You can Trust your Data to the Cloud (In theory)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic – Arthur C. Clarke Cloud computing services such as Amazon EC2, Salesforce, Google App Engine and Heroku promise several advantages...
View ArticleImproving Ruby
Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people. — Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, LL2 When I heard the Smalltalk traits of Ruby, I was...
View ArticleRubyUnderscore: A bit of Arc and Scala in Ruby
A few months ago I’ve mentioned one thing that bothered me in ruby was “No way to create simple blocks”. This is in contrast to other languages, such as Scala, Clojure and Groovy’s underscore, percent...
View ArticlePeter Norvig’s Spelling Corrector in 21 Lines of Coffeescript
CoffeeScript is a very nice (and relatively new) language that compiles down to JavaScript, making web programming (and making firefox plugins, nodejs apps, and so forth) possibly more joyful. Its...
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Hacking a Gnuplot into Minecraft
For those who don’t know, Minecraft is an inspiring indie game that places the gamer into a sandbox 3d world, where everything is made of blocks. Blocks can also be crafted into other blocks through...
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Implementing Minecraft in WebGL
TL;DR: Source here, live demo here. ROME project WebGL is an amazing piece of technology that enables browsers to natively render hardware accelerated 3d creations (yay, no o3d plugin needed!). I’ve...
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Conjcraft: A Minecraft Mod implemented in Clojure
When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create. — why the lucky stiff TL;DR: Source here, and here a video...
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WebGL breaking into the real world
A few weeks ago I attended the Khronos WebGL Meetup during GCD week. It was a pleasure to see how much amazing real companies got real work got done, many in just one year. Here are some of the...
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Viewing 3D Models directly on GitHub
A few months ago GitHub launched an amazing, albeit limited, support for viewing 3D models directly on GitHub. Since obj files were not supported, and are one of the most prominent 3D files on GitHub...
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Idiomatic Clojure with LightTable
LightTable, the famous innovative IDE (slash reactive work surface, as described by the author) recently got some pretty amazing additions: user defined plugins and user defined custom expressions....
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