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Software, programming, functional. This blog is created by a programming language aficionado. Some people even claim that he is pretty good at software and understands the fundamentals of a few languages. His name is David Bergman – here known as davber. The blog contains both short reflections on technologies and the industry as a whole as deep treatments of specific subjects. It even includes (soon! Screencasts and podcasts of seminars or lessons about advanced topics. You must be logged in.
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Archive for IT Industry. Apple launches me.com? June 9, 2008 at 2:38 pm · Filed under IT Industry. Bookmark on del.icio.us. This is one of those rare non-technical entries in this blog. So, sit back and relax. What about me.com? Well, two things: Apple demonstrated this Ajax-based “Exchange” application on WWDC 2008 Key Note When typing it in me.com in my browser, I get to www.snappville.com! So, what is wrong here? UPDATE: I saw this mentioned […]. When (well-intended) interviews fail. If one would meas...
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Archive for Functional Programming. When (well-intended) interviews fail. December 15, 2007 at 12:10 am · Filed under Functional Programming. Bookmark on del.icio.us. DISCLAIMER: this is not a usual, quite dry (did I hear boring? Exposition of some more or less profound software construct, but quite personal and high-level, in that it talks about job interviews. I had a unique experience today. Not only was it one of very rare occasions when I cold-call somebody for a […]. Bookmark on del.icio.us. Bookma...
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davber does IT » When (well-intended) interviews fail
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When (well-intended) interviews fail. December 15, 2007 at 12:10 am · Filed under Functional Programming. Bookmark on del.icio.us. This is not a usual, quite dry (did I hear boring? Exposition of some more or less profound software construct, but quite personal and high-level, in that it talks about job interviews. So, they probably wanted a database administrator? Or, perhaps they needed a Debian master to keep processes up and running? It could have been sustaining a legacy SAP system? From now on you ...
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Archive for .NET. Sealed overridden methods in Mono – faster? April 16, 2008 at 5:44 pm · Filed under .NET. Bookmark on del.icio.us. I had a discussion with some friends at Lab49 about the merits of sealed overridden methods in C# (and .NET) and the discussion ended with some comments about it probably not helping with performance at least. The problem is that I do remember having seen that the JIT for .NET creates more efficient code for […]. Algebraic abstract = true! At least in the key of F#). It is ...
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Abstract fsm – finite state machines in C. December 8, 2009 at 7:30 pm · Filed under C. Bookmark on del.icio.us. Always having enjoyed structures with arrows and vertices, I was happy to learn that Boost was considering welcoming a new member to its family of libraries: a finite state machine library called MSM. In my attempt to evaluate that library, it was natural to compare it with an existing Boost library for finite state machines, […]. Scripting in Python, Ruby, Perl? No, in C! Ok, I finally finali...
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Archive for Tools Reviews. Web server performance shoot out – simple pages. December 10, 2007 at 1:05 am · Filed under Functional Programming. Bookmark on del.icio.us. There are some new hot web server frameworks: Ruby on Rails (Ruby), Yaws ErlyWeb (Erlang) and HAppS (Haskell.) These new frameworks are supposed to facilitate fast development. But, how fast – and scalable – are the applications built in and for these frameworks? The goal of this post is to get a preliminary answer to this […]. No, in C!
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davber does IT » Apple launches me.com?
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Apple launches me.com? June 9, 2008 at 2:38 pm · Filed under IT Industry. Bookmark on del.icio.us. This is one of those rare non-technical entries in this blog. So, sit back and relax. What about me.com. Well, two things:. Apple demonstrated this Ajax-based “Exchange” application on WWDC 2008 Key Note. When typing it in. In my browser, I get to www.snappville.com. So, what is wrong here? I saw this mentioned on macrumors.com. And Apple will most probably update the DNS registry soon enough…].
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davber does IT » Groovy: Java++ by being Java–
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Groovy: Java by being Java–. May 9, 2008 at 12:20 am · Filed under Java. Bookmark on del.icio.us. Yet another dynamic scripting language for the JVM? Are you not fed up with the Java-based, and rarely used, implementations of the hyped languages Ruby and Python? Sit down and let me explain. Groovy is actually not a brand new language, but rather an extension. Of Java. The difference between this extension and that of, say C over C is that Groovy extends Java by simplifying. Installing Groovy and Grails.
