
Today at work I encountered all kinds of “naming schemes” for MySQL tables and columns. Camel case table names in particular can cause serious pain because: Table names directly correspond to filenames on your hard drive There are tons of different filesystems and some of them are case insensitive. So if you develop on OS […]