tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18437171222807136792011-04-21T19:12:12.137-05:00On the state of programming and writing programs.Sean Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02498110256682690030noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843717122280713679.post-40466945769678332352008-01-21T16:18:00.000-06:002008-01-21T16:24:20.949-06:00

As I become more familiar with emacs, I'll post random short snips that aren't exactly easy to find on the internets.I ran across these instructions for installing emacs with modern fonts on Ubuntu. Visually, this is a radical improvement over the previous state of affairs. It's like Emacs joined the 21st century :).Sean

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As programmers, we should fret over our tools. Well, I don't know about everyone else, but I fret over my tools. This leads me to spend time learning tools that would cause normal people, even normal programmers, to shy away. I'm a programmer of many languages, so I find IDE's, while helpful sometimes, are not something I can universally rely upon. For instance, I've yet to see a C

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I was reading Shannon Behrens's post about how everyone writes a web framework.I think he hit the nail on the head. Web programming feels like a cesspool of knockoffs and "me-too" developers. Of course, brilliant people throw their hat in every now and then, but the overwhelming noise drowns it out.I think there are a few types of framework creators. Those that have written a few applications

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I was recently reading Reg Braithwaite's post "But Y whould I want to do a thing like this?" when from some sense of foreshadowing I decided on first few paragraphs to answer the question "How do you curry a y-combinator?"Naturally, I chose scheme instead of ruby (I find scheme is the easiest language for dealing with complex lambda thinking, for obvious reasons). My very first stab at the

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I just ran across this post about a language called Io. Despite it's unfortunate name, it looks to have a lot of interesting ideas brought to fruition. I must play with it more when I have time.

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In an effort to actually write some content for this blog, I am going to start posting notes to particularly good books that I've read recently. An introduction to python is the best book I've ever read on the subject of Python programming. It's a very short book - for a very short language. The biggest advantages to this book over the others intro books is the example code and explanations are

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This is a very basic tutorial intended to help fix a lack of internet information my students mentioned.Since it turns out finding out how to print dollar amounts from a dollar amount and a cent amount is not something that is easy to find on the internet, I though I'd make a post for googling.Usually we want dollar amounts to come out something like $100.00, however if we call System.out.println

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