The Art of Multiprocess Programming is great, but occasionally you find an explanation which is needlessly complex. I hope this clarifies things Use this example execution and graphic alongside the code to better understand the filter lock. If you have any questions or are confused, feel free to reach out …

Someone posed a question on the falcon mailing list the other day. They asked "How do I handle a long running-request > 15 minutes, but ensure termination when the client kills the http connection?"

The response was: Don't

Instead of having the client wait on one request for the 15 minute …

I run my Angular JS frontend on a different domain than my Falcon backend. When I tried to connect the two, chrome gave an XHR error: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin'. This lead me to Falcon's github issue 223 which is marked as open. Sebasmagri was kind enough to post a middleware fix …

This quick tutorial is as much for my sake as for any potential readers. Compiled from the following sources, so you don't have to.

• The Falcon Tutorial
• Dreamhost's Passenger WSGI Instructions
• Similar Tutorial on Django

Passenger on Your Domain

This is covered in Dreamhost's wiki, but I'll quickly cover the …

Here is a quick listing of the real limitations of hard drive RPM as found in a post by TheSSDGuy. The comments underneath the article held a wealth of information, which I've consolidated here.

Source: Why Don't HDDs Spin Faster Than 15k RPM

It is not because the disc might …

This metaphor comes from Herlihy's The Art of Multiprocessor Programming; maybe in the future I'll extend it.

Multiprocessor synchronization and Concurrency is painting a house. You have four workers, two brushes, one roller, one ladder, and one giant can of paint. The goal here is to paint the house as …

"I can't import mp3 files into iTunes 11" you say. I hear your pain.

Disclaimer, I am not importing music from audio CDs. If you're looking to do that look at the apple documentation here.

Attempts

There are various ways of 'importing' an audio file into iTunes. You can drag …