After several people I respect questioned my rush-to-judgement with Scala after my first exposure about a year ago, I’ve decided to dive back in and see if I can push through some initial squeamishness. I had picked up Programming in Scala by Martin Odersky, et. al. I had gotten around 50 pages into the book — out of 700+ — and run into something […]
Categories: programming
Tagged: book, clojure, functional, scala
Twenty plus years online, and it was eventually doomed to happen. Someone has decided to hijack my identity — or at least part of it — in order to commit a crime. Cleaning this mess up is going to be some kind of fun, but not sure it’s the kind I enjoy any more. The website that was registered was protectep.com, and […]
Categories: technology
N.B. I began this post about a month ago, but I never really could find a way to finish it. Rather than allow it to linger, I’ve decided to publish it. In Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, Martin Luther King Jr. writes: Unfortunately, when hope diminishes, the hate is often turned most bitterly toward those who […]
Categories: social
Tagged: democrats, government, liberalism, obama, politics
Where to begin in thinking about the tragedy in Tucson yesterday? It must be called, first, what it is: an assassination attempt intended to cause fear in others. It must be called a true act of terror in a time when the word has been diluted to mean any crime for which the government doesn’t wish to […]
Categories: social
Every year, I try to attend the PyCon conference dating back to to IPC7 or 8, I don’t recall. That was last century. This year, it’s once again in Atlanta, GA, and while it doesn’t make for the most exciting scenery, it’s a very functional arrangement. Just a few minutes ago, Jesse Noller announced the full list of talks, […]
Categories: technology
The ever interesting Jeremiah Owyang has a post up on his blog about what to do if your boss “friends” you on Facebook. Now, it was made over a year ago, but I just saw it when he re-posted a link to it on the twitterverse. It brings up the interesting idea of what options are available in such […]
Categories: technology
Tagged: facebook, friends, linkedin, social, socialnetworks, twitter