The code here is actually several months old, it was only today that I stumbled on it and realized it would be a nice writeup.... Read More

So here’s ye old car example. Pretend we have a class Car in (insert your favourite OO language here), then we extend the car class with Sportscar and Pickup, the door-count method of the Car class will return “I have four doors” and the car-description method is overridden in the two extending classes.... Read More

If you follow me on twitter you might have read that I tried Riak at one point but then switched to Cassandra, anyway, one of the things with Riak that struck me as nice was the fact that you could access any node through HTTP.... Read More

I just finished researching how to achieve persistent sessions with Compojure. The default way of doing things didn’t really look appealing to me. This whole threadsafeness business is more of a hindrance than an asset when it comes to web development IMO.... Read More

I just managed get communication between Compojure and Flash (AS3) up and running, by way of HTTP. No big deal really when all the dependencies and whatnot are in place. I did not use URLRequest or HTTPService, but AS3HttpClientLib as I got the impression it seems to be more feature complete than the other two that seem more basic and default. An example of a feature I might want to use in the future is for instance the HTTPS stuff.... Read More

I’ve just finished playing with Robert Luo’s clj-cassandra for today and it’s time to recap what’s happened so far.... Read More

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First of all, I would like to push a little for Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway. It’s fantastic if you have prior experience with the Java ecosystem or a LISP, it might be a bit over your head if you don’t have either. Luckily I’m coming from PicoLisp so I’m OK, I just need to get up to speed with the Java.... Read More

The following list is compiled from the replies I got on the LISP reddit and other stuff I’ve found here and there. I suppose the aim of this list is to show that LISP is a language that can be used for web development too. Sometimes I get the impression that LISP has been stereotyped as something that belongs in some university AI lab and not really suited for something as mundane as web development. However as can be seen here, that’s just not true.... Read More

Wow, were do I start. To begin with VizReader is the application in question. It’s a pretty weird thing but I love it. I get a small whiff of the same feeling I had when I was a kid and played Dragon’s Breath on the Amiga. Dragon’s Breath was both a weird and wonderful game at the same time and it makes me proud that I have managed to create something that gives me a little bit of that feeling.... Read More