In these days I'm using the Groovy programming language very often, I found this language very intuitive and expressive. I try to use, when it is appropriate and convenient , Functional programming style and methods. One of the key elements of functional programming paradigm (opposite to the imperative paradigm) is "thinking in space rather than … Continue reading Adding a method for computing Cartesian Product to Groovy’s Collection(s)
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Learning Functional Programming: a K-Means implementation in Groovy
Since few days I started studying the Functional Programming paradigm, so I decide practicing by implementing a commonly used algorithm. Although Groovy it isn't strictly a functional programming language, it has all the characters of a functional programming language. K-Means K-Means is a method of cluster analysis which aims to partition n observations into k … Continue reading Learning Functional Programming: a K-Means implementation in Groovy
CRUX PPC 2.5 Release Candidate 4
It’s time for a new (and we hope the last one) release candidate for CRUX PPC 2.5. This release candidate implements all the changes introduced in CRUX PPC Release Candidate 3. From this release candidate we provide a full support for IBM pSeries machines (since we bought a second hand IBM Intellistation 2-way POWER4+ workstation). … Continue reading CRUX PPC 2.5 Release Candidate 4
Loading font face from file using Mono and Cairo
I was trying to build up a little application for previewing and installing FreeType fonts using Gtk#, but I didn’t found any existing API for loading the font face from a file (.ttf) in Mono.Cairo. In Mono.Cairo there is the class FontFace that represents a FontFace, this class has only a constructor that accept an … Continue reading Loading font face from file using Mono and Cairo
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