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10 Clojure one liners…

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

After the original 10 Scala one liners to impress your friends, and 10 CofeeScript one liners and 10 Ruby one liners, I thought I’d do the same in clojure – mostly as I’m playing with clojure at the moment and thought it’d be fun – I’m sure someone else has probably already done this!

New Job

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

After five years at my previous workplace (as a consultant, then as a permanent) I finally made the jump to a new job – I’m now working for ThoughtWorks! I have a long post all about the career change process that’s in the “to be finished” blog backlog, hopefully some time soon I’ll get it [...]

Mocking functional code in Scala

Sunday, March 27th, 2011

I’m having a love-hate relationship with Scala – it’s a nifty language with a huge pile of power, and a huge pile of complexity. One of my main problems is that static typing sometimes makes it hard to test without jumping through a lot of hoops. Consider this code: It’s nice concise code, relatively readable [...]

This year

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

Well, it’s been almost a year since I’ve blogged.  It’s not that nothing bloggable has happened – it’s just that too much that is bloggable has happened, and I keep getting caught up with grand ideas of big subjects. I’ll try a new tack – post whatever comes up, briefly, and then if I find [...]

Face the Face

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

I’ve been playing with new features in html5 recently – there are lots of things getting a bit of media coverage, but the wider support of embedded fonts really caught my eye. By including an @font-face entry in your css file, and the appropriate font files on a server somewhere, you can get really nice [...]