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Language features at the Emerging Languages camp

~1 month ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
As I’ve covered in several blog posts, I visited the Emerging Languages camp last week. It was an interesting experience for many reasons, and some of...

The JVM Language Summit 2010

~1 month ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I’ve just come back from three days in Santa Clara, spending time with some of the brightest people in the Java world - the JVM language summit is truly...

Life in the time of Java 7

~1 month ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I’m currently in the process of implementing Seph, and I’ve reached an inflection point. This point is the last responsible moment to choose what I...

Preannouncing Seph

~1 month ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I’ve been dropping a few hints and mentions the last few weeks, and I thought it was about time that I took some time to preannounce a new project Iâ...

Questioning the reality of generics

~1 month ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, since I keep saying this and people keep getting surprised. Now maybe I’m totally wrong here, and...

Emerging Languages camp - day 2

~1 month ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
The second day of Emerging Languages camp was at least as good as the first day. We also managed to squeeze in four more talks, since everybode agreed that...

Emerging Languages camp - day 1

~1 month ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Yesterday was the first day of the Emerging Languages Camp, a part of OSCON specifically organized for language creators and designers. You can read more...

Some results from the Ioke experiment

2 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
It’s been a bit over 18 months since I first released Ioke in the wild. During this time I’ve always been specific about Ioke first and foremost being...

RSpec matchers and regexp comments - a possibly useful hack

3 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
A few days back, I was sitting at my client and working on a hacky spec to validate some assumptions in a very dirty data set. I wanted to figure out some...

Ioke at Chicago and Iowa Code Camp

4 months ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
This saturday, May 1st, I will be talking at both the Chicago Code Camp and the Iowa Code Camp. I will be giving an introduction to Ioke at both code camps...