Keith’s Blog

If you search for the right strings, you’ve probably already seen the Jane Street Capital ads for OCaml programmers in Gmail or elsewhere, but today I got a new one that really cracked me up:

I’ll even link to the ad because it was so funny… and I do think in closures, and you certainly got [...]

There’s been some recent discussion on ruby-talk about “literate” programming after the new O’Reilly title Beautiful Code was announced (Matz has written an essay for it). Matz’s response made me listen to all-things-Knuth, so I was pleased to read Philip Wadler’s post today on Three ways to improve your writing, which includes a PDF link [...]

Well, I finally caught up with the crowd and got JRuby running on one of my dev boxes. The reason I’d been interested in it from the getgo was because Ruby lacks any support for internal XSLT processing. All those system()s were starting to get me down, especially as I’m trying to get a DocBook->PDF [...]