Chris & Computers

Tips, tricks, muses and other computer related scibblings. Mostly for myself, maybe useful to others.

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Jun 23

Opera on Linux is out!

The linux version of Opera running on the blink engine is now out.

PS Yes, I work for Opera, on the “discover” section :)

Jun 20

Developing live on the Internet

A fun little representation of the perils of developing on a “live machine”.

via of Cosimo.

devopsreactions:

by aenigmatis

Jun 4

Drinking a morning cup of coffee and reading about swift

History

I wrote my first (and only app) iOS app for the iphone in titantium. I went out of my way to avoid learning objective-c.

Thoughts so far:

Its a little like:
- lua
- javascript
- python
- go
I foresee it reducing the barrier to develop on the iOS platform for iphone or ipad greatly.
I can see this challenging cordova, titanium et al, due to the observation above.
What would happen if Apple provide some sort of integration for “swift -> java”? (I do see this as easier to do now.)

Devices

Being an owner of a few apple devices, I am a little sad to see that my outdated ipad, will not work with iOS8. However my semi broken iphone 4s will be able to work with iOS8 (I have a test device!)

Conclusion

So far, having written zero lines of code, I am already keen to write something in swift. It looks familiar and enticing. With iOS8 being penciled in for general roll out later in the year. I also have a deadline to make my second published iOS app.

May 11

Kafka and Storm - event processing in realtime

I like the concept, but so far scanning the documents of Twitter Storm, needs more work to lower barrier to entry.

May 7

Disable vagrant checking for updates on your box

In your Vagrantfile, you will have a line that tells your system which box it is using.

config.vm.box = "BOX_GOES_HERE"

Everytime you write vagrant up it checks to see if there is an update for your box.

To disable add this on the next line:

config.vm.box = "BOX_GOES_HERE" config.vm.box_check_update = false

Reference

Oct 24

Using git to find a branch when you know the commit hash.

git branch --contains <commit-hash>

I have been a user of git for longer than 3 years now. Today, I discovered another little useful combination of commands and arguments to tackle a problem.

I wanted to be able to find which branch a commit hash was in. Turns out, I was not alone with this desire. If you want more info.

man git-branch

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