When is a character not a Character?
Characters seem like an easy concept to grasp at first glance. Java has a primitive type char and an object wrapper Character, and these are...more.
Colin Jones
JIT or AOT Learning?
Our jobs as creators and maintainers of software systems are heavily wrapped up in our ability to learn. Generally we need a base level of...more.
On Obsession, Primitive and Otherwise
Primitive Obsession is bad stuff. But it's bad, not because primitives are bad, but because obsession is bad.
From Merriam-Webster:
ob-ses-sion, noun:...more.
Quoting Without Confusion
Many Lisp beginners find quoting to be a foreign concept. My own confusions around quote and friends began with my first ventures into Scheme,...more.
A few fallacies, for your consideration
Lately I've been fascinated with the idea of logical fallacies, and especially problems in arguments that may at first glance seem reasonable.
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Winning at Consistency
Do you use validates_uniqueness_of in Rails? Do you feel confident that it works to prevent duplicate records? If you’re like most of us, you...more.
Clojure Mad Science: An Evil Threading Macro Experiment?
You are a mad scientist, and you’d like to perform an experiment on your mysterious test subjects. You want half of the subjects to...more.
That‘s Not In My String!
We encountered a strange spec failure today in our continuous integration build. It’s a Rails project, we’re using RSpec, and this was the failing...more.
Clojure Libs and Namespaces: require, use, import, and ns
Whenever I’m showing a newcomer to Clojure how to bring in code from other namespaces, I find myself apologizing that it’s a bit complex...more.
A Leiningen Tutorial
Leiningen, a project by Phil Hagelberg , has become one of the most contributed to Clojure projects, and also one of the...more.
Relevance Craftsman Swap Day 4
Today was my last day at Relevance, pairing again with Stuart Sierra. Along with Alan Dipert, we arrived at a solution for our data...more.
Relevance Craftsman Swap Day 3
Day 3 at Relevance began, as the previous days, with the company standup. Stuart Sierra, of clojure.test and Practical Clojure fame, was my pair...more.
Relevance Craftsman Swap Day 2
Today was my second at Relevance for our craftsmanship swap. Chris and I continued work on the project we began to work...more.
Relevance Craftsman Swap Day 1
I’m honored, humbled and excited to represent 8th Light, Inc. on it’s most recent Craftsmanship Swap, with Relevance in Durham, North Carolina....more.
A Software Craftsman’s New Year’s Resolutions
There is so much to learn in this field, and the many new languages, frameworks, and APIs that are developed every day only add...more.
Up and running with TDD on Android
A couple of weeks ago, I happened to be in the right place at the right time (the first ORD Session) when Google hooked...more.
A Functional Refactoring in Scala
Many of us have heard a lot of talk about functional programming and its benefits, especially when it comes to highly concurrent applications where...more.