Though the summer of code does not officially start until tomorrow, I’m pleased to report that we have made some initial progress.
To start, we have common-lisp.net site with a git repository. The site has instructions on how to check out the code. Our (mostly empty) erlang-in-lisp project ...
read the whole post »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read the whole post »I spent a significant portion of my undergraduate career fooling around with the outdated seismology lab in the Loyola Physics department. Though I did eventually connect the seismometers to a computer and was able to record activity, they usually are not running as there is currently no student interested in ...
read the whole post »A few weeks ago I decided that I’ll be off to Indiana University in the fall to start a phd program in computer science. I’m very excited about the program, and I’m also excited about living in Bloomington. It seems like a great little town (that’s ...
read the whole post »We’ve created an ETL Yahoo pipe that aggregates the content of members’ blogs tagged with ‘etl.luc.edu’. What I’m wondering is how quickly the pipe gets updated, and where things get cached along the line…
read the whole post »While playing around with the 99 problems in Haskell, I came across this function const that takes two arguments and returns the first without ever evaluating the second. For example:
const 1 2
returns 1. Now that is straightforward enough, but then I noticed that:
const id 1 2
returns ...
read the whole post »Isomorphisms between s-expressions and xml.
read the whole post »More things on the neighbor's roof.
read the whole post »Things on the neighbor's roof.
read the whole post »(I’m guessing that a lot of what I say here applies to all distributed version control systems, but since I’ve only used darcs, that is what I’ll focus on.)
One of the neatest things about darcs is the fact that every checked out copy is itself a ...
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