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…
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s-expression/xml isomorphism
Isomorphisms between s-expressions and xml.
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darcs is perfect for university
(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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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
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meeting Richard Stallman
I had the chance to meet Richard Stallman on Friday. He was speaking at the NA-CAP conference at which I volunteered. All in all, very interesting, and last night I ended up joining the FSF.Call Stallman what you will: ideological, dogmatic, unwavering, stubborn, whatever. You have to give it ...
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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 ...
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smalltalk browser too much at first
It’s called bottom up programming, the foundation of which is small composeable methods.
This is of course the most important lesson to take from Lisp and its Lispy friend Smalltalk, and in this recent posting, Ramon Leon discusses the relationship between the Smalltalk code/method browsers and ...
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(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 ...
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my problem with presentation software (with solution)
Presentation software is linear; presentations are non-linear. Most of my ‘presentations’ are in the academic setting where I either lecture or give an overview of a project I’m working on. In either case, it is useful to evaluate the attention and interest of the audience and alter the presentation ...
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concurrency crisis
It often seems that whatever we see in Apple’s products today, we’ll see in PCs tomorrow. So with the introduction of the 8 core Mac pro, we’re already getting into some serious multi-core territory. And while it’s been harped on frequently, everyone is right; with many ...
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