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Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp. (2006)
Another enjoyable read. Thanks! One thing, though -- it's about time to update your understandings of Python's object system. Python's culture doesn't insist that traditional (Smalltalkish) OO is the One True Way to re-use code, but that doesn't mean that everything in Python is not an object (because they are, since…
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Sammy.js, CouchDB, and the new web architecture
UPDATE: My slides and a protected instance (will open up for play soon) or swinger, available "here":http://c.ixxr.net/swinger/_design/swinger/index.html#/preso/jqcon_09/display/1I'll be honest.
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A Square Is Not A Rectangle
The following example, taken from an introductory text in object oriented programming, demonstrates a common flaw in object oriented design. Can you spot it?
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Scheme: The Swine before Perl
In November 2001 I gave an invited talk at the inaugural Lightweight Languages conference that has since become somewhat notorious (in netspace, it is said to be “ kickassing genial ”).
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What is Erlang-Style Concurrency?
Finishing up a whirlwind tour of the US West coast (QCon SF, Erlang Factory Lite LA, and a Cognitive Modeling workshop in Scottsdale), I am now waiting for a delayed BA flight at the Phoenix airport. Although I’ve spent as many days flying as I have on US soil, it’s been a great trip.
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Embedding a Web Browser in Emacs
My musings on Emacs, economics, technology, and spiders.
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Twisted Python's lead hacker discusses Tornado
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
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Multicore Programming in Haskell Now
Here are the slides source for today’s DEFUN tutorial: Multicore Programming in Haskell Now! Multicore computers are here: is your programming language ready for it? Haskell is: you can take …
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Ravelry - a very successful deployment of Ruby and Rails
Possibly you’ve never heard of it. But if you know anyone who knits or crochets, ask him or (more likely) her about Ravelry and chances are you’re talking to an active member. It’s big. This is an interview with Casey Forbes , who constitutes the whole engineering staff.