development
Getting benchmarking right
Feb 28th
Several times on this blog, I’ve dealt with issues where some kind of benchmarking was required. The method, implementation, environment all play a role and has subsequently been the object of much discussion. In this post let’s see if we can agree on some way of benchmarking.
Haskell,Ruby,Scala,Clojure — Tweaked!
Feb 24th
Last night I did very small superficial comparison, of 3 ways of getting the first fibonnaci number consisting of 1000 digits. This attracted a lot of attention from Rubists, Haskaloonies and Clojurians alike, here I’ll share their contributions.
Clojure, Haskell & Ruby Vs Euler 25
Feb 23rd
Haskell is a mature, statically typed, functional language which was recently compared to Ruby in an attempt to solve Euler #25. In this post I’ll share the code, the benchmark and add a Clojure version for those interested.
My tribute to Steve Ballmer
Feb 12th
These days Microsoft is often being hammered in both the news and in Open Source communities across the globe, so on behalf of the Clojure community I would like to submit a small tribute to the man at the wheel, Steve Ballmer.
Reddit Clone — Now accepting registrations!
Feb 9th
About 1 week ago I wrote a small Reddit Clone in about 90 lines of Clojure. The amount interest and feedback was unexpectedly high so I’ve decided to extend the example to a whopping 160 lines as well as echo some of the chatter.
Simplicity on Steroids
Feb 4th
Today I had a lot of fun reading about a for-constructs on steroids. The author of that post explores the possibilities which come with the built-in pattern matching in Scalas for-construct, so I’ll do the same with Clojure.
Global Warming Vs Clojure!
Jan 27th
Nobody who’s connected to the rest of the world, either via TV or the Internet is unaware of Global Warming — This phenomenon which threatens to destroy us all if we don’t collectively assume responsibility for the globe. Here’s my contribution to a solution in 98 lines of heavy computational Clojure! More >
Hadoop — Feeding Reddit to Hadoop
Jan 9th
With Hadoop installed on our lean mean Arch machine, we’re ready to fire up the first computations. Hadoop opens a world of fun with the promise of some heavy lifting and in order to feed the beast I’ve written a Reddit-scraper in just 30 lines of Clojure. More >
Hadoop — Installation
Jan 6th
Since we’ve had so much fun with multiple cores running at once, how about upping the game to play with multiple servers? Hadoop is a framework for distributed computing, which lets us process jobs on multiple servers at once giving more power *grunt*. In this first post I’ll run through how to set up your first Hadoop server running in a VirtualBox using Arch.