August 2010
3 posts
How We Deploy Our Clojure Services →
Aug 27th
Redis Weekly Update #7 →
Antirez describes a data storage technique for Redis which can demonstrate up to 5x memory savings.
Aug 27th
Infer: a Clojure library for machine learning and... →
Aug 27th
July 2010
14 posts
Developing and Deploying a Simple Clojure Web... →
Jul 25th
Hub: Teaches git about Github →
Jul 25th
Nice Entity →
Beautifully designed reference site for HTML & Unicode entities.
Jul 18th
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"]
Jul 18th
A Monad Tutorial for Clojure programmers →
Phenomenal 4-part series on using monads in Clojure.
Jul 15th
A Non-Mathematical Introduction to Using Neural... →
Jul 15th
Untangling Evented Code with Ruby Fibers →
Jul 15th
Ghosts in the Machine →
Discusses how to implement a backtracking state machine in Clojure using the state monad.
Jul 15th
Deflating the Universe →
Jul 15th
LiveReload Screencast →
Jul 14th
Emacs Starter Kit →
Jul 11th
GitHub: aria42's umall-nlp →
A random GitHub find: Java and Clojure NLP libraries.
Jul 5th
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
Jul 5th
Introduction to Genetic Algorithms →
A high-level rundown on how to implement genetic algorithms, plus some embedded Java applets for demonstration.
Jul 5th
June 2010
4 posts
Cellular Automata Method for Generating Random... →
Jun 25th
Garbage Collection and the Ruby Heap →
Joe Damato’s presentation from RailsConf 2010.
Jun 25th
Chaos Theory vs Clojure →
Jun 25th
Running Processes →
Great write-up on the available process launching packages available for *nix systems, as well as some best practices on using them.
Jun 25th
March 2010
14 posts
Damn Cool Algorithms →
Nick Johnson has a great series highlighting some data algorithms.
Mar 31st
An Introduction to Lisp Macros using Clojure and... →
Mar 31st
Functional Fluid Dynamics in Clojure →
Mar 31st
Vimcasts →
Mar 31st
The Sinatra Book →
Mar 27th
Rake & Capistrano Bash Autocompletion →
Mar 24th
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….
Mar 23rd
5 notes
Cufon - Fast text replacement with canvas and VML →
Mar 21st
CassandraObject →
Michael Koziarski has a nice (codebase to build a) gem out for creating ActiveRecord-compatible objects with Cassandra.
Mar 17th
Eloquent JavaScript →
Online book discussing some theoretical sides of JavaScript.
Mar 17th
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.
Mar 17th
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.
Mar 17th
A User's Guide to the Z-Shell →
Mar 6th
Understanding M17n →
Fantastic series on character encodings in Ruby, including details on how to best use them in 1.8 and 1.9.
Mar 6th
February 2010
14 posts
Triumph of the Cyborg Composer →
Interesting bio of David Cope, a leader in algorithmic music generation.
Feb 27th
Clojure cheat sheet for Rubyists →
Feb 16th
jQuery Quicksand Plugin →
Super slick jQuery plugin for rearranging collections.
Feb 16th
Let Them Code Cake! →
Good ideas on refactoring large database-persisted classed.
Feb 13th
Uniform: Sexy jQuery form design →
Feb 10th
Ruby Best Practices - Weekend Reading: RBP... →
More Ruby Best Practices chapters from Gregory Brown.
Feb 6th
Using Sunspot for Free-Text Search with Redis →
Feb 6th
A Maturity Model for Source Control →
git seems to rank pretty well here.
Feb 5th
Erlang at Facebook →
Feb 4th
Haruki Zaemon →
Blog by Simon Harris - author of Ruby gem Hamster
Feb 4th
GNU Screen: An introduction and beginner's... →
Feb 4th
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.
Feb 4th
In praise of git's index →
Feb 4th
Git from the bottom up →
In-depth look at git’s belly.  Neat.
Feb 4th