Category Archives: General

Annotated Clojure links – part 1

Posted on November 17, 2008 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Jeene update: Performance, features and backlog

Posted on September 21, 2008 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Jeene: Status

Posted on September 16, 2008 by admin

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, … Continue reading →

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Jeene: An automatic partial evaluator for JavaScript

Posted on September 14, 2008 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

Posted on August 18, 2008 by admin

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. … Continue reading →

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Fibers: an exercise

Posted on August 15, 2008 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Fibers: a solution

Posted on August 15, 2008 by admin

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? … Continue reading →

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Keeping it dry: Generating JavaScript models from Rails models

Posted on August 12, 2008 by admin

As I’ve mentioned before, I advocate using a Model-View-Controller pattern for certain types of JavaScript-heavy web-app clients. In spite of recent licensing issues, I still think ExtJS is among the better libraries supporting MVC. For example, (if you don’t know … Continue reading →

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Syntax-highlighting in web pages

Posted on July 29, 2008 by admin

I’ve recently moved my blog to http://blog.higher-order.net. In this transition I used WordPress’ feature of importing blog content from my old blog: higher-order.blogspot.com. Unfortunately all the line-breaks from the pre-formatted JavaScript source code disappeared in the process, and so, I … Continue reading →

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blog moved

Posted on July 21, 2008 by admin

I’ve moved my blog to blog.higher-order.net — welcome again

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