The Blog’s Most Popular Posts

Discovered that my blog caching software was screwing up popularity counts — ironically, the more popular a post was, the less likely it was a visit to the post would be counted. So I’ve modified it, and here is the new list of the most popular posts. Take a look at see if there’s something you’re interested in.

• 7 Actually Useful Things You Didn’t Know Static Typing Could Do: An Introduction for the Dynamic Language Enthusiast
• Let Me Save You $40: Here’s How to Be Happy
• What good is a CS degree?
• Installing RMagick on Ubuntu: Problems I Encountered Doing “gem install RMagick”
• Postgres for the win!
• Problems with Hash Tables
• The Horror of the Third Reich
• What are you trying to prove?
• How Ocaml Can Be Improved
• Functionality, Code, and Productivity
• My Frustrations with REXML: Ruby’s Standard Library for Reading/Writing XML
• Programming Languages are PC OSs circa 1986
• Random thoughts on Haskell
• Christmas Blues
• C++ and Threading
• Bug Or Feature, You Decide: Groovy MetaClass Programming
• Time for a Little Golf: Number Guessing Game
• I think my brain just exploded
• Ruby is the Future
• Responses to The Problem with STM
• Thoughts on Parallelism
• Definitions of Freedom
• The problem with STM: your languages still suck
• My Great Secret to Writing Unit Tests
• The “Hole in the middle” pattern
• Exercising Dynamic Web Frameworks, or, How Do I Test These Friggin’ Controllers Anyway?
• A Brief Defense of Masonry
• Ruby + XML: A Serious Question That Only Sounds Facetious
• My Fundamental Issue with Ruby
• Ocaml Lazy Lists- An Introduction
• Applied Epistemology, or, What Does “Real” Mean Anyway?
• Cedric’s Problem in OCaml
• Fit, AntFit, and Fitnesse: Test-Based Communication Tools
• The Status of Ruby’s libxml
• The Functional-Relational Impedance Match
• What Good is a CS Degree II: The Response
• Certification? Please, no.
• Return of the Real Programmer
• Take their power away!
• A Monad Tutorial for Ocaml
• Functional (Meta)?Programming Stunts for Ruby and Groovy (and a Little Perl)
• Supero: Making Haskell Faster
• A Note on Religious Terminology
• Math Problem iso Good Solution
• Compassionate Conservatism
• The Kid Sister Crypto Manifesto
• It’s not just about multicores
• Why We Don’t Need Anonymous Inner Classes for Groovy/Grails
• More Ruby Type Weirdness
• On monoids and metaphor shear