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Controlling iTunes with Scala

Sep 22, 2010 one comment

A while back I came across an interesting snippet of Clojure code1 controlling iTunes. I played around with it and eventually morphed it into the code posted on my @learnclojure account. This morning I came across a similarly themed post about Scala’s interaction with Applescript and it inspired me to create the following: [sourcecode lang=”scala” […]

Baysick: A Scala DSL Implementing BASIC

Mar 26, 2009 some comments

This post was featured on the Scala website. It is advised to jump there first and then sneak back here … eventually. A couple weeks back I came across a post on creating the simplest possible BASIC DSL written in Scala by Szymon Jachim. The implementation itself was dead simple to understand, but I suspected […]

Moleskine Notes for Sept. 2008

Sep 30, 2008

DSL Language describing a scanner Language to create Word of Dog parser Goals for 2009 Emacs proficiency Read at least one Jane Austen novel Polyglot projects? 1802 emulator Maze generator WFE Elite Trader dnd Testing Haikeeba 3 import fogus.haikeeba.core._ val mv = Move.construct().from('d',2).to('d',4).build() mv.getFrom() == 51 mv.getTo() == 35 Ix Features? Traits (because sometimes inheritence […]

A Language for Representing Artistic Connections

Sep 15, 2008 some comments

For the past 10 years or so, I have attempted to keep track of the way in which my tastes in art (i.e. literature, music, film, etc..) are influenced. I initially started off doing this in the Dot language, but quickly found this to be untenable. I have considered migrating my current stack of thousands […]

Linkage 2008.03.26 PM

Mar 26, 2008

Python decorators demistified WuFoo Cares? Revisiting The Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering God’s memory leak Software testing death spiral Great Moments in Linux History Baseball – The top 50 for five years The Occult Experience The Death of the Relational Database The problem is that the people that created the semantic web were just […]

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