In response to this excellent blog post by Dave Herman, Jay McCarthy pointed the reader to this interesting paper about creating a language construct that allows you to modularly redefine how your code (that you may or may not have written) gets evaluated (in other words, nonstandard interpretation). Nonstandard interpretation is a powerful and useful [...]
Here are two places to start with distributed programming in Scheme: Termite Dimitris Vyzovitis’s patch for revision 8983 (of trunk) in PLT Scheme Addendum 03/21/08 Dimitris’ patch for additional mailbox functionality. Addendum 04/26/08 Dimitris released an alternative, simpler implementation. Along with a fix for a slight bug. Addendum 06/24/08 I’m pretty sure this patch has [...]
Last year some of my friends and I both attended and presented at Barcamp Milwaukee. When you have a bunch of people coming together to discuss things about which they are really passionate, well, you can’t beat it. It was a lot of fun, I met a lot of wonderful people, and even made some [...]