A friend of mine, Roger Engelber, pointed me to a nice article on doing functional programming in Lua. The article detailed the steps to generate a flame like effects using a simple particle system. Of course, it naturally lead to me trying to do the same in Elm! To translate the approach was really …
Whilst talking with an ex-colleague, a question came up on how to implement the Stable Marriage problem using a message passing approach. Naturally, I wanted to answer that question with Erlang! Let’s first dissect the problem and decide what processes we need and how they need to interact with one another. The stable marriage problem …
It’s very uncharacteristic of me, but I went to a session on the product management track at QCon London – Melissa Perris’ “The Bad Idea Terminator”. Having gone in the room with the expectation of coming out not much wiser, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself in one of the best talks at the …
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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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On day three of QCon London, we were treated to some really insightful stories from the likes of Google, Atlas and Spotify. And for the first time in a while Uber is talking publically about what they’ve been up to. The challenge for Uber’s platform is that both supply (Uber drivers) and demand (riders) …
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Day three of QCon London was a treat, with full day tracks on architecture and microservices, it presented some nice challenges of what to see during the day. My favourite talk of the day was Randy Shoup’s Service Architectures at Scale, Lessons from Google and eBay. Randy kicked off the session by identifying a …
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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Hello, it’s been a while since I last wrote, work has kept me busy for a while – we’re making some interesting changes and experimenting with Docker again, so fun fun fun! Anyhow, I thought I drop you a note to tell you about some of the cool conference that are happening around Europe in …
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 …
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