Author Archives: jcs

Emacs Movies

Posted on 2012-10-19 by jcs

How did I miss this? Noufal Ibrahim is producing a series of videos on using Emacs. The plan calls for four sections: Basics Applicaations Programming Elisp So far, he finished Section 1 with a total of 10 videos. To give … Continue reading →

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Some Tool Tips

Posted on 2012-10-18 by jcs

As long time readers know, I am always looking for ways to make my work flow more nearly frictionless. This mainly involves adapting my existing tools (especially Emacs) and adopting new tools. I recently came across a couple of posts … Continue reading →

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mu4e

Posted on 2012-10-17 by jcs

DJCB over at EMACS-FU is announcing the release of Version 0.9.9 of mu4e, his Emacs-based email client. It looks good enough that I am tempted to give up the native Mac email client1. It has dynamic folders that will move … Continue reading →

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Comment Spam

Posted on 2012-10-16 by jcs

Patrick Lambert over at Dendory Blog has a really nice solution to comment spam. He noticed that he never receives any comment spam and decided to investigate why. It turns out that his immunity is an artifact of the way … Continue reading →

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The Google Common Lisp Style Guide

Posted on 2012-10-15 by jcs

Google has made their Common Lisp Style Guide—presumably from ITA—available to the public. As with any style guide, almost everyone will find something to disagree with but by and large it appears to be a very reasonable compendium of best … Continue reading →

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Motown

Posted on 2012-10-14 by jcs

Matthew Beale has a really interesting post over at madhatted.com that concerns lessons we can learn from Motown. The “we” in question is the software development community. The post is interesting on its own terms but what really struck me … Continue reading →

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Chibi Scheme

Posted on 2012-10-13 by jcs

I just ran across an update announcement for Chibi Scheme, a small Scheme intended to be used as an extension language for C programs. It supports the small R7RS language and can be configured at compile time to produce a … Continue reading →

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Brian Kernighan Interview

Posted on 2012-10-12 by jcs

Informit has a nice interview with Brian Kernighan about C and programming today. There is, it seems to me, a tendency to disparage C as an old and no longer useful technology. This is, I think, profoundly wrong, something that … Continue reading →

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It Seems I’ve Been Wasting My Time…

Posted on 2012-10-11 by jcs

…not to mention lots of tin foil.

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Securing WordPress Sites

Posted on 2012-10-10 by jcs

This is another in my series of posts about keeping my blog (and yours) free from malware. Victor Granic over at switchwp has an excellent and reasonably comprehensive post on securing WordPress sites. I came across his post via Sacha … Continue reading →

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