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Our software is as brittle as 15-20 years ago. Reusable objects and framework superstructures have failed. UML has failed. Even design pattern have failed as they turned out to be more idiomatic than universal. What’s left are lightweight programming languages which let us glue things together. Some are user friendly and don’t suck badly. That’s still the best we have.

Lua, are you there?

a script that integrates status notices from my twitter and identi.ca feeds, and then creates an HTML "lifestream" snippet.

a SPARQL-based scripting language.

[…] the recorded sessions from last year’s Commercial Users of Functional Programming are now up in conveniently viewable form on Google Video.

Erlang, F#, ...

The single most important thing you must do to improve your programming career is improve your ability to communicate.

with a MacIntosh presentation, they didn't really change over the years.

Let's see what happens when we introduce a seed of bad code into an organization

and it grows like a cancer.

In Haskell we essentially use recursion, this mean defining a function using itself definition.

more magic!