by Paul Graham, which is what I am reading atm. Sadly it is out of print so your options of obtaining it are basically limited to buying a used one via ebay or flea-markets, borrow it from a library or simply stick with online version, for free.
I think it's a great book, because it delivers what the cover promises “Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp”. Though i find his usage of destructive functions a bit strange, he says one should treat them as if there were a tax on their use, but he uses them in almost every function he defines.
I found a well-preserved copy of CLtL2 for € 12.50 on ebay, but it the last minutes it went up to € 25, too high for me now :(
I signed for up the “Proseminar Benutzungsintuition und Transparenz im Semantic Web”. We had the first meeting today in which she gave us a light introduction into the semantic web.
We will have to present one topic of a givent set of topics and write paper about the same topic, which should be easy and interesting.
Today we had an general introduction what we are going to do and which tools we will use. We have been given the task of improving a simple text adventure, add a GUI and there is enough time implement some kind of multiplayer (mmorpg?). To do this we have eclipse, JUnit, ant and possibly also JWAM.
Normally I would use vim/emacs to program, but for java using eclipse is the better choice, because it is assisting you so much, autocomplete almost everything, tooltips for everything, JUnit ant and CVS integration, that's more than you need most of the time, but when you do it's there.
Took me a lot of time to figure out how to do it right. What I want do is write a defstruct ala fixnum using only r5rs. Here is what I have so far:
(define-syntax hb
(syntax-rules ()
((hb x y) (eval `(define ,(string->symbol (string-append "hose" (symbol->string `x))) y)))))
I think there is a another better, shorter way to do this, but for now it will do.
Learning to use xemacs is not as hard as most people say, at least not if you have a vi(m) to emacs command chart
I love vi(m), it's small it's powerfull and a unix box without vi isn't complete, and right now I'm installing xemacs on my linux box, why? Because of lisp, because of scheme. I want to venture deeper into the realm of lisp, and as xemacs is the lisp editor, I'll try to learn using it.
In the next updates i will probably share some lisp links, write something about my lisp adventures and comment on the Java eXtreme Programming course which will start on thursday. Rumor has it that we will write a game.
While searching for Frozen Bubble I found this request to “not port software to Windows”. Nice, a another person who doesn't understand what “free software” means, and esp. doesn´t know what “good” software is. So here is my response:
Free software for me means freedom of choice, Felix von Leitner (Author), obviously doesn´t, he excludes Windows. Windows may be crap, it may be propietary but if we exclude it from the list of possible options we are behaving just as bad as Microsoft. But what´s really is that he kinda implies everybody should use linux, but as of now Windows IS the better choice for most people. The linux desktop has advanced a lot but it just isn´t ready for joe average yet. And what about the Windows only software? Should we discard it and use some mediocre but “free” software? Nice, but absolutely unrealistic.
Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
This is the worst sentence of his request, he implies that “that if you care about quality and use cygwin you do not care about freedom”. Wrong, just wrong, caring about freedom and caring about quality is not mutually exclusive. In fact if there wasn´t cygwin there would be less freedom, less choice. With the help of cygwin the can use some unix tools and windows at the same time.
My stance on “quality” is as following: If you are looking for software which does a specific job, go for the best software don't hinder yourself by thinking “must be free, must be open source, must run under linux”. It should simply do its job, and be easy to use. Writing software for linux or windows is nonsense, software is written for users.
To sum it up in one sentence: I think he wants to limit choice under the disguise of freedom which is contradictionary and highly suspicious.
I came home and what did I find? The package from amazon has arrived! “De Stijl” by The White Stripes, which completes my White Stripes collection, and “A Little Deeper” by Ms. Dynamite. I thought I never heard or saw “De Stijl” before i saw a ad for it in “3l3phant”, but after having a look at the inlet I remember listening to the LP at Saturn, I must have totally forgotten about it.
If there wasn´t this urge to visit the toilet I would have written more.
Blogs are about linking, and writing your useless stuff. At least thats my impression, so I will give you some links.
First of all we have webbery, a web gallery by a independent photographer. There are no annoying advertising, but you can go straight to the galleries view photos of eg. hips (which happens to be my favorite gallery).
Next in line is Ship of Fools the “Magazine of Christian Unrest”, for me it´s mostly a discussion forum, about all things jesus. A another highlight of theirs is the “Mystery Worshipper”, reports about church services in (mostly) England, America & Australia.
re:generation is a quaterly christian print mag, because of that some, but only some, of its articles are published only. Nonetheless worth reading.
sensibleerection is a community weblog, which means everyone can post links & comments to articles, galleries, games and pr0n. Yes right porn, if you don't want that enter here or create a account and set the filters accordingly.
There are nice guys and there are “nice guys”, if you want to know the difference have a look at Heartless Bitches International: “Nice Guys”=Bleah!, a collection of rants about these guys, someone could find himself there.
Been to the preview (free), got a arte bag, enjoyed the movie. The story itsself is short but worthwile watching, esp. because of A. Sandler. Unlike most of his previous movies, which i don't like, he's not making a fool of himself. The movie is funny but most of the time i was going with the character, trying to understand him, feeling empathy for him. The movie is weird but good, and the direction was even better, colourfull pictures, unusual perspectives. All in all i would give it 5 out of five points.
Hi my name is Engelke and if you know me you'll know that i�m not saying much , which holds true for this blog aswell. But i think what i write still matters, quality over quantity, but you be judge.
I�m a christian, baptist to be exact. Friday night is reserved for the youth group at the church. If you check those links you'll find out they are all in German, which is because i live in Hamburg, Germany. I'm studying Informatik (which is like Computer Science, though a bit broader) at the University of Hamburg. I earn my money at epharmexx with PHP coding.
