For small projects a TODO file will most likely be OK, but at certain point it becomes too unstructured. For a long time I used RTM (Remember The Milk) as my main task list, and I tracked items related to my projects along with “buy milk” etc, but tagged appropriately...

I landed a Clojure job. Moved to another country. Picked up C++. Went to the US for the Clojure Conj conference. Got a Mac. I want to post something about using Clojure in a big company in a mixed Java/Clojure project. I keep putting it off but it will happen. I really...

Updating old code. Learning new things about .NET 4 Years ago I saw a really good talk by Rob Pike about a little known language called Newsqueak. I can’t remember if I had anything more than a mild interest in concurrent programming, but that talk got my attention...

A presentation by Insomniac Games Mike Acton from Insomniac Games, creators of Ratchet & Clank, gave a talk at this years Game Developer’s Conference. This blog post bares the same title as the presentation. Though I wish I could hear the talk, the slides (pdf...

Sometimes the only way to get the desired performance is to shun immutability. In case of Clojure, that means using arrays or importing mutable classes from an existing Java library - assuming the library already has classes with properties/fields that fit our needs...

I've been in Denmark for over a month and haven't really seen much of it. I'm waiting for warmer weather. But the people are cool. Lots of different nationalities in the place I work in makes things even more interesting. I'm doing mostly .NET related stuff right now...

Processing + Clojure Processing is a java library for doing visualizations and various media related stuff. A while ago I did a Clojure wrapper for it. You can get it from github: clj-processing. Cloak A couple of months ago I saw examples of config files of ruby...

Since the end of the year is near, and because at the beginning of January I'll be pretty busy with other things (see below), I decided I'll post something while I still have spare time on my hands. On a personal note, that was a good year (I finished school, among other...

On friday I uploaded the 1.0 version of MathTalker to Google's servers. It's a simple chat application which allows you to write mathematical formulas (using syntax similar to TeX). It was written in Python and runs on App Engine. MathTalker has pretty steep...