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December 31, 2010

Wonderful book: "Land of Lisp" - Conrad Barski is a great author and communicator

November 21, 2010

Distributed NoSQL datastores: Cassandra and Cloudant's BigCouch

November 21, 2010

Good to be a programmer. Or: custom solutions are sometimes better

November 20, 2010

Is it better to spend time learning new programming languages or study languages and tools you already use?

November 19, 2010

New AppEngine 1.4.0 features a game changer for JVM languages

November 18, 2010

Publishing to the Kindle, Android, iPhone, and iPad

November 18, 2010

Benchmarks: memory use can be as important as runtime for some applications

November 13, 2010

Clozure Common Lisp 1.6 has been released

November 13, 2010

Thanks to Tom Munnecke for portrait photographs

November 12, 2010

Contact your Congressional Representatives and Senators and ask them to have their families publicly go through the TSA grope experience

November 12, 2010

I am softening my position on Oracle's stewardship of Java

November 10, 2010

My nephew died this morning: rest in peace Anthony

November 09, 2010

Question: what would be the legal ramifications of forking Java, but not calling it Java?

November 08, 2010

Downloading all of your data from Facebook

November 05, 2010

Free PDF for the Common Lisp edition of my "Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications" book

November 01, 2010

Wow: I think QuickLisp will change my Common Lisp development setup

October 29, 2010

Convergence on HTML5 for user facing software development

October 26, 2010

Java support on the Mac

October 25, 2010

review of new Hulu Plus service

October 23, 2010

Future society: an optimum strategy for flourishing

October 21, 2010

Social network based authentication done right

October 21, 2010

Nice: Clojure results now in Computer Language Benchmarks Game

October 21, 2010

My travel journal notes for my Siberia, Japan, and China trip

October 20, 2010

I am back home after a 4 week vacation: blog comments are now enabled

September 26, 2010

Big productivity gain: not having an Internet connection in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

September 21, 2010

I am going to be on travel for 4 weeks: temporarily turning off blog comments

September 15, 2010

Rich client web apps: playing with SproutCore, jQuery, and HTML5

September 14, 2010

MongoDB "good enough practices"

September 11, 2010

Very interesting technology behind Google's new Instant Search

September 11, 2010

Using Hadoop for analyzing social network data

September 09, 2010

why doesn't iTunes support Ogg sound files 'out of the box'?

September 09, 2010

Two new books today

September 05, 2010

I've improved my Hadoop map reduce development process

September 03, 2010

Efficient: just signed up to write an article on Rails 3 after spending weeks spinning up on Rails 3

September 03, 2010

Very cool: a tutorial on using the MongoDB sniff tool

September 03, 2010

Very good news that Google will be providing a "Wave in a Box" open source package

September 01, 2010

I finished reviewing a book proposal tonight for an AI text book

September 01, 2010

GMail Priority InboxBox

September 01, 2010

Command line tips for OS X and Linux

September 01, 2010

Consistent APIs for collections

August 30, 2010

Nice, just installed Rubinius-1.0.1

August 29, 2010

Using cljr for Clojure development

August 29, 2010

My light weight Clojure wrapper for the PowerLoom knowledge representation and reasoning system

August 29, 2010

Ruby happiness: first Ruby 1.9.2 released, now Rails 3.0

August 29, 2010

I am merging my other three blogs into this (my main) blog

August 27, 2010

Moving MySQL to a large EBS volume

August 24, 2010

Good resources for learning HTML5

August 20, 2010

filling a tech knowledge hole: I bought "HTML5 Up and Running"

August 15, 2010

How programming languages affect thinking; Clojure at work; my Clojure wrapper for PowerLoom

July 28, 2010

Big Data

July 22, 2010

Haskell is much easier after coding in Clojure and Scala for a while

July 20, 2010

Interesting new Google Buzz API: PubSubHubbub firehose

July 16, 2010

Good news: Google buying Freebase

July 14, 2010

Scala 2.8 final released. I updated my latest book's Scala examples

July 14, 2010

Good job: CouchDB version 1.0

July 11, 2010