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A talk by Rick Hickey, the author of the JVM-based functional programming language Clojure, about the value of writing simpler, non-complected code. The talk was given to a functional programming audience, so some of the material (and the jokes) may go over OO programmer’s heads at times. Along the...

Pop music and our music from different genres seems untouchable, Elton John seems untouchable, you know? Obviously, they create that, they force that that idea into your mind, that the superstars are untouchable. So just being able to manipulate it and do what ever you want, put Elton John in a...

One of the first things you realize when working with any sort of linguistic data is just how ambiguous just about anything we say or write really is. From the smallest units of sound (what was that garbled bit of sound?) to the document unit of meaning (what was that article about?), there aren’t...

Two posts ago I talked about static site generators in general and Middleman specifically. After that I talked about how to use Middleman for blogging and again talked about different use cases. Today I am going to talk about deployment options and how you can get your site onto the web.

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Everyone in the frontend community likes to hate on tables, it’s like Comic Sans in the design community. And this is for mostly good reasons, tables for layouts are pretty much unnecessary in this day in age (unless you’re looking to center something vertically, then maybe you can use it in your...

Last time I talked about static site generators in general (why you would use them) and a little bit about Middleman specifically (why you would use it in particular). Today I am going to talk about Middleman’s blogging capabilities.

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This is the first in what will probably be a three part series on creating and deploying a Middleman site, specifically a blog deployed to a Heroku instance.

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So I started writing Processing for one of my classes (Interactive Media Development) and unfortunately the default development workflow they want us to use is tightly bound to the IDE that it ships with. In general I’m not a huge fan of IDEs anyways, but the Processing one is especially terrible...