A Programmer's Perspective

Python Function Timer Decorator

Jason — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:42:51 +0000

I find myself often timing how long code blocks take to execute so I’m able to discover bottlenecks and compare performance between iterations. A quick & simple way to do this is with a handy Python decorator. import time import (…)

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Automating Fixture Instantiation in Mocha using Async

Jason — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:43:41 +0000

My latest Node.JS project has been entirely test-driven and I always strive to write very simple & concise tests. Convoluted code in a test will be far less likely to be maintained. So when test driving my latest model, I (…)

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Self Updating Solr Stopwords

Jason — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:26:53 +0000

If you are looking to edge out a bit of performance from Solr one of the many things you can do is optimize your Solr Stopwords file. The more entries you have in this file, the less terms that end (…)

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Setting RailwayJS Environment

Jason — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:41:27 +0000

Recently I’ve been working with RailwayJS and integrating Mocha for testing. However, I wasn’t able to figure out how to explicitly set the environment. As such, it was always defaulting to “development” which is not ideal. For those wondering, you (…)

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Apache Bench – Setting Multiple Cookies

Jason — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:07:51 +0000

Recently I’ve been doing some load testing on some web applications I’ve developed. Reading the documentation they say you can set multiple cookies using multiple “-C” flags. However, this simply DID NOT WORK for me. Tried everything. Since I’m sure (…)

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Zend_Service_Spotify

Jason — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:22:01 +0000

I just posted the initial beta release of Zend_Service_Spotify to my Github account. I’ve always really appreciated the Zend Framework components due to their coding style, code comments (not to be confused with real documentation), and inter-operability. So, I decided (…)

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Rails Flash Notices in Zend Framework

Jason — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:29:19 +0000

Anyone that has used Zend Framework, especially Ruby on Rails developers, have most likely implemented the FlashMessenger Controller Action Helper and wished that you could organize the messages into different types. As a Ruby on Rails developer I have been (…)

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Updated jQuery Form Field Default Value Plugin

Jason — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:23:23 +0000

Hi everyone, I finally got around to updating my jQuery plugin. I’ve cleaned up the code a bit and also ensured full compatibility with jQuery 1.6. A few new features: Option for property-based default value Now, if you choose, you (…)

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Creating a Tag Cloud with Solr and PHP

Jason — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:27:05 +0000

Tag clouds are a really fantastic way to summarize the prominent keywords/tags/words utilized in a system. There really isn’t a better way, visually, to represent this data. So, how do we create a Tag Cloud using Solr? The first step (…)

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Solr Stopwords & Synonyms Collection

Jason — Sun, 22 May 2011 16:32:37 +0000

As mentioned in my last post, I have been working with Solr extensively for the last few months and I am currently in the process of refining my schema. This refinement has inevitably lead to me looking into the appropriate (…)

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