Posts by Yevgeniy Brikman

They serve our country every day. Now is your chance to give something back. On Veterans Day, 11/11/11, LinkedIn will kick off the first ever Veterans Hackday. We are calling all hackers to work together and create projects that can improve any aspect of a veterans life. To encourage you, we've got a phenomenal lineup of judges, including Former Deputy Assistant...

A few weeks ago, I had the chance to evaluate the Play framework, a high-productivity Java web framework. At LinkedIn, we already use Grails and JRuby/Sinatra, so I was curious how Play would compare. The thing that really caught my eye was Play's support for asynchronous programming, which would be immensely useful for fetching data from our many backend...

Write a lot of JavaScript? Love clean code? Then you need to check out CoffeeScript, a nifty little languages that compiles into JavaScript. Why would you want to learn some new language and spend time compiling? Because, in exchange, you get some of the best syntactic features from Ruby, Groovy and Python and your code becomes more readable, concise, DRY and...