Comments for Artisan Coder http://www.artisancoder.com Software development as a craft Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Escape from Zurg by elursenup http://www.artisancoder.com/2009/08/escape-from-zurg/comment-page-1/#comment-44704 elursenup Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:49:16 +0000 http://www.ventonegro.org/?p=114#comment-44704 I was just in search of a free of charge program that could transform AVI files to DVD files. I get one for XP however it cannot obtain on in Vista. You will find a few of free to operate software but they blah. As a result I think my question to you guys is, what <a href="http://www.topvideoconverter.com/divx-to-dvd-converter/" / rel="nofollow">convert divx to dvd</a> will you introduce that is free and that runs on Vista?... I was just in search of a free of charge program that could transform AVI files to DVD files. I get one for XP however it cannot obtain on in Vista. You will find a few of free to operate software but they blah. As a result I think my question to you guys is, what convert divx to dvd will you introduce that is free and that runs on Vista?…

]]> Comment on Praising macros by PhiLho http://www.artisancoder.com/2010/06/praising-macros/comment-page-1/#comment-20574 PhiLho Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:37:33 +0000 http://www.artisancoder.com/?p=182#comment-20574 Funny, I find this article while I investigate how macros are coded in various languages. Seed7 heavily relies on them (most of the base language is made out of system macros), Nermele seems to have a nice, powerful design, Nimrod has them too. A language like Scala has no macros, but it is expressive enough (with dot-less expressions, operators as functions, anonymous functions, etc.) to allow some clever DSL. Funny, I find this article while I investigate how macros are coded in various languages. Seed7 heavily relies on them (most of the base language is made out of system macros), Nermele seems to have a nice, powerful design, Nimrod has them too.
A language like Scala has no macros, but it is expressive enough (with dot-less expressions, operators as functions, anonymous functions, etc.) to allow some clever DSL.

]]> Comment on Will code for money by alex http://www.artisancoder.com/2008/12/will-code-for-money/comment-page-1/#comment-13943 alex Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:35:51 +0000 http://www.ventonegro.org/?p=66#comment-13943 @gc Have you seen James Long's blog? He wrote about this and gave me inspiration: http://www.jlongster.com/blog/ In particular: http://www.jlongster.com/blog/2009/06/17/write-apps-iphone-scheme/ If you still need help after reading James's blog you can email me at asandroq AT gmail DOT com. @gc

Have you seen James Long’s blog? He wrote about this and gave me inspiration:

http://www.jlongster.com/blog/

In particular:

http://www.jlongster.com/blog/2009/06/17/write-apps-iphone-scheme/

If you still need help after reading James’s blog you can email me at asandroq AT gmail DOT com.

]]> Comment on Will code for money by gc http://www.artisancoder.com/2008/12/will-code-for-money/comment-page-1/#comment-13829 gc Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:06:11 +0000 http://www.ventonegro.org/?p=66#comment-13829 How much would you charge for a short consulting work? I am interested to learn how you did Gambit: scm -> c and built static library and called the functions from Obj-c. (Seems like *.h files are missing in the steps???) How much would you charge for a short consulting work? I am interested to learn how you did Gambit: scm -> c and built static library and called the functions from Obj-c. (Seems like *.h files are missing in the steps???)

]]> Comment on Praising macros by Stephen Eilert http://www.artisancoder.com/2010/06/praising-macros/comment-page-1/#comment-13738 Stephen Eilert Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:03:08 +0000 http://www.artisancoder.com/?p=182#comment-13738 @Ian Yes. In the same vein that 90%+ of the world's programmers are Java/C# programmers and all they do is write CRUDs all day long. They are already happy enough with a simple "generate getters and setters" from their favorite IDE. They don't feel much need in the way of syntactic abstractions. But given the popularity of Ruby DSLs, one would think there is a demand for macros in mainstream languages. Not that Ruby offer real DSLs, but they fool people well enough. Not many people outside the Ruby community use them, however. In any case, this article is not intended for mediocre programmers, who wouldn't even be able to understand it in the first place. It is intended for everyone else: people who already know they need macros, and people who haven't yet figured out they need them. @Ian

Yes.

