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Rock Paper Scissors with core.async 10 Jul 2013 | 05:30 pm
Just for fun I implemented Rock Paper Scissors with core.async. Each player is modeled as a go process that generates moves on a channel. A judge is modeled as a go process that takes moves from each ...
Moving to Relevance 1 Jul 2013 | 05:10 pm
Today I am thrilled to announce that I have joined Relevance, Inc. People have been paying me to write code for a couple of decades now and I’ve been very fortunate to have great opportunities. I fel...
A few of my favorite tech talks by women 16 Oct 2012 | 11:44 pm
A very happy Ada Lovelace day to you all! In honor of the day I thought I would post a few of my favorite tech talks given by women. Sarah Allen – Teaching Code Literacy When I first invited Sarah t...
Do we even want Jigsaw? 28 Jul 2012 | 03:20 am
Recently it was announced that the Java modularity Project Jigsaw would be pushed out of Java 8. Jigsaw and its older brethren JSR 294 and JSR 277 have a tortured history from years of fighting during...
FP Conference Update 27 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
A few days ago I posted a poll about interest in a functional programming conference. I wanted to share some of the data and my intentions. I have had a total of 313 responses to the survey (as of now...
How about a functional programming conference? 25 Jul 2012 | 01:35 am
I’ve been kicking around an idea for a US-based conference (probably changing cities each year) for working (or aspiring) functional programmers. I am aware of events like CUFP, but I am thinking of s...
The Boy Scouts are wrong 18 Jul 2012 | 03:56 am
Normally I write technical stuff on this blog, but I feel a need to talk about this publicly. As you may be aware, the Boy Scouts have long had a policy disallowing openly gay den leaders or youth. O...
Conference Expectations from Speakers 13 Jul 2012 | 01:36 am
I read Paul Irish’s “Open Conference Expectations” for speakers with great interest. I don’t know Paul (other than by reputation) but I organize the Strange Loop and Clojure/West conferences. While ...
Powered by people 21 May 2012 | 05:28 am
As I make the end-of-year rounds this weekend for several organizations I belong to with kids and family, I am again struck by how at the heart of every functioning organization are a small core of in...
Clojure values 6 Feb 2012 | 09:38 am
About a week ago I put up a poll asked questions about what people in the Clojure community valued. In particular, this was a series of questions that said, “We value X over Y”. I was trying to captur...
