Author: Jason Gilman

Jafama is a Java library that provides fast numeric operations that are replacements for the methods on java.lang.Math. Jafama (Java Fast Math) consists of fast – but not sloppy – counterparts of java.lang.Math treatments, plus additional ones. They are usually about 2-4 (up to 15) times faster, with about 1e-15 accuracy, and handle special cases…

We’re releasing our first Technology Radar. A Technology Radar, pioneered by ThoughtWorks, is a list of the techniques, tools, platforms, languages, and frameworks divided into recommendation levels: Adopt, Trial, Assess and Hold. It’s mostly a list of things we find useful and interesting.

In this post we discuss our experience using Git Log as a record of commits for a set period of time.

In this post we discuss how to tackle technical debt, and why it is important to delete code.

In this post we explore iterating over consecutive items with Underscore.js.

In this post we provide an update to our previous blog about poles in spherical polygons. Here, we investigate whether the previous algorithm can handle a polygon with a point directly on the pole.

In this blog, we outline how to determine if a spherical polygon contains a pole.

In this blog we provide insight into our experience Torquebox and JBoss Command Line Interface.

In this blog we discuss connection pool thread safety in Rails and JRuby.