I wrote a 15*15, NYT-style crossword puzzle for Strange Loop. On the NYT difficulty scale, it’s roughly a Wednesday-level puzzle. However, it was written for Strange Loop and thus does presume familiarity with functional programming and math, and has a fe[...]

Thanks to Skills Matter last week saw the first GameCraft game jam event in North America.   The first ever GameCraft was held in Dublin back in February 2012. Since then there have been GameCraft events all over Ireland, with an event in Derry sponsore[...]

By 2017, it is expected that GPUs will no longer be an external accelerator to a CPU; instead, CPUs and GPUs will be integrated on the same die with a unified memory architecture. Such a system eliminates some of accelerator architectures’ historical chal[...]

I’m a bit of a Pacman fan so when I came across the Pacman Kata in the Kata Catalogue I was hooked: Pacman finds himself in a grid filled with monsters. Will he be able to eat all the dots on the board before the monsters eat him? Back in early 2012[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News F# support will be standard part of Xamarin studio (not a plugin). New F# Refactor integration in FSharpBinding. Phillip Trelford presented Mario jumps on FunScript (source code) Tsun[...]

STM is a very nice parallel programming model used intensively in Haskell and Clojure. There's a F# implementation which can be found in FSharpx library. Today I'm going to test performance of both the Haskell and the F# STMs. The test is very simple - re[...]

This was my second time at The Strange Loop. When I attended in 2011, I said that it was one of the best conferences I had ever attended, and I was disappointed that family plans meant I couldn't attend in 2012. That meant my expectations were high. The m[...]

I dusted off some old code that I’ve written to query the API provided by Skånetrafiken. I’ve also published it to rubygems. It’s quite nice to work with soap using ruby.

Here Be Monsters is one year old! Big things are happening behind the scenes in the world of our episodic MMORPG Here Be Monsters, since the beta started back in September 2012 we have attracted a small but dedicated group of players who have watched the [...]

It feels a little odd even to write this post, but I receive quite a few emails asking me for advice on how to get better at programming, how to get through interviews, whether it's better to be a generalist or a specialist etc. I want to make it very cle[...]