Yearly Archives: 2011

A Hacker’s Christmas Song

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Stuart

I’ll be home for Christmas To fix your old PC. Please have Coke and Mountain Dew And pizza there for me. Christmas Eve will find me In Windows Update screens, I’ll be done by New Year’s If only in my … Continue reading →

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What Is a Program?

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Stuart

What is a program? Is it the source code that a programmer typed? The physical state of the machine on which it is run? Or something more abstract, like the data structures it creates? This is not a purely philosophical … Continue reading →

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JDK Version Survey Results

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Stuart

After a month and about 175 responses, here are the results of my JDK Version Usage Survey (now closed): Versions: Almost everyone uses 1.6. A few are still using 1.5, and a few are trying out 1.7. Only a handful … Continue reading →

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JDK Version Survey

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Stuart

The most recent JDK version poll I could find was from 2008 (thanks, Alex!) so here’s a new one. Loading…

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Design Philosophies of Developer Tools

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Stuart

I’ve been thinking about some of the tools that I use every day, and about the different design philosophies they reflect. Git First and foremost, Git. We use Git on every single project, internal and external. Git is a great … Continue reading →

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The Naming of Namespaces

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Stuart

From time to time I’m asked, “How do you organize namespaces in Clojure projects?” The question surprised me at first, because I hadn’t thought about it much. But then I was using Clojure back when the only way to load … Continue reading →

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ClojureScript Launch, New York

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Stuart

As you may have heard, last night we (Clojure/core) announced ClojureScript at the Clojure NYC Meetup. Rich Hickey gave a talk, which was streamed live over the web, while we monitored Twitter and IRC for feedback. The event was a … Continue reading →

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Vote for Clojure at JAX Innovation Awards!

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Stuart

Vote for Clojure as the Most Innovative Java Technology of 2011!

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Dependency Management First-Aid Kit

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Stuart

This article attempts to unravel some of the mysteries of dependency management with Maven and Maven-based tools. Help, something’s missing! Say you have a project named “my-new-project” which declares a dependency on version 3 of the “awesome-sauce” library by the … Continue reading →

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Speaking at ÜberConf Denver in July

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Stuart

I’ll be speaking at Über Conf 2011 In Denver, CO July 12th to 15th. I’m doing three (gulp!) sessions: two on Clojure, and one on my work with AltLaw.org.

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