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Why I chose Clojure/CouchDB for a new site
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Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Android Scripting Environment
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Lord of the REPLs
While working on App Engine's new Java runtime , we realized that we were missing something important. Something the Python runtime already...
PyPy Status Blog: First results of the JIT
Hi all, Just a quick note to tell you that we are progressing on the JIT front. Here are the running times of the richards benchmark on ...
Google App Inventor uses Scheme under the hood
Posted by Bill Magnuson, Hal Abelson, and Mark FriedmanWe recently announced our App Inventor for Android project on the Google Research Blog. Tha...
Rifle-Oriented Programming with Clojure
Any comparison of hot JVM languages is likely to note that “Clojure is not object-oriented.” This is true, but it may lead you to the wrong concl...
How to write untestable code
by Miško Hevery , Jonathan Wolter , Russ Ruffer, Brad Cross, and lots of other test infected Googlers This guide lists principles that will ...
Critical Django security updates released (0day, exploit in the wild)
Posted by James Bennett on Oct. 9, 2009
Scheme Is Love
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The Pragmatic Programmers release an online magazine
Plus: Welcome to PragPub, Up Front, Choice Bits, How Do We…?, Swaine’s World, The Quiz, Shady Illuminations, Calendar. See below for more.
Django 1.1 release candidate available
Posted by James Bennett on July 21, 2009
Why I still prefer Prototype to jQuery
Like most programmers who’ve done Rails development, I’ve become very familiar with the Prototype library for JavaScript. Even apart from being b...