January 2012
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Hackathon in Delft: Gone!
I’ve been at it again. In the previous autumn/winter season, I spent a month in Delft, hacking on the Stratego/Spoofax program transformation infrastructure.
Now that another winter is here, I’ve had the good fortune to repeat what is slowly becoming a tradition. This year I even found time to reserve two months for a more extended hackathon.
Many really good things came of out of...
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An Eclipse Console for Spoofax
More good news, everyone! I have found time to integrate the command line shell for Spoofax into Eclipse. You can now have all sorts of tricky conversations with the Spoofax interpreter inside a perfectly innocent-looking Eclipse console:
As you can see, there are still rough edges to be ironed out. One of them is clearly the color palette. Another is the lack of inline rules, which are not...
A Command Line Interpreter for Spoofax
Updated with screenshot! Also take a look at the Eclipse Shell.
Good news, boys and girls! If you happen to be a Stratego and/or Spoofax user, you might appreciate that I finally took some time to piece together an interactive command line interpreter—-a REPL—-for Spoofax.
There are numerous other things you can do in the shell. The help “page” gives a short...
“One downside to the Kindle is that you can no longer throw a bad book across the...”
– Lisa L
A Year of Kindle
I’ve had my Kindle for exactly a year now. My experience so far: it’s really great! After a multi-year long lull where I didn’t do any reading (except for school and work), I’m now back into a rather steady reading pace.
A few highlights from 2011:
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Too Big to Fail, Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Big Short, Michael Lewis
Liar’s Poker,...