This is mainly for myself in case I forget some of the steps involved – but maybe you find this usefull to in case you want to play with IDRIS. This is how I setup a cabal sandbox, fetch the latest version and (re-)build it. update More info on github fir[...]

5 years ago today, I sent the following bug report to the Powershell team. From: Lincoln Atkinson Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:33 PM To: PowerShell Discussions Subject: Problem with get-date Hey experts, maybe you can help me with this issue. Get-Dat[...]

On year ago, on this very day, I wrote about the open-sourcing of C# 6.0. Thanks to a very special information leak, I learned about this about a week before Microsoft officially announced it. However, my information were slightly incorrect - rather then[...]

On year ago, on this very day, I wrote about the open-sourcing of C# 6.0. Thanks to a very special information leak, I learned about this about a week before Microsoft officially announced it. However, my information were slightly incorrect - rather th[...]

Just before Christmas I came across some Java source code by “Uncle” Bob Martin aimed at “demystifying compilers” which expends about 600 lines of code to parse the following simple finite state machine: Actions: Turnstile FSM: OneCoinTurnstile Initial: [...]

Tweet This excellent book by Steve Krug was a real eye opener when I chanced upon it a few years ago. I’m not a UI/UX designer by trade or by training, and as a backend developer my appreciation for UI/UX has very little outlet in my day-to-day job either[...]

5 years ago today, I sent the following bug report to the Powershell team. From: Lincoln Atkinson Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:33 PM To: PowerShell Discussions Subject: Problem with get-date Hey experts, maybe you can help me with this issue. Get-[...]

I would love to do more (or any) professional Haskell and I am really happy that I can do F# in my day to day work but the sad fact is: most of you probably may not (or don’t want to) use F# in your day-job and do C#. Now that does not mean that […]

Auf der Spartakiade hatte ich als schwerere Aufgabe für die Teilnehmer folgendes: Implementiere foldl unter Verwendung von foldr Das ist ein Klassiker, der einem richtig schön das Hirn verknoten kann – ihr könnte es ja gerne (nochmal) probieren, bevor ihr[...]

In our previous post, we looked at James McCaffrey’s code, “Gradient Descent Training Using C#” from MSDN magazine, and took a stab at rewriting the first part in F#, to clarify a bit the way the dataset was created. Today, we’ll dive in the second block,[...]