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The Earliest Known Love Song The earliest known love song was found in an Egyptian tomb.

A while ago, I was exploring creating a programming language with Instaparse.

Once you have your hexapod assembled and running using the hand held controller, of course, your thoughts naturally turn to world domination.

Here we see the PhantomX Hexapod thriving in the natural habitat of a cozy, climate controlled, modern house.

You don’t really understand how important someone is in your life until they are suddenly gone.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Clojure posts now have a new home to make it easier to read them in a chronological fashion. http://hitchhikersclojure.com/ There is also a public repo - feel free to contribute spelling and grammar fixes, or your great ideas.

Amy and Frank fled down the stairs from her office and met an unexpected obstacle to their exit, a locked door.

Amy and Frank were hurtled quite rapidly through time and space after attaching themselves to a transaction headed through the Datomic Transactor.

The following is a cautionary example of the unpredictable combination of Clojure, a marathon viewing of the BBC’s series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, and a questionable amount of cheese.

After attending a local Lean Startup Circle meetup, I decided to write about some of my experiences with the Lean Startup Methodology from a software developer’s point of view.

After having spent some time recently looking at top-down AI, I thought I would spend some time looking at bottom’s up AI, machine learning and neural networks.

One of the wonderful things about being a technologist today, is to be part of an industry that is bubbling over with new and exciting things.

I really love the London.

How to Control Multiple Drones with Clojure The clj-drone library now has multi-drone support!

Why do you devote time and participate in the community?

Lately, I have had the pleasure of speaking and sharing my experience of programming AR Drones with Clojure.

Photo by Mike Bridge @michaelbridge I also enjoy talking and sharing my various enthusiams, which seem to be Clojure, Robots, and AI lately.

I am the author of Living Clojure by O’Reilly.

Photo by Mike Bridge @michaelbridge I started off as a professional ballet dancer, studied Physics in college, and ended up as a Software Developer.

Preface: A Gentle Obsession About a year ago, I picked up John McCarthy’s paper on Elephant 2000.

Creating your own programming language with Clojure and Instaparse is like building rainbows with s-expressions.

So I am in the midst of doing something a bit crazy and a bit wonderful at the same time.

Clojure is fun.

Saving the best for last.

I spend most of my work day in Ruby and CoffeeScript.

This holiday edition blog post covers two McCarthy papers instead of just one.

Reading Artificial Intelligence, Logic, and Formalizing Common Sense, led me surprisingly to reflect on, not only logic and philosophy, but also the history and present state of AI.

In which I realize that John McCarthy is the father of the Semantic Web I have realized that it generally takes me more than a week to read a paper, reflect on it, experiment, and finally blog about it.

Well, life threw me for a bit of a loop and delayed my post on my second paper.

Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines or How My Thermostat has Beliefs and Goals After reading John McCarthy’s paper this week Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines, I can honestly say that it has changed the way I think about programs and most certainly

In the spirit of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, I have decided to embark on a quest.

One of the things that I love about Clojure is that it can go anywhere that Java can.

I love Roomba.

Once upon a time, a young girl decided to take a break from her code and stroll in the forest.

Do you need to have a specific version of Clojure in your leiningen project that you can’t get from Clojars?

In a day dream, I met a genie.

I have had my Dualit Toaster for close to 19 years now.

I was delighted to see first hand, why 1200 CodeMash tickets sold out in 20 minutes.

Only one more day until CodeMash.

One important measure of a country’s economy is it’s technology.

White: a Blank Page or Canvas.

Long ago, I worked for a couple years as a professional ballet dancer with a small company.

Since joining EdgeCase, I have shelved my heavy Intellij and Eclipse IDEs in favor of Emacs.

I got the chance to share my enthusiasm for two of my favorite technologies at JRubyConf by giving a presentation on Semantic Web and JRuby.

Deploying Clojure apps with a single command to the cloud is now possible with Heroku Cedar and let me tell you, it is pure joy.

I have been happily using Jasmine and Jasmine-JQuery on a project with great success.

Lately, I have been working on the awesome open source project 4Clojure.com.

I have put a couple projects out on GitHub to help people get started with Clojure and Ruby.

(*Sketch By My Awesome Husband)

Recently, I decided to work on a set of code Katas.