Jon Cooper

Explorations in Go: solving the Instagram engineering challenge

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Jon Cooper

The good folks at Instagram posted a fun challenge on their engineering blog recently: “Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to write a simple script that takes a shredded image in as input and outputs an unshredded … Continue reading →

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Generating realistic-looking stories in Pivotal Tracker

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Jon Cooper

We are heavy users of Pivotal Tracker here at Carbon Five, and each project evolves workflows around its use. I recently spent some time writing a Chrome extension to help support some of the common interaction patterns that come up … Continue reading →

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Explorations in Go: A dupe checker in Go and Ruby

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Jon Cooper

I’ve recently started exploring the new(ish) programming language “Go”. Go is intended to be a systems programming language and offers speed and low-level API along with some sweet features and the beginnings of a great standard library. At Carbon Five … Continue reading →

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