The WingDings Study Group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wingding) continues our exploration of "Beautiful Code" by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson. The next...
Bob, Have you worked the schedule forward any beyond what was in your original spread sheet? I'm concerned that the timing won't be good for me for the piece...
WingDingers, As we discussed last week, our January 21 meeting on Beautiful Code will cover Chapters 10 and 28: Chapter 10, The Quest for an Accelerated...
There's a book coming out on it: http://www.artima.com/shop/forsale I've ordered it and the PDF is pretty good so far. The "Scala By Example" tutorial is...
Chris Wilkes
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The WingDings Study Group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wingding) continues our exploration of "Beautiful Code" by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson. The next...
Hi Bob, All. Sorry, I'm staying home sick tonight. See everyone in two weeks. On Jan 20, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Robert Kuhar wrote: The next meeting is... Tuesday,...
So... I'm the only presenter then? I think we should make Jason conference call in and do his bit from his sick-bed! Barring that, what's the level of...
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Via Joe Bowbeer, we also have another take on the population count problem: http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/debruijn.pdf I don't know if anyone will have...
jason marshall
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... A de Bruijn Sequence can be used to count the number of trailing zeros, which is a kind of "population count". Population Count can also be used to count...
Jason, I'm pretty sure that Brad is planning on doing some presentation as well, I'm guessing that the email address I sent you didn't work (or maybe by...
I am really sorry about this, but I had a conflict as well this evening. I tried to inquire if we could resched but didn't hear back. Jason, my apologies to...
We liked the bit-twiddling of population count, but thought that the chapter started great, finished great, but was not very well written in between. We went...
We did have a good meeting on Chapter 10. Jason Marshall provided an alternate explanation of Example 10-1 which seemed to turn a light on in just about ...
WingDingers, Our next meeting is 3 weeks from now on February 12. We will cover Beautiful Code Chapters 28 and 17: Chapter 28, Beautiful Debugging, by Andreas...
There appears to be a fledgling interest in the Scala programming language (http://www.scala-lang.org/). To this end, I propose we meet at Tully's in ...
Whatta tease, Bob! Does anyone want to fill us in on the alternate explanation for the benefit of those of us that couldn't make it last night? Lord knows I...
... More on population count. I just got around to reading Warren's chapter. That was *horrible*. (Rather, that *was* horrible.) I expected better from the...
... (fair warning - I'm not completely rational when it comes to dynamic languages, Python in particular. I've got my favorite hammer, and everything looks a...
Taking advantage of the long break between our regular 2nd and 4th Tuesday Beautiful Code sessions, WingDings will be taking a brief look at the Scala ...
The Eclipse plugin for Scala is in transition, but I did find an Eclipse plugin that works with Eclipse 3.3. First, I downloaded a fresh Eclipse Classic...
I'd pretty much given up on the Scala eclipse plug-in. On my Mac you didn't get syntax highlighting until you Saved and Tab Off + Tab On a given file and it...
The WingDings Study Group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wingding) continues our exploration of "Beautiful Code" by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson. The next...
Hi Windingers, I missed the scala meet-up last week, so sorry if this is a retread. Did anyone else do the "simplify" procedure that they leave as an exercise...
Thanks for the contribution, Chris, and I don't believe anyone did try to implement simplify. Well done! We're still not really sure what direction to take...