I’m in the process of moving this site to Amazon S3, rather than hosting it myself on a VPS. Should save me around $10 a month, but more importantly mean I wont have to look after a server. Furthermore, I could take advantage of the new SSL support.
Some notes after attending this years Container Camp in London. This got a bit long, so first a tl;dr with the highlights:
I’ve been looking at using Finagle as a web endpoint for a side project app. It seems perfect for it - very simple, very fast - so I will definitely be using it for this project, and likely others in future.
An excellent essay by Bob Nystrom on the concepts of asyncronous programming, and how various programming languages apply these concepts.
Say you have an application that collects data from a number of sources and stores it somewhere. Some of this data is only worth keeping for a certain amount of time, before it becomes worthless.
A really good article on how Stripe ran a game day testing exercise on one of their systems, and what they found.
Earlier this week, I posted an example of integrating QML2 and C++. In it I showed how to call a C++ method from QML, but finished my post with this statement.
We’re thinking of getting our front garden redone. I had a good idea of what I wanted, so had a play with SketchUp to see if I could draw it.
Update 2014-11-23: I described an improved, but slightly more complicated way to do this in my post QML2 to C++ and back again, with slots and signals.
I’ve spent hours today on this.
Firstly, building libhandbrake from source on OS X. Here’s the steps that finally worked: