Category Archives: programming

A friend of mine at work, also bitten by the functional bug, has been hacking on some Scala. He showed me some code yesterday and I thought it might be fun to convert it. I am not going to post … Continue reading →

The local ruby group sends out the Ruby Quiz (with some regularity). This week it was to create a Dwarf Name Generator. I thought of a fairly simple solution in Clojure pretty quickly, but then it took me a while … Continue reading →

Hello again. I picked up the book Programming Clojure and have made my way through the first two chapters which were great. Last night I started the 3rd chapter, on Java Interoperability. I was hoping to toss together a single … Continue reading →

I am a total Clojure n00b. But I am having a lot of fun learning it. It’s not like anything else I have learned to date. I hadn’t really done much with it, other than watch presentations, mess around in … Continue reading →

Signed up yesterday for the Ruby Hoedown, in Nashville. Some friends and I (and a dude named Larry) are going to be heading down there in late August. Should be a blast.

I really do. So after spending a pretty frustrating day trying to get a development environment in windows set up, I finally got to the part where I was going to put postgres on the machine. Easy I thought. Those … Continue reading →

In preparing for my talk this Sunday at CPOSC I have been playing around obviously with various commands, wrapper methods and utility function for jQuery. This morning I was going through my feeds when I stumbled upon, Blackbird. It’s an … Continue reading →

Create or append to array (Ruby): (array ||= []) < < 1

Over the last 3 days I have been using netbeans for RoR development. Honestly I expected to hate it. I figured I would use it for a few days, then crawl back to Emacs begging her to take me back … Continue reading →

If you do any amount of Rails programming, at some point you end up with various versions of Rails installed on your system. Generally this is fine as Rails keeps what version should be used in it’s environment.rb file. However … Continue reading →