In the same vein that 90%+ of the world’s programmers are Java/C# programmers and all they do is write CRUDs all day long. They are already happy enough with a simple “generate getters and setters” from their favorite IDE. They don’t feel much need in the way of syntactic abstractions.

But given the popularity of Ruby DSLs, one would think there is a demand for macros in mainstream languages. Not that Ruby offer real DSLs, but they fool people well enough. Not many people outside the Ruby community use them, however.

In any case, this article is not intended for mediocre programmers, who wouldn’t even be able to understand it in the first place. It is intended for everyone else: people who already know they need macros, and people who haven’t yet figured out they need them.

]]> Comment on Praising macros by Ian http://www.artisancoder.com/2010/06/praising-macros/comment-page-1/#comment-13735 Ian Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:32:29 +0000 http://www.artisancoder.com/?p=182#comment-13735 Macros are not really indispensable, aren't they? I mean, proabably more than 95% of the world can live without it :) (including the c/c++ developers) Macros are not really indispensable, aren’t they? I mean, proabably more than 95% of the world can live without it :) (including the c/c++ developers)

]]> Comment on Scheme hits the App Store by Mark http://www.artisancoder.com/2009/10/scheme-hits-the-app-store/comment-page-1/#comment-11088 Mark Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:58:22 +0000 http://www.ventonegro.org/?p=123#comment-11088 Hi Alex. The AI is definitely much improved. Good job! Hi Alex. The AI is definitely much improved. Good job!

]]> Comment on Lua Programming Gems out! by gameogre http://www.artisancoder.com/2008/12/lua-programming-gems-out/comment-page-1/#comment-10447 gameogre Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:32:49 +0000 http://www.ventonegro.org/?p=71#comment-10447 very good very good

]]> Comment on Scheme hits the App Store by alex http://www.artisancoder.com/2009/10/scheme-hits-the-app-store/comment-page-1/#comment-9711 alex Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:36:24 +0000 http://www.ventonegro.org/?p=123#comment-9711 Hello Mark, Thanks for you comments. Actually there was a bug in my code that prevented the proper use of transposition tables. Gambit is up to task, really. I hope you like the next version better. If not, please let me know why. Hello Mark,

Thanks for you comments. Actually there was a bug in my code that prevented the proper use of transposition tables. Gambit is up to task, really. I hope you like the next version better. If not, please let me know why.

]]> Comment on Scheme hits the App Store by Mark http://www.artisancoder.com/2009/10/scheme-hits-the-app-store/comment-page-1/#comment-9566 Mark Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:48:42 +0000 http://www.ventonegro.org/?p=123#comment-9566 While I think it's an excellent achievement, and very exciting news that Gambit allows this sort of development, I must say that the strength of Reverso's AI is very weak even at the highest levels, and that gameplay is painfully slow. I own a few Reversi/Othello games and purchased yours after hearing about it in a Scheme blog. There is a good article about the state of Reversi games on the iPhone: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/iphone_reversi_games_a_bunch_of_losers/ Basically, KissTheMachine's Reversi is the best. And the only one worth spending money on if you're a half-decent player. I think the second victory will come when the Scheme version is comparable in terms of AI strength and playing speed with KissTheMachine Reversi. I hope you continue to improve Reverso towards this end. Best of luck. While I think it’s an excellent achievement, and very exciting news that Gambit allows this sort of development, I must say that the strength of Reverso’s AI is very weak even at the highest levels, and that gameplay is painfully slow. I own a few Reversi/Othello games and purchased yours after hearing about it in a Scheme blog.

There is a good article about the state of Reversi games on the iPhone:
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/iphone_reversi_games_a_bunch_of_losers/
Basically, KissTheMachine’s Reversi is the best. And the only one worth spending money on if you’re a half-decent player.

I think the second victory will come when the Scheme version is comparable in terms of AI strength and playing speed with KissTheMachine Reversi. I hope you continue to improve Reverso towards this end.

Best of luck.

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