Recently I was working on a simple Clojure program where I need to read input from STDIN. I hadn't actually done this before, so I searc...

/* ---[ Wireshark on Linux ]--- */ When you install the wireshark APT package on an Ubuntu system (in my case Xubuntu 11.10) and start ...

I ran across some beautiful code today. I have the book Beautiful Code , though I've only read the chapter by Douglas Crockford on wr...

In Clojure's clojure.test framework, there are 3 facilities for setup and teardown, or "before" and "after" logic, t...

Today was a good emacs day. Actually, any day I spend in emacs is good, but today was especially good, since I found three new little gems ...

A while back I wrote a blog entry about how to overcome the lack of contrast and poor readability of many websites, even those that exist t...

I'm focusing on leveling-up my JavaScript skills this month. To start, I grabbed the "early" edition of an in-progress book by...