All articles tagged Development

Hi there, welcome to the first of what we hope are more Django round-ups. We scoured the internet for great Django resources, then bundled them up for you here. We hope it helps you stay current and not miss anything …

An important part of the process process of learning a new language is to learn the ecosystem that helps you to write better code. In a previous article I covered gdb integration with Go. Next on my list is to …

If you’ve never heard of Selenium, put simply, it’s a tool that allows you to create tests that are run in the browser and interact with your UI in the same way as if you were manually testing your website …

First off, realtime websites are hard. The current toolset is rudimentary. When I first started building Ginger, I thought I must be doing it wrong because of all the trial-and-error and pieces I was building from scratch. After watching Geoff …

I spent the vast majority of my time in the last 4 years writing, reading and debugging Python or JavaScript code. The process of learning Go was like a beautiful hike in the mountains with a small rock in my …

Part 1 | “Part 2”/blog/2011/oct/12/load-testing-jmeter-part-2-headless-testing-and-je/ | Part 3 A while ago, I wrote a couple of blog entries about load testing with JMeter. I promised a third entry covering how to use JMeter to replay Apache logs and roughly recreate …

WebRTC, short for Web Real Time Communications, is a specification and project adding JavaScript APIs in the browser to: 1. Access a user’s webcam and microphone: getUserMedia. 2. Connect directly to another browser: PeerConnection and DataChannel. The main use case …

This is HTTP A big friendly unsecured clear-text, line-oriented bear. This is SPDY A multi-plexed binary TLS-wrapped protocol from the future. SPDY (pronounced speedy) is a replacement for HTTP, and feels like a wrapper for it. SPDY is a packet …

One of my recent tasks in Ginger was to ensure that we weren’t leaking referrer URLs when you click on an external link in Ginger. It seemed like an easy task and one that’s probably been solved before. What I …

Our new product Ginger relies heavily on Backbone.js for most of the client-side functionality (you can read about our full web-stack here). Our JavaScript guru Marco built the initial prototype and then was pulled away by client work. I reluctantly …