Year in Review, 2013

As 2014 dawns upon us, here’s a quick look back at what I got up to in 2013.

 

I went to some con­fer­ences and gave some talks.

• F# in Social Gam­ing at CodeMesh 13
• F# in the Cloud and at Scale at F# in Finance 13
• Big­Query in Social Gam­ing at Google Cloud Plat­form Road­show Lon­don

 

I went on .Net Rocks to talk about build­ing games in F#.

• Episode 846

 

I went on Most­ly Erlang with Bryan Hunter and Phil Trelford.

• Episode 13

 

I did a show with Com­mu­ni­ty for F#.

• Build­ing a MMORPG

 

I co-authored a white paper for InfoQ.

• Design Pat­tern Automa­tion

 

I worked on some projects.

• S3 type provider for F#
• stream_ext, port of some Rx com­bi­na­tors to Dart
• v0.3.0 announce­ment
• v0.2.0 announce­ment
• v0.1.0 announce­ment
• FSharp.Markdown.Pdf, for­mats mark­down to PDF
• DynamoDB.SQL, SQL-like DSL for per­form­ing query and scan oper­a­tions in Ama­zon DynamoDB
• v1.2.1 announce­ment
• v1.1.0 announce­ment
• Amazon.SimpleWorkflow.Extensions, DSL to sim­pli­fy usage pat­terns of Ama­zon Sim­ple­Work­flow ser­vice
• intro part 1
• intro part 2
• intro part 3

 

I learnt Dart and made some mini-games with Dart and StageXL.

• Run Taotie Run
• Whack A Meng
• Agent of P.R.I.S.M (win­ning entry at Lon­don Glob­al Game­Craft)
• Dart – imple­ment­ing the sin­gle­ton pat­tern with fac­to­ry con­struc­tors

 

I also spent some time learn­ing Clo­jure.

• Clo­jure – mul­ti-ari­ty and vari­adic func­tions

 

I briefly rekin­dled my inter­est in Project Euler.

• Prob­lem 60

 

And final­ly, here are my top 10 posts in 2013.

• Here Be Mon­sters – hel­lo, Neo4j
• F# – XmlSe­ri­al­iz­er, Record types and [CLIMutable]
• stream_ext – bring­ing more Rx API to Dart
• F# – PDF fun with Mark­down and FSharp.Formatting
• Clo­jure – mul­ti-ari­ty and vari­adic func­tions
• Mak­ing Ama­zon Sim­ple­Work­flow sim­ple to work with
• Ama­zon ELB – some caveats around health check pings
• AOP – string intern­ing with Post­Sharp
• LINQ Order­By – using Comparer<T>.Create and F#’s object expres­sion
• Be lazy, but beware of ini­tial­iza­tion excep­tion