Coding

Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of language implementations in various stages of completion, including Tcl, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, PHP, Python, Perl 6, APL, and a .NET bytecode translator. Parrot is not about parrots, though we are rather fond of them for obvious reasons.

Workflow

Wikipedia:Software design pattern

Wikipedia:Refactoring

Books

Software Foundations

Data types and structures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_array

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring12/

http://www.careerride.com/c-arrays-and-linked-list.aspx

The difference between arrays and linked lists are:

- Arrays are linear data structures. Linked lists are linear and non-linear data structures. - Linked lists are linear for accessing, and non-linear for storing in memory - Array has homogenous values. And each element is independent of each other positions. Each node in the linked list is connected with its previous node which is a pointer to the node. - Array elements can be modified easily by identifying the index value. It is a complex process for modifying the node in a linked list. - Array elements can not be added, deleted once it is declared. The nodes in the linked list can be added and deleted from the list.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Data-Structures

Algorithms

http://preshing.com/20121026/1mb-sorting-explained

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4783301

http://leftnode.com/entry/i-am-a-great-programmer-but-horrible-algorithmist.html

Garbage collection

Cleaning up saved things that are created and only needed at the time of a particular process, i think. Managed in some languages, seen as possibly bad by some.

http://xtzgzorex.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/demystifying-garbage-collectors/

OOP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/hoJdanihKwb - rob pike on oo
- http://www.csis.pace.edu/~bergin/patterns/ppoop.html

http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/07/oop-vs-procedural-code.html

Functional

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/327955/does-functional-programming-replace-gof-design-patterns

DrupalCon Munich 2012: Functional PHP

Functional programming: A step backward

Functional Programming is Dead, Long Live Expression-Oriented Programming

Monads in Pictures - Aug 20th, 2012

Google Video: Type-driven testing in Haskell - Simon Peyton Jones

http://www.harukizaemon.com/blog/2010/03/01/functional-programming-in-object-oriented-languages/

http://www.dev.gd/20121224-understanding-map-filter-and-fold.html

MV*

"create your views, express your models or develop a controller"

Metaprogramming

http://weblog.therealadam.com/2011/12/09/why-metaprogram-when-you-can-program/

Monads

see haskell for other stuff

http://gbracha.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/maybe-monads-might-not-matter.html

Messaging

message queues and mailboxes are software-engineering components used for interprocess communication, or for inter-thread communication within the same process.
- http://blog.iron.io/2012/12/top-10-uses-for-message-queue.html

ØMQ \zeromq\
- The socket library that acts as a concurrency framework.
- Faster than TCP, for clustered products and supercomputing.

https://getbridge.com/start

https://github.com/tef/glyph-rpc/

<tef> but glyph is the serialization format really :-)

MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON but it's faster and smaller. For example, small integers (like flags or error code) are encoded into a single byte, and typical short strings only require an extra byte in addition to the strings themselves.

http://telehash.org/

REST and like

http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2012/03/api-design-is-ui-for-developers/

http://ql.io/

http://static.matthewlmcclure.com/s/2012/11/24/hypermedia-is-the-new-rest.html

Perl

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2070

http://www.josetteorama.com/perl/what-is-modern-perl/

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/perl/cgi.html

http://mapofcpan.org/

Lua

Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)
Lua 5.2 Reference Manual

Awesome: The briefest introduction to Lua
Lua Tutorial - lua-users wiki
Programming in Lua This book is a detailed and authoritative introduction to all aspects of Lua programming, by Lua's chief architect. Programming in Lua gives a solid base for any programmer who wants to use Lua. It covers all aspects of Lua—from the basics to its API with C—explaining how to make good use of its features and giving numerous code examples. The book is targeted at people with some programming background, but it does not assume any prior knowledge about Lua or other scripting languages.
Lua Unofficial FAQ (uFAQ)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10891957/difference-between-tables-and-metatables-in-lua

Learning Lua/From JS - Know JavaScript, and want to learn Lua? Here's are some quick facts about the similarities and differences.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1022560/subtle-differences-between-javascript-and-lua
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=lua&lang2=v8
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/Lua_vs_Javascript

http://code.google.com/p/lua-checker/
LuaJIT — a Just-In-Time Compiler for Lua.
Metalua is a language and a compiler which provide a complete macro system, similar in power to what's offfered by Lisp dialects or Template Haskell; manipulated programs can be seen as source code, as abstract syntax trees, or as an arbitrary mix thereof, whichever suits your task better.

