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Site update in progress | Random Hacks
http://www.randomhacks.net/2014/05/21/overhauling-site
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and entrepreneur. You're welcome to contact me. Site update in progress. May 21, 2014 by Eric Kidd. If you run into any problems. Moving a blog to Typo. AWS outage timeline and downtimes by recovery strategy. Bare Metal Rust 2: Retarget your compiler so interrupts are not evil. Deploying Rust applications to Heroku, with example code for Rustful. Lightweight Languages 2 Conference (MIT, 2002). Want to contact me.
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Migrating from Heroku (and Linode) to Docker on AWS | Random Hacks
http://www.randomhacks.net/2015/04/05/migrating-from-heroku-linode-to-aws-docker
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and entrepreneur. You're welcome to contact me. Migrating from Heroku (and Linode) to Docker on AWS. Apr 05, 2015 by Eric Kidd. Herokus costs and limitations. Lately, the costs of using Heroku for weekend projects have been creeping upwards:. Hobby databases with more than 10,000 rows cost $9/month per application. So SSL is going to become increasingly important. Now, I value my time pretty highly, but if Im reading th...
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About us - Bee Balm Productions
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Our Team consists of Designers, Programmers, and Marketing, Application and Product Developers. Contact us today! Joshua Nelson - Principal. Principal, Designer, Web and Applications Developer and Manager. (HTML 5, CSS, WordPress, jQuery, Java Script). Eric Kidd - Kidd Software LLC - Expert in Large Scale Applications. Web Applications, Ruby, C , Large Scale Online Programs. Garett Ordway - Programmer. Experience in Java Script, C#, .NET and Game Development and Web Development. I have worked with Joshua...
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"Build Your Own Probability Monads" paper back online | Random Hacks
http://www.randomhacks.net/2014/05/21/build-your-own-probability-monads-paper-back-online
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and entrepreneur. You're welcome to contact me. Build Your Own Probability Monads" paper back online. May 21, 2014 by Eric Kidd. I noticed the other day that my Build Your Own Probability Monads paper had disappeared. Its back online with a new introduction. Several years back, I wrote a series of blog posts about probability monads inspired by this quote:. Smart classification using Bayesian monads in Haskell.
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AWS outage timeline & downtimes by recovery strategy | Random Hacks
http://www.randomhacks.net/2011/04/25/aws-outage-timeline-and-recovery-strategy-downtimes
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and entrepreneur. You're welcome to contact me. AWS outage timeline and downtimes by recovery strategy. Apr 25, 2011 by Eric Kidd. Renting a server from Amazon is no substitute for a disaster recovery plan. Keep reading for a timeline of the outage, plus a list of recovery strategies and the minimum downtime that each would have incurred. A timeline of the Amazon outage. Heroku begins investigating high error rates.
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Deploying Rust applications to Heroku, with example code for Rustful | Random Hacks
http://www.randomhacks.net/2014/05/30/rust-heroku-rustful
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and entrepreneur. You're welcome to contact me. Deploying Rust applications to Heroku, with example code for Rustful. May 30, 2014 by Eric Kidd. Update, 24 June 2014:. Im planning to add support for building projects with Cargo. Shortly. Ill announce it here and on Twitter. Update, 12 July 2014:. Highly experimental Cargo support is now available. Update, 17 September 2014:. And the Heroku toolbelt. Compiling our test p...
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Installing Rust nightly builds on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid | Random Hacks
http://www.randomhacks.net/2014/05/30/rust-on-ubuntu-10.04-lucid
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and entrepreneur. You're welcome to contact me. Installing Rust nightly builds on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. May 30, 2014 by Eric Kidd. Is a systems programming language designed around speed and safety. It sits roughly halfway between Go. In particular, it combines precise, safe control over memory with high-level functional programming. Haskell programmers, for example, will notice that Rusts. Libstdc .so.6. Sudo apt-key add...
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Learning Middle Egyptian with Anki, slowly | Random Hacks
http://www.randomhacks.net/2014/05/22/learning-middle-egyptian-anki
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and entrepreneur. You're welcome to contact me. Learning Middle Egyptian with Anki, slowly. May 22, 2014 by Eric Kidd. But when I decided to learn Egyptian, I was faced with a dilemma: I couldnt justify spending more than an hour per week on it. Hierogylphs are cool, but come on—its a dead language. Unfortunately, its hard to learn a language in slow motion, because two things always go wrong:. H: z:A1*Z1 𓊃:𓏏*𓁐 𓂋:𓏤...
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Feedhose demo: Real-time RSS using Node.js and Socket.io | Random Hacks
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Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and entrepreneur. You're welcome to contact me. Feedhose demo: Real-time RSS using Node.js and Socket.io. Oct 13, 2010 by Eric Kidd. Yesterday evening, I released an experimental Node.js/Socket.io application:. Just leave your web browser open, and watch the New York Times headlines scroll by. Dave Winer is sending me some traffic. This morning, so Im going to find out how well this stack scales. Want to contact me.
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Derivatives of algebraic data structures: An excellent tutorial | Random Hacks
http://www.randomhacks.net/2011/05/20/derivatives-of-algebraic-data-structures-an-excellent-tutorial
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and entrepreneur. You're welcome to contact me. Derivatives of algebraic data structures: An excellent tutorial. May 20, 2011 by Eric Kidd. Last month, the folks at Lab49 explained how to compute the derivative of a data structure. The Lab49 blog post is, of course, based on two classic. By Conor McBride, and Huets original paper The Zipper. Lightweight Languages 2 Conference (MIT, 2002). Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP.
