Month: April 2006

Thunderbird and Lightning

It's been a while since I've looked at the state of calendaring with Mozilla Thunderbird (e.g.: Mozilla Calendar, Sunbird, and Lightning). I was hoping that they had made amazing strides in that time. Well they've made a lot of...

LispProgrammingRuby

Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP

Eric Kidd has an interesting post entitled "Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP". As it turns out, Ruby compares well as a functional language, and it fakes macros better than Iâ€™d thought.... Now, given a choice between a...

LinuxMusic

LMMS: Linux MultiMedia Studio

From http://lmms.sourceforge.net/: LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by...

General

Lisp is Sin

A Microsoft employee talks about his experiences with Lisp/Scheme, the current state of the Lisp world and how Lisp might and should change. And how alluring Lisp is to the non-Lisp programmer yet being unaccessible. My favorite...

Programming

Static typing vs. dynamic typing

Michael Feathers has an interesting post: Is Static Typing a Form of Bad Coupling? To me, it's a tradeoff between error checking and flexibility. Error checking takes on greater importance in shrink wrap software and libraries...

General

Microsoft’s “Monad” scripting language

Ted Neward says that Microsoft's new "Monad" scripting language can replace Ruby I doubt that. Ruby is cross-platform. And Ruby is typically used for web apps (e.g.: Ruby on Rails, which is where a lot of Ruby excitement comes...

Emacs

Emacs 22 reference card

There are lots of Emacs reference cards out there online, but I couldn't manage to find one for Emacs 22 (the latest development version) in a couple of minutes of web searching so I generated one from the TeX source file that...