The Stack - Week 45/2012

Algorithms

• Arithmetic Coding and the 1MB Sorting Problem

Clojure

• Learning Clojure: Clojure Macro Tutorial (Part I, Getting the Compiler to Write Your Code For You)
• Clojure at a Bank – Clojure Code Immaturity
• Building a Clojure Web App Without Noir

Development

• :syntax off (Focused on VIM, but general enough)

Games

• CheckIO

Erlang/Go

• Concurrent Hello World in Go, Erlang and C++
• Hitchhiker's Tour of the BEAM (Erlang VM) [pdf]

Images

• HUGEpic

MUD/Python

• Evennia - Python Mu* server

Network/Tcpdump

• A Tcpdump Tutorial and Primer

Photography

• Tilt-Shift Van Gogh

Racket

• The Racket Way
• Fear of Macros

Scala

• On Scala, Functional Programming and Type-Classes

Static Site Generators

• Static Site Generators (I'm using Hyde 0.5.3, btw)

Tahoe/Cloud/Filesystems

• Tahoe LAFS: set up your own distributed, redundant and encrypted storage grid

Thunderbird

• Checking for new messages in other folders (This has bugged me for a while, fixed it now)

ZeroMQ

• ZeroMQ via C#: Introduction