This Window: Close It

Filed under: macosx dtrace java developer 
Did you know that the current Mac OS X Java6 vm has all the same java probes that the Sun VM has? This means you can easily instrument java stuff. I had no idea Apple had gotten this stuff ported over.

Did you know that the current Mac OS X Java6 vm has all the same java probes that the Sun VM has? This means you can easily instrument java stuff. I had no idea Apple had gotten this stuff ported over.

Filed under: clojure java lisp net 

Short Chat Server in Clojure

After seeing a neat little demo of a chat server in node.js, I wondered exactly what it’d look like to try and do something similar in my latest linguistic fling, Clojure. I was surprised at how quickly I could code it up (all in all, about 2 hours with numerous interruptions) and how simple it actually was.

First the code, then I’ll talk about it a bit:

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