clopenset where being empty isn't quite enough

On my travels around the programming language community on-line I found many references to Chris Smith's review of types entitled "What to Know Before Debating Type Systems". Unfortunately, it was almost as if it had disappeared from the face of the planet. Of course, nothing ever really disappears from the Internet and I was able to summon it forth from the recesses of the Internet using Way Back Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080822101209/http://www.pphsg.org/cdsmith/t...

I'm hoping to contribute to the DuctileJ project at some point over the next few weeks.

• On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
• Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin Pierce

PHP doesn't suck. It's the APIs that suck.

This is just the latest in the litany of things wrong with Ruby. Of course I know that or and || have different precedences, but that doesn't make it right.

I'm sure there's stuff out there to do this already, but I want to administer a Google Code project dammit! And here it is...

• JSHumanizer

This is used throughout my personal web sites and thought I'd share it with the world!

Quite a grandiose title, to be sure, and I'm sure it won't quite live up to all the hype, but I'm pretty pleased with it anyway: katyandrichard.com. Here's a list of its salient features:

Gettin' hitched...

It's important that this blog doesn't get stale, right?

I'm going to write about software engineering, computer science and web development. The following are the technologies of particular interest to me at the moment:

• Ruby on Rails—this is what I use at work
• C#/.NET—this is what I used to use at work
• Python—love it
• PHP—I use this for most of my personal projects