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clojure.rb

Jun 9, 2010 some comments

Call me crazy, but it seems that there is a large influx of Ruby programmers exploring the Clojure programming language. Based on the results of Chas Emerick’s great State of Clojure – Summer 2010 survey, 17% of surveyed Clojure users come from a Ruby background. Based on observed trends, I expect that percentage to grow […]

Devolving Sigils

Feb 26, 2009 some comments

Sigils are little symbols attached to a variable name that provide some information regarding its type, scope, or simply marking it as different from non-variables. There is very little middle-ground on the opinion toward variable sigils among programmers; you either love them, or you hate them. The quintessential language containing sigils is probably Perl, followed […]

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 2008.03.25 AM

Mar 25, 2008

ZSFA: 2008-03-26 That means I?m stuck working for an industry that completely disgusts me with their greed and working on a project that will eventually mean nothing to JPMorgan. Extending Python with almost anything Things That Are Important: Where Clauses mysql –i-am-a-dummy Enfranchised Mind » My Frustrations with REXML: Ruby?s Standard Library for Reading/Writing XML; or, […]

A Ruby Template/Macro/Static-blog System?

Mar 20, 2008

A similar idea as before, except built around webgen, ruby templates, PCI in Ruby, Maruku, Ferret, rena, dot, atomutil, AWS, REST, and Rubinius. This might be more interesting for me at this time, and is a lot closer to my ideal setup.<br/> -m

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