That! But How?

solving for better small-data systems

Latest — Jun 12, 2014

Learn REST in 18 Slides

I needed to ramp-up my Dev team on RESTful [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer] systems. Existing content on this topic was either too terse or too verbose. So I created this deck as a necessary and sufficient tutorial on REST. The goal was for my Devs to

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RserveCLI2, a .net client for Rserve

RserveCLI [https://rservecli.codeplex.com/] is a .net/cli client for Rserve, created by Oliver M. Haynold. Oliver has done a great job with this project. I forked this project to add features, fix bugs, and do some restructuring. I thought it was a significant enough depature to create a

Simple Software, a Tutorial

I’m a compulsive note-taker (using OneNote, which I think tops all other products in the category). I like to condense information, in plain english [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_English], and codify insights so I can refer to them later when I need a refresher. Here’s my

A Warning About warning()

Avoid R’s warning feature. This is particularly important if you use R in production; when you regularly run R scripts as part of your business process. This is also important if you author R packages. Don’t issue warnings in your own code and treat warnings in 3rd party

Version Control - the Host Matters

We’re moving from internally hosted SVN to Git [http://git-scm.com/]/GitHub [https://github.com/] for the typically reasons (resounding hallelujah). Mercurial [http://mercurial.selenic.com/] was a contender. We surveyed the available hosts and choose Git because of GitHub. It's an old adage at play here

IRTFMAIS

I Read The F***ing Manual And It Sucks from xkcd [https://xkcd.com/942/]

R Source on GitHub

* I added R source code v0.49 to v2.15.0 to a GitHub repository: r-source [https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source] * Each release is tagged [https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source/tags] by version number. * This is an easy and accessible way to browse R source and diff with prior version.

R, I Love You

It is easier to critique than it is to create. I write this post with much gratitude for R, the R community and particularly R-Core who are paid $0 to bring us R. I’d like to offer an idea and I’m wondering if people are interested in rallying

How R Searches and Finds Stuff

Or… How to push oneself down the rabbit hole of environments, namespaces, exports, imports, frames, enclosures, parents, and function evaluation. Motivation There are a few reasons to bother reading this post: 1. Rabbit hole avoidance You have avoided the above mentioned topics thus far, but now it’s time to