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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:01:46 -0700

Erlang: Introduction to the Open Telecom Platform

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:04:38 -0700

A very brief introduction to Erlang/OTP which is used to write high-availability, fault tolerant systems. This article is a precursor to a many-part series of OTP guides.

Erlang: An Introduction to gen_server by creating a bank system step-by-step

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:04:34 -0700

I give a step-by-step introduction to gen_server in Erlang by creating a fake bank system. This is part one in a series of posts introducing Erlang/OTP.

ISO 639

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:05:23 -0700

Why Scala?

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:04:50 -0700

Slides from al3x at Twitter on why they're using Scala

More Erlang with Disco

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:04:04 -0700

Over the weekend I was having a look at Disco, an open source map-reduce framework, built atop Erlang/OTP that allows users to write mapper/reducer jobs in Python. Disco does not mandate any Erlang knowledge on part of the user, who can use all the expressiveness of Python to implement map/reduce jobs.

The Scala Programming Language

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:06:03 -0700

Gaussian Blur Example JavaFX

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:04:21 -0700

This is one simulation of Golden Eyes :-D(with an ugly face). I tried to make one use of Gaussian Blur which is applied in the white color of eyes. Adding this spot in the eyes gives a real simulation.

LiteratePrograms:Welcome - LiteratePrograms

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:02:21 -0700

very good!

Introduction to High-level Programming with Scala - Workingmouse Wiki

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:05:35 -0700

http://lisperati.com/landoflisp/

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:01:48 -0700

Google Chrome, JavaScript and Smalltalk

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:04:09 -0700

The secret is out since yesterday: Google has released Google Chrome - a new webbrowser. It's easy to install - and from a first impression also very fast. But that's not the exciting news - at least not for us Smalltalkers.

Disco - Massive data, minimal code

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:03:46 -0700

The Disco core is written in Erlang, a functional language that is designed for building robust fault-tolerant distributed applications. Users of Disco typically write jobs in Python, which makes it possible to express even complex algorithms or data processing tasks often only in tens of lines of code. This means that you can quickly write scripts to process massive amounts of data.

Speeding up Haskell with C – a very short introduction

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:04:11 -0700

You are working on your project in Haskell. You notice the performance is not as great as it could be. Here’s what you can do, apart from writing more efficient Haskell code.

Functional Java

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:58:33 -0700

Haskell > Scala > (Java 7 <=> Functional Java) > Java

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:05:33 -0700

Write a parser that accepts command line arguments. For each command line argument, print out true or false, depending on whether or not that value parses.

Programming: The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:05:28 -0700

An inspiring story about a vegetable vendor, explaining programming and experiencing how programming doesn't come naturally... As the college season is in full flow, I'm back to my philosophical self and I've something for my students... Last week, I was conducting the regular Assembly Programming practicals, where I'm supposed to teach students 8085/8086/8051 ASM programming.

A Scalable Language, and a Scalable Framework: Scala Blog

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:58:52 -0700

This is an excellent example of how a more powerful language makes something FAR easier to program and use. The example compares Scala and Java using the same Java library for doing map-reduce.

How is VB.NET Doing?

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:05:09 -0700

I recently touched base with someone from the good old VB6 days. They were good old days, but I’m not going to talk about them. He asked where VB.NET went, and it set off this weird thinking about how to explain VB.NET to someone that had dropped out and was only peripherally interested. I thought I’d share this, but many of you will want to skip

LuaJava - A Script Tool for Java

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:01:38 -0700

LuaJava - A Script Tool for Java

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:40:58 -0700

A Tour of Scala | The Scala Programming Language

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:01:31 -0700

My top 5 Favourite Erlang Functions

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:59:43 -0700

Well.. After playing around in Erlang for a short while I wanted to share some newly discovered gems. These are my new favourite functions. I challenge some more experienced Erlang programmers to post theirs.

JavaFX Applets Meet Google Chrome

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:00:46 -0700

Today I'd like to highlight the recent Google Chrome browser announcement by showing you how to create and run a JavaFX applet in Chrome. Here's a screenshot of the TableNode example from an earlier post running as a JavaFX applet in Chrome

A Scalable Language, and a Scalable Framework

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:01:01 -0700

Since my group is just now moving to both Scala (slowly) and Hadoop (somewhat more quickly), I thought it would be good to help combine the two. The result is SMR, which provides a wrapper around Hadoop to make everything much more Scala-like.

Genetic Programming – A Language Oriented Programming Example

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:59:22 -0700

As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been reading “Collective Intelligence” by Toby Segaram and I’m really enjoying in it. It’s different to a lot of programming books, in that rather than focusing a specific language or API it focus on a particular set of problems and shows techniques that can be used to crack them. For example I’ve known for a long time that it’s easy to create an abstract syntax tree (AST) in F#:

Creating an Associative Array - Rosetta Code

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:56:37 -0700

metasyntactic variable: Simple Socket Programming

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:56:26 -0700

Visual Studio Shell 2008: Bringing More .NET Languages into the Visual Studio Fold

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:58:45 -0700

Visual Studio Shell was released in January of 2007 without much fanfare. Even though it's free to download, at the time it was not very useful for most developers as few packages had yet been written for it. Now eight months have gone by and quite a few projects are sporting free Visual Studio interfaces. In this article I discuss Visual Studio Shell itself as well as several of the languages which are currently developing shells.

JavaFX : why, how and when will it be successful?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:59:49 -0700

At the August 2008 Coding the Architecture London User Group, I presented an overview of Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX. If you've watched the video from the session, you would have seen that I wasn't very complimentary about JavaFX.