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Chasing a trail or chasing our tail History of .net from a PL perspective

Using .net as an example we’ll go over the technical decisions that influenced how todays languages look like. We will look at some key technologies that en...

Yeppp!… for numbers

On the interwebz today I found an interesting library that somehow I haven’t heard of before, and it is a few years old, I wonder if the low popularity leve...

MEF and AppDomains II

Continuing from yesterday, I was testing how hard it is to work with two domains, I found this and it seemed like a good starting place. I started moving thi...

MEF and AppDomains

The last few days I’ve been playing with MEF.

XNA PSD ContentProcessor

I needed a psd content processor and found one here it is based on the EndoEngine. The one available depended on XNA 3.1,  I did some clean up on the project...

What is CQRS and other related terms - Modelling and testing - Part 3

This post belongs to a series of posts on CQRS/ES

Irish Open Spaces Coding Day III Retrospective

Yesterday we had the 3rd IOSCD. It was great fun, the code is all available here.

FluentMigrator Composite Index

Fluentmigrator is a really nice migration tool that allows you to tear your database up and down keeping version, please visit the project page for more info.

Ada Lovelace Day 2010: Amanda Laucher

I’m late with the Ada Lovelace Day article, I had the choice of making it on time but incomplete, or put some time and be late, and I chose the later this ti...

Using Ninject and Asp.Net MVC

If you are trying to use Ninject with Asp.net MVC, there is an integration available in github http://github.com/enkari/ninject.web.mvc if you look at the co...

Tool set for .net development

Now Updated to add Rhino Commons

Talk-The best Lifehack but for your software

I did at talk about tools of software architecture 🎉.

FAKE, What is it and Why you should check it out

I have mentioned FAKE (aka F# Make) in pretty much all the talks I have done lately, however I never explained in detail some of the key aspects of this amaz...

NDC London slides

You can find my slides and Video for NDC London.

CodeMesh braindump, notes

I took some notes during CodeMesh a few weeks ago, and here they are. There are a few good talks that I couldn’t attend that are totally worth it, check them...

Database of programming languages?

As I try to understand the history of programming languages I am building a time-line with paradigms and families of the programming languages I learn about....

Past and future

This post is a (not so short) summary of the wonderful 1972 paper entitled: “Programming Languages: History and Future” by Jean Sammet[1]. She is not only on...

Monorail Sample code - NetTwitt

Hi all:

Monorail Presentation Slides Updated

Hi all

Game AI pro review

TL;DR: It is not everyday that I definitely need to learn from a book. When I got “Game AI pro” I needed to learn as much as possible about practical usage o...

Database of programming languages II

I mentioned in a post yesterday that I was looking for a programming languages database with this minimum info:

Database of programming languages?

As I try to understand the history of programming languages I am building a time-line with paradigms and families of the programming languages I learn about....

Past and future

This post is a (not so short) summary of the wonderful 1972 paper entitled: “Programming Languages: History and Future” by Jean Sammet[1]. She is not only on...

MEF and AppDomains

The last few days I’ve been playing with MEF.

Projects Organization - How to organize assemblies in your local machine to avoid nightmares

This is just how I organize folders and projects on my machine, there are endless possibilities , but I saw someone searching for it online and it did took m...

Find the problem, then the solution

I found myself making the mistake I read about a lot of times. 

Sign the Entity Framework Comunity Vote of no Confidence

OMG I just saw this http://efvote.wufoo.com/forms/ado-net-entity-framework-vote-of-no-confidence/ and I had to post it.

CAN Bus

CAN bus: High level introduction

FAKE, What is it and Why you should check it out

I have mentioned FAKE (aka F# Make) in pretty much all the talks I have done lately, however I never explained in detail some of the key aspects of this amaz...

NDC London slides

You can find my slides and Video for NDC London.

CodeMesh braindump, notes

I took some notes during CodeMesh a few weeks ago, and here they are. There are a few good talks that I couldn’t attend that are totally worth it, check them...

Converting a small game from C# to F# part 2

This post could also be called:One step forward, two steps backwards.

Converting a small game from C# to F# part 1

As part of the workshop I am preparing to run on a bunch of places in North America, I created a small clone of Breakout and just ported it to F#. I am going...

Interesting learning resources - January 2024

This idea, of writing a weekly(ish) post with interesting reads started of after reading Please, Own Your RSS Links. This is a post which could be summed up ...

NDC London slides

You can find my slides and Video for NDC London.

CodeMesh braindump, notes

I took some notes during CodeMesh a few weeks ago, and here they are. There are a few good talks that I couldn’t attend that are totally worth it, check them...

Converting a small game from C# to F# part 2

This post could also be called:One step forward, two steps backwards.

Converting a small game from C# to F# part 1

As part of the workshop I am preparing to run on a bunch of places in North America, I created a small clone of Breakout and just ported it to F#. I am going...

Writing Duality Components in FSharp

Duality is a 2D game engine with an extensible editor (If you follow my blog you’ll see it mention it a few times), I added F# Scripting support a good while...

Sign the Entity Framework Comunity Vote of no Confidence

OMG I just saw this http://efvote.wufoo.com/forms/ado-net-entity-framework-vote-of-no-confidence/ and I had to post it.

GWT-Ext ComboBox loading from XML

This is a simple example on how to make a ComboBox in Gwt-Ext to populate with XML.

jQuery ExtJS talk

I’m doing a lighting talk about jQuery and ExtJs (maybe mention GWT) in the next Ruby Ireland on the 9th of September link

Jiffy

This is a firebug extension for measuring accurately the JS performance I have installed and tested it in this site sounds like a good idea and to see it run...

