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Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:17 AM

Yet Another Ambitious Project (YAAP)

Lately I have been working in Erlang (forgive me, Tom), and in particular on a distributed web-based system that exposes much of its functionality over a RESTful interface. The web server has been Yaws and the database Mnesia, both of which are also implemented...
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Monday, December 31, 2007 1:53 PM

Introducing Muse and fxBASIC

Percolating in my mind for many a moon has been an idea of creating a language/runtime that I have called by various names; Muse has been its most recent identifier, named after the divine inspiration of Homer's great epic poem, The Odyssey . She...
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Monday, November 19, 2007 9:42 AM

Delegates, Lambdas and Functors, Oh My!

As the .NET platform's Common Language Runtime evolves, it is acquiring quite a toolbox of baked-in features from which language implementors and systems designers can choose to achieve both elegance and efficiency--goals which are ordinarily at odds...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007 10:41 AM

Adding Value, Not Overhead

As developers of frameworks, we know all too well that the fine line between adding value and adding overhead is drawn by user perceptions. If we do our job well, and make their task easier without senselessly sacrificing performance, our customers view...
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Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:45 AM

Technology Goals for 2008

Life has taught me, and my wife's wisdom has confirmed, that if you start early, you just might finish on time. Since I've never tried it before, but have been victimized many times by its converse, I'm taking this on faith, guided by experience...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:29 AM

Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3

This quick post is just to announce my new blog, "The Generative Programmer," which will examine generic and generative programming techniques and technologies from a framework developer perspective, with particular focus on how they affect...
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