Walking
I went walking
Posted by Rob Nelson April 11, 2010
I went walking today. I've moved to Chapel Hill. I decided to take a short video. Then i decided to post it on YouTube. It's very boring.
Clojure, Continued
Building a website with Clojure
Posted by Rob Nelson November 29, 2009
Further misadventures with Clojure.
Welcome to Clojure
Using Clojure for something Simple
Posted by Rob Nelson November 23, 2009
I haven't written anything in a long time. To get things started, I'm posting a tiny fragment of code in a language I'm dabbling in lately, Clojure.
Exercises in Pruning Code, Episode #2
A story about building an application (including a brief discussion of functional programming)
Posted by Rob Nelson July 9, 2008
I write Ruby on Rails applications for a living now. This is a pointless story about writing a section of one such application. I wrote this article for work. I've duplicated it here for no particular reason. It is slightly different here though - including a misguided discussion about functional programming that didn't go over very well at work.
Forgotten dreams of 2005
I found an old dream journal from 2005
Posted by Rob Nelson April 18, 2008
I found an old dream journal that dates back to 2005. I had forgotten about it. Most of the dreams I had completely forgotten about - and some of them are funny. Or just strange. Here they are listed by date with a few ancillary comments.
My 18 Favorite Albums
Here is a list of my 18 favorite albums
Posted by Rob Nelson April 18, 2008
Just for fun - this is a list of my favorite 18 albums - as of right now. They are not in any particular order.
Poor Man's Multi-Table Inheritance
A few tricks with Ruby and Meta-programming
Posted by Rob Nelson April 18, 2008
I recently had an article published on another blog at another web site. It's a new company I've been working for for a few months. I'm cross posting it for no particular reason. The original article is <a href="http://killswitchcollective.com/articles/15">here</a>
The Buddha Projector
A dream involving a statue of Buddha and gardening
Posted by Rob Nelson January 28, 2008
This is a dream I had where a statue of Buddha projected a movie about gardening. I'm not that interested in gardening - or for that matter - Buddha. So I'm not sure why I had the dream.
Why do Web Programming Languages Suck?
Being a rant - with some possible explanations
Posted by Rob Nelson January 25, 2008
Programming a web application is a horrid mish-mash of
languages, standards, and browser incompatibilities. It's chaos.
It sucks. Why?
Yawn Classification
Yawns should be named
Posted by Rob Nelson December 12, 2007
Everybody yawns. I've noticed there are different kinds of yawns. This is an attempt to classify them.
Clark Day
Clark D. was born October 16th, 2007
Posted by Rob Nelson October 23, 2007
I recently took part in the birth of a child, my own
son, Clark. My wife had a C-section, and I attended
the procedure. Clark weighed in at 9 pounds 3 ounces.
Herein is a brief narrative of the events of the day.
Freddie Prinze Movie
A dream involving Freddie Prinze and Andy Warhol
Posted by Rob Nelson October 10, 2007
A dream involving Freddie Prinze and Andy Warhol. I have no explanation for this or any analysis - it just seemed funny.
Curriculum Vitae - pt.2
Part 2 of a serialized history
Posted by Rob Nelson September 13, 2007
In which the author transforms from a code hack
into an advanced code hack
Eulogy for Tetanus
I had a dog named Tetanus
Posted by Rob Nelson August 16, 2007
Being a eulogy for the recently departed Tetanus (11/26/1991 - 8/13/2007). He lived for more than 15 years.
Curriculum Vitae - pt.1
I've been programming for 10 years now.
Posted by Rob Nelson August 14, 2007
I got an Art degree in college. How did I end up as a programmer?
