Technical Dev Blog
Technical development blog of Arthur Maltson. Covers many topics from Java to Ruby to DevOps.
A tale of tmux, a bell and the perpetuity of time
I've been using tmux for a while and love it. I had heard of tmux on various podcasts and through Twitter, but I was finally convinced to try it in early 2012 after listening to the tmux episode on the Changelog (excellent podcast by-the-way). tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development, which was...
Being Productive on OS X
I’ve been a Mac OS X user for about 3 years now, and a Linux user before that. I was originally attracted to the Mac not for the hardware (although it’s nice), but for the software. My first taste came from a home made Hackintosh, but I fell in love...
Getting into Node
Updated 2011-04-27: forgot to add Backbone.js Most of the net is abuzz about Node, so it’s hard to miss it. I’ve been sitting on the sidelines for several months now, but after attending a TechTalksTO talk on Node given by James Duncan of Joyent, I’m convinced I should dive in....
Proposals for Google I/O 2012
I’ll preempt this post by saying I wasn’t able to register for Google I/O. Like many other people, I was caught up in the server crashes that happened the minute the tickets were announced. I have a feeling our corporate firewall had to do something with my inability to reach...
Why is my LayoutPanel invisible?!
This is just a quick post in the hope that I can help others avoid hours debugging an “issue” I recently had. I was working through a new application that I’m building using the new MVP framework in GWT 2.1, and for the life in me couldn’t understand why the...