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Maven and Idea

Here is how to ask Maven to generate Idea project files for you:

mvn idea:idea -DjdkName=1.5

(via Maven)

Dynamic Languages Wizards Series

While I haven’t watched these yet; they do sound interesting.
(via dhess)

The aim of a language

to turn ideas into software, quickly and faithfully
– John Chambers
Great aim!

A Pattern Repository for Parallel Programming

Here is a repository for parallel programming patterns.
(via pinku)

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

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

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)

Elastic tabstops

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.

A Few N900 Coding Tutorials

There are currently 4 tutorials on writing different kinds of apps here.
(via reddit).

Mitch Wand Symposium Slides are Up

Most of the slides from the Mitchfest talks are now available; linked here.
(via the little calculist)

When it Comes to R7RS; R6RS Users are Quiet

R6RS users don’t seem to have much to say about R7RS. Most R6RS users seem to happy with Scheme and busy using it rather than worrying about how it should be split into two parts (little and big).