Recently I saw a great post on Extreme Tech about the upcoming Windows 10 release and, to put it in my own words, the heart of the problem with both Windows 8.x and Windows 10.  Well, one of the problems with the great “Desktop/Tablet Convergence” that Microsoft has been trying to foist on all of us […]

One thing I have noticed about myself over the years; I’m not as good as I would care to be at focusing on details. In fact, sometimes I’m awful at paying attention to the details. As a software developer, of course, details are extremely important. I’ve come up with (and read about) a few tricks/heuristics to […]

One of the perverse side effects of code that’s “the simplest thing that could possibly work” is that it can appear much easier to create than it actually was.  I refer to this as Athena Code because it can appear as if the code sprung full-grown and ready to go from the head of the […]

So last night we had our first Detroit Erlang/Elixir meetup and as part of it I wanted to do a little coding exercise to help people to get their feet wet with Erlang and/or Elixir, as they chose.  We simply worked through FizzBuzz and we came up with two different Elixir solutions and two different Erlang […]

So one of the things I’ve done recently to help me to learn a new language is to tackle creating certain data structures and common operations on those structures in a given language.  And lately I’ve been digging Elixir quite a bit.  So I decided to tackle one of the easiest things I could tackle–a […]