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Books Read in 2009

Dec 31, 2009 one comment

Read in 2009 Fogus's favorite books » Share book reviews and ratings with Fogus, and even join a book club on Goodreads. Read in 2009 Fogus's favorite books » Share book reviews and ratings with Fogus, and even join a book club on ...

The Best Albums of the 2000s

Dec 24, 2009 some comments

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (2002) My friend Rob introduced this album to me about 6 years ago and it has since been in constant rotation. In many ways, it's this album that foreshadows the entire Hauntology movement. Every track is ...

Clojure’s :pre and :post

Dec 21, 2009 some comments

One of the more exciting features of the upcoming Clojure 1.1 release is the inclusion of pre and post assertion functions. Some preliminary details can be found in the Clojure documentation, but I thought I'd quickly cover a simple example with ...

Clojure Golf – Episode 2: Largest Prime Factor

Sep 9, 2009 one comment

In the last episode of Clojure Golf we saw some interesting ways to write a function that takes a couple sequences, applies a function to the pairing elements, and then returns a list of the results based on a supplied filtering function. ...

Understanding the Clojure -> macro

Sep 4, 2009 some comments

On page 109 of Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp he describes a function compose taken from the Dylan programming language. The function described is very similar to the -> macro that often confuses many a new Clojurian. In order to ...

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