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Jerry D'Antonio

Husband, software developer, educator, Navy veteran, Catholic, progressive libertarian, contrarian, music-head, and Cleveland Bridge Builder. I proudly live in Akron, OH.

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2015

Testing Concurrent Code

Every now and then the question of testing concurrent code pops up. This isn’t surprising. Testing is hard. Concurrency is hard. It stands to reason that tes...

Your Practices Reflect Your Values

The other day I was talking to a group of students from the Software Craftsmanship Guild about interviewing and selecting their first software development jo...

2014 Reading List

For fun I decided to track the books I read in 2014. I was curious to to see what one year of reading would look like. It’s not as long a list as I hoped it ...

2014

Function Dispatch by Structure in Erlang

One of the errors many make when learning a new programming language is to impose sensibilities from other languages onto the new language. “When I program i...

Erlang, Elixir, and Hygenic Macros

Several have noted in the comments to my previous post that Elixir has hygenic macros and Erlang does not. This is true, so the issue warrants further discus...

Elixir As Viewed By An Erlanger

When people discover I work in a shop whose primary languages are both Erlang and Ruby, something inevitable happens: I get asked about Elixir. People assume...