From Image to Bytes (and Back Again)

After a little over a month of immersion in the Scala ecosystem, I have returned to Java and my HTTP server project. In an effort to better understand how servers communicate with clients, I figured I’d document my learning process. One of the stories I’m working…

Setting up a Multithreaded Server in Java

I was delighted to start working on building an HTTP server in Java, breaking away from the tic-tac-toe component of my residency.

My latest task was to convert my server to handle multiple, concurrent requests from clients or to…

A Future of Delays and Promises

Please note: this Medium post is about how to deal with concurrency and parallel programming techniques…

10 Rules for Formatting Your Code

The functionality that you create today has a good chance of changing in the next release, but the readability of your code will have a profound effect on all the changes that will ever be made. The coding style and readability set precedents that continue to affect…

Multimethods in Clojure

I am continuously amazed by tic-tac-toe. Implementing the game is definitely a good practice in learning a new…

Full Disclosure: Privacy in Clojure

Private methods are an interesting thing to observe in Clojure.

Pure Functions & Recursion

All of the functions, with a few exceptions, found in Clojure are pure functions. This renders them as stable…

The Naming Checklist

Naming is everywhere and everything.

Breaking Down Minimax

This blog post is a documentation of how I wrote (read: fixed) my minimax algorithm for Clojure tic-tac-toe. I had written it and believed I had figured it out, but it took quite a few iterations before I was able to troubleshoot the issue. Since this is not an intro to minimax (and there…

Looks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck

If every object trusts all others to be what it expects at any given moment, and any object can be any kind of things, the design possibilities are infinite. These possibilities can be used to create flexible designs that are marvels of structured creativity or…