Herding Code Podcast on DSLs
I had a conversation with the Herding Code guys regarding DSLs, DSL DevCon, and some of my skepticism regarding Oslo and the DSL hype.
more ...Lang.NET, DSL DevCon Highlights
Intentional Software has forged a silver bullet. It's terribly difficult not to go into that in great depth (I will shortly), but for now, I simply don't want to bury the lede.
OK, so other than that what was interesting?
There are several categories that need to be talked about …
more ...DSL Writers: Put Turing Completeness Out Of Your Mind
At the recent DSL DevCon, Martin Fowler gave an excellent keynote speech discussing domain-specific languages, an important subject that seems certain to be the buzzword of the next year or two.
However, one slide of his got my goat, leading me to foam at the mouth, beat the table with …
more ...Lang.NET: Preliminary Thoughts
There's a school of thought in anthropology that the form and vocabulary of the language you speak deeply affects how you think, even to the point of limiting if you can think about certain things. This is called the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. There's definitely something to it, although probably not in …
more ...Facts Fail To Impress The Superstitious. Film at 11.
Andrew Cooper, a local astronomer, laments the continued belief in astrology, which apparently is so detached from the facts that they'll print "The Sun has entered Aries," when, due to precession, the Sun is still well inside Pisces.
Hawai'i is a place of deep spirituality, both mainstream and New Age …
more ...From Theory to iPhone, Pt. 3: A Diversion Into Ruby
As far as I know, you cannot program the iPhone with Ruby. However, you can program OS X Cocoa applications with Ruby and, as a learning experience, it's very helpful.
I am coming to believe that the biggest barrier to learning how to program Cocoa are tutorials that emphasize the …
more ...Pragmatic Bookshelf Goes Kindle-Compatible
The Pragmatic Bookshelf is going Kindle and iPhone compatible, with support for .epub (iPhone) and .mobi (Kindle) formats.
I just downloaded RubyCocoa on the Kindle and it looks excellent -- with listings in monospaced font! -- but most of my other books are not yet available in Kindle format.
Pragmatic Programmers have …
more ...My Most Popular Posts
In response to a request from the esteemed Director of the FBI Blogs, these are some of the blog posts that have gotten the most traffic through the years:
- 15 Exercises to Know a Programming Language
- Top 10 Things I've Learned About Computers From Movies And Any Episode of "24 …
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