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At Strange Loop 2010 , I gave a 20 minute talk on Lua. The talk briefly covered six reasons ( why , not how) to choose Lua for embedded scripting. Lua is safe, fast, simple, easily learned, and more popular that you might expect.
Why the claim that 99 in 100 programmers can't program says more about a company's job ads and interviews than about programmers.
Python, Linux, Bicycles, Books, Games, Etc.
As a member of the Apache Software Foundation , my views on open source tend to gravitate towards more liberal licenses, like the Apache License (v2.0) , BSD, or MIT licenses. I strongly believe in enabling companies to take open source software and do whatever they wish to do with it, placing as little restrictions…
I know you're waiting for the release of the Impact Game Engine , and I promise you, it's coming. I just get distracted too easily. So here's my game Biolab Disaster running on the iPhone 3GS with 60 frames per second:
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
Fri, 17 Mar 2002, 14:00 "Hey Alphonse," Jerry called as I walked by, "let's do a bit of practice. I've got a kata I'd like to show you." ...
Update: Modern Perl: the book is out! Skip the draft and download the real thing. I've finished writing and editing Modern Perl: The Book, and it's gone into production, which means that Onyx Neon is preparing a print-ready PDF to...
Why does this matter? As Steve Yegge said , "If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work." Yegge describes 8 problems that can be solved with compilers (or equally well with interpreters, or with Yegge's typical heavy dosage of cynicism).
Fractal Tree of the Gods A while ago , I was disappointed to discover that a certain fractal tree program was visibly slower in Clojure...
Today, on Hacker News, an article named “Why node.js disappoints me” appeared – right on the day I returned back from jsconf.eu (awesome conference. Best days of my life, I might add) where I…
Java is not a first-class citizen in Linux distributions. We generally have decent coverage for Java libraries, but lots of Java software is not packaged at all, or packaged in alternate repositori…
I'm a programmer. I work with text files for 6-12 hours every weekday so I care about the text editor I use. If switching to a different editor can increase my efficiency by even 10% it would save a good chunk of my time and let me get back to making cool things.
