An enormous claim, I know. But this is not about processes, tools or working conditions. This is about something quite different.
Shrew is progressing, it now sports an s-expr to XML evaluator; I’m reading RESTful Web Services to gain a better idea of how it should expose resources. And I’m also working through The Seasoned Schemer. And therein lies the most [...]
There’s nothing like writing a complex application in a language for really learning it. I’ve been able to read and write small pieces of Scheme for years. And I’ve known enough of the underpinnings of the language to write a (very) small Scheme interpreter in the past. But, part of the point of writing Shrew in Scheme as opposed [...]
Shrew: a small insectivorous, mammal; one of the descendents of the first mammals to evolve. Related to voles and hedgehogs. They are not rodents, and are not in related to mice and rats.
It’s also an animal name containing the letters S, R and W: I use animal names for my project code names, and I needed this one to contain those three [...]
I’ve been reading and thinking about RESTful web applications and services quite a bit recently. The last large web application I wrote evolved into a RESTful web application: readable, bookmarkable URLs; resources with unique addresses; and alternative renderings of a resource depending on the request.
It would have been a short step to complete this evolution and then expose the programmable [...]