I was attempting to make some changes to some fairly old code in our codebase (something I probably wrote myself…) which hasn’t been touched on for a while. Naturally, my first step is to understand what the code does, so I started by looking at the class where I need to make my changes. Perhaps …
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From the first day of QCon London, I really enjoyed Kevlin Henney’s Small is Beautiful talk. Titled after E.F. Schumacher’s book (below) of the same name, the title itself should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect from this talk. I’m a big fan of Kevlin, and his “Seven Ineffective Coding …
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The first day of this year’s QCon London is over, and it’s been a thoroughly enjoyable day of talks. Most of the talks are on softer, more philosophical topics, which is a nice change of pace from last week’s LambdaDays. One of my favourite talks from today was Adam Tornhill’s Code as Crime Scene and …
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2014 has been a good year, and it ended with a bang! With so many great talks to choose from, here are my top 10 most memorable talks I have attended/watched this year (not in any particular order since they have all taught me something different). Kevlin Henney – Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of …
This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2014 project. Check out all the other great posts there! Special thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing this. A good coding habit is an incredibly powerful tool, it allows us to make good decisions with minimal cognitive effort and can be the difference between …
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Some time ago, Microsoft announced Orleans, an implementation of the actor model in .Net which is designed for the cloud environment where instances are ephemeral. We’re currently working on a number of projects in Erlang and have run into some assumptions in distributed Erlang which doesn’t hold true in a cloud-hosted environment where nodes are …
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It’s been a busy month, some top quality conferences – Code Mesh, Build Stuff, FuncBy and NDC London – all cramped into the space of 4 weeks. It has been a blast, lots of talks and valuable takeaways, and it was great to hang out with old friends and meet new ones. As soon as …
Winter is upon us, but so is an exciting part of the year when lots of good tech conferences are happening all over the place! CodeMesh was awesome We had a great time at CodeMesh again this year, and enjoyed some amazing sessions from some of the best people in the industry. Don’t worry …
I haven’t been able to stop playing around with my Myo armband since I got my hands on it this week. In truth it’s ruined a few of my plans for the weekend, but boy it’s been fun trying to get the Myo working with various apps and games. Elm has also piqued my interest …
It’s been a long wait but I have finally got my hands on a Myo armband this week! To start, you need to download and install Myo Connect from here. You need to go through the set up guide, which includes teaching the Myo armband how to classify the EMG readings from your arm …
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