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| URL : | http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology / Programming | |
| Posts on Regator: | 99 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.4 | |
| Archived Since: | August 14, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Exploring Java8 Lambdas. Part 1
Lambda functions and closures are coming to Java 8. This has been a project that has been in progress for a while and recently I took the opportunity to take it for a test drive. Information : Some of the useful documentation for the...Show More Summary
10 Python one liners to impress your friends
After 10 Scala / Ruby / Clojure / CoffeeScript one liners to impress your friends, i thought it might be interesting to quickly try out the same in Python too. Without much ado.. here goes. Note that the variable declarations and imports are on separate lines as necessary. Show More Summary
Code Kata : Ruby Programming Challenge for Newbies in Python
An interesting contest caught my eye today. There’s a site Ruby Learning by Pune’s Satish Talim (Twitter : @IndianGuru) which organises regular Ruby Programming Challenge for Newbies and it introduced the 13th challenge earlier yesterday : RPCFN: Economics 101 (#13) by Dr. Show More Summary
Clojure style multi methods in python
What are multi-methods used for ? Simply put, they allow for function overloading, ie. they allow for different implementations of the same function to be provided for different contexts, and the appropriate context and therefore the implementing function to be automatically selected and performed at runtime. Show More Summary
Simple Dependency Injection in Python
I wrote this code a simple dependency injection capability in my application. Hopefully the comments should be self explanatory. If you want to just understand the usage, see the class decorator usage on lines 52 and 63 and the codeShow More Summary
Which risk would you manage? What would you want to prove? Programming Languages
Debates across programming languages and type systems are not new. And this post does not attempt to shed new light on these (though it is hardly an un-opinionated view) Yet one point that keeps on bothering me time and again. That the lens used to visualise the many issues around these help clarify, magnify but lose the bigger picture. Show More Summary
Why you should register to attend Python Conference Pune (Sept 2011) right
This is a guest / cross post from original one as appeared on PuneTech written by Navin Kabra. Thank you Navin, for the permission to reproduce the same. Disclaimer : Both I and Navin are on the organising team of PyCon India 2011. However we act in a volunteer capacity to help further encourage python and software development activities. Show More Summary
Conference Report - Hasgeek jsFoo Pune 2012
Just finished attending jsFoo Pune 2012 organised by HasGeek. It was an interesting and a well spent day. And I’ve learnt if one wants to blog about a conference, it is best done immediately post the event else much gets lost with a recollection as weak as mine. The conference was spread over 3 tracks. Show More Summary
Contrasting Performance : Languages, styles and VMs - Java, Scala, Python, Erlang, Clojure, Ruby, Groovy, Javascript
Major update This blog post is now formally retracted. A part of the original post remains. As does a record of the contributors and a log of the annotations of the updates. The code also remains on github. What are deleted are the actual published results, and some other sections that are now less relevant after this retraction. Show More Summary
Functional Programming with Python – Part 2 - Useful python constructs
In Functional Programming with Python – Part 1, I focused on providing an overview. In this post I shall focus on the core python language constructs supporting functional programming. If you are experienced pythonista, you may choose...Show More Summary
Why OSGi? Or why not using it makes your JVM runtime unsafe.
Not sure how long ago I started using OSGi. Perhaps it was 12 months ago or then perhaps 18. And yet I still find it painful using OSGi especially every time I bring in a foreign set of jars into the ecosystem. And yet I continue to be a dogged proponent. Here’s why. First let [...]
Conference Report – Hasgeek jsFoo Pune 2012
Just finished attending jsFoo Pune 2012 organised by HasGeek. It was an interesting and a well spent day. And I’ve learnt if one wants to blog about a conference, it is best done immediately post the event else much gets lost with a recollection as weak as mine. The conference was spread over 3 tracks. [...]
Scala needs terraces
Terrace (noun) : each of a series of flat areas made on a slope, used for cultivation, or a flight of wide, shallow steps providing standing room for spectators in a stadium Recently there was a useful discussion triggered off by the post True Scala complexity by Yang Zhang. Much has been debated about it [...]
Which risk would you manage? What would you want to prove? Programming Languages and Type Systems
Debates across programming languages and type systems are not new. And this post does not attempt to shed new light on these (though it is hardly an un-opinionated view) Yet one point that keeps on bothering me time and again. That the lens used to visualise the many issues around these help clarify, magnify but [...]
Contrasting Performance : Languages, styles and VMs – Java, Scala, Python, Erlang, Clojure, Ruby, Groovy, Javascript
There’s a better place to specifically look at performance comparisons across languages than this post – The computer languages benchmarks game. But this post attempts look at performance comparisons a little differently. Based on coding idioms as well. And for a much narrower range of problems (namely one). There are languages which are tightly opinionated [...]
Why you should register to attend Python Conference Pune (Sept 2011) right now
This is a guest / cross post from original one as appeared on PuneTech written by Navin Kabra. Thank you Navin, for the permission to reproduce the same. Disclaimer : Both I and Navin are on the organising team of PyCon India 2011. However we act in a volunteer capacity to help further encourage python [...]
Google Plus : Getting close to the sweet spot by getting the basics right
My first reaction to google plus was Nice. But facebook has a lockin on the friends and people will not shift until their friends shift which will pretty much mean most will play around with google and then go back to facebook since thats where their friends are. As I played with it a little [...]
Google Buzz Test Drive Report
Feature Notes : Note: Google Buzz had not yet been enabled for me through normal GMail Desktop access. These notes are based on my experience with the same by switching my Firefox user agent to iPhone and accessing the iPhone Google Buzz UI. Has a very facebook / friendfeed like interface. Comments : People can [...]
Stop calling me NoSQL
Dear Reader, Apologies for sending this note to you completely unannounced and out of the blue. However I find myself in a peculiar situation of having a very weird name being dumped upon me. While I am indifferent to the name per se, I am greatly pained as I realise that it is a completely [...]
CRUD is not only good for, but is the only consistent way to build REST over HTTP
This is to comment on a perception forming that REST encourages exposing basic data elements through CRUD and that it encourages development of dumb applications (applications with shallow business logic). Apart from some tweets I saw on the topic and some twitter conversations, the blog posts which perhaps set off the thought were CRUD is [...]