Nothing close to a complete review of all the quality talks I heard at RubyNation, the following is just a summary of cool things I learned about while attending. For other resources, and some of my own snarky comments, take a look at the Twitter Channel for the event: #rubynation TupleSpaces and Rinda Luc Castera […]
Offered for your approval, one attendee’s observations of JSConf 2009, held this April in Rosslyn, Virginia. First, propers are due to Chris and Laura Williams for setting this up. A conference for javascript is an idea whose time has come. The speakers were outstanding. The food and after-party were fantastic, too. If there’s a JSConf […]
On the Clojure Google group there’s been a good discussion about lazy sequences and streams. The exchange goes to some of the fundamentals of the language, but if I have a decent grip on the issues, it sounds as though Mark Engelberg is concerned about the inefficiency of caching the results of evaluating n elements […]
The DC Clojure Study Group is digging into Clojure. One of our members, Luke VanderHart, contributed a program that parses a text file to build a Markov Chain generator: it will produce an arbitrarily long text that should mimic the style of the file you gave it by basing its output on the proximity of […]
I’m reading the news on Twitter that a remarkable and wonderful thing has happened in the world of Ruby web developers: Rails and Merb are going to merge. Here are announcement posts from DHH and Yehuda Katz. And here is the requisite humorous site tracking whether the two are combined. As Matz says (by way […]
Many people approaching a new language, particularly a new Lisp, often explore the new language by attempting to implement examples and exercises from canonical Lisp texts. Paul Graham’s On Lisp, Peter Siebel’s Practical Common Lisp, and Abelson and Sussman’s SICP are ususal suspects. I’m not going to attempt any large-scale “translation” of SICP into Clojure, […]
I haven’t posted about Ruby in a while, in part because I’m excited about learning Clojure and (possibly) Haskell with a bunch of fellow language geeks (er, software professionals). But I do >50% of my daily work in Ruby, and I do think about it a lot. Today I was reminded about how much useful […]
Members of Fringe DC are organizing a Washington DC area study group around learning Clojure and hacking some righteous artifacts with it. The first meeting is Sunday, December 7, at 1PM at Chief Ike’s Mambo Room, 1725 Columbia Rd NW. We’ll be meeting in person for about 3 hours every 2 or 3 weeks, and […]
The programming language Clojure is enjoying a surge in recent activity and interest, capped by a presentation by its inventor at the end of the Lisp50 program at OOPSLA. Lispy has a good recounting of Hickey’s talk on his blog. There’s interest in forming a study group here in the DC area, under the auspices […]
I’ve been spending too much time with javascript lately. It probably isn’t healthy for me. I’ll get back to my own Clojure project and paying Ruby work soon enough, but right now I’m working on an interface-intensive project, so I’m up to my neck to explicit returns and key:value notation. I was looking into improving […]