Take a few missteps with Hitesh 2008-11-06T02:44:26Z http://www.jasani.org/ Copyright (c) 2008, Hitesh Jasani Rhascal.Feeds.Atom http://www.jasani.org/2008/11/05/error-installing-haskell-x11-libs 2008-11-06T02:44:11Z 2008-11-06T02:44:11Z hitesh I recently bought a new Macbook Pro and with the recent announcment of GHC 6.10.1, I thought it was time to install the latest GHC and libs. Previously I had some trouble installing the Haskell X11...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AWrongTurnOnThePathToEnlightenment/~4/FHb0A7i9two" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.jasani.org/2008/11/05/error-installing-haskell-x11-libs http://www.jasani.org/2008/10/10/error-installing-haskell-sdlimage 2008-10-10T23:20:26Z 2008-10-10T23:20:26Z hitesh I really like OSX, except when I have to jump through extra hoops to install things on it versus Linux. The latest challenge was installing the Haskell SDL-image bindings on Leopard. Configure...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AWrongTurnOnThePathToEnlightenment/~4/5ZQuxNB6bfE" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.jasani.org/2008/10/10/error-installing-haskell-sdlimage http://www.jasani.org/2008/09/25/error-installing-haskell-x11-package 2008-09-26T01:39:25Z 2008-09-26T01:39:25Z hitesh Recently I was having trouble installing the Haskell X11 package on OSX Leopard. Running configure generated an error. bash-3.2$ runhaskell Setup.hs configure Warning: defaultUserHooks in Setup...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AWrongTurnOnThePathToEnlightenment/~4/lKSpvph3JVk" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.jasani.org/2008/09/25/error-installing-haskell-x11-package http://www.jasani.org/2008/08/19/emacs-erlang-snippets 2008-08-20T01:54:19Z 2008-08-20T01:54:19Z hitesh Continuing with my previous yasnippet for Ruby, here are some snippets for Erlang mode. Installation Create an erlang-mode directory under text-mode Save the following code in a file named...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AWrongTurnOnThePathToEnlightenment/~4/Wznm6aisrWU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.jasani.org/2008/08/19/emacs-erlang-snippets http://www.jasani.org/2008/08/11/textmate-ruby-snippet-to-yasnippet 2008-08-11T17:06:33Z 2008-08-11T17:06:33Z hitesh Dr. Nic recently put together a screencast of adding a Ruby snippet to TextMate. This particular snippet makes a class definition using the filename as the default classname. I always enjoy...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AWrongTurnOnThePathToEnlightenment/~4/sHhyDXZoP2g" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.jasani.org/2008/08/11/textmate-ruby-snippet-to-yasnippet http://www.jasani.org/2008/07/19/elisp-doesnt-support-closures 2008-07-20T01:37:20Z 2008-07-20T01:37:20Z hitesh I'm hacking some ELisp functions recently and I realize that ELisp doesn't have a filter function or support closures. That's disappointing. One sort of takes it for granted nowadays that a decent...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AWrongTurnOnThePathToEnlightenment/~4/x-xmPicJNUQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.jasani.org/2008/07/19/elisp-doesnt-support-closures http://www.jasani.org/2008/05/22/managing-your-emacs-config 2008-06-01T21:52:44Z 2008-05-22T07:43:21Z hitesh Not too long ago I found my emacs customizations were out of control. Over some time I had kept adding imports and configuration of various libraries and I was having trouble keeping track of it all....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AWrongTurnOnThePathToEnlightenment/~4/aSItrWeXGqk" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.jasani.org/2008/05/22/managing-your-emacs-config http://www.jasani.org/2008/04/01/thinking-of-dropping-haskell 2008-04-02T04:11:22Z 2008-04-01T09:20:57Z hitesh I'm thinking of dropping Haskell because it's just too lazy. People claim that normal order evaluation optimizes cpu cycles since you don't evaluate code that isn't used. Maybe, but to me I just...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AWrongTurnOnThePathToEnlightenment/~4/mF3bhR6XsZI" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.jasani.org/2008/04/01/thinking-of-dropping-haskell http://www.jasani.org/2008/02/27/initial-release-of-hsparklines-010 2008-04-01T08:50:17Z 2008-04-01T08:50:17Z hitesh I've put the first release of hsparklines up on Hackage. It's a sparklines library implemented in Haskell. I know there are a number of web service based solutions that one could use for this, but...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AWrongTurnOnThePathToEnlightenment/~4/wrn5SDx9QH8" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.jasani.org/2008/02/27/initial-release-of-hsparklines-010 http://www.jasani.org/2008/02/18/command-line-haskell-and-error-handling-examples 2008-04-01T08:46:36Z 2008-04-01T08:46:36Z hitesh I was working with using Haskell on the command line recently and it occurred to me that it might be interesting to demo it and walk through some error handling scenarios at the same time. Like...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AWrongTurnOnThePathToEnlightenment/~4/oekFrYZ2IVw" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.jasani.org/2008/02/18/command-line-haskell-and-error-handling-examples