tech

Sep
16

RSS, Email, and Living without the Ideal

So, right now I am playing around with the Acme mail program. Acme is a pretty nice interface for doing
Sep
15

Opera improves life for package managers

The other day I was reading over the Opera Desktop Team Blog [http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/] and noticed
Sep
12

Coding on Paper

How many of you programmers write your programs in paper anymore? I am playing with the ideas right now and
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Aug
25

Syntax Brain Twister

I gave this brain twister at the Scheme Workshop 2010, but I think it's a neat thing so
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Aug
06

Conferences and Microsoft Word

Why do some conferences insist on things like Word documents for their single, only, primary submission format? It boggles the
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Aug
03

Libarchive

If you have ever wanted to process zip files or isos, you've probably seen programs like the libiso9660
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Jul
31

Handling errno in foreign code

If you are writing and interfacing with foreign libraries in Chez Scheme, it's often rather important that you
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Jul
30

Are computer scientists anti-social?

It seems like people still have a sort of misconception about Computer Science as a lone wolf art. Some people
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Jul
30

Computer Science Curricula

Those of you who know me and also know that I am a Computer Scientist often ask me, "What
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Jul
18

Bytevectors and Foreign Code

Sometimes when working with bytevectors in Chez Scheme, you want to treat that bytevector as a foreign allocated block of
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