Xavier Riley

(WARNING: WHILST I WORK FOR HEROKU, THIS ISN'T OFFICIAL SUPPORTED - IT'S JUST SOMETHING I DISCOVERED IN MY SPARE TIME. HOPEFULLY THIS HELPS SOMEONE BUT LEAVE ME ANY FEEDBACK ON TWITTER @XAVRILEY)...

http://www.xavierriley.co.uk/compiling-packages-from-source-on-heroku-using-buildpacks/

(WARNING: WHILST I WORK FOR HEROKU, THIS ISN'T OFFICIAL SUPPORTED - IT'S JUST SOMETHING I DISCOVERED IN MY SPARE TIME. HOPEFULLY THIS HELPS SOMEONE BUT LEAVE ME ANY FEEDBACK ON TWITTER @XAVRILEY)...

http://www.xavierriley.co.uk/using-openvpn-from-a-heroku-dyno/

In a 1993 paper by Anders Ericsson, he was one of the first to make the claim that mastery of a skill took around 10 years (about 10,000 hours) of deliberate practice. > In most domains ofÂ...

http://www.xavierriley.co.uk/10-000-hours-as-told-by-jazz-musicians/

Now that Ruby has crested the hype cycle, settled down and taken out a mortgage, you'd expect the posts around the community to be more about big business concerns. Whilst that might be true, I'd...

http://www.xavierriley.co.uk/writing-a-c-extension-for-ruby-in-2016/

A quick note for anyone else who runs into this. You can try this experimental Heroku Apt buildpack . The documentation is a little out of date as it's best to use it with the multiple buildpac...

http://www.xavierriley.co.uk/libboost-on-heroku/

Working with Sonic Pi one of the exciting things about being able to code music is the potential for using algorithms. For the non-technical reader, I like to think of algorithms like following ...

http://www.xavierriley.co.uk/neutron-accelerators-and-drum-machines-with-sonic-pi/

Recently I caught a conference talk by @rbin of SendGrid where he outlined some benefits of the "Open Source" movement for the uninitiated. Whilst it was a good talk, something about it lodged in...

http://www.xavierriley.co.uk/the-evils-of-open-source/

There are many solutions for getting data from pdfs. I'm going to describe how to use the excellent Java library PDFTextStream by Chas Emerick (of Clojure fame) to get data out of tricky pdfs. ...

http://www.xavierriley.co.uk/getting-data-from-pdfs-with-jruby/

Edward Snowden recently provided testimony to the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) committee as part of its inquiry on electronic mass surveillance of EU cit...

http://www.xavierriley.co.uk/transcript-of-edward-snowdens-testimony-to-eu/