A new start
I can’t say I have been a prolific blogger in the last few years. On most days, once I’ve figured something out, I’m too tired or it’s too late to write about it. What a lame excuse really! I’ve...
View ArticleKivy on Mountain Lion
The goal for today was to talk to a RESTful bottle.py web service from an iOS app on my phone that is built using the kivy library. As always, goals should be broken down into smaller more manageable...
View ArticleBottle, Cork & MongoDb adventure
During the last few months, I’ve been trying to grok Python. I almost instantly fell in love with the language while reading Programming Collective Intelligence some years ago, but it’s not until now...
View ArticleErlang observer, debugger on Mountain Lion
I’m currently using a Mac with Mountain Lion and I wanted to use Kerl to install the latest Erlang R15B03-1. Kerl is a great way to manage multuple Erlang installations on a system. You can compare it...
View ArticleExcel was cool
I’ve been an Excel user since 1988. That’s right, before there was a proper version of Windows that many would recognize (Windows 3.0). Excel was still biting the dust of Lotus 1-2-3, the killer app of...
View ArticleErlang OTP and ZeroMQ
It’s always fun being on the bleeding edge. I’m being slightly ironic here of course. Right now, I’m trying to hook up a Qt front end to an Erlang application using ZeroMQ. So Visual Basic was a lot...
View ArticleRIP Google Reader
RSS has a special place for me since I spent a lot of time with the protocol over the years. I’ve not been a vocal RSS evangelist, like Dave Winer, but I’ve been a long time contributor to this...
View ArticleErlang to PyQt via 0MQ
The goal for today is to stream data from my Erlang application to a PyQt based front end application. The idea is that this will serve as a template for cross-platform desktop applications, and...
View ArticleOn Procrastination
I just finished watching Rick Hickey’s talk Simple Made Easy. Chris provides some very useful alternative views on achieving software quality. I especially like his metaphor of guardrail programming....
View ArticleClojure Curve Ball
“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” — Mario Andretti. Programming is hard. — Joe Armstrong What follows is not meant to be negative about Clojure but getting stuck sucks,...
View ArticleHow To Make History in 2025
Loic Le Meur’s vision of the future of life in 2030 reminded me of a story I wrote for a contest issued by IBM in 1995 in the Netherlands. The subject: Scenario: Computergebruik in 2025 (Scenario:...
View ArticleClojure Curve Ball [dodged]
The linguist Noam Chomsky once suggested that our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge,...
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