I came across this SO question the other day, and I really liked Daniel’s answer as it illustrates the beauty and elegance of F# and functional programming in general! Personally I love the combinators approach, and for anyone else who’s interested to see[...]

Definition of iconoclast from Wikipedia: An iconoclast is someone who engages in iconoclasm—destruction of religious symbols or, by extension, established dogma or conventions. Recently the GOTO Copenhagen conference had a track dedicated to Iconocl[...]

Refusing? As a developer, assume that you are given technology or tool X and told that you need to create Y using it. Sometime it's just getting down to business and getting it done. Sometimes you realize that using said technology is a mistake. It c[...]

Refusing? As a developer, assume that you are given technology or tool X and told that you need to create Y using it. Sometime it’s just getting down to business and getting it done. Sometimes you realize that using said technology is a mistake. It could[...]

A while ago I created a JSON parser in F# just to understand F# Active Patterns. Over the course of year, I have updated the parser as needed and now it seems fairly complete. I will take this blog entry … Continue reading →

A while ago I created a JSON parser in F# just to understand F# Active Patterns. Over the course of year, I have updated the parser as needed and now it seems fairly complete. I will take this blog entry … Continue reading →

TCP has a theoretical limit of 65K connections per machine. I had always wondered how close we could approach that limit. A perfect use case is for ‘push notification’ type services which exist for all the major smartphone platforms (iPhone, … Continue re[...]

TCP has a theoretical limit of 65K connections per machine. I had always wondered how close we could approach that limit. A perfect use case is for ‘push notification’ type services which exist for all the major smartphone platforms (iPhone, … Continue re[...]

I was having a conversation with a fellow developer the other day and we we chatting about the lack of foresight of many firms regarding functional programming.  This naturally led to a discussion of how chaotic many workplaces are. This, of course, led t[...]

After watching Gael’s recent SkillsMatter talk on multithreading I’ve put together some notes from a very educational talk:   Hardware Cache Hierarchy Four levels of cache L1 (per core) – typically used for instructions L2 (per core) L3 (per die) DRAM (al[...]