Yesterday I spent hours trying to figure out why a checkbox did not get checked (visually). When debugging the knockout code, it was clear that the DOM elements got checked. They did not update visually until another checkbox got checked. I tried other me[...]

Back at Clojure/West in March I gave a talk about World Singles' real world use of Clojure to do "boring stuff": general purpose web application programming. The recording of my talk is now available on InfoQ. It's always a little odd to watch myself givi[...]

Considering a very simple finite state machine (FSM) such as a code lock which requires you to enter a 4-digit numeric code and upon which will open the lock for a brief few seconds. Such a FSM have two states: Locked and Open. Every time a key is entered[...]

See http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~psw12/ The Web of Data is growing at an enormous pace. However, the development of dedicated software applications, capable to deal efficiently in information-rich spaces, of which the Semantic Web is one dimension, is notye[...]

"When the guidance comes from someone who is a genuine Master programmer, then it’s possible he/she is trying to show us something we don’t even know we don’t know. How can we find out, other than by exploring the suggested path?" Why should we do code ka[...]

Many programmers and engineers I’ve met say when asked about philosophy: I don’t really care for it. It’s obsolete because of science. Could it be that it’s the engineering point of view? The view that some scientist (tool maker) cooks up the tools [...]

Many programmers and engineers I’ve met say when asked about philosophy:<blockquote class="tr_bq"> - I don’t really care for it. It’s obsolete because of science.</blockquote> Could it be that it’s the engineering point of view? The view that some scient[...]

Back in January I built a sample Pacman maze script in F# to use at a Pacman Kata evening with the F#unctional Londoners group. Coincidentally there’s another Coding Kata this Thursday 26th July at Skills Matter. Anyway a couple of weeks ago I started pla[...]

Luke Hoban's OAuth implementation for Twitter works for LinkedIn as well. All you need to do is to switch the requestTokenURI/accessTokenURI/authorizeURI addresses from Twitter on LinkedIn. Example you can find here : http://sergeytihon.wordpress.com/2012[...]