Deciding When to Build or When to Buy

nchintomby+rss@gmail.com (Neil Chintomby) — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

As an engineer or engineering leader building new solutions – this happens very frequently at startups – you often have to answer whether is it better to build a solution from scratch or buy (or rent) an existing and off-the-shelf solution. You may want to build something new, but it may not...

QuickChat and WebRTC

nchintomby+rss@gmail.com (Neil Chintomby) — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I have been working on a personal project called QuickChat for the last 3 weeks. A large part of the project uses WebRTC. It has been a lot of fun and I have learned a lot during this process.

Learning and using Erlang

nchintomby+rss@gmail.com (Neil Chintomby) — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Recently, I built an Erlang-based realtime messaging platform at work. This post goes into detail about...

Building a Realtime Messaging Platform with Erlang

nchintomby+rss@gmail.com (Neil Chintomby) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Recently at work, we launched a realtime messaging feature. We used

A New Blog!

nchintomby+rss@gmail.com (Neil Chintomby) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Recently, I decided to move a new blogging setup. Previously, I used a self-hosted Wordpress install, then a custom Django app, and briefly Posterous.

I wanted a setup that:

does not require a database
generated static html pages
allowed me to use...

Using Cython for Great Speedups

nchintomby+rss@gmail.com (Neil Chintomby) — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

About Cython

Python is a great dynamic language; it provides layers of abstractions (dynamic typing and memory management to name two) over the underlying hardware and makes it easier and faster to write productive...

Building a Django Session Backend using Riak

nchintomby+rss@gmail.com (Neil Chintomby) — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

At MochiMedia we use 'Django in non-standard ways'. One of the non-standard things we do is use a Django custom session backend for

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