Programming

Posted by Leo Soto on June 11th, 2011.

What!? Didn’t I hate Java?

Well. not exactly. I do think that it is used for a lot of tasks in which a more powerful language should be used instead…

Posted by Leo Soto on October 5th, 2008.

Some days ago I created a project on Google Code Hosting: the Flex Compiler Shell Daemon, or fcshd for short.

Posted by Leo Soto on July 5th, 2008.

It’s a cliché, but really, look at this commit message I just wrote. It’s for a supposedly simple change I made to Jython to get '%d' % foo and '%f' % bar working, on some corner cases[1]:

Posted by Leo Soto on April 4th, 2008.

Crappy photo taken last weekend on a Cinemark: it shows, in the text on the middle, the title of the movie “Crónicas de Spiderwick” mangled by the incorrect interpretation of UTF-8 data as ISO8859–1.

Posted by Leo Soto on March 24th, 2008.

This is my humble recognition of memcached (“a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system”) usefulness. It is not a language or platform dependent tool, so do not overlook it…

Posted by Leo Soto on January 22nd, 2008.

Code size is a problem of in software engineering. Some people even think it is the most important problem we have.

But it is not code size alone. You may not be working on a mammoth code base, but code size…

Posted by Leo Soto on November 23rd, 2007.

This week Marty touched a sensible spot in his article “Returning None is Evil”, where, aside from what’s obvious from the title, he claims that this behaviour is something popular on the Java mindset.

Posted by Leo Soto on August 23rd, 2007.

I’m a big fan of Python doctests. They are easy to write (copy and paste from your interpreter), very clean (no subclassing, no assert*, etc.) and serve very well as documentation.

Posted by Leo Soto on August 19th, 2007.

Some people misunderstood my last rant as a direct attack against patterns. It’s not. It’s indirect.

Posted by Leo Soto on January 22nd, 2007.

There are too much areas to make a comparision between languages and web frameworks. We have seen from hard perfomance benchmarks to much more soft happiness…