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Essential Tools For a Web Developer on a Mac

klaut — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:48:22 +0000

Next time I get a new mac (or reinstall a fresh system) the following is a must have: TextMate Visor Balsamiq Mockups rvm Git GitX Qucksilver SequelPro MongoHub Chrome Mac developer branch Homebrew Virtualenv I am still looking for a better replacement to pgAdmin.

Learning Haskell – Types And Functions

klaut — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:04:15 +0000

Haskell is a strongly typed static language. This means that Haskell will not automatically cast one type into another. In other words, you can’t expect it to treat an integer as a float. If you define a function that takes a float parameter and you feed it an integer afterwards, Haskell will complain. Having static [...]

Learning Haskell – First Date

klaut — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:09:57 +0000

Monday is here and so I met for the first time with Haskell. Installation went quickly and without any problems (installed the Haskell platform for macosx). You get a compiler, a bunch of standard modules and an interactive interpreter. I like having the interpreter as a way to quickly try out stuff in Python, so [...]

Ada Lovelace Day 2010

klaut — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:20:38 +0000

Today is the Ada Lovelace Day – a day to celebrate women in technology and science. Although I am not much into dividing people into groups based on gender, race, religion, etc, it is a very noticeable fact that there simply are too few women in technology. I noticed it since I first developed an [...]

Learning Haskell – Before I Start

klaut — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:42:58 +0000

Each Monday from now on, I am going to publish a small step that I made during the week into mastering Haskell. This is a commitment that I make to myself and by deciding to make the progress public (although you may be the one and only reader) I am kind of forcing myself to [...]

Ditching Subversion

klaut — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:04:00 +0000

Version control systems are important. No argue about that. At places where i used to work (and am currently working) i had the pleasure to meet three systems: cvs, perforce and subversion. All three have one important thing in common – they all suck. Well, some suck less than others (like subversion). For my pet [...]

Discovering Twitter

klaut — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:36:19 +0000

I just finished reading a little book by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstei, The Twitter Book. It is aimed at Twitter newbies (such as myself) and it does a nice job explaining the power of Twitter and all its various usages for personal and business needs. It didn’t took me long to finish it as [...]

Python 3 final!

klaut — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:55:35 +0000

I just noticed now that Python 3.0 final is now available! Go get it and play!

Back for a while

klaut — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:52:39 +0000

I haven’t posted something meaningful here for ages! Anyway, i changed the theme of the blog and finally updated a small part of it – the Illustrations section. Hopefully, I am not going to stop here for another year or two

Chi non muore si rivede…

klaut — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:41:38 +0000

It is so nice to find an old friend again! It really makes your day.