Category Archives: coding

Beginning CouchDB Errata

By Simon | Published: July 22, 2010
Whilst I am on the subject of CouchApps, there is a typo in code listing 10-4 on page 171 of Beginning CouchDB which causes the javascript to not work. Specifically, if you get a message along the following lines in your browser’s error console: $.CouchApp is not a function You can fix this by  making an edit [...]
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CouchDB from Src How-To

By Simon | Published: July 22, 2010
Well this was more effort than it should have been. I have been dabbling with Erlang for a while, and after struggling with MySQL, Tomcat and JDBC I was looking for an alternative web-app stack. CouchDB looks to be perfect, although sufficiently new that there is not a lot of documentation, both of the books [...]
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Basic Linux Graphics Programming

By simon | Published: January 30, 2009
I have been using C for many years, and OpenGL as a graphics toolkit for many different languages during that time, but am only just dipping my toes into alternative modern Linux GUI toolkits by trying out GTK+ and the Cairo graphics toolkit. To be honest for the last five or six years if I [...]
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Pattern Languages

By simon | Published: January 6, 2009
I have been aware of design patterns since my undergrad days, and learnt about them through a course on software engineering and refactoring which recommended the gang of four book. Much more recently I have discovered Christopher Alexander, the originator of the idea of pattern languages. Recently a colleague discovered design patterns and embraced them [...]
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Moving from BlueJ to Java Proper

By simon | Published: February 16, 2008
One minor irritation that I have is with the BlueJ package, or more correctly with the way it is used to teach introductory object-oriented programming. BlueJ is a good way to introduce new students to programming but I feel that the introductory course should finish by moving the student to Java proper. By this I [...]
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