There recently was an interesting SO question on F# Printf.* family of functions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11559440/how-to-manage-debug-printing-in-f It is known that these functions are very slow. Slow enough for most people to avoid them en[...]

You decide what happens in the developer community. You can vote with your feet by choosing which conferences and user group meetings you can turn up at. You can also vote with your mouse and decide which talks you’d like to hear all the way through to th[...]

Inspired by: The Fresh Prince of Bell Labs #codingsitcoms — Tim Pettersen (@kannonboy) July 16, 2012 In Petoskey, Michigan born and raised Tinkering with gadgets I spent most of my days Chillin out, maxin, relaxing with Boole, And working on my master’s o[...]

So is a process something like an algorithm or program but executed by people?

Deep in the darkest depths lurks an ancient horror, when the time is right it will rise forth and leave you screaming for mercy and begging for forgiveness… OK, I have a penchant for being over dramatic but in this post I am going to reveal some little k[...]

Deep in the darkest depths lurks an ancient horror, when the time is right it will rise forth and leave you screaming for me

This article tells of a report where they suspect agile of being developer-centric scam in order for developers to avoid unwanted tasks: In spite of the specialization of resources which limits the scope of the work of developers, the Agile movement migh[...]

Related Posts Part 1 Part 2 Part 3   Here I will look at how some commonly used functions in F#’s List module might be translated to Erlang using Erlang’s equivalent – the lists module.   List.append F#:         let newList = List.append [ 1..5 ] [ 6..10 [...]

What are the most important differences between native applications and web applications (for mail, rss et.c.) when it comes to login? Native applications usually store login information. For web applications this is dependant on the browser in order to s[...]

It’s been forever since I last posted, I worked quite a bit on PezHack and then stopped for a while.  I’m back to it now.  In this post I will describe a technique I used to greatly reduce the amount of code and abstract away some repetitive imperative co[...]