third party libs management with leiningen in clojure

in a particular project, I had to use a 3′rd party jar given to me. I didnt want to go through the whole business of uploading the JAR to clojars and trying to manage it. An alternative was to install it in my maven local directory using mvn install:install-file . But I wanted something simpler. The [...]

Facebook Messaging is less useful than Google Voice + trust

TL;DR version: Facebook is essentially a trust clique – what should have happened is that all my SMS, email, voice should have been routed through Facebook. That is something I would pay for. Currently what Facebook’s Project Titan is doing, is inserting itself in my SMS, email, chat and is disregarding voice. No I’m not one of those [...]

The perfect cURL commandline (like wget)

curl -C – -OLR <URL> What this does is: Resume any broken/failed/paused download (drop the “-C -” otherwise) Write the output to a file which is named the same as on the server (you can drop the “-O” and instead use “-o <filename>”to redirect to a filename of your choosing) Sets the remote file time [...]

The essence of scrum ?

I read this somewhere: For mid-size software projects (10-30 person weeks) I would recommend a scrum-like approach, where you collect the main requirements at the beginning, decompose these requirements into manageable pieces, attach estimates/prices to those pieces and decide together with the customer what should be done in the first 2 weeks. After 2 weeks [...]

Microsoft is not ceasing to surprise me (in a good way)

F# has been released in an open source Apache 2 license (Apache2 is not in the same league as BSD and MIT. It includes an explicit patents grant, versus GPL v2 which doesn’t.). Digest that for a little while … take some more time to savor it. With the Microsoft Community Promise, the Oracle-Java debacle [...]