As seen on Twitter... 'Seriously though, someone tried to tell me last week that "JavaScript is a Lisp." Also, Babylon 5 was a Star Trek.'
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re: android development books.. just stay away from them and use the developer site. sheesh. awful.
Recommended: "Programming Android". Not recommended: "Pro Android 3". Day and Night. Everyone involved in the latter should read through the former, and realize how badly they missed the mark.
I just re-joined the apache river users mail list. really. I think there could be a new mindset in the jvm universe amenable to that system.
It's just re-dawning on me that in lisp in the 80's, using a prolog-ish library was a given. 25 years later we brute force search over collection classes and thank the stars when we have such classes. (As opposed to javascript...)
Unless you program in prolog or lisp (for which there are several impls of prolog), what languages come with a first-order logic inference mechanism? That should just be one of the libraries available to programmers. Or we can brute force search.
I should make javascript its own subject. Libraries! People justifiably choose the JVM for its libraries (and performance). People justifiably choose javascript for its reach. (It's starting to get better on performance.) Library options are horrible
Looks like mixing dojo/js for the view/controller with clojurescript for the model/backend will be practical as per http://lukevanderhart.com/2011/09/30/using-java... so all the functional/logical stuff can be in clojure.
Learning about ClojureScript... this would make programming the M a lot easier, but I would like to leave the VC in dojo.
If you set out to implement a logic programming library in a language that does not have a good list-like library then... first things first... or, why javascript is barely a quasi-functional language, or this over-fascination with hashes is not enuf
From the stardog email list... "I found the problem. Some of
the URIs in the file are roughly 50MB long... a bug in Ontopia. Repeatedly loading and saving the file makes the URI longer each time."
My recommendation engine just responded... "People who enjoy programming in the stereotypical node.js style may also enjoy writing VBL tasks for the original Mac OS" http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.05/...
Hilariousness ensues... "Node.js has jumped the shark" http://t.co/VYXTsKBU
I was wondering how long they could hold out. Bitbucket now supports git. Good move. I like their plans.
Here's another javascript library implementing its own require/provide mechanism. Oh, and look at how it tests for the presence of a generally named function on an object, and then calls it.
Even emacs lisp is a better language than this.
The schema.org triumvirate (google, microsoft, yahoo) also puts a toe in the RDF water, after all their hullaballoo previously... http://t.co/4kY71wJS
This usually means "something went wrong" in docco...
$ docco foo.js node.js:63 throw e; ^ Error: EPIPE, Broken pipe
Reminder to self: dojo classes... properties init'd with an object other than a string become class-scope. otherwise instance scope. jeez. is it too late to take that one back, dojo?
I am just racking up my list of features for my future DWIM.
I am thinking javascript-mode needs to be putting commas in all the right places for me, especially where I need comma-separated function definitions.
Speaking of Facebook, their update to the graph stuff is landing squarely in RDF-land... http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/... --- yay.
Interestingly there appears to be no specific section header for "errors" or "exceptions" in the dojo documentation format. I'll just have to be a v.careful programmer.
shades of "make" - the dojo documentation tool uses the following convention for "javadoc" like comments: "The content associated with the keyword is indented by two tabs. " ouch.
as long as people, well @becarella at least, are promoting interesting js libs, here is one of my favorites, datejs... try it... http://www.datejs.com/
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