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jQuery find function

2 days ago by jaycfields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I've recently been using Tilava Table on a few different projects. At one point I ran into a situation where I wanted to change all of the visible rows...

How I Open Source

3 days ago by jaycfields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
It's been recently brought to my attention that I don't view open-source the way that many of my friends do. My attitude has always been: Here's some code...

Agile Development with Clojure

4 days ago by jaycfields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
If you've ever spent any time learning Rails then you probably read one of the editions of Agile Web Development with Rails, and if you're like me (skeptical...

Follow-up Thoughts on Aligning Business & Programmer Goals

10 days ago by jaycfields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
My recent entry on Aligning Business & Programmer Goals led to an email conversation that I thought might be worth sharing. From A. Nonymous: I have an...

When to Break Apart your Application

3 months ago by jaycfields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
At speakerconf Aruba 2012, Stefan Tilkov presented on the topic of building Systems. One aspect of his presentation that really struck a chord with me was...

Aligning Business & Programmer Goals

3 months ago by jaycfields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
A theme emerged, last week at speakerconf, around the idea that programmers and businesses still don't seem to be on the same page. I'm not sure if it came...

How To Get Invited To speakerconf

3 months ago by jaycfields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
Every year it seems that someone is disappointed (or even insulted) that they didn't receive an invite to speakerconf. If you haven't gotten an invite at...

Lessons Learned while Introducing a New Programming Language

4 months ago by jaycfields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
I've used a lot of languages (professionally) over the years: (off the top of my head) Cold Fusion, HTML, Javascript, php, SQL, CSS, ASP(classic & .net...

Clojure & Java Interop

5 months ago by jaycfields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
About a year ago I got a phone call asking if I wanted to join another team at DRW. The team supports a (primarily) Java application, but the performance...

Clojure: expectations - scenarios

6 months ago by noreply@blogger.com (jaycfields) on Jay Fields Thoughts.
When I set out to write expectations I wanted to create a simple unit testing framework. I'm happy with what expectations provides for unit testing; however...