Posts tagged tutorial
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.
Clojure 101 — Getting Clojure & Slime installed
Dec 26th
Pull up a chair and watch as I install Swank, SLIME and Clojure on a clean Ubuntu. After my last screencast I received several comments, where people really wanted to get started developing with Clojure but did not know how. This post aims to resolve that problem.
Beautiful code — The Manifesto
Nov 4th
In times past much has been said about beautiful code. Covering the topics of quality, correctness and expressiveness — more needs to be said. Opinions differ, so how can we judge what quality is and is not? I’ll try to outline some indicators which help pinpoint where on the spectrum your code lies and how to write beautiful code.
Chaos Theory vs Clojure
Sep 24th
I think we’ve all been attracted to the Lorenz Attractor, but how many of us have had a closer look at an Ikeda map? Let me walk you through building an animated anti-aliased 2d renderer of mathematical functions (in this case Chaotic) in just 80 lines of Clojure! — Batteries included!