Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
[update: First, my apologies to jdalton, my post was not meant to derail Fusebox, merely to show a different approach to similar problems. ]
I read a post on Ajaxian about Fusebox, a JavaScript library which is described as:
[...] The problem is that frameworks / libraries / third-party scripts may overwrite ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
In case you haven't noticed there is a very interesting Clojure book coming out, titled "The Joy of Clojure," written by two very interesting authors that anyone hanging out in the Clojure community should know: Chris Houser and Michael Fogus.
As an appetizer, the first chapter is available for ...
Posted in Clojure, General | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure:
As should be obvious, Clojure is a labor of love on my part. Started as a self-funded sabbatical project, Clojure has come to occupy me far more than full-time. However, Clojure does not have institutional or
corporate sponsorship, and was not, and is not, the by-product of
another ...
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Intro and motivation. While my recent blogging activity and interests have been (and are) about Clojure, I am still very much interested in, and actively programming, JavaScript. That is why I immediately accepted when Amit Sharma from Packt Publishing asked me to review the new book Ext JS 3.0 cookbook ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
[Update Jan 1., 2010: A couple of people have been linking and twitting this, so I've made the blog entry match the current Clojure version at github. Code works in the 'new' branch of Clojure: tested with commit 3ae9e8874d43f9fd37e59bb7ea8cce0f85bac101.
There is support for creating several circuit breakers wrapping given functions].
As an ...
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Please watch this video carefully at least once:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Identity-State-Rich-Hickey
It is pretty hard not to agree, isn't it... Give in now.
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Jeff Atwood discusses the "Monty hall" problem. I made a comment about why I believe people's intuition is often wrong when presented with the problem: I believe it is due to the way probability theory is taught in schools and universities. The notion of probability simply as an extension of ...
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Event sourcing:
Event Sourcing ensures that all changes to application state are stored as a sequence of events. Not just can we query these events, we can also use the event log to reconstruct past states, and as a foundation to automatically adjust the state to cope with retroactive changes.
I recently ...
Posted in Clojure, General, instanceof | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Can't remember the last time I laughed so much.
http://www.yankeepotroast.org/archives/2008/09/11_words_that_s.html
Got the Link from Ryan Tomayko's (great) blog.
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
The so-called "web"-browser Internet Explorer version 7 (and probably all versions below) doesn't get HTML or HTTP. In a recent project for a client we've been building an advanced, 100% JavaScript client application that had to run in IE7 (as a minimal requirement). The application is rather complex and has ...
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