Everybody has heard of Lisp. Perhaps they’ve ignored it, but at least they’ve heard of it. It remains a unique language just for having persisted so long without going mainstream; and for being the only language I’ve heard of which has dialects — ala Scheme or Common Lisp or Clojure, which are all languages in [...]
Since my workplace has standardized on Git for their version control, I’ve had to answer a lot of basic questions about Git. Since I’m totally tired of doing that, I’m writing this post and doing a screencast (available later), that sums up what I know about Git, and what I think you all should know [...]
A few months ago I started writing a build system in Ruby. Actually, I began it in Perl; but it didn’t take long for me to switch. Perl is a monster. Forgive me for saying so, but it is. I thought I’d play a bit at learning it’s demonic syntax and insane object system, but [...]