Archive for January, 2010
Scala with Miles Sabin
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Attended an “Introduction to Scala for Java developers” talk at Skillsmatter. Presented by Miles Sabin, of Chuusai (the chaps who make the Scala IDE for Eclipse), the talk covered an overview of functional programming and the Scala language (traits, duck-typing, “everything is an object”, case classes…) . I managed to ask him about his thoughts on the growing comparisons between Scala and Clojure (as they both target the JVM). He seemed rather enthusiastic about the trend and praised the efforts of the Clojure team. Bottom line was – it’s up to the developer to choose according to personal taste, if you want a more LISP-oriented language then it’d be Clojure otherwise Scala. I’d have to vote Scala for now as it feels rather like Python…
Posted in Programming | No Comments »
Kendo – Zanshin
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
I’ve found myself relating more of my kendo practice to the rest of my day to day life lately. Concepts such as Zanshin (loosely translated to focus) are important even outside the dojo. My dojo’s sensei, Victor Harris, explained a breakdown of Zanshin into 3 aspects: the initial Zanshin of preparation, that of execution (of the cut in the the Kendo context) and the Zanshin of finishing up, for the next task. This applied correctly could lead to a perpetual cycle of focused activity. Taken into my every day life as a software developer and student of life, I find a lot of time is spent without much focus. Applying this concept to simple day to day activities helps one trim the fluff, so to speak, and promote consciousness of one’s environment and the tasks at hand. Focus and analyse the problem at hand, approach the task heartily and survey your work on completion.
Posted in Kendo, Programming | 2 Comments »
23:57!!!
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
I’m sooo lazy 
Posted in Art | No Comments »
How does this writing thing go again?
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Signed up for Project 52 http://project52.info/. I guess I’d better get writing then. :P
Chiming in a bit late on a Thursday night. At least another 51 posts to go… Welcome to 2010.
Posted in Art, Science | No Comments »
