Zenburn is a popular colour theme for vim, developed by Jani Nurminen. It’s my personal belief (and probably that of many of its users I presume) that it’s one of the best low contrast themes out t...

Prelude This is the second post from my series dedicated to modern programming languages for the Java platform. Last time we’ve discussed the Groovy programming language, which is a member of the ...

Java.next() In a series of articles labeled “Java.next()” I’ll be discussing modern alternatives to the Java programming language for use with the Java Platform. This is the first installment of t...

Disclaimer If you’re looking for a flame post - this is not one of them. I love both languages and I’ll simply compare some of their features and possible uses. Prelude Ruby or Python? This is t...

One task that often recurs in programming is the need to parse a string representation a number(or several numbers) and convert it to its numeric value. Parsing integer value in Common Lisp is fair...

Prelude Should I stay or should I go now, should I stay or should I go now If I go there will be trouble, if I stay it will be double So come on and let me know I guess nothing describes mo...

Prelude I’ve been using Z Shell (a.k.a. zsh) for about three years now and continue to be impressed the its immense power and flexibility. Switching from bash to zsh was a decision as good as swit...

Prelude Programming languages have always been a passion of mine and through the years I’ve learnt quite a few of them. The first one was Pascal, some 13 years ago, and the last was Scala, just a ...

Prelude I love reading - I love fiction, I love technical literature, I love newspapers and magazines. I’m also a bit of old fashioned - I love the feel and smell of paper, I love the ability to f...

One of the things I love most about Lisp development is the ability to develop applications in an incremental interactive manner - you write one function, compile it, load into your current REPL se...