There is some controversy as to when Scrum was invented, but many attribute it to Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in 1986. While still new and cutting edge to many companies this 30 year old process has it’s fair share of both proponents and opponents. Seeing as how I started programming at about this time […]

There is some controversy as to when Scrum was invented, but many attribute it to Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in 1986. While still new and cutting edge to many companies this 30 year old process has it’s fair share of both proponents and opponents. Seeing as how I started programming at about this time under […]

Tweet It’s less than 2 weeks to this year’s Craft Conf and once again the line up looks amazing – Adrian Cockcroft, Adam Tornhill, Amir Chaudhry, Bart De Smet, Bodil Stokke, Dan North and plenty of other big names! I really enjoyed myself at last year’s event (here are my takeaways) but unfortunately with the new job

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy read­ing these exer­cises then please buy Crista’s book to sup­port her work. Following on from the last post, we will look at the Map Reduce style today.   Style 30 – Map Reduce Constraints Input data is divided in chunks,

In my PhD thesis, I worked on integrating contextual information into a type system of functional programming languages. For example, say your mobile application accesses something from the environment such as GPS sensor or your Facebook friends. With coeffects, this could be a part of the type. Rather than having type string -> Person, the type of a function would also include resources and would be string -{ gps, fb }-> Person. I wrote longer introduction to coeffects on this blog before. As one might ex[...]