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Writing Files in Clojure
11/16/2009 clojure(5)Another quick Clojure blog entry, this one on writing out file contents.
Reading Files in Clojure
11/15/2009 clojure(5)A brief overview to approaches to reading in files in Clojure.
Setting Up TLA+ Tools on OS X
10/31/2009 tla(1)A quick walkthrough for setting up the TLA+ tools on OS X.
Comments on "Why Engineers Should Consider Formal Methods"
10/20/2009 software-engineering(11)computer-science(5)A few quick comments on the excellent paper from 1997, "Why Engineers Should Consider Formal Methods".
Money or Meaning: Spending Our Wealth of Time
10/11/2009 essay(2)We don't know how long we'll live, but we do know our time is limited, and life could be thought of as our endeavor to optimize the economics of our time. Yet, much like the current financial debacle, often the attempt to optimize ends poorly.
Cleaning up erlang_markdown
10/10/2009 erlang(20)markdown(6)After some additional work, erlang_markdown is cleaning up fairly well into a usable package. At this point, pretty much all of Markdown should be implemented outside of the alternative header syntax.
A Failed Stack-based Markdown Interpreter
09/27/2009 erlang(20)markdown(6)Spent a bit too much time this weekend trying to implement a stack-based Markdown interpreter in Erlang, and not quite enough time in the planning process. That said, it was a nice initial sketch, and in a few days I'll have time to rework it accordingly.
Proposal for Authenticating Web Callbacks
09/20/2009 web-callbacks(1)Web callbacks are a great idea, but are still lacking some conventions before they become a widespread feature for web services and APIs. One of the most important ones: how to authenticate clients registering for web callbacks?
Generating RSS feeds via BeepBeep
09/20/2009 beepbeep(6)BeepBeep is a great little web micro-framework, which I have enjoyed working with a lot. Sometimes when dealing with micro-frameworks you end up reinventing a wheel a lot. Sometimes that might be part of the appeal, either way, here is a quick look at generating RSS feeds using BeepBeep.
How Pitance Versions Documents in CouchDB
09/17/2009 couchdb(6)pitance(3)A quick overview of how I ended up versioning templates in Pitance, requiring a bit of extra meta-data as well as creative use of the query api.
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