ddonnell's blog

ddonnell posted in Tech 3 months ago

The programming world has been abuzz about the JVM and all these new JVM languages the past few years. I'm a long time rubyist and a lisp weenie, and two of the most popular alternative JVM languages are JRuby and Clojure (a lisp). They are both great l

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last by ddonnell 3 months ago

sbt problems

ddonnell posted in Misc 4 months ago

I'm trying out scala and the initial experience isn't good. It seems that most of the scala world is using sbt as their build tool, and it fails right out of the box. I followed [these instructions](https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki/Setup) and I get

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My first impressions of an Android phone

ddonnell posted in Misc 8 months ago

I got a Droid X2 after years with an iphone. Here are my initial thoughts.

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last by d6fer over 1 year ago

blocking mongodb ports except for localhost connections

ddonnell posted in Misc 8 months ago

easy peasy lemon squeezy

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I cry a little when I code in java

ddonnell posted in Misc 8 months ago

A comparison

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last by starchini 8 months ago

ruby 1.9 resources

ddonnell posted in Misc 10 months ago

A collection of resources on ruby 1.9

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Emacs Colors

ddonnell posted in Misc 11 months ago

I just found this page today when I was customizing the colors for diff mode.

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Good emacs resources

ddonnell posted in Misc 11 months ago

emacs resources

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MIT Skip Lists Lecture

ddonnell posted in Misc 11 months ago

A great lecture on skip lists

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last by sean_renaud 10 months ago

Hacker Books

ddonnell posted in Misc 12 months ago

This is a nice resource of popular books related to computer science.

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Life as a Software Engineer: The Deadline Dilema

ddonnell posted in Misc 12 months ago

A new project is thought up in the mind of a project manager who wasn't good enough to write real code. Ironically they get to decide what code you should write.

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last by reckoner 12 months ago

Emacs gnupg, easypg, and encryption

ddonnell posted in Misc 12 months ago

This post from emacs-fu will show how easy it is to use encryption from emacs

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Cracking the scratch lottery code

ddonnell posted in Misc about 1 year ago

This is one of the most fascinating articles I've read in a while. "The game canâ€™t be truly random. Instead, it has to generate the illusion of randomness while actually being carefully determined.â€

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last by reckoner about 1 year ago

My thoughts on Microsoft copying Google's search results

ddonnell posted in Misc about 1 year ago

If you haven't heard the news, Microsoft has been caught copying Google's search results.

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last by reckoner about 1 year ago

OLPC: these are so cool

ddonnell posted in Misc about 1 year ago

I love low power computers

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last by sarcasticangel about 1 year ago

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ddonnell commented 3 months ago on

amen linbsd read the rest

@jasonspak, I tried to do that, and I can't get it to use under 100MB. Permgen alone was close to read the rest

Hi anonymous. I should have reserved that username ;) PHP, Ruby, Python .... yeah, use one of these for web apps. It also bugs me that the JVM isn't as unix friendly as I would read the rest

ddonnell commented 9 months ago on

Get a deal a day

haha, thanks read the rest

ddonnell commented 10 months ago on

you can always ask here for read the rest

It's entry level assuming some foundation. I forget the specifics, but I was required to take a certain amount of math before taking it, so if you go to college for it you'll be forced to take enough math before getting to these classes. Btw, I think the read the rest

ddonnell commented about 1 year ago on

gr, youtube changed their embed code and it doesn't work on yakkstr. There is supposed to be a video there. [Here's the video read the rest

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hehe, it won't. It's for programmers to use. I might use it on this site for some far off ideas I have. I need to get the private posts working read the rest

ddonnell commented over 1 year ago on

James Toney vs. Randy Couture

here we go, fight about to read the rest

I don't see this fight being that great either way. There are only two possible options I see, toney catches randy and it's a short fight. Randy controls toney and finishes him quick. But, I'm really excited about the edgar v penn rematch, and the read the rest