Clojure's inventor and author make a case for the new language
Rich Hickey, inventor of the Clojure language, and Stuart Halloway, author of "Programming Clojure," presented introductory and advanced... more »
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Java Clojure Interop: Integrating Clojure into Your Java Project
In this quick tutorial, you'll find out how to use the same underlying machinery to load Clojure code and then manipulate it directly from Java.
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Is “Google Go” Going to be the Next “C” Language?
Google launched an open-source experimental programming language GO. The language combines the performance and security benefits that we... more »
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Download Subversion 1.6.9 installers for CentOS 5, Debian 5 & Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 here:
These Subversion 1.6.9 Binaries are now available for download!
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Writing a StarCraft Bot in F#
The day the contest was announced I worked feverishly on creating a StarCraft bot in F#. F# lends itself quite naturally to AI,... more »
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The Hand That Rocks The Gradle
A few more month passed, and much has happened in the clojure scene. Clojure 1.1.0 was released in 2009-12. The clojure plugin clj-gradle... more »
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Amiga, MUI and code nostalgia
A session of link hopping caused me to hunt down a program I wrote for the Amiga in 1994. I didn’t really think I would be able to locate... more »
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Optimizing Your ActionScript Code
Tips on optimizing ActionScript code, best practices - must read for Flash Developer.
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Clojure IDEs — The Grand Tour
This post serves as an overview for the available IDEs for Clojure development at present. I won’t go into incredible detail with all of... more »
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Learning Clojure #13: Making my code suck less
Refactoring some Clojure code and learning a bit about map, array-map, and indexed along the way.
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Learning ActionScript 3.0 a Beginners Guide- Review
Book review - Learning ActionScript 3.0 a Beginner's guide by Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser.
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The Next Big Language Will Have to Wait
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This blog post discusses the state of software development languages in response to Steve Yegge's original post "The Next Big Language"... more »
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Objective-C for Java Programmers
The design of Java was heavily inspired by Objective-C, but many people find learning Objective-C after Java to be a difficult challenge.... more »
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Can you name the most popular programming languages?
A fun sporcle quiz for the top 25 most popular languages according to Langpop.com.
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Scala in production at Twitter - interview with Twitter developers
About a year ago they started replacing some of the back-end Ruby services with applications running on the JVM and written in Scala. In... more »
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Recently at the Lambda Lounge, we spun up a study group for the classic text "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (aka... more »
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Curried and Confused
In the intervening years since that expression prompted a ‘verdict’ that Scala was too difficult for us regular folks, a lot of us have... more »
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Design By Contract with Clojure
I just learned about the design by contract features of Clojure, and I’m impressed by the simplicity. It’s implemented using regular... more »
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How to Combine Development Productivity Data with Software Quality Metrics
Combining technical debt figures with productivity data is an effective way to consider the pros and cons of “fix it” versus starting... more »
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Scala Stream Fusion and Specialization
A small experiment in stream fusion and specialization for Scala collections.
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How Ruby Taught Me To DRY Up My Code With Lambda Blocks
I’ve been working in Ruby for my Albacore project over the last 6 or 8 months, and taking every chance I can find to learn how to really... more »
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Documenting Your ActionScript Code
Yesterday I had to quickly made a documentation for one of my projects, there are few tools that helped me in this metter. As it turns... more »
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Rich Hickey: Geek of the Week
With Clojure soon to be ported to the .NET framework, as ClojureCLR, we felt that the time had come to see what the fuss was all about... more »
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Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part I: Locks
The cause for alarm, through C# 3, was that when you declared events, the compiler made event accessors that took a lock on the “this”... more »
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Complex AS3 Button Tutorial by Tsafi
Today we have a guest blogger in the house, his name is Tsafi, he agreed to contribute a tutorial for us so here it is… This is... more »
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