Infix vs. Prefix Notation, from the interpreter’s POV

Before venturing into Clojure-land I read an excellent article called Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software. The Maxwell’s Equations are a few mathematical statements from which we can derive the rules of electromagnetism. The…

Why “Build Shit in CSS?”

A few years back, I gave a short talk on CSS to a group of programmers at a Giant Tech Company. The audience: a small group of pretty smart (but junior) developers who built web apps every day.

Yeah I’m seeing it now. I’m not exactly sure what I was responding to when I wrote that, but it’s quite probable it was an entirely different article. D’oh!

Reread yours just there. It really speaks to me. Trying to learn to sight read on the guitar and trying to be tenacious in the face of daily failure to master the skill…

Music and Programming — Part 2

Part 1 was about my background and, thus, how what I’m coming to see would even be possible. Part 2… let’s dive in.

First, I’d like to relate the three languages I’ve been studying to something anyone non-musical or musical and musically-illiterate…

Stack with Minimum

In process of the reading “Cracking the Coding Interview” I faced to very nice problem to solve:

Implement a Stack data structure extended with min() method which returns minimum value in the Stack. push()…

April Reading List

Following is my reading list for the month of April.

Khushwantnama: The Lessons of My Life

I’ve always been intrigued with the life of Khushwant Singh and I am looking forward to read about his experiences and views on…