Category Archives: Programming

Get PyDev Eclipse to Find zmq

Posted on September 26, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

If correctly installed, Python on the OS X has no trouble finding the ØMQ Python bindings. However, the Eclipse PyDev by default will not locate the zmq library within the Eclipse IDE. Therefore, if you include the following in your … Continue reading →

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git Over A Non-Standard ssh Port

Posted on September 7, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

git speaks ssh over the standard port 22 out of the box, and flawlessly. For example: git clone git@hostname:repository_name There are a fair number of installations running ssh on non-standard ports, however, and the above method doesn’t directly support a … Continue reading →

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Eliminating Multi-Threading Headaches

Posted on July 21, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

I first touched parallel processing as an undergrad. I was selected to for a summer research program that tackled different aspects of parallel processing using transputers. They broke us into teams and I was put on the parallel debugging team. … Continue reading →

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Overriding DNS for Testing

Posted on July 16, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

Once in a while it’s handy to override DNS and associate a host name with a different IP address. Continue reading →

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Sign of an Immature Programmer

Posted on July 8, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

There are stages of development that people seem to go through as a programmer. Continue reading →

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看板 (Kanban) and Agile Software Development

Posted on July 5, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

Agile software development is an evolutionary practice rather than a process (implementation). An 2009 article Kanban Development Oversimplified has a nice overview of adapting 看板 (kanban) ideas into the development cycle.

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ØMQ (ZeroMQ) and a Bit of Philosophy

Posted on June 24, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

While watching the SLLUG May presentation on SALT by Thomas S. Hatch, I was intrigued by his reference to ØMQ (ZeroMQ). This is a fascinating “intelligent” networking library, but some of the philosophy I found interesting. In the guide it … Continue reading →