Takeaways from Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski’s talk on the Actor model
Actor model will change the way you think about computation and parallelism. Hear from the mouth of the Carl Hewitt, the creator of the actor model.
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Shlomo Swidler’s Many Cloud Design Patterns slides
This is so good I keep going back to it, so to save myself and you the hassle of searching for it every time I thought I’d share it here on my blog, enjoy! Ten^H^H^H Many Cloud App Design Patterns from Shlomo Swidler
Bear Cubs are unleashed on Jackpotjoy Slots!
Another Thursday had gone by and yet another slot has been added to JackpotJoy Slots, this time it’s a grizzly themed 50-line slot called Bear Cubs! The main slots game is pretty straight forward, albeit being 50-lines instead of the typical 25, where things really become interesting is the bonus feature. When you land 3, …
F# – Make extension methods visible to C#
In F# you can write an extension method like this: Whilst this will work perfectly fine in your F# code, the extension method will not be visible to any C# code using the FileInfo type because F# and C# compiles extension methods differently. To make C#-compatible extension methods in F#, here’s what you need to …
Bejeweled Blitz Cascades is launched
In one of the busiest week we’ve had in a while, we’ve got some pretty big announcements for you! I’ll start with our truly unique new cascading slot for Lucky Gem Casino – Bejeweled Blitz Cascades. The following video will give you a good idea of the flow and pace of this awesome new slot: …
DDD10!
Hello! Just a quick note to mention that I will be speaking about Aspect Oriented Programming at next Saturday’s DDD10 in Reading, some great sessions in the line up this year, hope to see you there
Spellbound Forest and New Slots Tournament features!
We’ve been busy at work the last couple of weeks and I’m proud to tell you that we have some nice improvements to JackpotJoy Slots including two new slots as well as a revamp of the tournament feature! Spellbound Forest Spellbound Forest is a fantasy-themed All Pays slots where matching symbols on adjacent lines (or …
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Filbert – added BERT-RPC client + NuGet
Since my previous post on Filbert I have added a simple but functional BERT-RPC client which I have managed to test against native Erlang modules running on Ernie. To make it easier for you to try it out I’ve uploaded the package to NuGet, which you can download from here, or run the simple NuGet …
Simple Speed Tester – moved to Github!
Since I’m liking git more and more by the day, with tools such as SmartGit and GitFlow making the task of managing even a complex branching model a relatively easy task, I’ve decided to move my Simple Speed Tester project over to github! Simple Speed Tester is a very simple framework I wrote to help …
F# – converting a C# dictionary to a Map
Found a useful little snippet that converts a C# dictionary to F#’s map which uses the built-in KeyValue active pattern: