Well the first week of SoC has come and gone. I’m disappointed with my progress. I had hoped to have some simple ping/pong examples working by the end of the first week, but I’ve yet to resolve some issues with iolib and message passing. Realistically, I think ...
read the whole post »erlang-in-lisp user manual now useful
Most of the Erlang-in-Lisp issues discussed here and on the mailing list this summer have been rolled into the user manual in some form. Get it here in pdf format or here in HTML.
read the whole post »exec() yourself silly
exec() - cruise-control for awesome
read the whole post »(finally) working with Lisp
Several months ago I assigned my data structures students a little recursive puzzle as part of a somewhat longterm assignment. The assignment is due soon, and I thought I’d take some time to write up a solution in Lisp for my own enjoyment.
Now, I’ve been putzing around ...
read the whole post »getting on the standing desk bandwagon
I recently bought a standing desk that seems to be working out well so far.
read the whole post »GNU & Lisp
I’m reading the GNU manifesto, and Stallman talks about adding:
read the whole post »“We plan to have…perhaps eventually a Lisp-based window system through which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen. Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages.” —RMS
Google Summer of Code 2008
I’ll be participating in the Google Summer of Code working on the erlang-in-lisp project. I’ll be tracking my progress on this blog (so things will get noisier). I had originally created a separate blog, but Google decided it was a spam blog, and I don’t really see ...
read the whole post »happy software development in business land
Software development can be a frustrating process without mutual respect between the engineering and business teams, but when mutual respect can be fostered, things will go as smoothly as possible.
read the whole post »Hello World!
Though I someday hope for adequate wiki/blog integration, after much deliberation, I’ve decided to maintain both. So, have fun reading my blog, and don’t forget to visit the wiki.
read the whole post »history!
If you’re awake and you have cable, turn on C-SPAN2 and watch the historic all-night Senate session about Iraq. It really is quite interesting to see the Senators talking on their own without mass media spin. Unfortunately these things are usually only on during the day (though you can ...
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