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The need for speed is driving more developers to explore parallelism as a way to improve performance. Parallella offers an inexpensive way to experiment with the new paradigm. Groupon’s Software Engeineering Team invited me to share some Parallella explorations during...

ConFoo is a nine-track conference for web developers, held every year in Montreal, Canada. Multiple languages and framework are represented: Python, .Net, Ruby, C#, JavaScript… the works. ConFoo also offers a healthy helping of IoT including Arduino and Raspberry Pi....

Git is the dominant version control system for open source software. When you first burn a Parallella image, git is installed, but it’s configured with the name and email address for the CEO of Adapteva, makers of the Parallella. This...

BLUE1647 is an amazing maker space on the South Side of Chicago. Each month ChicagoRuby hosts an event at the space. This month featured the Internet of Things (IoT).

The search function on this blog is powered by lunr.js. This post was inspired by a search question in the blog comments: Is it me or does it not work in Firefox?~Jason (from the blog comments) Of course lunr.js works...

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that...