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Evented programming patterns: Object lifecycle

In Evented, Faye, Functional, JS.Class, JavaScript, Node, Talks on 6 August 2010 with no comments

This post is part of a series on event-driven programming. The complete series is: Events: they’re not just for the DOM, you know Observable objects Deferrable values Asynchronous methods First-leg round-up and final remarks Object lifecycle Asynchronous pipelines Testing event-driven apps Earlier in this series I covered a very common pattern in event-driven programming: the [...]

Talk: Writing a language in 15 minutes

In Functional, Heist, Lisp, Math, Metaprogramming, Prototype, Ruby, Talks on 19 May 2009 with 7 comments

I gave a talk at London Ruby User Group yesterday, based on the work I’ve been doing on Heist, my Scheme interpreter project. I wrote the core of a basic Scheme interpreter in about 15 minutes as a live-coded demo (well, kind of – the coding was pre-recorded so I could focus on talking), which [...]