To install Erlang on your Mac, follow these simple steps: download the latest source file from the official Erlang site here. open the Terminal go to the folder where you’ve saved the .gz source file run the following command: tar –xzf otp_src_R15B01.tar.gz (replace the filename with the name of the file you’ve downloaded) then go …
Brushing up on Erlang again having spent so much time with F# since I last looked at Erlang, it’s startling how much parallels I see between the two languages in terms of features and syntax, and I’m sure it’s no coincidence To help myself and other F# programmers who’re curious about Erlang get started more …
What does this F# code look like in Erlang – Part 1 of N Read More »
Just finished watching a good video by Bryan Hunter titled Erlang for C# Developers where he told a great story about the first project Erlang was used in inside Ericson and how they managed a Nine Nines uptime with that project. For anyone who’s wondering what ‘Nine Nines’ means, it means the service is available …
Another week and we’ve release yet another new slot on our F# slots engine onto JackpotJoy Slots! This time around it’s in anticipation to the upcoming independence day! Sorry, no aliens in this slot but we do have some… Red Hot Rockets Red Hot Rockets is a 25-line slot, themed around independence day, and …
Following my talk – .Net in Social Gaming – with F#unctional Londoners on Thursday, the recording of the session is now available on the SkillsMatter website here. The slides for the talk is now available on SlideShare: Dot net in social gaming View more PowerPoint from Yan Cui
Despite some hurdles and subsequent AWS outage which also took out the likes of Pinterest and Netflix, I’m proud to announce that we have released two new slot this week – Fuzz Balls on JackpotJoy Slots and Amazing Adventures on Lucky Gem Casino, both running on our F# slots engine Fuzz Balls Fuzz Balls …
Just a quick note to mention that I’ll be speaking to the F#unctional Londoners on Thursday, 28th Jun about using .Net in the social gaming space which is usually dominated by PHP. In this session I’ll share some insight into how we at GameSys uses a polyglot stack evolving around .Net to build our games …
I came across this SO question the other day, and I really liked Daniel’s answer as it illustrates the beauty and elegance of F# and functional programming in general! Personally I love the combinators approach, and for anyone else who’s interested to see what else you can do with combinators, check out the beautifully crafted …
After watching Gael’s recent SkillsMatter talk on multithreading I’ve put together some notes from a very educational talk: Hardware Cache Hierarchy Four levels of cache L1 (per core) – typically used for instructions L2 (per core) L3 (per die) DRAM (all processors) Data can be cached in multiple caches, and synchronization happens through an …
Takeaways from Gael Fraiteur’s multithreading talk Read More »
I have heard a few people argue that when it comes to performance critical code you should prefer arrays over other collections (such as F#’s lists) as it benefits from sequential reads (which is faster than seeks) and offers better memory locality. To test that theory somewhat, I wanted to see if there is any …
F# – Speed test iter and map operations with array vs list Read More »
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