My Life with Programming Languages

Dec 21, 2007

A comprehensive history of my programming language usage, exposure, and loves. <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> -m

A Python Dnd Proficiency Engine

Dec 14, 2007 one comment

Python generators are very interesting beasts. Essentially, they are functions that can be invoked numerous times while maintaining their state between calls. This is an incremental process defined by the way that the yield keyword is used in the function. ...

Tejada traded for spare change

Dec 12, 2007 some comments

Miguel Tejada was traded today to the Houston Astros for a package of Luke Scott, Matt Albers, Troy Patton, Dennis Sarfate, and Michael Costanzo. On the surface this trade seems like a quantity over quality scenario, but there are a few ...

Review: On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore

Dec 2, 2007

I liked this book quite a bit, but I have always had a soft spot for tech-story books, even the fantasy of the Apple story. The C64 was my first computer at the age of 9 and I loved it with ...

Lithp v0.01

Nov 23, 2007

I have been monkeying around with a Lisp interpreter written in Python for a few weeks whenever I have a few spare cycles and I am proud to say that the initial v0.0.1 release is ready fro mass consumption. Granted, it ...

Modus Ponens

Nov 21, 2007

What is Modus Ponens? Latin: mode that affirms Modus Ponens, also known as Implication-Elimination, is an inference rule stating simply that given an implication and the presence of its premise, the consequent can be taken as true. In formal terms, Modus Ponens is ...

Taking shape

Nov 2, 2007

Importing everything from modus-ponens v1.0 and v2.0, Minotaur Computing, and MDDCBBB. <br/> -m

Bush on Iraq, 9/11, al Qaeda… really

Jul 26, 2007

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Favorite Apps of the Computers: 2007

May 1, 2007 some comments

In the grand old tradition, I will highlight some of my favorite computer applications. Text Editor Winner: Emacs For the 3rd straight year I have to give the medal to the quintessential operating system, errrr, shell, errr... text editor? The only downside is that ...

Four Hours with Vista

Apr 2, 2007

So I recently started a new job. You know: new people, new experiences, new levels of pain. Well, so far I have been able to minimize that last point, that is, until the following question was posed to me: Hey Mike, ...

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