If you’re like me, you are already fed up with people throwing the term ‘DSL’ around without showing a good example of how it’s done and where they are used – not to mention giving a decent, human-readable description of DSLs that doesn’t allude to extran[...]

Functional programming languages have been a hot topic of academic research for over 35 years, and have seen an ever larger practical impact in settings ranging from tech startups to financial firms to biomedical research labs. At the same time, a vigorou[...]

I really recommend this. How do you read really complex css? How do you refactor complex css rules? The answers is: http://lesscss.org/ There is a port of this to .net. The site associated with it is down though. You might find the source on github howeve[...]

This program has helped me greatly. Not that I approve of IE6 or anything…http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage A former coworker told me about this tool:mankz: testing all versions of ie and almost enjoying it at the same time<div></div> [...]

I've been having fun today sitting on a heating pad for a bad lower back and learning a bit of statistics, python, clojure and Incanter by porting Toby Segaram's "Collective Intelligence" to clojure. My code is on github.

There shouldn’t be so much of a debate. I thought that ruby had better string handling until I found out that in python 3 the unicode issue is fixed. The languages are strikingly similar in some aspects, as they are different in others. There are lessons [...]

How to change the page styles dynamically at runtime [Edit 01/09/2001: Updated the sample to also override the colors in the popups] Service Studio gives you a few good options to define style sheets for you pages and emails. Besides the global styl[...]

Something that’s new for Akka 0.10 is the possibility to tweak the default dispatcher and the comet dispatcher in the akka.conf, this means that the operations guys can tweak the CPU usage and allows for greater possibilities to tune without recompiling. [...]