http://www.brischalle.de/Lua-Quick-Try-Out/Lua-Quick-Try-Out_en.html

os.time();
os.getenv()
  i.e. os.getenv( "HOME" ); ?? to confirm, hardcoded as no time atm.

http://olivinelabs.com/busted/ - testing

http://luvit.io/ - non-blocking node.js

C / C++

http://www.isocpp.org/

http://blog.codygriffin.com/2012/09/a-case-for-tuples.html

http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling - c repl

http://assembly.ynh.io/ [4]

http://www.boost.org/

http://ewontfix.com/10/

http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/yechiel/CS/BadBooksC+C++.html

Java

Java syntax seems unwieldy.

Lisp

http://nhiro.org/learn_language/LISP-on-browser.html

https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lispguide.xml

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

http://arclanguage.org/

http://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/1-1-elements.html

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/41045/scheme-vs-common-lisp-which-characteristics-made-a-difference-in-your-project

Clojure

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen

Ada

http://www.ada2012.org/

TCL

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html?

Haskell

Haskell is an advanced purely-functional programming language. An open-source product of more than twenty years of cutting-edge research, it allows rapid development of robust, concise, correct software. With strong support for integration with other languages, built-in concurrency and parallelism, debuggers, profilers, rich libraries and an active community, Haskell makes it easier to produce flexible, maintainable, high-quality software.

GHC is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and interactive environment for the functional language Haskell. Highlights:
- GHC Documentation

Thinking Functionally with Haskell - 3rd Aug, 2012

http://cheatsheet.codeslower.com/

Packages

A package is a library of Haskell modules known to the compiler. GHC comes with several packages: see the accompanying library documentation. More packages to install can be obtained from HackageDB.

Using a package couldn't be simpler: if you're using ––make or GHCi, then most of the installed packages will be automatically available to your program without any further options. The exceptions to this rule are covered below in Section 4.9.1, “Using Packages ”.

Building your own packages is also quite straightforward: we provide the Cabal infrastructure which automates the process of configuring, building, installing and distributing a package. All you need to do is write a simple configuration file, put a few files in the right places, and you have a package. See the Cabal documentation for details, and also the Cabal libraries (Distribution.Simple, for example).

Cabal (Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries) is a system for building and packaging Haskell libraries and programs. It defines a common interface for package authors and distributors to easily build their applications in a portable way. Cabal is part of a larger infrastructure for distributing, organizing, and cataloging Haskell libraries and programs. Specifically, the Cabal describes what a Haskell package is, how these packages interact with the language, and what Haskell implementations must to do to support packages. The Cabal also specifies some infrastructure (code) that makes it easy for tool authors to build and distribute conforming packages.
- Cabal User Guide

HackageDB (or just Hackage) is a collection of releases of Haskell packages. Each package is in the Cabal format, a standard way of packaging Haskell source code that makes it easy to build and install. These pages are a basic web interface to the Hackage package database.

cabal-install package provides the cabal command-line tool which simplifies the process of managing Haskell software by automating the fetching, configuration, compilation and installation of Haskell libraries and programs. Those packages must be prepared using Cabal and should be present at Hackage.

Repeat after me: “Cabal is not a Package Manager”

The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer

Gtk2Hs - A GUI Library for Haskell based on Gtk

Arch

Arch Wiki: Haskell Package Guidelines
News about Haskell on Arch Linux
https://github.com/archhaskell/habs - AUR is out of date for haskell packages

pacman -Rncs ghc
  remove all haskell..

Web

Yesod is a Haskell web framework for productive development of type-safe, RESTful, high performance web applications.

Snap is a simple web development framework for unix systems, written in the Haskell programming language. Snap has a high level of test coverage and is well-documented. Features include: a fast HTTP server library, a sensible and clean monad for web programming, an HTML-based templating system for generating pages

JS

Fay - A proper subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript. Fay is a small programming language which has the following properties: A proper syntactic and semantic subset of Haskell, Statically typed, Lazy, Pure by default, Compiles to JavaScript, Has fundamental data types (Double, String, etc.) based upon what JS can support, Outputs minifier-aware code for small compressed size, Has a trivial foreign function interface to JavaScript
- https://github.com/chrisdone/fay