Martin Olsansky olso

The Perfect Margarita

This is my "go to" margarita because of the ease of preparation and the simplicity of ingredients.

TL;DR

1oz orange liqueur, 2oz tequila, 3oz limeade, 1/2 lime, shaken with ice.

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

LOAD CSV into Neo4j quickly and successfully

Since version 2.1 Neo4j provides out-of-the box support for CSV ingestion. The LOAD CSV command that was added to the Cypher Query language is a versatile and powerful ETL tool. It allows you to ingest CSV data from any URL into a friendly parameter stream for your simple or complex graph update operation, that … conversion.

Introduction

At DICOM Grid, we recently made the decision to use Haskell for some of our newer projects, mostly small, independent web services. This isn't the first time I've had the opportunity to use Haskell at work - I had previously used Haskell to write tools to automate some processes like generation of documentation for TypeScript code - but this is the first time we will be deploying Haskell code into production.

Over the past few months, I have been working on two Haskell services:

A reimplementation of an existing socket.io service, previously written for NodeJS using TypeScript.
A new service, which would interact with third-party components using standard data formats from the medical industry.

I will write here mostly about the first project, since it is a self-contained project which provides a good example of the power of Haskell. Moreover, the proces

JavaScript to Rust Cheat Sheet

The goal of this is to have an easily-scannable reference for the most common syntax idioms in JavaScript and Rust so that programmers most comfortable with JavaScript can quickly get through the syntax differences and feel like they could read and write basic Rust programs.

What do you think? Does this meet its goal? If not, why not?

Variables

JavaScript:

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

@kangax's ES6 quiz, explained

@kangax created a new interesting quiz, this time devoted to ES6 (aka ES2015). I found this quiz very interesting and quite hard (made myself 3 mistakes on first pass).

Here we go with the explanations:

Question 1:

(function(x, f = () =&gt; x) {

	# extracted from http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/cultural/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip
	# under public domain terms

	country_bounding_boxes = {
	'AF': ('Afghanistan', (60.5284298033, 29.318572496, 75.1580277851, 38.4862816432)),
	'AO': ('Angola', (11.6400960629, -17.9306364885, 24.0799052263, -4.43802336998)),
	'AL': ('Albania', (19.3044861183, 39.624997667, 21.0200403175, 42.6882473822)),
	'AE': ('United Arab Emirates', (51.5795186705, 22.4969475367, 56.3968473651, 26.055464179)),
	'AR': ('Argentina', (-73.4154357571, -55.25, -53.628348965, -21.8323104794)),
	'AM': ('Armenia', (43.5827458026, 38.7412014837, 46.5057198423, 41.2481285671)),

	// Reference: http://www.blackdogfoundry.com/blog/moving-repository-from-bitbucket-to-github/
	// See also: http://www.paulund.co.uk/change-url-of-git-repository

	$ cd $HOME/Code/repo-directory
	$ git remote rename origin bitbucket
	$ git remote add origin https://github.com/mandiwise/awesome-new-repo.git
	$ git push origin master

	$ git remote rm bitbucket

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# The reason of creating this script is that Endpoint Security VPN installs it's own application firewall kext cpfw.kext
	# which prevents for example PPTP connections from this computer, which is not appropriate if you need subj connection just
	# from time to time
	#
	# Usage: ./checkpoint.sh
	#
	# The script checks if Enpoint Security VPN is running. If it is, then it shuts it down, if it is not, it fires it up.
	# Or, make an Automator action and paste the script.