Richard Clayton
Stumbling my way through the great wastelands of enterprise software development.
Parent/Child Controller Communication
AngularJS - Communicating Between Controllers - Part 1
I've been teaching AngularJS to a couple of friends lately and they almost universally ask the same question:
How do I pass information (state) between controllers?
It's a great question and it's often not obvious to new Angular users. The answer is a lot more complex than one might think (but the . . .
Introducing Nagios-Dropwizard
Super simple Nagios checks via Dropwizard Tasks.
On a project I'm currently working on, I had a need to create a framework to expose Nagios health checks within a Dropwizard service. You can find the framework and a check_url.py Nagios check script on Github here: Nagios-Dropwizard.
Why not use Dropwizard Health Checks?
The health check facility on Dropwizard . . .
Pipelines in Golang
There's a really good article on the Golang blog about Go Concurrency: Pipelines and cancellation.
I came across the article while learning Go, more specifically, I was building an image processing pipeline for my home security cameras. The examples are great, however, I felt they could be improved a little.
First, it . . .
I'm Quitting Java.
...and probably the JVM as well.
I've been looking for a new language for a long time now...
Java has been my primary language for years, but not because I'm fond of its syntax. The thing Java has going for it is a really large ecosystem. Lately, however, I find the disadvantages of the language outweighing the benefits.
My biggest gripes are:
. . .Moving to Silvrback.
Goodbye ugly and clunky Blogger.com.
If you are here, you are well aware I'm in the process of migrating my old site www.gettingcirrius.com to here.
Unfortunately, I do not have a whole lot of time on my hands, and I will not be moving the 50+ articles I wrote to this website.
