Subversion is perfect (simple concept, lots of books, good tool integration, and easy to use) but for the fact that it doesn’t support: Merge tracking Distributed operation While the former should be addressed in version 1.5, the latter is anyone’s guess. The problem is that Subversion is just so good that eventually you will will [...]
Although pink-bliss.el color theme for Emacs is sure to elicit repressed memories of “Hello Kitty”, the normal confusion about why it exists doesn’t come along with it as you are simply all too lost in the ocean of pink (and pink-compatible) colors.
Color Theme is an Emacs-Lisp package that lets you create and use different color themes within Emacs. This is probably critical for anyone new to Emacs.
Today I uninstalled VIM. It is the only way that I will be able to give Emacs a fair shot!
Emacs is a text editor built on top of a Lisp (Elisp) interpreter. The full API of the both text editor and the Lisp interpreter itself is available to the user. For this reason, along with the fact that there are hundreds and hundreds of useful additions available to Emacs, I am learning it. There [...]
Here is how to print a PLT Slideshow to a file: slideshow -P -c -o [output file] [input file] -P: print to postscript -c: (condense) flatten the output file in the case that you had built slides incrementally Addendum: 05/17/08 The ‘ps’ argument doesn’t seem to work. I must have used the alternate ‘P’ originally [...]
The videos recorded at CUFP 2007 have been posted in the ACM Digital Library. You can find them either by searching for “CUFP” at the top level DL page or by using this link. Hopefully they are soon to be released to Google Video! (via CUFP)
The goal of the 2008 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming is to: report experience with the programming languages known as Scheme, to discuss ideas for the future of Scheme, and to present research related to Scheme and functional programming. It is co-located with ICFP 08 in Victoria, British Columbia.
Here is an interesting post about hygiene and its sociological impact on the two Lisp groups of Schemers and Common Lispers. While the post itself is a troll, the author: Uses a very accessible analogy. Quite clearly communicates a number of differences between Scheme and Common Lisp when it comes not only to hygiene but [...]
Anyone new to Lisp will quickly find that among certain folks there is very much an “us versus them” mentality when it comes to Scheme and Common Lisp. Is it just human nature that drives the mentality? Is it boredom? Since Scheme and Common Lisp are both Lisp dialects, in some ways they are very [...]