August 2010
3 posts
How We Deploy Our Clojure Services →
Redis Weekly Update #7 →
Antirez describes a data storage technique for Redis which can demonstrate up to 5x memory savings.
Infer: a Clojure library for machine learning and... →
July 2010
14 posts
Developing and Deploying a Simple Clojure Web... →
Hub: Teaches git about Github →
Nice Entity →
Beautifully designed reference site for HTML & Unicode entities.
Become a Proc Star →
Interesting/magical techniques for adding to_proc functionality to a variety of Ruby objects, e.g.
[1,2,3,4,5].map &[:to_s, 2] # => ["1", "10", "11", "100", "101"]
A Monad Tutorial for Clojure programmers →
Phenomenal 4-part series on using monads in Clojure.
A Non-Mathematical Introduction to Using Neural... →
Untangling Evented Code with Ruby Fibers →
Ghosts in the Machine →
Discusses how to implement a backtracking state machine in Clojure using the state monad.
Deflating the Universe →
LiveReload Screencast →
Emacs Starter Kit →
GitHub: aria42's umall-nlp →
A random GitHub find: Java and Clojure NLP libraries.
LingPipe →
A Java-based NLP toolkit, which might be useful when playing around in Clojure. From the home page:
LingPipe is tool kit for processing text using computational linguistics. LingPipe is used to do tasks like:
Find the names of people, organizations or locations in news
Automatically classify Twitter search results into categories
Suggest correct spellings of queries
Introduction to Genetic Algorithms →
A high-level rundown on how to implement genetic algorithms, plus some embedded Java applets for demonstration.
June 2010
4 posts
Cellular Automata Method for Generating Random... →
Garbage Collection and the Ruby Heap →
Joe Damato’s presentation from RailsConf 2010.
Chaos Theory vs Clojure →
Running Processes →
Great write-up on the available process launching packages available for *nix systems, as well as some best practices on using them.
March 2010
14 posts
Damn Cool Algorithms →
Nick Johnson has a great series highlighting some data algorithms.
An Introduction to Lisp Macros using Clojure and... →
Functional Fluid Dynamics in Clojure →
Vimcasts →
The Sinatra Book →
Rake & Capistrano Bash Autocompletion →
Phunkwork: Hunting bugs thru history →
You know, that you can use git-bisect to search for changes in your git-repository history that introduced a bug, do you? I did but I never got the chance to try it out ..until this morning. If you have no idea what it is or how it works, check its excellent, super self-explaining, man-page….
Cufon - Fast text replacement with canvas and VML →
CassandraObject →
Michael Koziarski has a nice (codebase to build a) gem out for creating ActiveRecord-compatible objects with Cassandra.
Eloquent JavaScript →
Online book discussing some theoretical sides of JavaScript.
state_machine 0.8.1: The Ocho →
My favorite Ruby state machine library is now at version 0.8.1, loaded with fun new features.
Rubular →
So I’m sure this is old news to the rest of the Ruby community, but I just discovered this amazing online Ruby regex assistant.
A User's Guide to the Z-Shell →
Understanding M17n →
Fantastic series on character encodings in Ruby, including details on how to best use them in 1.8 and 1.9.
February 2010
14 posts
Triumph of the Cyborg Composer →
Interesting bio of David Cope, a leader in algorithmic music generation.
Clojure cheat sheet for Rubyists →
jQuery Quicksand Plugin →
Super slick jQuery plugin for rearranging collections.
Let Them Code Cake! →
Good ideas on refactoring large database-persisted classed.
Uniform: Sexy jQuery form design →
Ruby Best Practices - Weekend Reading: RBP... →
More Ruby Best Practices chapters from Gregory Brown.
Using Sunspot for Free-Text Search with Redis →
A Maturity Model for Source Control →
git seems to rank pretty well here.
Erlang at Facebook →
Haruki Zaemon →
Blog by Simon Harris - author of Ruby gem Hamster
GNU Screen: An introduction and beginner's... →
Ruby Best Practices - Weekend Reading: RBP Chapter... →
The author of Ruby Best Practices is releasing one chapter of his book every week for community discussion.
In praise of git's index →
Git from the bottom up →
In-depth look at git’s belly. Neat.