|
|
|
CraigBlog
-
It’s no secret that I’ve been interested in Lisp for quite a while. Lately, that has meant Clojure . Clojure is a new Lisp dialect that runs on top of the JVM. That means it has the power of Lisp (macros, dynamic typing, etc.) combined with the power...
-
I just got done running the 2008 Marine Corps Marathon . My entry in this event was so full of drama, it belongs in a figure skating vignette. The whole thing started a little over a year ago. I’d taken a fairly long break from running, and had hit the...
-
I’ve been really into Lisp lately, especially Clojure , which looks really interesting. More on that some other time, though. Anyway, I’m always looking for an excuse to write code in Lisp – any Lisp. As I was writing some prose in emacs this morning...
-
I don’t think you like Halloween like this guy likes Halloween… I’m glad to have helped in even a very small way.
-
If you’ve used a Unix much, I’m sure you’re familiar with sudo , a command-line utility that lets you run things as the superuser. Not only it is very handy, but it is the basis for one of the better XKCD strips . Sudo is one of those things I find myself...
-
Short story: I wrote a little tray app that will prevent your screensaver from running. Download it here . Long story: I’ve been training for a marathon over the last few months, but a couple of weeks ago I hurt my foot and have been unable to run consistently...
-
Update: Corrected terminology – it’s “generic functions” not “generic methods”. Aside from macros, another nice feature that Lisp supports is mixins . In fact, this is one of the (very, very) few things I miss about C++. Of course, Lisp does it in a much...
-
You’ve seen me talk here before about the fact that I have been lately fascinated with Lisp. Sadly, I haven’t been able to spend the time I’d like with it, but I continue to read and think about it. And I’d really, really like to put in some serious time...
-
One of the common complaints with the MSDN website is the fact that the pages are pretty fat. The team has done a lot to make this better, but there's still some stuff in there that not everyone needs. If you're interested in an extremely skinny version...
-
I finally got around to hacking together an x64 version of hobocopy , my little utility that copies files even if they are locked. Note that you might need to install the 64-bit C runtime (vcredist_x64) in order to get it to work. Both the updated binaries...
-
I enjoy the process of sharing some of my work as open source. One of my more successful efforts in that area has been Hobocopy . Like most (really, all) software, it's not done. There are any number of things I'd like to add to it, and I still get occasional...
-
Lately I've been enjoying going to the DC ALT.NET meetings. I can't say I've figured out what ALT.NET is supposed to mean, but the DC version appears to equate to smart people talking about interesting things, so that's good enough for me. Anyway, I shot...
-
Yesterday was a big day for me with respect to MSDN. There were a pair of "the new replaces the old" moments. The first event was the one Larry Jordan amusingly subtitles " There will be only one! " What happened was, the old MSDN finally got turned off...
-
Larry Jordan has put together a Facebook group (" Friends of the MSDN Library ") to aggregate people who have ideas about how MSDN can improve. I have a vested interest in this, as I make part of my living contributing to the code that makes it happen...
-
At a little before 11AM on March 15th, Wangdera Corporation welcomed its newest employee when our daughter Susan was born at our home in Virginia. Susan tipped the scales at a hefty 8 pounds, 14 ounces (4.03kg), and she and her mother are both doing extremely...
|
|
|
|
|
|