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In one of my previous posts, I described an implementation of miniKanren in Haskell. I have since been improving the implementation. I am currently working on the third iteration of my logic library. The first one was described by my previous post. The second is in a GitHub repository. I have yet to settle on…
The web is allowing us to obtain an enormous amount of data about our behavior, which raises an interesting question: how do we manage and use it? One way is with intelligent algorithms, which are being used to bring us ad targeting, recommendation engines, and spam detection, among others. In this post, I’ll show you…
For the past couple years, I’ve been playing with the Lisp family of languages, namely Common Lisp, Clojure, and Scheme. One of my favorite languages for hobby coding is CHICKEN Scheme, a mature, high-performance implementation of Scheme that compiles to portable C code. CHICKEN’s variety of built-in features and downloadable libraries, excellent FFI support, and…
Last year at around this time, Github announced ReactiveCocoa. I was excited to see a Functional Reactive Programming framework made for Objective-C and found an immediate use for it in an iOS project. Since its release, there’s been a tremendous amount of activity, documentation, and blog posts around it. The point being, there isn’t an…
Occasionally I reflect on the ways I’ve changed as a developer since coming to Atomic. Recently I was struck by how much more comfortable I’ve gotten jumping into new technologies. I’ve come to realization that the only right way to approach new challenges is with gusto (and googling).
A fellow Atom recently introduced me to the Minecraft mod ComputerCraft. ComputerCraft extends the game to include virtual computers that are programmable in Lua and capable of interacting with the game world. Needless to say, I found myself rather preoccupied with Lua that weekend.
Back in college, Haskell was just something I’d seen on mentioned Reddit and a few other places. I didn’t really have a good reason to look at it seriously — that is, until I needed a senior project topic. (If you’re still looking for a reason to learn Haskell, read Job’s recent post about how…
Over the last few months, I have written two blog posts that mention using Hamster (Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection) classes in JRuby: Preventing JRuby Concurrency Errors with Hamster and Making Refs in Ruby Using Celluloid Actors. The latter post was commented on by Mike Busch he mentioned his evaluation of Hamster and comparing it to…
Recently I’ve been working on a .NET app that communicates with multiple internet end points. Each end point is a data collector, and numeric data is retrieved over these connections in real time. It is important for the app to be able to do some analysis of the data, such as minimum and maximum value,…
Recently, I have been using WPF to give a .NET desktop application its own customized look and feel that matches my client’s product branding. In one of the workflows I implemented last week, the user inputs a 4-digit passcode that allows them to connect to an external device. Here is a diagram of the workflow…
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