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Matthew D. Miller

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I'm a DBA by day and a youth pastor by night. I love Perl.

Learn Common Lisp by Example: Qt GUI with EQL5

Feb 19, 202130 min read

Embedded Qt5 Lisp (EQL5) is a Qt5 binding for Embedded Common Lisp (ECL). EQL5 is a bit different than most bindings. Instead of executing your Lisp source with ecl and importing the bindings, you compile a new interpreter (eql5) that combines both E...

Learn Clojure by Example: JavaFX GUI with Cljfx

Jan 11, 202124 min read

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that runs on the JVM. JavaFX is a modern GUI toolkit for the JVM. You could use JavaFX directly with Clojure's Java interop, but Cljfx provides a declarative and functional wrapper for JavaFX. Instead of building yet anot...

SELinux Has a UI Problem

Apr 9, 201910 min read

If you ever troubleshoot a problem on Red Hat (or closely related distros such as Fedora and CentOS), you'll come across dozens of tutorials and articles that tell you to resolve the problem by disabling SELinux. It's not just random blog posts and q...

Vala Deserves a Closer Look

Apr 1, 20198 min read

This is not really a post about Vala--though I do think Vala deserves a closer look. It is about the general philosophy of evaluating programming languages. I also wrote a post that's not really about Perl. There are so many programming languages out...

Learn LambdaNative by Example: Desktop GUI

Mar 27, 201933 min read

This tutorial was updated on January 10, 2021 to generate a tone using LambdaNative instead of merely wrapping a Linux-only command-line program called beep that controls the PC speaker. This should now make it possible to follow this tutorial on any...

Right tool for the job, but chances are the right tool is Perl.

Mar 22, 201923 min read

The title is intentionally provocative. This is not really a post about Perl--though I do think Perl usually is the right tool (at least for me). It is about the general philosophy of picking a language for a project and learning new languages. Chanc...

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