Re: Alan Kay talk

2012-04-24 Thread Brad Lucas
The link Tim provided is the direct link but it doesn't 'work' unless you are already on the site. I had the same problem. Try going to the main page for the video here http://tele-task.de/archive/lecture/overview/5819/ There is a group of links of which one of is the flash link which will

Re: PersistentHashMap vs PersistentArrayMap in Postal Question

2012-03-04 Thread Brad Lucas
case. One solution is to make the string values look like string > literals to the reader: > > host="foo.com" > port=2525 > user="me" > pass="pwd" > > Try that and never believe anything you read on StackOverflow :) > > Dave > >

PersistentHashMap vs PersistentArrayMap in Postal Question

2012-03-04 Thread Brad Lucas
I'm using Postal (https://github.com/drewr/postal) and found something I don't know how to fix. I have my application working fine if I have a var with my smtp properties created as follows: (def smtp-original {:host "foo.com" :port 2525 :user "me"

ANN: quote-downloader 1.0.0

2012-02-26 Thread Brad Lucas
Yahoo provides downloadable historical quote data if you exercise a properly formatted URL. The data is returned in CSV format and is easily stored in a file. I wrote quote-downloader to accept stock symbols from the command line and request and store the data in symbol.csv files locally. The prog