Dima Sabanin

Money-Plan (анонс)

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:37:55 +0800

My weekend-time project. Проект над которым я потихоньку работаю на выходных. Пока что только анонс.

How testing looks in Clojure with Midje

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:42:00 +0700

Needless to say, I’m sold.

With “lein midge —lazytest” tests restart after every change to the source files, like with Ruby’s autotest. Featured in the snippet: Leiningen, Midje, Lazytest.

Clojure is a thing of immense beauty.

Beanstalk: How I sped up Beanstalk's test suite by 5x

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:59:21 +0700

Beanstalk: How I sped up Beanstalk's test suite by 5x :

beanstalkapp:

Over the years of Beanstalk’s evolution, our test suite has grown a lot. We started on test/unit, then moved to rspec and moved back to test/unit couple years ago. We are far from 100% test coverage and we’re not truly test-driven most of the times, but we’re striving to test more and more.

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Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека, Бессмысленный и тусклый свет. Живи еще хоть четверть века - Все будет...

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:33:52 +0800

Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека,
Бессмысленный и тусклый свет.
Живи еще хоть четверть века -
Все будет так. Исхода нет.

Умрешь - начнешь опять сначала,
И повторится все, как встарь,
Ночь, ледяная рябь канала,
Аптека, улица, фонарь.

Александр Блок

Looks like Ruby is going to be a new Smalltalk dialect :)

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:30:03 +0800

Looks like Ruby *is* going to be a new Smalltalk dialect :)

This is a second and last piece of my repertoire :) It’s...

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:33:25 +0800

This is a second and last piece of my repertoire :) It’s written by Craig Armstrong for Love Actually OST. I play that one longer than the Doga, but still suck.

You can download it here

This is the first time I finally decided to record something...

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:43:00 +0800

This is the first time I finally decided to record something from my piano repertoire. Recording is pretty messy, since I can’t even use GarageBand properly. Hope you still can enjoy it.

This is Waltz written by Eugen Doga, from a popular russian movie based on Chekhov’s novel “The Shooting Party”.

You can download it here.

"It’s not about fighting, it’s about balance. It’s not about enlightenment,..."

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:31:31 +0700

“It’s not about fighting, it’s about balance.
It’s not about enlightenment, it’s about balance.
It’s not about balance…”

Autopsy of Pentium-III CPU, side view.

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:56:06 +0700

Autopsy of Pentium-III CPU, side view.

Google Chrome web inspector is finally getting up to par with...

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:03:09 +0700

Google Chrome web inspector is finally getting up to par with Firebug. It’s missing some stuff, but it’s much better than Safari’s version, even though they share the same codebase. I hope Google engineers push some of that stuff back into Webkit so that Apple could use it.

I especially loved somewhat new Audit feature, it’s essentially a tool similar to YSlow, but with a fresh face and Google analysis code. It’s nice to not have to install any extensions to use it, since you get it with every Chrome install and that’s another advantage other YSlow. Besides, I trust Google’s opinion on how to make a site faster better than Yahoo’s :)

Btw, updated Network tab is also awesome.

P.S. I’m using Chrome 9.0.572.1 dev for Mac. Older versions have inspector that is not that cool.

Launching a New Website: 18 Steps to Successful Metrics & Marketing

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:17:00 +0700

Launching a New Website: 18 Steps to Successful Metrics & Marketing:

A thorough check list of things you should do when launching a web site.

"People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in..."

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:58:24 +0700

“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos right now is because, things are being loved and people are being used.”

Updated the blog

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:19:31 +0700

Finally found time to breath some life into my good ol’ tumblr. I must say tumblr guys did a pretty good job last year. The whole experience of configuring a blog became even more polished and fun. Everything just works.

Within two hours I was able to buy and setup a theme, integrate with Disqus for comments, setup twitter integration and other cool stuff.

Disqus is also awesome. I think even if I had the ability to setup server-side comments on tumblr, I would’ve chosen Disqus for the ease of use, awesomeness and flexibility of their comments system.

Mac-friendly Autotest — almost no CPU usage while idle

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:24:10 +0800

Mac-friendly Autotest — almost no CPU usage while idle

Absolutely awesome and inspiring Railsconf talk on dynamic...

Tue, 12 May 2009 14:44:02 +0800

Absolutely awesome and inspiring Railsconf talk on dynamic languages and TDD. Best of everything - humor, knowledge, experience and actor talent of presenter.

"If someone asks you, “Who is that guy?” then you probably won’t waste your breath..."

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:21:00 +0700

“If someone asks you, “Who is that guy?” then you probably won’t waste your breath by saying, “Him? A guy whose coding skills are terribly out of date, but who is not capable of performing any managerial duties.” Instead you’ll permit yourself to emit a nasty little swear word and simply say, “Him? Architect.” Ouch!”

- “Architect” is a swear word.

Get Ruby 1.9.1 running on OS X Leopard

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:16:55 +0700

Get Ruby 1.9.1 running on OS X Leopard

Probably old news, but for those who don’t know - GitX -...

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:46:11 +0700

Probably old news, but for those who don’t know - GitX - an awesome Git GUI client for Mac OS X.

History view, commit view - allows you not only to browse Git repository, but to commit stuff and split different changes in a single file into separate commits. Slick GUI too. Supports GitHub’s Gists ;-)

A moment of mindfulness for humanity.

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:19:56 +0700

A moment of mindfulness for humanity.

MemoryUsageLogger Plugin

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:52:07 +0700

I’m sure everybody knows about it already, but in case you don’t: http://github.com/binarylogic/memory_usage_logger.

Adds amount of memory used by current process to every line of Rails log, so that you see how memory usage grows during the request processing. Should be very useful for tracking memory leaks.

Thanks to EngineYard for the link! Best hosting ever, as usual.