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Category Archives: Opinion

Subjective opinions about programming in general

Certifications Huh, What are they good for Absolutely Nothing!

04-May-11

Certifications show you can study and take a test They don’t demonstrate that you actually comprehend any thing that was on the test. In the worse case certifications can turn off a lot of hiring managers as they got burned in the dotCom bubble boom with unqualified staff but were “certified”, it looks like someone [...]

Great Fixed Width Programming Font

21-Jan-10

Found this font called Inconsolata works great as a Terminal font. I am also using it as my preferred font for programming Java, Python and Erlang.

Python/Twisted vs Erlang/OTP

15-Oct-09

A long time user of Python and Twisted, I have used Python and Twisted to developed some production systems that processed 60 – 80 million messages a day. It wasn’t pretty but the code base was fairly small and it worked, but not simply. Our deployment machines were Sun T1000 Niagara based machines. We were [...]