Draconian Overlord

These are my favorite posts.

I'm a big fan of testing, and spend a lot of time thinking about and optimzing the readability and maintability of test suites.

This category is kind of a catch-all for misc non-language/non-framework specific posts.

As most programmers, I have obsessed about programming languages over the years, particularly pining for the syntax and productivity of dynamic languages, but with the safety blanket of a static compiler.

At Bizo, I wrote front-end code, and pre-TypeScript (~2010) so we used GWT. GWT could be a frustrating experience, so I also wrote a framework, Tessell, to make our lives easier.

Joist is a Java ORM I wrote in ~2007 that uses code generation to get Rails-ish productivity (no getter, setter, annotation, etc. boilerplate) and avoid Hibernate (on 500+ table enterprise projects, the Hibernate startup time was too slow for TDD).

Lately I've been hacking on TypeScript and enjoy it; I could see it becoming my favorite language.

We wrote a lot of Scala at Bizo. The syntax is great, the compile times are not.

I've done a ton of Java, for better or worse. I like the fast/rock solid tooling, which pays off for "in-the-large" programming, but not the boilerpate, which sucks for "in-the-small" programming. I also hate how slow it innovates compared to C# and TypeScript.

I like moving fast, so am always collecting shell, vi, etc. tips.

I need to find a better spot for these.