HeatherClojure Tutorial: Calling anonymous functions inside other functionsComposing functions is very common in functional programming, but because it can be difficult to keep track of what is being passed into…May 28, 2018May 28, 2018
HeatherLearning ClojureAt the beginning of this year, I started a new job where I now use Clojure as my main programming language. We have one service written in…Mar 23, 2018Mar 23, 2018
HeatherA Primer in Unix Permissions and chmodUnix permissions can feel unwieldy, especially as the other developers around you may have personal preferences. One may use chmod 600…Dec 22, 2017Dec 22, 2017
HeatherHibernate to JDBCOur team at Pivotal creates and maintains many Spring apps. We have been using Hibernate for data access and persistence. Because of being…Jul 22, 2017Jul 22, 2017
HeatherCoreOS Fest Review at Women Who CodeLast week I wrote a review of CoreOS Fest 2017 over at the Women Who Code blog. Check it out!Jun 24, 2017Jun 24, 2017
HeatherSpring Cloud Data Flow on Cloud FoundryWe recently started evaluating Spring Cloud Data Flow for a project and were initially overwhelmed with the capabilities this system…Oct 4, 2016Oct 4, 2016
HeatherRandomly Failing Capybara tests with PoltergeistAfter bringing our codebase up to date with the latest QT and poltergeist, we started having integration tests fail at abandon. One run…Mar 13, 2016Mar 13, 2016
HeatherDeploying Ghost to Cloud Foundry/Pivotal Web ServicesGhost is an open source blogging platform. Their developer pages have instructions on installing it on various cloud platforms. However…Feb 23, 2016Feb 23, 2016