Category: Programming

Alternative Palm programming

I've wanted to try my hand at Palm programming for a while, but have never really gotten into it. Perhaps part of this is due to the fact that the "official" way to program Palm apps is using C and doing low-level coding of event...

Programming

CodeWorker

A while ago, I posted about AutoGen, a Guile (Scheme) based code generator (link to AutoGen homepage). CodeWorker is another code generator that takes a bit of a different approach. Here's my impression of the differences between...

PHP

CakePHP 0.10 final release is out

CakePHP 0.10 final release is out. I'm not doing any PHP work lately so I haven't had tried any CakePHP releases since the 0.10.5 releases in January, but I can see from the cakebaker blog that there's been a lot of activity and...

ProgrammingScheme

camel-case-from-underscored

Continuing Marc's exploration of Lisp, today we present a Scheme function that might be marginally useful: (more…)...

BooksLispProgrammingScheme

The Little Schemer

I saw "The Little Schemer" a few days ago at my local Barnes & Noble so I bought it and started reading it. I've read 8 out of the 10 chapters so far and here are my thoughts... (more…)...

GeneralLispProgramming

Feeling Lispy

Lately I've been reading a lot of stuff that praises Lisp. Stuff along the lines of: Learning Lisp (in particular, reading "The Little Schemer") will magically make you a better programmer. (Question: What if I buy the book and...

Python

The Python Tourist

Over at boodebr.org, there's a new series called "The Python Tourist". It's meant to be a series that highlights programming pitfalls in Python and from the first installment, "Passing Mutable Objects as Default Args", it looks...