When you want to evaluate code inside of DrScheme, you hit the F5 key and the entire editor buffer gets evaluated inside of a new REPL. Unlike Emacs, the ability to send the current expression, region, or buffer to the REPL isn’t available. It might sound constricting, but in practice it is very nice because [...]
Maintenance of the Tuareg mode for Emacs has been taken over by some Jane Street Capital folks and can be found here on OCamlCore. (via caml-list)
Here is how to ask Maven to generate Idea project files for you: mvn idea:idea -DjdkName=1.5 (via Maven)
While I haven’t watched these yet; they do sound interesting. (via dhess)
to turn ideas into software, quickly and faithfully – John Chambers Great aim!
Here is a repository for parallel programming patterns. (via pinku)
Ben referred us to this article (cached here) in the midst of a discussion about, among other things, why there is still no FFI in the Scheme standard. That article is really interesting. What did you think about it?
Conway’s Law is not intended to be a joke or nasty witticism: …organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. – Melvin Conway (via Fare via Wikipedia)
The argument: Code an in editor should be dynamically formatted using something like intelligent table-based layouts. Seems like an OK idea. Read about it here.