Private methods are unecessary and restrictive.
read the whole post »process graphs and trees
One of the interesting things about processes in Unix is that they are tree structured. This is easily seen with the pstree command; init is the root of all processes. Several things, can, however go wrong with this tree. Defunct or zombie processes show up when a child process dies ...
read the whole post »python thirty days ago
These tiny things make Python fun and useful:
read the whole post »import datetime thirty_days = datetime.timedelta(days=30) thirty_days_ago = datetime.date.today() - thirty_days
reboot. v2.
Moving back to chicago after some time in Bloomington, IN.
read the whole post »relating to nosql
Relational databases and the nosql movement.
read the whole post »/^Ruby regex/
So it turns out that regular expressions in Ruby are totally sweet. They’re a nice language feature just like in Perl…except, not Perl. I was under the mistaken impression that the Ruby crowd was perhaps a bit too minimalist and academic to do something like this (not that ...
read the whole post »s-expression/xml isomorphism
Isomorphisms between s-expressions and xml.
read the whole post »Sept. 4th
September Fourth was the two month anniversary of my vegetarian experiment. I’m eating better, in better shape, and I’ve saved money by eating out less (not to mention the great new dishes I’ve learned to cook). All told, the vegetarian experiment has been a great time and ...
read the whole post »serializing continuations
Some people in the weblocks community have been thinking about some of the things I’ve been pondering. No real answers. I need to play with the continuations in arnesi and cl-cont, but if we can’t move them between address spaces (either distributed or in different unix processes) it ...
read the whole post »simple example working
I have a very simple example (sort of) working in erlang-in-lisp/examples.lisp. I did a quick hack to integrate fare-match into send/receive. The matching really isn’t working because the message is being mangled before it is sent over the socket. More tomorrow…
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