Phil Gold

So I'm a person who loves this sort of thing. My favorite is probably aperiodic tilings such as the one featured at http://aperiodic.net/. So, me, opening the OP link: "OH MY GOD!" Has anyone actually tiled any portion of their property with something like this? If so, you have my envy

This is great, thank you. Some links for Scala: Documentation: http://www.scala-lang.org/ Twitter School for Scala: http://twitter.github.io/scala_school/ 99 problems in Scala: http://aperiodic.net/phil/scala/s-99/ Coursera with Martin Odersky: https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

for those looking for free reference, this is the best I have found: http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9780596155957/index.html not a great book but if complemented with blog posts here and there and the exercises from http://aperiodic.net/phil/scala/s-99/ you can get started.

If you enjoy Bash's customization, You'll love Zsh's http://aperiodic.net/phil/prompt/ Once you go bash->zsh, there is no turning back.

Scala's adaptation of this (S-99): http://aperiodic.net/phil/scala/s-99/

The one thing keeping me from switching is the lack of command classes[0]. I want to be able to chain bindings, so "^a s a" does "ssh server-a", and "^a s b" does "ssh server-b". People keep telling me that tmux is better (though I still don't understand why), but I lean heavily on chained bindings and haven't found a solution in tmux. [0] http://aperiodic.net/screen/interface#command_classes

same exercise for scala http://aperiodic.net/phil/scala/s-99/

You can do some really neat prompts using z-shell: http://aperiodic.net/phil/prompt/

You are mistaken. See here: http://aperiodic.net/screen/multiuser

Another resource for learning Scala is Werner Hett's 99 problems in Scala: http://aperiodic.net/phil/scala/s-99/. I tried it after doing Odersky's Scala class (https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun). If you've done the class, it's not a bad way to get some practice with constructs that weren't particularly useful in the class. If you haven't done the class, the problems are simple enough that you could probably learn scala by just working through the problems and googling for relevant syntax. They start to get more involved around problem 50, but, by that point, you'll have a good grasp of the syntax. If you want to try them out, I have unit tests for the problems I've done (only up to 58, so far) here: https://github.com/danluu/ninety-nine-scala-problems. The tests are pretty rudimentary; I'm sure there's at least one github repo that has more comprehensive tests, but I looked around at tens of repos of other people's tests on github when I first started and I didn't find much. P.S. If you're in Austin, there's a Scala group that gets together that isn't a meetup, and hence, isn't findable from Graham's link in step 9: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/austin-scala-enthusiasts. The majority of the folks there actually use Scala in real production code.

I use slime and the repl that it provides. I start a project generally early in the process, and put stuff in methods there, recompiling (reloading with ,lo projectname (a slime trick)) as needed. I also often do ESC-x with the cursor positioned in a function or top-level form to compile just that function. All good work flows with Lisp include adding little bits of code, then executing to see how the result has changed. This leverages the beauty of lisp develpment. There are those who do something similar with vim--adding little bits of code, perhaps in a function, then pasting that either directly or with the help of a package to the REPL. For many of my programs, I generate an executable that is kicked off automatically, e.g., by cron. To build the executable, use 'save-lisp-and-die'. And don't hesitate to use quicklisp at http://www.quicklisp.org. There are many very useful libraries there. For example, if you need to integrate through the command line, there is the getopt library. For unit testing, i use xlunit, but I seem to be in the minority for that. There are a handful out there. Some info here http://aperiodic.net/phil/archives/Geekery/notes-on-lisp-testing-frame… and here http://www.cliki.net/development. Now you are mentioning a pretty specific deployment cycle there. WiX will work for executable delivery in a windows environment. Keep in mind, however that many using lisp for production keep an emacs/slime session open, generally using…

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