My Blog. Mostly Code.
I'm Andrew Cholakian. I'm a Software Developer living in Los Angeles CA, working for Pose. I love hacking on open source software, most of which is up on my github account. I also am pretty interested in photography, I've got my photos up in two places.
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- 12 Apr 2013 » I'm writing an Elasticsearch Book!
- 14 Mar 2013 » A Benchmarking Crawler in Clojure
- 16 Feb 2013 » How We Integrated ElasticSearch and Rails at Pose
- 18 Aug 2012 » Engulf - Building for Speed. Part 1
- 13 Aug 2012 » Using Markov chains for HTTP benchmarking
- 29 Jul 2012 » Engulf 3 HTTP API Now Working!
- 14 Jul 2012 » D3 + Backbone @ js.la
- 06 Jun 2012 » Misc. JVM Concurrency Reading
- 31 May 2012 » Interrotron: a Safe Little Lisp for Ruby
- 14 May 2012 » Vert.x: Why the JVM May Put Node.js on the Ropes
- 12 May 2012 » Elementary Automata In Clojure
- 08 May 2012 » Moved To Jekyll
- 13 Feb 2012 » Check out the new podcast pydanny and myself just started!
- 02 Dec 2011 » Experiences with Noir: Taking Clojure Web-Dev to the Next Level
- 26 Nov 2011 » You Can't Hack Photography
- 28 Jul 2011 » Clockwork from Rake
- 04 Jun 2011 » Tackling my first Clojure project, a Graphical HTTP Benchmarker
- 26 May 2011 » Stevens TCP state diagram at vokle hq!
- 21 May 2011 » Why Not MessagePack?
- 13 Apr 2011 » Unicode Chalkpoints
- 14 Mar 2011 » Making life easier with GIT SHAs in your HTTP Headers
- 06 Mar 2011 » Before PostgreSQL, Bruce Momjian wrote an SQL in Shell
- 12 Feb 2011 » Quickly Constantize
- 08 Jan 2011 » Fiction in Fiction
- 06 Jan 2011 » LA Hacker News January Meetup
- 02 Jan 2011 » Fork2 Is Dead Long Live Fork I Mean Clone2
- 19 Nov 2010 » How I Host My Site Using Only S3, CloudFront, and a Few Small Tools
- 03 Nov 2010 » Fun with Extra Funky JS Closures
- 31 Oct 2010 » Tonights Hacking Dripdrop Now Supports Routin
- 22 Oct 2010 » DripDrop bump to 0.3.0. Subclassing,Filtering, Consistency, and Specs
- 08 Oct 2010 » Cleaned Up Dripdrop Syntax
- 13 Sep 2010 » Next Step for DripDrop: ZeroMQ Distributed Workers
- 11 Sep 2010 » Learn ZeroMQ by Building an HTTP Load Tester
- 06 Sep 2010 » DripDrop now supports more socket types.
- 31 Aug 2010 » Learn ZeroMQ in Ruby With These Examples...
- 26 Aug 2010 » Tailing MongoDB Capped Collections in Ruby
- 17 Aug 2010 » Zeromq What You Need To Know Braindump
- 16 Aug 2010 » Thanks Chuck! ffi-rzmq and zmqmachine gems released. 1.8.x compat as well!
- 14 Aug 2010 » App monitoring/messaging with ZeroMQ + Ruby = dripdrop
- 16 Jul 2010 » Sendgrid + Sendgrid Toolkit is pretty awesome
- 11 Jul 2010 » Kernel Async Io Not Worth It
- 10 Jul 2010 » ZeroMQ, It's a big deal
- 26 Jun 2010 » Esoteric and Archaic Words in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- 20 Jun 2010 » Deep Merging
- 18 Jun 2010 » MongoMapper's got some interesting stuff going on
- 31 May 2010 » Clojure ANTLR Grammar
- 27 May 2010 » Language Implementation Patterns
- 26 May 2010 » Los Angeles Hacker News Google Group
- 25 May 2010 » Los Angeles Hacker News
- 18 May 2010 » Reasons I don't miss programming in perl
- 30 Apr 2010 » Node Js And Binary Data
- 23 Apr 2010 » I (still) have a crush on Wolfram Alpha
- 22 Apr 2010 » On Javascript Global Variables
- 13 Apr 2010 » Invalid Command and restoring PostgreSQL dumps
- 13 Apr 2010 » Concurrency in Clojure
- 08 Apr 2010 » Node JS Logging Module
- 08 Apr 2010 » Flying the SR-71 Blackbird
- 07 Apr 2010 » Node and process.nextTick
- 02 Apr 2010 » Learning Clojure
- 01 Apr 2010 » Node File Read Performance
- 30 Mar 2010 » Nodejs Can Really Scale
- 29 Mar 2010 » Serving static files with Node JS
- 17 Mar 2010 » PaNU
- 05 Mar 2010 » Clojure is next
- 18 Feb 2010 » Common SQL Queries
- 26 Jan 2010 » Using Masochism multiple DB support with Engine Yard Cloud
- 22 Jan 2010 » Writing Parsers
- 04 Dec 2009 » Big Cookies And Nginx
- 08 Nov 2009 » Fighter Pilots Will Soon Be A Thing Of The Past
- 04 Nov 2009 » GHB and Body Building