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' [...]

Today I want to show you some cool stunts you can do with single-case ADTs to help you make invalid states unrepresentable. To be precise I want to talk a bit about Phantom Types – those are parametrised types where a type-variable only appears on the lef[...]

What do I mean when I say? System level package / Global package: Package installed so that it is available for every program on the system Local package: Package installed into sub folder of project and only available to that project Timeline [...]

What do I mean when I say? - System level package / Global package: Package installed so that it is available for every program on the system - Local package: Package installed into sub folder of project and only available to that project Timeline dp[...]

Sometimes when working with xml you have more information in the xml file than you know what to do with in your code. It could be new tags or attributes. A way to use the xml you have not anticipated in your code. A simple way to present that information [...]

Sometimes when working with xml you have more information in the xml file than you know what to do with in your code. It could be new tags or attributes. A way to use the xml you have not anticipated in your code. A simple way to present that information [...]

I recently chatted with someone about functional programming and why you would not want to have a look at it these days (something I cannot understand at all ;) ). Aside from the usual stuff like “to ivory tower”, “to abstract”, “to much math”, “to differ[...]

After enjoying owning a 150mm refractor telescope for a year, I decided I wanted to upgrade.

I recently came upon a short rant named What’s The Problem With Static Methods? by Jason Gorman. Jason argues there that .. methods should be instance methods by default because static methods cannot be composed/used with IoC and might make your TDD a rea[...]