The Anti-iPad

I bought a new computer last week. A laptop. A very, very tiny laptop, in fact. It’s called a Ben NanoNote, and it makes standard netbooks look cumbersome and unwieldy.

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Aop.js

My excursions into the dark recess of my /js directory continue. This was originally something I wrote a while back when I was learning about Aspect-oriented programming in Java and wanted see how much trouble it would be to write something similar for JavaScript. As it turned out, writing the core functions wasn’t that complicated at all.

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Something Cool

I found something cool on my harddrive today; an old JavaScript snippet that I wrote some years ago when I was heavily into Lisp. Yes, Lisp. I love Lisp. It’s the mother of all languages and in a perfect world I’d spend my days hacking cool stuff in Lisp or Clojure rather than maintaining a behemoth of a Java web app that I secretly hate.

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My setup

This blog is generated by jekyll, backed by a simple Apache config on the server side. One of the nice things about the site being statically generated is site is that I don’t have to fiddle with cgi scripts, content handlers and whatnot. Also, there’s no comment spam to manage; thank God for that.

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