Beyond Javascript: Coffeescript – Manuel Cerón
During this year I’ve introduced my self into the world of front-end web development. I’ve never been a fan of the web as a development platform, but I have to admit that the web seems …| Manuel Cerón
During the past months, I’ve been lucky to have the chance to write more Rust code for work and also for fun. Rust continues to be an interesting and fun language for me. Not everything is perfect, of course. Today I wanted to write about something that has bothered me since day one. It’s definitely … Continue reading Types and self-documenting code in Rust→| Manuel Cerón
This is something I’ve been asking myself while learning Rust. Yes, I know that this sounds like a weird question to ask as it’s no secret that Rust has huge influence from the functional programming world. Closures, iterators, pattern matching, algebraic data types; these are features inspired by FP languages, so obviously you can do … Continue reading Is Rust a Functional Language in Disguise?→| Manuel Cerón
I’ve been programming Perl full-time for almost two years now. The reason is my new job, where 99% of back-end our code base is Perl. Before that, I had not written a single line of Perl, so the language has been a new experience for me. I think Perl is actually better than its reputation. … Continue reading Perl 6: Giving with One Hand and Taking with the Other→| Manuel Cerón
Something I’ve always missed when using Python (and dynamically typed languages in general) is nice tooling support. C# and Java have powerful IDEs that can improve your productivity significantly. Some people say that IDEs are a language smell. I disagree, IDEs are a truly valuable tool and the “nice language or IDE” statement is a false dilemma. … Continue reading A powerful unused feature of Python: function annotations.→| Manuel Cerón
Ha pasado ya más de un mes desde que Aaron Swartz falleció. Aaron fue un activista que dedicó gran parte de su vida a defender nuestros derechos. Su muerte fue verdaderamente lamentable. Quise hacer un pequeño tributo a Aaron. Decidí traducir y subtitular su emotiva conferencia sobre “How we stopped SOPA” en F2C 2012 : … Continue reading Aaron Swartz→| Manuel Cerón
Last week I participated in Ludum Dare, one of the most popular game making competitions out there. The idea is to write a game in 48 hours. You have to create everything in those 48 hours. That includes graphics, sounds and code. This time the theme was “you are the villian”. I tried to participate … Continue reading Ludum Dare 25→| Manuel Cerón
I was glad to see the release of Microsoft TypeScript last week. After Google with Dart, it’s nice to see one more big player trying to create new languages for client side web development. I’ve been playing with Dart for a while and TypeScript really impressed me. In terms of syntax, I feel that TS … Continue reading Beyond Javascript part 2: Dart and Typescript→| Manuel Cerón
I’ve used CoffeeScript for a few months now. Coming from Python, I felt that CoffeeScript was more concise than Javascript, so I decided to use it for a few small projects. Initially, it was a nice experience, but then I gradually realized that, while writing CoffeeScript code was very pleasant, reading it wasn’t so. I started to … Continue reading CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability→| Manuel Cerón
During this year I’ve introduced my self into the world of front-end web development. I’ve never been a fan of the web as a development platform, but I have to admit that the web seems …| Manuel Cerón
Last year I finally decided to learn some Rust. The official book by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols is excellent, but even after reading it and working on some small code exercises, I felt that I …| Manuel Cerón
