About Naming Variables

May 14, 2016 — Coding — 1 min read

This is a nice guide to naming variables written by Jacob Gabrielson.

http://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.de/2016/04/a-guide-to-naming-variables.html

Need a refresher on C?

May 11, 2016 — Coding — 1 min read

If you need a refresher on C, you might want to have a look at this handy summary from the Stanford CS Education Library. A bit outdated – revised 4/2003 – but still helpful, I think.

Essential C
http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/101/

ESUG’16 Registration — The Weekly Squeak

May 10, 2016 — Coding — 1 min read

Dear Smalltalkers, ESUG’16 registration is open! http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Conference-Registration We also provide you a selected list of hotels here: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Hotels See you @ Prague, Luc — Dr. Luc Fabresse Associate-Professor in Computer Science Mines Douai, Institut Mines-Telecom, France http://car.mines-douai.fr/luc/

über ESUG’16 Registration — The Weekly Squeak

Rails outdated?

May 10, 2016 — Coding — 1 min read

You you work with Rails or think about working with it, you might want to read the following article.

Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software.
By Rob Robinson
https://medium.com/@deathdisco/today-i-accept-that-rails-is-yesterday-s-software-b5af35c9af39#.95camk5lp

I never worked with Ruby. So I cannot complain.

Being A Developer After 40 – Medium

April 26, 2016 — Coding — 1 min read

You might want to read the following article on Medium.com about being a developer after 40. I don’t agree with everything in this article, but it is an interesting read anyway.

“Being A Developer After 40”

https://medium.com/@akosma/being-a-developer-after-40-3c5dd112210c#.9z0wl8wjf

SBCL 1.3.4, released March 31, 2016

April 2, 2016 — Coding — 1 min read

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.3.4 has been released on March 31, 2016.

Read the release notes at http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/news.html#1.3.4

Sketch

March 21, 2016 — Coding — 1 min read

“Sketch is a Common Lisp environment for the creation of electronic art, visual design, game prototyping, game making, computer graphics, exploration of human-computer interaction and more. It is inspired by Processing Language and shares some of the API.”

https://github.com/vydd/sketch

24rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions

March 21, 2016 — Coding — 1 min read

24rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions Prague, Czech Republic from 22 to 26 August 2016 This call includes: Developer Forum Smalltalk Technology Award Internat…

Quelle: 24rd International Smalltalk Joint Conference – Call for Contributions

SBCL 1.3.3, released February 29, 2016

March 4, 2016 — Coding — 1 min read

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.3.3 has been released February 29, 2016.

Read the release notes at http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/news.html#1.3.3

Heise Online: IBM bringt Swift auf den Server und in die Cloud

February 25, 2016 — Coding — 1 min read

“Dank IBM lässt sich die von Apple lancierte Programmiersprache erstmals in Cloud-Szenarien nutzen. Und auch dass Big Blue für Swift nun einen Webserver zur Verfügung stellt, deutet auf zunehmend unterschiedlichere Anwendungszenarien der Sprache hin.”

http://heise.de/-3115069