About Me
I live in San Francisco and am the Co-Founder of Two Bit Labs where we develop iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile apps for our clients. I love the mix of team leadership and working as a hands-on contributor. My technical passions include Swift, Kotlin, Ruby, Cloud Computing, and open-source software.
I also love to sail and my wife, daughter, and I sailed out the Golden Gate in 2007 on our 38 foot Hans Christian cutter (sailboat) on a 3 year cruise. Read about it at http://sailsugata.com.
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Author Archives: Todd Huss
Instantiating and populating a list or collection
In Java it always irks me when I have to create a collection and then populate it in separate steps as follows: List states = new ArrayList(); state.add(State.CA); state.add(State.WY); Then today I read about using an anonymous subclass with instance … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Ruby, Software Engineering
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Using Ruby’s timout to keep the user experience snappy
On a my Ruby on Rails based San Francisco Sailing Weather website I make calls out to flickr.rb to retrieve photos.
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Software Engineering, Web
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Upgrading to Spring 2.0 and Hibernate 3.2
Tonight I just completed the upgrade from Spring 1.2 and Hibernate 3.1 to Spring 2.0 and Hibernate 3.2 for work. I was expecting a rough upgrade but was pleasantly surprised how easily it went.
Posted in Database, Java, Software Engineering
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Xalan XSL transformations in the 1.4 JDK can be VERY slow
At work as part of our XML data feed product we end up doing XSLT transformations on XML files starting a a few MB all the way up to several hundred MB. Using the 1.4.2 JDK it took over 4 … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Software Engineering, XML
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Deferring ad loading on your pages to avoid unnecessary outages
At GreatSchools we’ve had 3rd party ad server outages or slowness effectively make our site unusable as users browsers waited for certain ads to render before rendering the rest of the page. I had originally thought just specifying height and … Continue reading
Posted in CSS, Design, Javascript, Software Engineering, Web
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SQL statements mysteriously not replicating with MySQL replication
If you’re using MySQL replication there’s a feature/bug that you should be aware of. The following SQL statement would not replicate to the slave servers:
Posted in Database, MySQL
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MySQL ODBC Driver issues and Excel
Caveat: this post is probably only of interest if you’re running into this particular MySQL ODBC Driver problem. Hopefully other people running into this issue will find this useful or please add a comment if you find a better way! … Continue reading
Posted in Desktop, MySQL
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Making your Rails app mobile with WAP and WML
I’d been wanting to make my Ruby on Rails based San Francisco Sailing Weather site available for mobile / cell phones. Now that I’m on vacation in Germany I had a stretch on a train ride where I was able … Continue reading
Posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Software Engineering, WAP and WML
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Trafeoffs of aggressive filesystem partitioning
Most systems administrators will tell you it’s important to partition your install into anywhere from 4-7 discrete patitions (or slices if you’re in the BSD camp). While I think it’s good advice in certain cases, the headaches of mis-guessing disk … Continue reading
Posted in FreeBSD, Linux, Systems Administration
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Encrypting sensitive files on Mac OS X
I was looking for a solution to keep my financial data (quickbooks, excel, important documents, etc…) encrypted on OS X so that if my laptop were stolen, lost, etc… I wouldn’t have to worry about it. I also like to … Continue reading