- ARCHIVE / November, 2010
- Clojure or not clojure?
Clojure is a quite recent programming language that’s becoming popular among developers; the big selling point is that it’s functional and dynamically typed (such as Lisp or Python), but since it uses Java’s Virtual Runtime as its platform it also accommodates the needs of the many developers have been growing up in the Java world. […]
- Preloading stuff in django’s interactive shell
Django’s shell is a fantastic way to interact with all the components of your django application, eg when testing new functionalities or debugging a nasty error. Sometimes though you end up loading the same variables or importing the same modules every time you run the shell , for example because you are trying out a […]
- Ryoji Ikeda
Last week I discovered the work of Ryoji Ikeda [official site] and soon got hooked up by it. It’s kind of strange because if I just listen to the songs without watching the videos that accompany them, they often bore me after a minute or so (with the exception of songs such as data.matrix, or […]
- Scheme and Lisp
If you’re coming from Lisp, and then start using Scheme (or the other way around) there are a few small differences between the two languages that it’s useful to always keep in mind. I tried to do that a number of times, but inevitably I find myself once again wondering: how do you say ‘progn’ […]