19 Oct
Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.
01 Oct
Philip Greenspun on SQL DBs and Data Warehouses (1990's).
01 Feb
Eric Lavigne's visual map of the Clojure ecosystem and plans to make an automated directory.
25 Jul
Haskell Web Application Interface, similar to WSGI for python. A generalised API for building web applications
14 Feb
Distributed bug tracking software; supports multiple interfaces and backends (via Ian Bicking)
29 Mar
Rounded rectangles have lower cognitive processing overhead.
13 Dec
A lecture / presentation about the history of programming languages (video)
29 Jan
Standard Java API to interact with Text To Speech APIs
18 May
Alan Kay's paper on the origins of smalltalk
21 Oct
Rich Hickey's Strange Loop 2011 presentation on leveraging simplicity in programming.
01 Feb
Alan Malloy's debug printing macro for Clojure.
28 Sep
Paul Irish writes about the increasing problems facing web developers hoping to support Internet Explorer. This is one depressing read.
19 Oct
A paper from Sun/Oracle about prototypal software models (.ps.gz)
20 Oct
Meikel Brandmeyer's notes on his first experiment with logic programming and David Nolen's core.logic project.
14 Jun
A presentation about improving the JVM for multiple languages (InfoQ presentation).
12 Oct
A new tool for deploying Clojure services, with lein integration
24 Feb
Matt responds to my better blog post, and considers his audience and the purpose of his blog.
10 Sep
"foldr and foldl considered slightly harmful"
01 Oct
Peter Norvig on how to implement computer language interpreters in general, and in particular how to implement a subset of the Scheme using Python
10 May
A simple guide to what makes something RESTful. Via Bill de hÓra
08 May
A monadic Parser Combinator Library for Clojure