Today I had the brilliant idea to do my standard "Hello World" program in Scheme / Racket. So, I present to you the first bits of "Shut the Box" in Racket:

(define tiles `(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9))
(define die1 (+ 1 (random 6)))
(define die2 (+ 1 (random …

I'm planning on doing a talk at our local user group (Michigan!/usr/group]) about Scheme / Guile / Racket and so I'm reading more to understand how deep I want to go with introducing the languages. So today was more about research than actual programming (though I did find some interesting …

Today was pretty well carved up so I didn't get a chance to do much other than read. Hopefully more progress tomorrow.

Spent part of the day working on shoring up my HTML / CSS skills. I feel like I have a large gap in my ability to put together good-looking sites, but I think part of it is that I compare my sites with some of the best in the business. These …

Today was a mixed bag. This afternoon I worked on some HTML code (nothing really to show yet) and then this evening I picked up some books from the library (Apparently you can hold 8 books at the library. Didn't feel like pushing that number higher). So I leafed through …