Kirk's Rants

I code. I used to be super-hardcore in Silicon Valley. I moved to London, sold out and worked for financial services companies. Now back to the startup life. Here's where I rant at nobody in particular.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Can too good development infrastructure spoil you?

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At qCon San Francisco, Asish Kumar, head of development infrastructure at Google, gave a talk titled "Development at the Speed and Sca...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Another OpenGamma OpenHouse on 17 November 2010

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Yep, it's that time again. The days are shorter, the nights are longer, there's a chill in the air, and it's time for OpenGamma ...
Monday, October 18, 2010

I'm Hosting The Financial Track at qCon London 2011

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As astute and long-term readers would no doubt be aware, I presented on RESTful Approaches to Financial Systems Integration at qCon London...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Back in New York City Next Week

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Yes, it's only been a month since I was last in the city so nice they named it twice, but I'm coming back again. I'm sure at...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Cartoon Characters Discuss Web-Scale Asynchronous Communications

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I couldn't resist joining in on the MongoDB/MySQL/DevNull Xtranormal meme. Many of these things I've blogged about before. But now ...
Thursday, September 09, 2010

Slow Clap for Item Moves in Basecamp

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I follow SvN . I'm not entirely sure why at this point, as I very rarely actually see anything of merit on it anymore, but I've not...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Java Initialization Barrier Pattern With AtomicBoolean

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I've found myself starting to use this little mini-pattern. You might find it useful. private final AtomicBoolean _hasBeenInitialized...
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