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Now that we’ve started doing some Scala development internally and in particular using sbt as our build tool of choice we hit our first little snag when it came to integrating these scala projects into the same development flow as all of our other projects. We use Atlassian’s Bamboo to handle all of our code [...]
I have only just started learning Scala over the last week or so and I have to say I’ve already fallen in love with it. The learning curve stems mostly from having to switch my imperative style thinking into a functional one, which is pretty difficult since its like trying to drop every bad habit you’ve ever [...]
Something is afoot in the above graph, what I can tell you is at around 10:15pm is when I disabled transparent hugepages on this box. So where why am I suddenly buffering and caching more? What are transparent hugepages? From what I understand hugepages were introduced to maximize the use of the TLB (translation lookaside [...]
Thanks to Erik for pointing this out, he has also put up a easy HOWTO for fixing this on his blog. So it turns out all is not lost, you can still revert to the original behaviour of apples resolver! They’ve added a parameter to mDNSResponder called -AlwaysAppendSearchDomains. Implying that this new behaviour was very intentional. I [...]
Have you just updated to the latest and greatest Apple operating system? Noticing anything .. funky? No, I’m not talking about the fact they think the ‘natural’ way to scroll on a mouse is by reversing what everyones been using since the creation of the scroll wheel. I’m talking about the serious regression in name [...]
Cloud Foundry was recently unveiled by VMWare at JAX in London and given the recent failings of other cloud hosting providers I think timing couldn’t have been better. What do you do when you’ve built your entire infrastructure on one vendors ‘cloud’? You’ve tied in all of their API’s into your application to make the [...]
Over the course of the last month or so I’ve been working intensively on a new piece of software for VerticalScope that allows us to very easily and quickly see the goings-on across all of our owned properties with a wide variety of metrics to choose from, in effect this software is bringing some business [...]
At the office we make extensive use of many of the products that Atlassian develops, our biggest and core to most of our software development is JIRA. I would consider JIRA to be the de facto standard when it comes to bug tracking for any serious project; Their licensing model is fair and if you’re an open [...]
[Updated!] I saw an interesting benchmark from the grails weekly news summary that compared the performance of Grails (latest version as of the writing 1.3.6) and the PHP MVC framework Symfony and the underlying ORM doctrine; What was interesting was the huge performance gap they illustrated on database row inserts. Now normally being a huge Grails fan [...]
Last week DxO released version 6.5 of their RAW processing software with promises of better noise reduction, new camera modules and something I found interesting, single shot HDR. DxO’s noise reduction is already pretty impressive so I didn’t bother checking out the improvements, mostly because the last time they mentioned improvements I didn’t really see [...]
