Last month I had the pleasure of presentation at the Connect.js conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on scaling Node.js with Docker and Kubernetes. I really enjoyed the conference, and giving this talk. I feel that Kubernetes really shows the power of what software containers can do to give generic solutions to general application development problems like […]
I recently had the pleasure of doing a short presentation to the Bay Area Clojure User Group on Wrapping Clojure Tooling in Containers. We went from having no Clojure tooling, and Java 7 on my host machine, to quickly firing up a new terminal shell running in a Docker container with Leiningen pre-installed along with Java 8. This […]
When I started working with Google App Engine and Go, I wasn’t sure how to best configure my GOPATH when developing Google App Engine applications. You can find documentation on this aspect on the Go and App Engine page, but being new to both Go and App Engine I was not aware of what options were […]
Since I am now working for Google, and specifically the Google Cloud Platform, I took the opportunity to test out our Cloud Launcher offerings to migrate this blog over to the Cloud Platform as quickly as possible. This site runs on WordPress, mainly because I found it the easiest to migrate all the content I have […]
I guess I must have decided that life was too simple and boring, and I needed to change pretty much every aspect of my life. In just under a week, I’ll be moving my entire family up to the Bay Area in California from our home here in Melbourne Australia, and shortly thereafter joining the […]
I’ve been having lots of fun this break getting back into writing a top down racing game that I had originally started (way) earlier in the year, so I thought I would start writing a little dev diary on it, to aid me in keeping up my momentum in developing it. It’s still very much in the prototype phase, […]
Brute has a few new features with this new release. The most exciting is that thanks to the cljx project, and the hard work of Martin Janiczek, Brute now supports both Clojure and ClojureScript! There are also a couple of new features, including an implementation of update-component that takes a function and arguments to allow you […]
For those people that aren’t familiar to building applications with Go and Google App Engine, the core data structure that is used whenever you need to make a request to any of the provided Google App Engine Services, is a Context. Usually, this is created by passing in the http.Request object that is created when […]
This post could also be entitled How I Learned to Love Immutability, and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next! A few weeks ago I released a library called Brute, which is an Entity Component System Library for Clojure. This was the first Clojure library I have released, and I wanted it to be as easy to use […]
Warning: If you are new to Entity Component Systems, I would highly recommend Adam Martin’s blog series on them, he goes into great detail about what problem they solve, and what is required to implement them. I’m not going to discuss what Entity Component Systems are in this blog post, so you may want to read his series […]