Note: see the rest of the series so far. Surprisingly, my last post on APL did well on HackerNews, turns out there is genuine interest in APL out there, which is great to see I have been busy with a number of conferences and talks since then so I haven’t had time to revisit APL. …
In the last post, we looked at some inefficiencies with reference types in .Net and perhaps oversold value types a little In any case, now that we’ve made the initial sale and you’re back for more, let’s talk about some pitfalls wrt the use of value types you should be aware of. Specifically let’s focus on cases …
(Update 2015/07/21 : read the next post in this series to learn about the places where implicit boxing happens with value types and how you can prevent them) I chanced upon Sasha Goldshtein’s excellent book, Pro .Net Performance : Optimize Your C# Application, a few years back and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Even though …
Smallest .Net ref type is 12 bytes (or why you should consider using value types) Read More »
I gave a new talk “A tour of language landscape” at the recent NDC Oslo and then again at PolyConf. Tour of language landscape from Yan Cui Judging by the reactions on Twitter the talk was well received, thank you everyone for your kind words! One of the most inspiring talks at @polyconfhq by @theburningmonk: http://t.co/cTSLC5lZB3 — Marcin …
Video and slides for “A tour of language landscape” @ NDC Oslo Read More »
This year’s PolyConf is over and although it was my first time at this conference and I didn’t know too many people going in I had such a great time and learnt so much I’ll definitely be back in the near future. Recording of the talks are slowly appearing on their YouTube channel, so keep …
Bryan Hunter has been responsible for organising the FP track at NDC conferences as well as a few others and the quality of the tracks have been consistently good. The FP track for this year’s NDC Oslo was exceptional and every talk has had a full house. And this year Bryan actually kicked off the …
NDC Oslo 15 – Takeaways from “Lean and Functional Programming” Read More »
With the accompanying post, and slides for the talk: Modelling game economy with Neo4j from Yan Cui
Time flies when you’re having fun, and we’re already into the second half of 2015! On a personal level, it’s been a great 6 months, I have spoken at 10 conferences in as many cities and as you read this post I’m at Polyconf in Poznan! The great thing about being at so many conferences …
This year’s version of NDC Oslo has a strong security theme throughout,and one of Troy Hunt’s talks – 50 Shades of AppSec – was one of the top-rated talks at the conference based on attendee feedbacks. Sadly I missed the talk whilst at the conference but having just watched it on Vimeo it left me …
NDC Oslo 15 – Takeaways from “50 Shades of AppSec” Read More »
with accompanying slides here: My adventure with Elm from Yan Cui
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