Posted in General, workfriendly, lisp, scheme on Jul 20th, 2006 2 Comments »
The Lisp style has been really trying my sense of aesthetic.
Yesterday I got really hung up on the fact that I prefer the ‘message-passing’ approach to OO rather than the ‘call a function and pass in the object as an arg’ style. The latter just feels clumsy to me.
Then it occurred to me that lisp […]
Posted in General, ubuntu, x40 on Jul 19th, 2006 1 Comment »
Just upgraded my ubuntu dapper to the latest kernel 2.6.15-26 (via the auto updater thingy) and it’s fixed the suspend and hibernate on my IBM X40. Hurrah!
Posted in General, Semantic Web, Python, Django, workfriendly on Jul 14th, 2006 7 Comments »
Pretty much all the ‘work’ applications I’ve built in the last couple of years can be split into 2 parts:
1) CRUD: The database, and a UI for manipulating the data in it
2) LOGIC: The actual application functionality. (i.e. the reason for the app to exist)
These days I’m finding that the amount of actual logic/functionality I […]
Posted in workfriendly, programming, lisp, scheme on Jul 10th, 2006 3 Comments »
I’ve been reading ‘The Little Schemer‘ (a new edition of ‘The Little LISPer’) and ‘The Seasoned Schemer’ recently, recommended to me by JP (who (of course!) has a signed copy of the original). This is classic text, with the first edition of ‘lisper’ appearing in the 70s. The striking thing about these books isn’t […]
