Pass by value, pass by reference, and the stack as an implementation detail.
read the whole post »things I have re-learned so far this week
Close your files, don't use mutable state, fear your ORM, get some sleep, and write some god damned tests.
read the whole post »time for a bike tour!
I’ve got gears, panniers, a can opener, and, as of today, a hammock. Time to pack up, head out on the bike, and do some stealth camping. We’ll have to see how managing life, etc, goes, but I’d really like to do this soon…like this coming ...
read the whole post »Webapps: Where's the Computation?
Building web applications is hard, and one aspect that complicates matters is deciding where to put the computation for a particular task. The same problem can be solved in almost any layer with any technology.
read the whole post »why webapps?
So things like Gears, Silverlight, and Apollo look like they’re here to simplify the development of rich internet application. We’ll be able to run our rich web apps on and off line. But aren’t we still talking about HTTP, the hyper text transfer protocol? Ultimately, the web ...
read the whole post »xtra! xtra!
My xtracycle has arrived.
read the whole post »y-combinator in javascript
The y-combinator implemented in Javascript.
read the whole post »your word documents are ugly and useless
It seems I’ve been in a LaTeX-chatter-whirlwind this past week: someone emailed me about TeX today, I discovered jsmath, this article was on reddit a few days back, and my boss and I were chatting about TeX on Friday. Since I haven’t actually been writing anything lately, I ...
read the whole post »zope at chipy
I presented on Zope Interfaces at the April, 2012 ChiPy meeting.
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