Category: programming

52 posts

10/4/20139 things you could be doing in Pittsburgh on Saturday, October 5
6/26/2013Announcing a new blog: "The Conscientious Programmer"
6/19/2013Pittsburgh Scala meetup: Introduction to Actors Systems
6/3/2013Some thoughts on starting to give talks a year ago
6/2/2013Pittsburgh Tech Fest 2013: my talk "Stop Overusing Regular Expressions!"
6/2/2013Report on the second Pittsburgh TechFest, 2013
5/30/2013Pittsburgh Scala Meetup: my talk "Stop Overusing Regular Expressions!"
5/16/2013Google I/O 2013 Extended: Pittsburgh
4/25/2013Pittsburgh Python: Kenneth Reitz on Heroku
4/12/2013My Pittsburgh Scala Meetup talk on property-based testing using ScalaCheck
3/26/2013OpenHack Pittsburgh: exploring Scala odds and ends
2/28/2013Pittsburgh Python: distribute and other Python community controversies
2/26/2013OpenHack Pittsburgh: studying Scala
2/22/2013The second meeting of the Pittsburgh Scala Meetup: Josh Suereth on functional patterns for the asynchronous Web
2/15/2013Why flatten a tree when you can just traverse it?
2/11/2013NE Scala 2013: my first Scala conference!
1/22/2013Attending the first OpenHack Pittsburgh meeting
1/18/2013How Justice Clarence Thomas uncovered a seven-year-old bug in my computer program
1/11/20132013 is my year of Scala
11/15/2012Review of Coursera's Fall 2012 "Functional Programming Principles in Scala"
11/5/2012The start of a local Haskell study group
10/24/2012My Pittsburgh Python talk: "Testing with isolation: concepts and examples using the Python standard library `mock`"
9/24/2012A short example of why I prefer static typing: learning Gradle
9/12/2012Happy Programmers' Day!
9/6/2012My Pittsburgh Ruby talk: "nil: historical, theoretical, comparative, philosophical, and practical perspectives"
8/23/2012Pittsburgh Python meetup: I gave my first lightning talk ever; the topic was SCons
8/22/2012Steel City Ruby Conf review: Part 1: It's About People
8/7/2012The first Steel City Ruby Conf: an amazing experience
6/27/2012Attending my first Google I/O Extended: Pittsburgh
6/23/2012RSpec new expectation: finally not shoving a verb into a noun
6/9/2012Report on the first Pittsburgh TechFest, 2012
4/13/2012Free course review: Software Engineering for Software as a Service (Part I), from Coursera
2/24/2012When can you call yourself an expert at something?
1/24/2012Pittsburgh Java User Group: Developing Languages Using JRuby
1/16/2012How school made me hate computer science and programming
12/31/2011Reflections on 2011
12/9/2011Why everyone should learn computer science
12/8/2011Revisiting Knuth and McIlroy's word count programs
12/6/2011Global Day of CodeRetreat: Pittsburgh
12/4/2011Why I am writing this week for CSEdWeek
11/15/2011My first Pittsburgh Clojure Meetup: Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant on core.logic
11/10/2011Seeing the inventor of the abstract data type
11/6/2011The real reason for the CoffeeScript/JavaScript flame war
10/25/2011RIP, John McCarthy; but Lisp will never die
10/18/2011Disagreement on the use of time?
10/16/2011Pittsburgh software developer communities
10/14/2011Agile Anti-Patterns
10/13/2011Why Dennis Ritchie Is Important
10/6/2011Pittsburgh Ruby: Building a Compiler in JRuby
10/5/2011I Cannot Imagine My Life Without the Influence of Steve Jobs
10/4/2011A Blast From the Past: C++ Abuse
9/27/2011When jQuery Attacks