Happy Birthday Blog
And so it begins... A nascent blogs takes it's first breath of fresh air and sets foot onto the internet. The possibilities are endless, but the competition is fierce. The only real chance of survival...
View ArticleClojure 1.0 Released
Yesterday marked the official release of Clojure1.0. After several years of heavy development, the 1.0 branch will enable people to consume a stable version of Clojure and move to bugfix-only...
View ArticleMethod Introspection
As a Ruby hacker, I enjoy the some of the introspection features it provides. When I first started with Clojure, I missed the ability to introspect on methods easily when reaching into the Java world....
View ArticleSyntaxHighlighter For Clojure
I'm really surprised that Blogger doesn't include a solution for syntax highlighting as it hosts a ton of blogs related to programming. Fortunately, there are plenty of third party solutions out there....
View ArticleMarkov Chaining
A friend of mine wrote a very nice Markov Chainer in Python a while back. I had a lot of fun playing with it and decided to try my hand at rewriting it in Clojure. This proved to be trickier than I...
View ArticleClojure's Agents: Scientists, Monkeys, and MD5
Just recently, I decided to make my first attempt at doing something useful with Clojure's agents. Now please don't confuse useful with helpful. I use the term useful in the most pejorative sense...
View ArticleSweeping Networks with Clojure
One of the great things about Clojure is the Java toolbox that it brings to the table. Socket programming has never been one of Lisp's strong points, and although it has always been possible to write...
View ArticleFlipping Coins with Clojure
So... there was a question on Reddit today regarding flipping a series of coins. Quite a bit of dispute arose about the actual phrasing of the question, so rather than plagiarize one of the many...
View ArticleHot Code Swapping with Clojure
Reading the Clojure mailing list, you'll notice that people frequently ask about updating code at runtime without restarting their program. Erlang includes this feature out of the box and has dubbed...
View ArticleCrushing PNGs With Ruby
Nothing too special here... just a quick hack. I needed to recursively run pngcrush over a directory structure, and I couldn't find any examples of how to do this online. The following solves the...
View ArticleClojure Syntax
Not many languages are simple enough to have their entire syntax conveniently summarized in a table that fits on one screen. Luckily, Clojure is. The following is a summary put together based on the...
View ArticleSqueezing a String
Ruby has a nice string function called squeeze which replaces redundant runs of a given character with a single instance of that character. This is handy for things like uniformly formatting whitespace...
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