This took me a while to figure out so I’m hoping that by posting this, it’ll save others some work. I’ve got a legacy system that I’m working with; one of the initiatives I’ve been pursuing in my spare time is to build a JSON API to wrap this legacy database so that other developers […]

One of the more exciting new functional languages of the last couple of years is a marriage of Erlang and Ruby called Elixir.  Besides adding an arguably better syntax with which to program the Erlang VM (also known as the BEAM VM), Elixir adds meta-programming, addresses issues Erlang had with dealing with Unicode strings, and […]

So I’ve been giving a little more time and attention to both Scala and Vagrant.  Vagrant is a nice way to manage development environments via the use of VM’s and Scala, of course, is a great hybrid of OO and FP.  One of the things I’ve done is to start working on a provisioning script […]

I have been a vocal advocate of F# for a long time. I’ve shared some of my little interesting discoveries in the language from time to time. I’ve been trying to help other .Net developers to see what a great, cool language F# is. I’ve tried to add intelligent conversation to the world although I […]

While I’m thinking about it, another quick comment.  If you’re asked to RSVP to a meetup, user group, etc. please do not say “I’ll attend” unless you’re sure you’ll attend.  As dumb as it sounds we have a few people around the Metro Detroit area (not naming any names) that seem to consistently sign-up for […]