Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
The S1 MP3 Player (or 's1mp3' as it is commonly known as) is a generic type of MP3 that is used and branded by a number of manufacturers. It uses a chip that is firmware updatable, where the firmware is written in Z80 machine code. A number of people have written third party tools allowing writing and running their own... more →
I originally wrote the Lazy Lists library in Factor to support the Parser Combinators library. It was one of my first libraries in Factor and was probably not very well written. Matthew Willis worked on it for the recent Factor releases to get it working with the removal of the standard list datatype and made it a lot better in... more →
Bill Clementson has an announcement for the next Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting. This one is about a web framework called jwacs, Javascript with Advanced Continuation Support. It's an interesting library that seems to fit into a similar space to Narrative Javascript. It compiles a superset of Javascript, with support for continuations, into normal Javascript which is then run on... more →
As Slava has noted, I've managed to get the serialization code to the point where it serializes user interface gadgets. To demonstrate it I serialized an in-progress game of Space Invaders, uploaded the serialized file to my web server and someone else on IRC downloaded it, deserialized it, and continued where the game left off. Given the gadget on the... more →
For the concurrency library in Factor I've struggled to come up with good ways of writing the main loop of processes that handle messages. Erlang makes it so nice being able to create tuples and break them apart using pattern matching. I've gone from using Factor arrays and breaking them apart with 'first', etc to using generic functions. The latter... more →