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April 2015

April 22, 2015

Second Look: Amazon Echo after One Week

Last week I posted my immediate reaction to Amazon's new "Echo" thingy*. (I use the...

April 16, 2015

First Look: Amazon Echo, or Alexa Tells You All About It

So in a fit of madness I pre-ordered an Amazon Echo when they were announced...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

Kindle and the Calibre App

As a Constant Reader I've acquired a large collection of e-books; and though most are...

November 2014

November 12, 2014

Book Reader Notes: Kindle vs. iBooks vs. Google Play

I read mostly e-books these days, and mostly using the Kindle App on my iPad....

September 2014

September 17, 2014

The Family that Mines Together, Dines Together

So my youngest (who is ten) came to me on Sunday afternoon and said, "Daddy?...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

Trimming the Quill: Some Development Notes

I've been continuing to put a lot of time into Quill, a build system for...

August 09, 2014

Adventures in Clojure: The Fact Base

When you're writing a game based around a game world of some kind, be it...

August 02, 2014

Quill: A Build System for TCL/TK

I'm taking a break from posting about Clojure this week, because a few weeks ago...

July 2014

July 26, 2014

Adventures in Clojure: Nearly Constant Data

As I noted last week, the Clojure way is to keep immutable (unchanging) data separate...

July 19, 2014

Adventures in Clojure: Saving the Day

See the previous installment here. It's a big part of the philosophy of Clojure programming...

July 14, 2014

Embrace the Cloud—But Not Too Tightly

It's summer time, and I'm busy with family things. Thomas Aquinas will return in a...

July 12, 2014

Adventures in Clojure: The World is Mine!

So I'm, in a rather desultory fashion, putting together a simple text adventure in the...

June 2014

June 28, 2014

Tools for Learning Clojure, Part V: A Game!

Previous Parts: I, II, III, IV. I've always maintained that the only way to really...

June 21, 2014

Tools for Learning Clojure, Part IV: GitHub

In Part I, I talked about Clojure and the need for a convenient "REPL": a...

June 14, 2014

Tools for Learning Clojure, Part III: Nightcode

In Part I, I talked about Clojure and the need for a convenient "REPL": a...

June 07, 2014

Tools for Learning Clojure, Part II: Leiningen

In part I, I talked about Clojure and the need for a convenient "REPL": a...

June 04, 2014

Tools for Learning Clojure

As I wrote on Saturday, I'm learning to program in Clojure; and being a tool...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Coming to a Clojure

I'm a software engineer at my day job, and I'm a long-time programming language junkie....

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Apps o’ the Morning: Scrivener and Textilus

Is there anyone who writes who hasn't heard of Scrivener yet? Scrivener is a word...

November 2013

November 10, 2013

iPad Air: First Impressions

I've had an iPad 2 since they were first released, and I love it. It's...