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  • Lua — Day 2

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    The second day of the Lua introduction is certainly heavier going than the first. We are introduced properly to the data structure that is at the heart of Lua, the table.Tables are efficiently implemented datastructures that can work like arrays or like hashes or like both at the same time. Lua al

  • Lua — Day 1

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    Well, the first day of my adventure has been relatively straightforward and, aided by a little cider brandy, I have finished the exercises.The first of the seven new languages is Lua and the chapter covering it is written by Ian Dees. He compares Lua to Indiana Jones and tells a story of how Lua h

  • 2015 Reading

    Here’s all the books that I read in 2015, by month. On the each month’s page there’s quick review or synopsis of each book that I read in that month.


  • Review — Rich’s Cider Scrumpy (Dry)

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    I have been spending new year 2015 in Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset. Clearly one ought not ever to be in Somerset without sampling a little bit of the cider. And so, of course, I did.Rich’s cider is as local to Burnham as it gets. It comes from

  • Software freedom costs money, support the FSF

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    The Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded in 1985 to promote software freedom. In the 30 years since it was founded, it has battled for the rights of users to control the software they run, rather than the makers of that software — still an critical fight today.The FSF’s newly rel

  • Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks: Introduction

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    Back in 2011, I took up the challenge of learning Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. The book is Bruce Tate’s tour through seven of the most interesting languages about.I learned about concurrency models, functional programming and the unique qualities of Ruby, Io, Erlang, Scala, Prolog, Co

  • Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks

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    Back in 2011, I took up the challenge of learning Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. The book is Bruce Tate’s tour through seven of the most interesting languages about. I eventually finished working my way through the exercises and blogging about it in early 2012, almost a year after starting.

  • Font of the month: Source Serif Pro

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    Adobe surprised me back in 2012 when they contributed the Source Sans Pro font to the community, along with a monospaced variant called Source Code Pro. In May 2014, the Source family were joined by Source Serif Pro. Source Serif Pro was designed by Frank Grießhammer to complement Source Sans