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How git works 25 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
There is always during that manly ritual of viewing a friend's new car that he will pop open the bonnet to show me the engine powering his new steed. I politely comment on its elegance and power, perh...
The Great Programming Language Continuum; or why C++ is dying 20 Jan 2013 | 01:00 pm
The long term trends of TIOBE's programming language index tell a sad story for C++; it is on the decline. Once comparable to C in popularity, it has lost market share to a new breed of higher level l...
Five days in Egypt in September 18 Dec 2012 | 01:00 pm
Saturday My most indelible memory of Cairo airport is the tennis court sized poster of Obama that greeted us in arrivals. Alongside Obama's face was a quotation from him testifying that the Egyptians...
Best before 2015. Should software come with expiry date? 10 Nov 2012 | 01:00 pm
Buy a car and you would be lucky to have any original components other than the steering wheel and the stereo left after 200,000km, but software's digital nature lends it an air of immortality that le...
Marble mazes, edge detection and an iPhone 3g 30 Oct 2012 | 11:00 am
It started with a simple question. It was summer 2009 during the wild west days of the App Store when fart apps were cool and an android was still just that pale guy from star trek. My housemate point...
My DNA needs some refactoring 8 Oct 2012 | 12:00 pm
Recently, I had a personal epiphany when I realised that clean code and good code are very different. This fact struck me when thinking about DNA. To a programmer's mind the proteins in a cell make up...
How Clojure is to the JVM as Bash scripts are to Unix 26 Sep 2012 | 12:00 pm
I'm undoubtedly one of the brainwashed hordes that believe Clojure is the best thing ever to happen to the Java ecosystem. Possibly this is because I am a longtime Lisper glad to see my favourite lang...
A proposal for improving HN - it should cost Karma to comment 7 Sep 2012 | 12:00 pm
I'm not alone in watching HN's downwards slide to the level of most other internet forums where posts and announcements are met by default with thoughtless criticism, complaints that the post is offto...
Lessons learnt whilst writing a development environment for iOS 14 Jul 2012 | 03:00 pm
The past six months I have been working on a Lisp editor for iOS as a side project (Lisping). It has been great fun, and building IDEs for touch screen's is a project I believe in. Portability, ease o...
Edit Clojure by its parse tree on your iPad - Lisping adds support for Clojure 26 Jun 2012 | 03:00 pm
It has been three months since I released Lisping into the App Store. After smoothing out the mechanics of editing by the parse tree in the 1.0.x series of updates, I felt it was time to add support f...
