Category Archives: programming

More on the Year of Code

Posted on January 11, 2012 by cpjobling

As mentioned earlier, code and how to create it has become a bit of an early meme this year. As reported by the BBC and The Guardian, UK Education Secretary Michael Grove has announced a shake up of the Schools … Continue reading →

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2012: Year of Code?

Posted on January 6, 2012 by cpjobling

Last October Aleks Krotoski, presenter of of The Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast, chaired a series of special “Tech City” talks. The first of these was on Skills and Education (Audio recording here) and the panelists, which included David Willets, all … Continue reading →

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Reaching Enlightenment with Ruby Koans

Posted on August 12, 2011 by cpjobling

Today I completed the “path to ruby enlightenment” with Ruby Koans. Ruby Koans is a test-driven tutorial produced by Edgecase.com that explores some of the basics as well as the darker corners of the Ruby Programming language. It took the … Continue reading →

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New developments

Posted on March 31, 2011 by cpjobling

I’ve just launched a new blog called Crispy Development in which I hope to document my various open-source projects that are hosted on GitHub. This is likely to be on the technical side, and is mostly to help me plan, … Continue reading →

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Don Knuth at the IET

Posted on March 18, 2011 by cpjobling

Don Knuth, another of my heroes, recently gave the 2011 Turing Lecture at the IET in Savoy Place using an interesting approach: “Ask me Anything!”. I wish I’d been there. Turing Lecture 2011: An evening with Don Knuth – all … Continue reading →

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Techno-glut

Posted on March 2, 2011 by cpjobling

I’ve been gorging on new technology this week. It all started with Episode 6 of Doug Crockford’s “Crockford on JavaScript“, an excellent series of evening Yahoo! technical talks that on the history of programming and the JavaScript language that originally … Continue reading →

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Podcast of the Week #5: The Changelog

Posted on August 25, 2010 by cpjobling

Git sounds like an insult, but it’s actually a distributed version control system which was originally invented by Linus Torvalds, the developer of the Linux kernel. GitHub is a phenomenally successful open-source code hosting site build around Git. GitHub is … Continue reading →

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HTML, CSS and JavaScript for Apps … why didn’t I think of that?

Posted on March 31, 2010 by cpjobling

Recently I’ve been catching up with the the excellent new blog/podcast The Changelog which covers what’s fresh and new in open source Listening to episode 0.0.8 (you have to be a geek to appreciate the episode numbering!), I became aware … Continue reading →

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Fortress Intepreter

Posted on January 29, 2007 by cpjobling

Mentioned in episode 100 of the Java Posse was a new (to me) open source language for the JVM called Fortress. Using a notation that looks literally more like mathematics than either Mathematica or Matlab, and claiming a place in … Continue reading →

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