TDD is Dead, Long Live TyDD!
The inaugural meetup of our Young Haskell Padawans group was held yesterday. I have posted the slides for my talk “TDD is Dead, Long Live TyDD” on Github and Spea...
So how much of inheritance criticism is really valid?
Scala collections library has been receiving a lot of criticism of late. One of the reasons, among many, is its use of inheritance as a primary means of code reus...
Understanding monads
(On September 23rd, 2013, Aleksander Sumowski and I gave a talk on monads at Developer Meetup, ThoughtWorks, Pune. This post is a transcript of that talk.)
Easing the use of Embedded Document pattern
Martin Fowler recently blogged about “Embedded Document” pattern. It’s a very convenient way of dealing with JSON documents in web apps and we are using it for ou...
Stacking up Factor against Lisp bullet list
Out of a whim, I retook Factor yesterday. By some coincidence, Alvaro Videla also happened to retake it at about the same time. In a twitter conversation on the t...
Composition with non-deterministic computations
A deterministic computation has a type A -> B. It has input type A, and result type B. Only one result. Hence just B.
F# option cheat sheet
From what I have seen, pattern matching is overused in F#. Especially when dealing with options. It’s not hard to spot the following kind of pattern in F# codebas...
Emulating C#'s "default" keyword in Scala, and putting it on steroids
This is my first programming blog post. So please be gentle in your criticism. :-)