Posted in scheme, gambit on May 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
One of the first things I wrote when I was in the ‘nesting’* phase of learning gambit scheme was a unittest DSL. Part of this was that I wanted an excuse to use r5rs syntax-rules macros, but the real motivation was that I’d been seduced by the idea of using tests for documentation ala Nat […]
Posted in Semantic Web, web on May 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Patrick Logan seems convinced that the having a proprietary runtime doesn’t matter because apollo apps can still interact with data on the web.
This doesn’t sound like a great deal to me. For example if I’m unable to run an app because the vendor doesn’t support my OS or device, then being able to fetch blobs […]
Posted in Semantic Web, workfriendly, search on May 17th, 2007 No Comments »
This link showed up on programming-reddit today. I’ve been reading Tim Bray’s ongoing blog for quite a while, but this piece from 2003 predates my discovery of it. And that’s a big shame because it is quite simply the most brilliantly readable overview to the whole topic of ‘large scale search’ that I’ve ever come […]
Posted in workfriendly, haskell on May 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
Neil Bartlett (who used to work at Dresdner Kleinwort, my employer) dropped me a mail to mention that he’s started a London Haskell User Group, and that the inaugural meeting on 29th 23rd May will include a talk by none other than Simon Peyton Jones of GHC and Software Transactional Memory fame!
Definitely one for […]
