Archive for December, 2008
Yasnippet and scala
The emacs mode for scala has been updated with support for yasnippet. At first glance it does not look that important but when you watch the video to introduce it, it does look like it could actually be very usefull. I have played a little bit an you do quite used to it rather rapidly.
The combination of the emacs with the SpeedBar and Yasnippet makes developing scala programs in emacs actually quite nice. Descent support for code completion would put some icing on the cake, Oh and refactoring support…
General Update For Early December
I have been fiddling with getting SpiderSynth into NetBeans. I still plan on using SBT as the build tool for test the code. Overall progress on this project feels like it has been really slow. The positive thing is it also feels like a lot of the fiddling work is out of the way and perhaps it is time for a big surge of code that adds actual functionality.
And now for some links.
I obviously have an interest in procedual sound generation, this link is great fun. I believe he plans to make a library availiable for java programmers they can use the synth in their own work.
I had not encountered this article until recently. Good read on programming languages and IDEs. Does this arguement still apply when it appears to be very easy to add support for new programming languages in NetBeans/Eclipse?
Some online books on functional programming that I have not yet read.
Haskell Real World Programming
Lisp Book
Java 4K Contest
The yearly write a game in java that compiles to less than 4K of bytecode is underway. I won’t be participating mostly due to time and a hundred other things on my plate at the moment. I may well try next year!
Over at JavaGaming there is a forum dedicated to it and people are posting work in progress. I tried a couple and the Left 4K Dead looks like a really strong position in terms of atmoshpere. Here is a link to the forum thread , from there you can find a link to the applet to play
This little contests serves to remind us how much can be done in a little amount of code even if it is probably not the most maintainable code.