Posted in versioncontrol, git, dvcs on Oct 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
A nice feature of distributed version control is that you can commit into your repository more often because you aren’t impacting others with each commit. Recently I’ve been taking this to the extreme using git and performing a commit almost at every save. I have an emacs key wired for the job: it save the […]
Posted in General, programming, factor on Oct 11th, 2007 6 Comments »
I’ve been playing with Factor for a couple of weeks. I’m finding that it takes me quite a bit longer to write stuff with factor than with other languages, but the process is enjoyable and I get the feeling that I’m learning something useful each time. The question is: will programming speed improve with experience. […]
Posted in programming, factor on Oct 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
I got round to writing my first factor module tonight: a csv parser.
Actually there’s already a csv parser written in factor by Daniel Ehrenberg, but it’s been removed from the latest factor releases. I found a copy of that code here but I don’t know for how long it’ll stay there.
Unfortunately I had two […]
