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Whence Spring?
Once upon a time, the Spring Framework was the cat's meow. Now, it has been branded with the evil moniker, Enterprise Software. But I have my own reasons for not caring too much for it.
Emacs E-Shell
How to get your aliases working in Emacs' pretty cool Eshell.
zsh: The Git Module
How many times do you type 'git status' or 'git add --update'? Perhaps an alias or two is in order?
zsh: Precommands and a Better Find
A precommand is a shell instruction that affects how the rest of the command line behaves. Zshell's nifty 'noglob' worked well for aliases.
zsh: More Word Expansion
Zshell has modifiers for the parameter (word) designators I mentioned last time. Let's look at some of these.
Whence Forth?
Forth, like many other computer languages, gathered a lot of excitement, but failed to deliver anything more than printer drivers? But why, as is there a lesson for the Clojure Community?
Introduction to Literate Programming
Lately I've become quite excited with treating my computer programs as art that I can craft. I figured a simple introduction to literate programming may be in order.
Literate Programming Examples
The best way to describe literate programming is with examples. Here is a shell script and some clojure code to give you a taste of what you can do.
Updated Essays
Résumé Crafting for Geeks
My résumé now begins as a JSON document. With the better formed data and extra informaation, I can now render my resume graphically. If you're a geek, you should too.
History of the Devil
While I'm no expert in ancient Hebrew, it doesn't take a mythologist to track the evolution of the devil. And by the term, *evolution*, I mean just that.
Is Zeus either Odhinn or Thor?
Thoughts on how the abilities and rituals of old gods get converted with the influx of new gods... especially the denigration of Odin and Hermes.