Tweet “A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.” - Alan Perlis In my last post, I outlined the techniques to learning that I picked up from Josh Kaufman’s TEDx talk. I briefly mentioned that one should learn a new paradigm rather than a language with a slightly

Tweet Being a responsible speaker, I have started preparing my talk — A tour of the language landscape — for NDC Oslo months ahead of time! When I first came up with the idea for this talk, I asked on Twitter if anyone else thought it was a good idea. Phil made a great point

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Tweet In Here Be Monsters, we have a MMORPG that is content-heavy with over: 5000 items 800 recipes 500 locations 1500 quests and since the contents are highly connected, it makes balancing the game a rather interesting and challenging problem for our small team behind the project. The Challenge Consider a simple example involving the

One of the attendees of my virtual F# in Finance course, Stuart recently asked me a pretty advanced question about writing custom queries with F#, because he was interested in writing a nicer querying library for Amazon DynamoDB (his project is here). I realized that I don't really know about any good resource about doing this, so I wrote a little sample that shows how you can do this. The idea is that we want to be able to write something like this: 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: query { for p in DynamoDB.[...]