Berlin Brown and Software Development

I am in the initial design and some development of OctaneMech; as the title implies is a OpenGL Haskell based Mech (bot, tank mobile) game. An early goal is to recreate/port glAnts (mech game) to haskell http://glants.sourceforge.net/ On Haskell Haskell is a pure functional programming language where your primary view of your software is through the use of functions. In java or other objected oriented/imperative languages, you are looking at the lowest level components; in Haskell, you are able to concentrate on the operation a particular function is used for without focusing on the low-level details (step-by-step sequences) of the function. I won't now or probably in the future detail the power you are given with Haskell and I leave that up to you the reader. I will focus on how I am using Haskell to build my project. And this first entry will contain some simple Haskell snippets. Main Like other applications, a Haskell application begins with entry point definition main fu...

Botlist has been released on code.google.com. There really isn't much to say. The web application has been released in its raw form. There are some issues I mentioned on the wiki page with the SQL database create scripts and some "url" path issues. But I will fix these real soon. Stay tuned for updates. Also, I hope to send over the opml feeds so that you can import into your RSS readers. Here is the blurb from the googlecode page. Botlist is a social bookmarking web application that contains a news aggregating/news/article submission site. There is also an ads listing section so that users can post personal/ad profiles. The application itself is created with the following libraries; JRuby and J2EE's Spring framework as a middleware piece, Hibernate for object relational mapping (ORM). It is designed to run with Tomcat but should work with other J2EE servers. Search functionality uses the Lucene API. Other Features News aggregation (some links will be included);...

Overview Writing this will get me banned from the development community for life. Actually, I don't know if I really belong to any development community so I guess I can sleep soundly at night. Basically, unless you are living under a rock, the development world has made great strides in terms of language development. There are at least a dozen popular/mainstream programming languages that are used to perform various computing tasks. Some are open sourced, some are closed. Some are geared towards a specific niche in computing. Some are more general purpose languages. Java , C, C++, C#, Haskell, Common Lisp, Python, Ruby, Erlang Assembly/Machine Language (x86 for example) are probably some you have heard of. Lets get to the point (this is really about Java); Java and some other imperative languages that are defined by a sequence of steps to define a particular task (which can be cumbersome) are not as productive as declarative programming styles where the step-by-step inner worki...

Hello, my name is Berlin Brown. I am a software developer that doesn't really have one particular niche or favorite programming language. I like them all and hate them a little bit at the same time. I love: http://programming.reddit.com/ But, you may also see me on: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ I like creating various projects that frankly, users may not like. But, I love creating them anyway. My most recent project is (botlist, social bookmarking site): http://www.botspiritcompany.com/botlist/ My next project is a web server/application server/database server in haskell. And with that, various snippets of haskell development.