Hoeveel regels heb je nodig om een simpele WCF service te starten die onder Linux draait? Antwoord: circa 30 regels. Sterker, je kunt die WCF zelfs draaien zonder te compileren, want het werkt gewoon in de F# Interactive! Je moet wel de wereld en zijn m[...]

I like lint-tools. These kind of tools help by catching things that do not work well with the language. When you write C you can really benefit from lint, since the language has some quirks. When writing javascript you can be aided by jshint. I talked to[...]

Tweet A friend of mine, Roger Engelber, pointed me to a nice article  on doing functional programming in Lua. The article detailed the steps to generate a flame like effects using a simple particle system. Of course, it naturally lead to me trying to do t[...]

The nice thing about using Kibana for your logs is that you get nice custom filtering. Thus it’s very easy for others to only view errors they feel that are relevant to them. If you have a many systems (gui’s, services, etc) where you pipe a lot of log [...]

The nice thing about using Kibana for your logs is that you get nice custom filtering. Thus it’s very easy for others to only view errors they feel that are relevant to them. If you have a many systems (gui’s, services, etc) where you pipe a lot of log [...]

Tweet Whilst talking with an ex-colleague, a question came up on how to implement the Stable Marriage problem using a message passing approach. Naturally, I wanted to answer that question with Erlang! Let’s first dissect the problem and decide what proces[...]

Tweet It’s very uncharacteristic of me, but I went to a session on the product management track at QCon London – Melissa Perris’ “The Bad Idea Terminator”. Having gone in the room with the expectation of coming out not much wiser, I was pleasantly surpris[...]

Tweet I was attempting to make some changes to some fairly old code in our codebase (something I probably wrote myself…) which hasn’t been touched on for a while. Naturally, my first step is to understand what the code does, so I started by looking at the[...]

(TL;DR: Intro to the reader-monad in F# for dependency-injection – see the source) intro: the problem Let’s say you have a function f that needs an object implementing some interface to do it’s work. a dirty solution (not advised) Another solution that ca[...]

I just stumbled upon a blog-post where Mittal Patel solved this little puzzle using PHP: 100 people standing in a circle in an order 1 to 100. No. 1 has a sword. He kills next person (i.e. no. 2) and gives sword to next to next (i.e no. 3). All person doe[...]