Posts Tagged ‘ Programming ’

XForms anyone?

In just general tinkering, I’ve come across two neat things which have gotten me to look at XForms, even if only in passing. Hopefully, this is a standard which will be adopted more widely in the near future. Mozilla Developer Center – XForms XForms essentials (free online book!) Intro to XForms article from InformIT I [ READ MORE ]

Understanding CLOS

I’ve been doing much messing about with Common Lisp lately and have had a hiccup or two regarding the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). I’ve gone back and re-read the “object reorientation” chapters from PCL (which you should buy) but have gotten confused. This is nothing against PCL as it is a wonderful book but [ READ MORE ]

Introducing RadiateFS: a networked filesystem written in Ruby

After a discussion with my friend Erik and following the consumption of much pastry, I decided to try and write a networked filesystem using only Ruby and FUSE. After one iteration, I had everything documented and ready to go but I wasn’t happy with the design or the architecture. In large part, I discovered shortcomings [ READ MORE ]

In defense of JavaScript

For all of the issues with maintainability and the often-derided inelegance of the DOM, JavaScript is actually a very interesting and language. In addition to basic datatypes, it has a multitude of features which one would expect these days and a few surprises. Those hoping for features like first-class functions, closures and dynamic typing will [ READ MORE ]

Output coloration in git

I might be one of the few people who like color in my terminal but I feel that it adds something to my productivity when done right. I have a colorized prompt, auto coloring for ls and now I got git to colorize output. I changed the .gitconfig file in my home directory (which contains [ READ MORE ]

Convert your favorite language to JavaScript

As usual, Joel called it. He predicted the rise in JavaScript toolkits followed by smart compilers which turn other languages into JS. Though there are a number of neat frameworks out there which leverage some of the true power which lies within JS as a language (most notably SproutCore), there are some which go a [ READ MORE ]

Confession: I’m a paranoid developer

I’m working on a rather interesting project now and it’s got a lot of variables seeing as how it involves networking and a series of other things. I’m new to unit testing as it is and wasn’t prepared to slow down the pace of development by learning to do things test-first on a project like [ READ MORE ]

Ruby 1.9.1 released: Huzzah!

There was much celebration throughout the Internets as it was announced that Ruby 1.9.1 has been released as stable. I am very excited and wondering how long until it gets into Debian. Will it even make it into testing considering how widely it’s used and how Ruby1.9 already exists in Lenny? I hope so&#[ READ MORE ]

Walking in someone else’s shoes

Just discovered Shoes, the lightweight GUI toolkit writte by why the lucky stiff. Unfortunately, I seem to have a very old version of it included in Debian Lenny and it doesn’t seem as if the one in Sid is any newer. Oh well, that didn’t stop me from writing a little app which, in addition [ READ MORE ]

Could Jaiku + Laconica = Twitter killer?

With the recent buzz about identi.ca and Google’s Jaiku becoming open source, could the two projects learn from one another and produce something even better? It seems that identi.ca’s underlying software, Laconica, runs on the LAMP stack while Jaiku will be released for AppEngine. It will be interesting to see how the OpenMicroBlogging folks take [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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