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The other side of the table: Ben Collins-Sussman

This is already the 13th installment of The other side of the table. To me, it is still amazing how many people took the time to reply to my inquiry about their... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | December 10, 2009 at 11:17 AM

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Is Technology Easy?

In the 1993 paper The early history of Smalltalk, published in the ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 28, Issue 3, Alan Kay wrote: A twentieth century problem is that... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | December 1, 2009 at 09:48 AM

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The other side of the table: Limsoon Wong

Professor and Head of Computer Science of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. Before that, he was the Deputy Executive Director for... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | November 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM

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JSpec

Testing everything is a good thing - or call it TATFT if you have to. While most programming languages already feature great testing frameworks, the ones available... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | November 12, 2009 at 03:29 PM

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Sindain

Introducing Sindain - A JavaScript project template.Working with Rails is nice. Not only is Rails already setting up a nearly complete environment for you, thesuspenders... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | October 30, 2009 at 03:16 PM

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The Other Side of the Table: David Heinemeier Hansson

It has been a while since the last post of this blog series. Though, it is not over and today's post will definitely not be the last one. Previous participantsDavid... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | October 27, 2009 at 10:34 AM

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The Way Nature Designs, Or Doesn't

Often, I do not feel like agreeing with Linus Torvalds. This is not because he is not right, but because of the very opinionated, sometimes even stubborn way he... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | October 25, 2009 at 03:55 PM

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Testing for Superclass With Shoulda

While I was refactoring a hand full of commonly used methods from a few controllers into a superclass, I was looking for a way to test that these controllers are... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | October 13, 2009 at 09:29 AM

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The Other Side of the Table: Lawrence Paulson

This post in the The other side of the table series is one week late. Sorry for that. As I have mentioned earlier, it is a quite busy time for me at the moment.... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | October 5, 2009 at 10:09 AM

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Testing Rails Obsevers with Shoulda

It has been a bit quiet around here recently, basically due to the project I am working on at the moment, which is really time consuming. But more about that sooner... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | September 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM

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Randomized Shellsort

Not too long ago, I wrote a little bit about the randomized Quicksort algorithm. Right in time for the 50th anniversary of Donald Shell's Shellsort algorithm, Michael... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | September 9, 2009 at 04:45 PM

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The other side of the table: Bryan Cantrill

It is already time for next one. I actually can't believe how fast the time was passing by, which is probably caused by the amount of work I had to do in the past... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | September 5, 2009 at 10:33 AM

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Playing with Devver

Testing can be a pain. At least in Ruby on Rails. That is, not only writing tests can be tedious, but also running tests can consume sometimes ridiculous amounts... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | September 2, 2009 at 03:00 PM

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ICFP 2009 and Functional Programming in the Real World

Today the proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on functional programming (ICFP) have been uploaded to the ACM digital library. Next to the... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | September 1, 2009 at 11:23 AM

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Conception, Evolution, and Application of Functional Programming Languages

While I was doing some research for myself about the evolution of the different families of functional programming languages, I came across an interesting ACM Computing... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | August 31, 2009 at 08:20 PM

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Communications of the ACM's Blogroll

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice ..."Not too long ago, I wrote about my happiness about the new Communications of the ACM. I kindright... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | August 30, 2009 at 03:34 PM

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The other side of the table: John Langford

Time for another issue of The other side of the table. This time taking place on the opposite chair: John Langford. John Langford is a senior researcher/doctorYahoo... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | August 21, 2009 at 09:57 PM

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On Source Code Annotations

"The best comments aid the understanding of a program by briefly pointing out salient details or by providing a larger-scale view of the proceedings." The... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | August 21, 2009 at 09:37 PM

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Sneak Preview: Many Famous Coders at Work

We all know: There are two types of books about programming. The first delivering direct knowledge about a specific topic or a specific programming language orC... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | August 19, 2009 at 05:43 PM

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Web vs. Desktop Applications: The Neverending Debate

We can read about it every single day. One person describes the advantages of web applications over their native counterparts. Another one dismisses every single... Tobias Svensson
From Return 42; | August 19, 2009 at 05:42 PM