Tweet Update 24/08/2015 : some helpful people pointed out that I’ve missed a couple of other notable conferences here, including: Leetspeak (10th Oct Stockholm) Distributed Matters Berlin (19th Sep) and Barcelona (21st Nov) CodeMotion Berlin (2nd-3rd Nov), Milan (20th-21st Nov) and Madrid (27th-28th Nov) Lambda World (24th Oct Cadiz)   It’s almost that time of the year again, that

A new Try WebSharper is out adding a couple handy new features and addressing a couple annoyances, making it even more easy to publish your F# and WebSharper snippets.

There’s an excellent and practical write-up on configuring an EC2 container to host a WordPress site here.  But there are a few minor amplifications I’d add.  So I thought I’d write them up here. 1.) As some folks noted in the comments, you should assign the Elastic IP address before you install WordPress.  Everything with WP […]

Tweet Note: see the rest of the series so far.   I stumbled across this post the other day and problem 2 seems like something I can easily do in APL since it essentially requires you to interleave two arrays. The problem is: Write a function that combines two lists by alternatingly taking elements. For example: given

So recently I’ve been working on automating some interactions with a website.  Elixir’s Hound library is a great help, of course.  But I also ran across an interesting and unexpected benefit to pattern matching that greatly simplified some code. I was trying to dynamically build a URL to pass parameters. The URL would be in […]