Year in Review, 2014

As 2015 dawns upon us, here’s a quick look  back at what I got up to in 2014.

 

I went to a few conferences and gave some talks:

• Modelling game economy with Neo4j at CodeMesh 14
• My adventure with Elm at NDC London 14
• Learn you to tame complex APIs with F# powered DSLs at FuncBy 14
• NDC Oslo 2014 – Takeaways from “Career reboot for the developer mind”
• NDC Oslo 2014 – Takeaways from keynote “It’s a write/read web”

 

I took part in the F# Advent Calendar project.

Seven ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have

F# Deep Dives, a book I co-authored with Tomas, Phil, and co finally goes on sale!

 

I technical-reviewed a book.

 

I worked on some projects.

• BitSyntax for reading/writing binary data at bit level (inspired by Erlang)
• Metricano to simplify monitoring application metrics
• ReactoKinesix, Rx based .Net client library for working with Amazon Kinesis
• Darkseid, actor-based .Net library for pushing data to Amazon Kinesis
• raven_dart, a Dart client for Sentry
• raven-csharp-contrib to add auto-instrumentation (via PostSharp attributes) and F# workflow for C# client for Sentry
• Amazon.CloudWatch.Selector, DSLs for querying Amazon CloudWatch metrics
• Filbert v0.2.0, a BERT serializer and BERT-RPC client for .Net
• DynamoDb.SQL v2.0.0, DSL for performing query and scan operations against Amazon DynamoDB
• log4net.kinesis, a log4net appender for Amazon Kinesis

 

I learnt Elm.

• Elm – functional reactive dreams + missile command
• Elm – building a version of Snake in under 100 LOC
• Contrasting F# and Elm’s record types

 

I finally got my Myo armband!

• Myo – first day of happy hacking
• Elm and Myo playing together

 

I spent some more time with Dart.

• Dart – emulating enums using Constant Constructor
• Dart – emulating F#’s discriminated unions (aka algebraic types)

 

I briefly resumed my interest in Project Euler and solved a few more problems with F#.

• Problem 80
• Problem 68
• Problem 64
• Problem 61

 

And finally, here are my top 10 posts of 2014:

• A look at Microsoft Orleans through Erlang-tainted glasses
• Seven ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have
• Elm – functional reactive dreams + missile command
• Being visually honest with F#
• F# – Genetic algorithms to help you catch monsters
• NDC Oslo 2014 – Takeaways from keynote “It’s a write/read web”
• Here Be monsters – Message broker that links all the things
• AOP – A story of how we localized a MMORPG with minimal effort
• F# – Imitating Erlang’s bit syntax for easier binary protocol implementation
• Be the dog that wags the tail