Category Archives: coding4fun

First class functions in Go

Posted on November 13, 2012 by ernest

Today, I played with functions as objects in the Go programming language. If functions are first class citizens in Go then it must be possible to store them in fields of a struct, pass them as arguments to other functions … Continue reading →

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Soek.goodies.st improved

Posted on September 29, 2010 by ernest

The site soek.goodies.st gives access to the sources of open-source Smalltalk libraries and frameworks. A big advantage to developers is that they can explore Smalltalk classes without having to successfully load them into one of the Smalltalk dialect platforms. Recently, … Continue reading →

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JQTouch library support for Seaside

Posted on January 23, 2010 by ernest

One way to build applications for the iPhone is to create a Web application that tries to look and behave like a native one. Currently, many Javascript libraries are being developed that try to accomplish just that. One of the … Continue reading →

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soek.goodies.st – exploring open-source Smalltalk libraries

Posted on November 13, 2009 by ernest

Soek is a Smalltalk application that provides a different way to navigate through documentation and source code of a Smalltalk library. Instead of the classic multi-list browser view in an image, Soek offers a flat view on all methods and … Continue reading →

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Tooling available for VAStGoodies

Posted on February 26, 2009 by ernest

Early this year,  Adriaan van Os announced VAStGoodies.com that wants to be the open source software repository for the VA Smalltalk community. To promote this great initiative, I proposed to create some tools that allow you to contribute to VAStGoodies.com … Continue reading →

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Ring Benchmark – my first concurrent Erlang

Posted on May 23, 2008 by ernest

Following the advice of Dave Thomas who said: “any developer should learn a new language every year” on RailsConf 2007 in Berlin, I decided that Erlang was going to be my challenge for 2008. However, the first months of 2008 … Continue reading →

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