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Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You’re 50?

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - October 03, 2012

When I was still a professional programmer, my office-mate once asked out of the blue, “Do you really want to be doing this kind of work when you’re fifty?” I have to say that made me stop and think. To me, there’s an innate frustration…

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Projmake-mode: Flymake Replacement

Erlware - Tristan Sloughter - September 27, 2012

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Digging Out from Years of Homogeneous Computing

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - September 27, 2012

When I first started looking into functional programming languages, one phrase that I kept seeing in discussions was As Fast as C. A popular theory was that functional programming was failing to catch on primarily because of performance issues. If only implementations of Haskell, ML,…

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Maru Models: JSON to Erlang Record with Custom Types

Erlware - Tristan Sloughter - September 26, 2012

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What’s Your Hidden Agenda?

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - September 25, 2012

In July 1997, the Issaquah Press printed an article with the headline “Man Shoots Computer in Frustration.” Now realize that Issaquah is just south of Redmond, so it’s not surprising that this story was picked up nationally. It rapidly became a fun to cite piece…

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Minimalism in an Age of Tremendous Hardware

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - September 18, 2012

You don’t know minimalism until you’ve explored the history of the Forth programming language. During Forth’s heyday, it was unremarkable for a full development environment—the entire language with extensions, assembler, and integrated editor—to be less than 16K of object code. That’s not 16K of data…

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The Goal is to be Like a Bad Hacker Movie

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - September 11, 2012

The typical Hollywood hacking scene is an amalgamation of familiar elements: screens full of rapidly changing hex digits, database searches that show each fingerprint or image as it’s encountered, password prompts in a 72 point font, dozens of windows containing graphs and random data…oh, and…

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CouchConf SF

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - August 30, 2012

CouchConf SF is coming. This is our premier Couchbase event. We’re going ham. Come hear speakers from established enterprises and how they are betting their business on Couchbase. Hang out and talk with speakers, me and other Couchbase engineers in the Couchbase lounge. I’ll be…

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Hopefully More Controversial Programming Opinions

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - August 29, 2012

I read 20 Controversial Programming Opinions, and I found myself nodding “yes, yes get to the interesting stuff.” And then, after “less code is better than more,” it was over. It was like reading a list of controversial health tips that included “eat your veggies”…

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All that Stand Between You and a Successful Project are 500 Experiments

Programming in the 21st Century - James Hague - August 23, 2012

Suppose there was a profession called “maker.” What does a maker do? A maker makes things! Dinner. Birdhouses. Pants. Shopping malls. Camera lenses. Jet engines. Hydroelectric power stations. Pianos. Mars landers. Being a maker is a rough business. It’s such a wide-ranging field, and just…

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