My BASH directory management
I saw a post on Supuser.com that asked about how to go “back” to a directory rather than “up”. The right answer was “cd -“, of course, but I’ve been using a home-grown tool to do this for years and it...
View ArticleHere’s (one of the reasons) why Scala is awesome
Update: In the comments below, Alex is trying to educate me on something… I’m still not entirely sure what he’s on about but it’s been keeping me thinking about this post. I’ve modified it a bit here...
View ArticleMonad posting updated
A couple of people pointed out that my posting about why Monads are so awesome left a bit too much to the imagination. I tossed in an update that should make it less mysterious about what the heck I’m...
View ArticleHaskell ‘sequence’ Over Functions – Explained
I’ve recently been devouring Learn You a Haskell for Great Good. I’ve been meaning to do it for ages, but a recent post by Debasish Ghosh pushed me to go through it cover to cover… I’m almost there :)...
View ArticleI gave up on Zsh
Ok, so everyone and their grandmother appears to be using Zsh and I was starting to wonder what was wrong with me. Why was I still using Bash? So I grabbed Oh-My-Zsh (which was pretty cool, BTW) and...
View ArticleRant – A Purposeful Lack of Understanding
I recently responded to someone’s question on StackOverflow and now I have to rant about something. There is a large problem I find with programmers that I meet (generally in Real Life, as opposed to...
View ArticleAdding `squared` to Scala Numbers with Implicts and Type Classes
I recently enjoyed a couple of days with Heiko Seeberger and Josh Suereth as they dragged me through some Advanced Scala Training and it was quite awesome. As an exercise, to test out my new found...
View ArticleBack to ZSH
A little while ago, I gave up on Zsh. There were a number of people that showed me how I could have fixed up Zsh so it would suck less, but I just didn’t have time. Well, I found myself with some time...
View ArticleThe Most Useful Code I’ve Written in Weeks
I’d like to say that I write useful code all the time, but let’s face facts… useful code doesn’t come around all that often. In my new job I’m using Maven instead of SBT and I miss the cool tilde...
View ArticleMy Book: Akka Concurrency has been released!
I’ve been working on a book since March, 2012 called Akka Concurrency and on Monday, Oct 15th 2012, it went live at Artima. I’m really happy to see it make this milestone – it’s been a long time...
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