As seen on a thread on Hacker News about Fizz Buzz and “interesting” functional ways to solve it. Realized that there are many ways to boil the ocean, but this feels like a nice compromise between data/program separation and language. Note this is using a “Bazz” variant of the FizzBuzz problem where Bazz is printed …

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One of the big challenges is getting backbonejs and requirejs working together without jumping through lots of hoops. After reading quite a few blog posts, stackoverflow answers I finally came up with a simple canonical solution to the problem. The assumed directory layout is something like: 1static/ 2 app/ 3 config.js …

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It’s all about CoffeeScript (and quietly about Ruby). Why do people feel the need to remove punctuation? I came across the following code snippet: 1class TenFarms.View extends Backbone.View 2 constructor: -> 3 functions = _.difference _.functions(this), _.functions(TenFarms.View.prototype) 4 _.bindAll.apply _, …

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Was going to post this to stackoverflow, but the question was deleted before I posted. Turned out it was a fun exercise in writing a short program. 1def head(f_in, f_out, count=20): 2 all([not f_out.write(l2) for l2 in [line for line in f_in][:count]]) 3 4head(open('/etc/passwd'), open('/tmp/p', …

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Was looking around for a mail handler for Tornado, found it pretty amazing that it didn’t exist. Since I’ve only written on commercial SMTP server and have been playing with just about everything in Tornado Web at this point I figured it wasn’t too much work to whip one out. So, instead of using annoying little …

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I’m sure there’s a more general title for this kind of object, but the challenge came up and here’s what I put together. The basic idea is to have a python class that only recomputes something hard when one of the attributes is modified. It doesn’t make sense to recompute on every modification, nor does it make sense …

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Quick bit of background, I’ve used many programming languages over the years. Though in general I would bias myself to being a procedural/object guy rather than a functional programmer. Though I can say that I’ve done big projects in most of the popular languages at this point [C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, …

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Looking at event IO frameworks and found some really good comments about the “ev” library, the challenge is that I would rather work in C++ than pure C – I like methods.. Found that the documentation is lacking for the C++ side of the library and needed to build a test harness. This is a very basic TCP Echo server …

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Over the last year I’ve had an authentication library that I’ve used to slice and dice public services and like most things it’s collected more than it’s share of dust, cruft and other ugly appendages that you wonder if it’ll work then next time you use it. I’ve been hot and heavy over django (even if it’s embedded …

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Continue to poke away at looking at twitter data and what it means. One of the things I think about, because everybody else is doing it, is the idea of sentiment analysis. What’s interesting is that this posting reminded me of a Facebook “problem” — Sombody posts a note on facebook like “Broke my arm” and you end up …

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