A LONG TIME AGO, IN A GALAXY FAR AWAY….. Having infiltrated the Empire’s data centre, you are not overly surprised to discover they are using some ancient system from the old republic days.  A brief look around reveals a monstrous legacy Empire Enterpris[...]

Over the last few days I have been learning Racket, a language derived from Scheme.  The main selling point of Racket is its extensive macro system that lets you do everything from the simplest macros through to redefining the entire language (yes you can[...]

Introduction Though the mystery man Don Syme, Father of F#, is generally heralded for various software based innovations and other computer related things, it transpires he has talents in other unrelated areas.  Specifically, Don is master cow herder (yes[...]

I am very excited to finally share the first version of my latest type provider, the Mixin Provider!  This post is quite long but you should read it all, this only scratches the surface really. Background   Code Generation in F# Code generation in any lan[...]

I attended the first London meetup group for the D programming language last week with my friend David.  Near the end we had a chance to try and solve a cool programming problem called the secret santa challenge. disclaimer – I am a complete D 'lol newb' [...]