Capistrano: Deploying to a Vagrant VM

I’ve been working on a tutorial around thinking through problems in graphs using my football graph and I wanted to…

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Clojure: Reading and writing a reasonably sized file

In a post a couple of days ago I described some code I’d written in R to find out all…

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Java: Faking a closure with a factory to create a domain object

Recently we wanted to create a domain object which needed to have an external dependency in order to do a…

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Playing around with pomodoros

Over the last 3/4 months I’ve been playing around with the idea of using pomodoros to track all coding/software related…

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Learning Android: Freezing the UI with a BroadcastReceiver

As I mentioned in a previous post I recently wrote some code in my Android app to inform a BroadcastReceiver…

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Pair Programming: The disadvantages of 100% pairing

I’ve written a lot of blog posts in the past about pair programming and the advantages that I’ve seen from…

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Learning Android: Getting a service to communicate with an activity

In the app I’m working on I created a service which runs in the background away from the main UI…

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