Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Happy New Year!

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.

IE doesn’t understand HTML or HTTP

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 ...

More Clojure news and links

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Clojure Pipe Clojure blogger and user Bill Clementson has used Yahoo Pipes to create a Clojure mashup feed. This should turn out a good source of Clojure info. Bill's intro is here, and the pipe is here. Improved Emacs setup. Bill also posted his Emacs setup. Looking forward to implementing something ...

Annotated Clojure links - part 1

Monday, November 17th, 2008

RESTafarians will tell you that hypermedia is one of the essential ingredients of REST (and the web in particular), and that most people aren't taking this seriously enough. In my last posting I claimed that I will write a number of blog postings about my experiences with Clojure. [...] However, ...

Jeene update: Performance, features and backlog

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Don't know what Jeene is? It will make your JavaScript code run faster ;-) read the intro first, then come back to this! Performance examples I was curious about the performance gains of functions specialized via Jeene, so I ran a simple performance example in Firefox 2 and 3; Safari 3.1.2; Opera ...

Jeene: Status

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I am happy that Jeene was mentioned on Ajaxian today. This is good ;-) it means that the project is more likely to attract potential contributors which is nice since there is quite some work yet to be done. I thought, I would provide a status update on Jeene ...

Jeene: An automatic partial evaluator for JavaScript

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

The purpose of this posting is to show that is is possible to create an online partial evaluator for JavaScript, written also in JavaScript. As far as I know, this has been not been done before. This post is the first in a series describing the inner workings of Jeene. A ...

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

Monday, August 18th, 2008

This is a bit of an unusual posting. It was triggered because I am frustrated, having just written my third review for the journal TAAS, which I accidentally agreed to do reviews for at some point during my PhD studies. I still review papers on computational trust models which was ...

Fibers: an exercise

Friday, August 15th, 2008

I was involved with arranging and hosting the RubyFools 2008 conference (it was a great conference btw). One of my jobs was to come up with a bunch of Ruby exercises for our Ruby cave. I decided to go with exercises on the new Ruby 1.9 Fiber class since it ...

Fibers: a solution

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Here I will post a solution to the Fibers exercise... Post your solutions as comments. Your code should at least pass the following simple test: require 'fiber_stack' require 'test/unit' class FiberStackTest < Test::Unit::TestCase def test_simple fs = FiberStack.new assert fs.empty? ...