Christopher Bui

[...] and Javascript skills. Since Javascript and Node.js is often compared to Ruby on Rails for web development, I'll compare it to my experiences with Clojure. (Note: I know and understand that Node.js is [...]

[...] After doing some projects in Node.js, my interest in Clojure was reignited. Doing web development in Node was kinda like doing web development in Clojure. A better way to put it is, it's not [...]

[...] Hi, I'm Chris. I've been doing web development for about three years now. I specialize in Ruby on Rails. I'm starting this service where I [...]

[...] you're reading this and you're in the same situation as me, networkless, but with skills in web development, save yourself the time and don't do what I've been doing. Practically every online article/ [...]

[...] Email! Email marketing can make businesses a lot of money. But when people think about email marketing, they usually think of spam. Of course, real email marketing isn't spam. Email marketing is [...]

[...] planning. My idea is to teach a seminar on either optimizing your website for more sales or email marketing. At one of the meetups I met a woman that works at a web design firm. I asked her if she'd [...]

[...] business, after you've done the low hanging fruit of course. What are behavioral emails? They go by a few different names, I like to call them behavioral emails because you send [...]

[...] I went to two meetups for small business owners. I mentioned a few posts ago that I had business cards printed out just for these meetups. The first was a lesson on Facebook ads, and after that [...]

[...] it a few times before going to two meetups last Tuesday. Here's what I did: I printed out business cards and handed them out to everybody. I tried to not be so focused on what technology I worked [...]

[...] now: I'm writing this blog post to attempt to circulate it and vent my frustration. I got business cards printed today in preparation of going to tons of local meetups. Going to that luncheon on [...]

[...] out for that specific query, Postgres' query planner thought it would be faster to use a sequential scan instead of an index scan. But it was wrong for some reason. The query planner tries to figure [...]

[...] Hiya, I'm Chris. I build custom software for growing businesses in order to make them more money or save them money. Some might say I' [...]

[...] . I'm a software developer from Darien and I was wondering if you would like to invest in custom software for your business. Essentially, if you think your business has out-grown general purpose [...]

[...] me how to fix it (which I'll go into in a future post). Telling people you help them develop custom software if they outgrow Excel is too broad, and they all said that Excel is good enough for them at [...]

[...] not always faster to use an index. This surprised me but in hindsight makes perfect sense. Sequential scans are roughly O(n) and Index scans with B-Trees are roughly O(log(n)). Please send me an email [...]

[...] is going to be Node. There are much more jobs for Node and Javascript developers than Clojure devs. If you're doing a startup, you can iterate faster with Node. I will definitely give [...]

[...] moment and I have more libraries planned to make things much easier for new and experienced Clojure devs to get up and running in doing web stuff. One thing I really want after using Hapi.js is a [...]

[...] for web development are (usually) very good. And this has inspired me to start improving the Clojure ecosystem myself, instead of waiting for other people to do it. I'm writing an Asset Pipeline/ [...]