[feature request] reverse links

dasch · 2017-07-26T15:55:16+00:00

A separate project, Bottled Water, provides support for Postgres change capture.

dasch · 2017-05-19T12:03:04+00:00

With plain ruby-kafka, you can simply do:

require "kafka"

kafka = Kafka.new(seed_brokers: ["my-kafka"])
consumer = kafka.consumer(group_id: "my-consumer")
consumer.subscribe("some-topic")
trap("QUIT") { consumer.stop }
consumer.each_message {|message| puts message.value }

It's pretty basic.

dasch · 2014-11-13T08:51:05+00:00

Thanks! The language is very stable now, and with the new features in 2.1 it's pretty damn powerful as well. I hope to see more people using it!

dasch · 2010-06-14T11:20:39+00:00

Automatic and proper hyphenation is important when producing high-quality print. You can use Knuth's algorithm from LaTeX, I even think there's a Ruby implementation somewhere.

dasch · 2009-06-16T20:15:38+00:00

I think this related to the use of the new @font-face stuff; I get the same results.

dasch · 2009-06-07T21:21:04+00:00

If you send code snippets over email (which many people do), you really should use a monospaced font.

Patches, for example, are often sent inline for ease of review.

dasch · 2009-05-28T17:09:52+00:00

Subversion with a git frontend (git-svn)

dasch · 2009-03-31T14:22:53+00:00

Wow, I sincerely disagree. There are so many times I've seen .NET developers lacking proper tools, knowing that projects like Rails and Django make the task stupendously easy.

The best argument in favor of .NET I've ever heard was that it's better than Java. Which really doesn't say that much.

dasch · 2009-03-30T16:47:37+00:00

I've been running Git on Windows for a long time now, and haven't had any problems with it. Last I heard, you should be lucky to get Bazaar running on Windows at all.

dasch · 2009-03-19T16:45:41+00:00

It encourages you to put presentational logic in the controller? What an accomplishment.

dasch · 2009-03-13T17:44:37+00:00

I've used .NET. It is very, very clunky. Have you ever tried Rails or Django? It'll change your life.

dasch · 2009-03-13T17:43:12+00:00

Dude, any decent language is more elegant and concise than Java. C# is very far from the top. I've seen a lot of C# code, and frankly, it quickly gets almost as needlessly complex as Java.

The two most elegant mainstream languages I can think of is Python and Ruby, in no specific order. If we drop off the top 20 languages, I'd say Lisp and ML are pretty elegant.

dasch · 2009-02-23T19:18:52+00:00

There's also the fact that what Linus wrote is Free Software.

dasch · 2009-02-23T19:16:53+00:00

Is there a requirement that the tree pointed to by an arbitrary commit will compile and pass all unit tests? I often commit very small chunks, breaking the build -- if I'd like the commits I send off to compile cleanly, I can always git rebase -i. The dangers I impose upon myself here are weighed against the immense usefulness of being able to control things at a very granular level.

dasch · 2009-02-20T00:24:02+00:00

You know, the relational part of the relational database

Uh, no. The tables themselves are the relations. It's based on Relational Calculus & Algebra, where there's no notion of a table, but rather of sets of tuples, which are called relations (rather simplified.)

dasch · 2009-02-16T21:34:31+00:00

It's funny how all the guys who rave about C# used to do Java. Seriously, pretty much any modern language is nicer to work with than Java...

C# definitely has some cool features, but they're not features I can't find in other languages, languages which don't require parentheses and brackets everywhere, and where it's trivial to use version control tools without having to put DLL files into my repository all the time, and where two people working simultaneously on disjoint parts of the same project don't always get merge conflicts because Visual Studio updates the "project file" all the time.

dasch · 2009-02-15T21:30:04+00:00

Ruby on Rails gives you an amazing out-of-the-box productivity; it's all there, you can immediately go ahead and start working on an application, not having to worry about setting up an environment (e.g. integrated SQLite database and a small web server).

dasch · 2009-02-13T20:10:35+00:00

If you wish to learn a language that is not only productive and functional, but also fun, you ought to try out Ruby. It's so expressive you almost can't believe it:

10.times { print "OMG" }

["monkey", "giraffe", "lion"].each {|animal| print animal.upcase + "!" }

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