Hidden Doc Gem - ExtJS

hi again OK i just found this out last Monday and it was there all along i just never paid attention to it and found it extremely handy. This http://extjs.c...

F#n and games

F#n and games

Build tools FTW

At the moment, and for the last while, I have been working on an awesome game OniKira: Demon Killer (yes we renamed it recently) from the start we wanted to ...

Database of programming languages?

As I try to understand the history of programming languages I am building a time-line with paradigms and families of the programming languages I learn about....

Past and future

This post is a (not so short) summary of the wonderful 1972 paper entitled: “Programming Languages: History and Future” by Jean Sammet[1]. She is not only on...

Database of programming languages?

As I try to understand the history of programming languages I am building a time-line with paradigms and families of the programming languages I learn about....

Past and future

This post is a (not so short) summary of the wonderful 1972 paper entitled: “Programming Languages: History and Future” by Jean Sammet[1]. She is not only on...

Jiffy

This is a firebug extension for measuring accurately the JS performance I have installed and tested it in this site sounds like a good idea and to see it run...

FSharp and games in celebration times

The title of this post was a bit obscure as I didn’t really know what I was going to do for this entry on the #FsAdvent Calendar Make sure you check out the ...

FAKE, What is it and Why you should check it out

I have mentioned FAKE (aka F# Make) in pretty much all the talks I have done lately, however I never explained in detail some of the key aspects of this amaz...

NDC London slides

You can find my slides and Video for NDC London.

CodeMesh braindump, notes

I took some notes during CodeMesh a few weeks ago, and here they are. There are a few good talks that I couldn’t attend that are totally worth it, check them...

Converting a small game from C# to F# part 2

This post could also be called:One step forward, two steps backwards.

Converting a small game from C# to F# part 1

As part of the workshop I am preparing to run on a bunch of places in North America, I created a small clone of Breakout and just ported it to F#. I am going...

GSAS presentation video and twenty plus questions about Bytesize Architecture Sessions - The plan

I am just back from the Global Software Architecture Summit were I spoke recently about Bytesize Architecure Sessions. I got some interesting questions in th...

Ext-GWT(or GXT) Environment from scratch

So… I had to set up a GXT development environment for myself from scratch, so I thought I d share the experience.

Gwt-Ext Hack FormPanel and Panel

There seems to be some sort of problem when you have to add a FormPanel to a Panel in GWT-Ext 2.0.6.

GWT Unit Testing

After some time messing with GWT-Ext

GWT-Ext ComboBox loading from XML

This is a simple example on how to make a ComboBox in Gwt-Ext to populate with XML.

GWT-Ext Charts

A quick post about Gwt-Ext Charts.

Trying GXT (ExtJs in GWT)

Today I’m trying out Ext GWT

August Girl Geek Meetup

This coming Wednesday the 5th of August we are going to be meeting up in Kennedy’s ( nearly opposite to Pearse Dart Station) Its been a while so I’m really l...

Technical Speaker Training Event (free)

Hi all:

Creating a vm for Haskell development

It has been a while since I used any flavour of Linux as a development environment (so, apologies if I am showing something really obvious). Haskell developm...

Monorail in IIS 7.5 (windows 7)

So I made the leap the other day and installed RC for Windows 7 and it all seems pretty ok.

CodeMesh braindump, notes

I took some notes during CodeMesh a few weeks ago, and here they are. There are a few good talks that I couldn’t attend that are totally worth it, check them...

Interesting learning resources - February 2024

So here are some interesting links with some commentary about programming languages, strategy, etc. Since a lot of the links are not short reads, I’m going t...

I do not blog about WINE…wait actually I Do!

I saw some incoming links from curiouswines.ie and I though I would clarify I’m not a wine connoisseur  (I ll keep trying tho :D) however, the word does remi...

Pragmatic Ubuntu?

Through Andy Hunt’s Blog ( one of the Authors of The Pragmatic Programer)  I got the Pocket Ubuntu guide for free.

Yeppp!… for numbers

On the interwebz today I found an interesting library that somehow I haven’t heard of before, and it is a few years old, I wonder if the low popularity leve...

MEF and AppDomains II

Continuing from yesterday, I was testing how hard it is to work with two domains, I found this and it seemed like a good starting place. I started moving thi...

MEF and AppDomains

The last few days I’ve been playing with MEF.

FluentMigrator Composite Index

Fluentmigrator is a really nice migration tool that allows you to tear your database up and down keeping version, please visit the project page for more info.

Careful What you Cache For

Had a DetachedCriteria, very simple,  I check it running with  profiler side by side  and I see loads of queries running. Why?

Small but interesting find

Yesterday I was coding and I needed to create a criteria like Repository.FinOne(Restriccions.Eq("Email", email)); however I wanted to make sure that the...

New release of Nhibernate EAP

The most interesting thing today was an email from Manning with the new release of the EAP of Nhibernate in Action (still in chapter 3 :( ) . On the plus sid...

Nhibernate from the begining

I’ve been using NHibernate for a while now, but I never started a project from the beginning or used purely NHibernate (I mean without Castle Active Record)....

Nvelocity help

Hi there

Monorail Presentation Slides Updated

Hi all

Linking images in Monorail

A quick one

NVelocity Parse

A little thing that drove me completely insane when using parse (appache ref) the path to the view includes the folder that you are in say you are in the f...

NVelocity - creating urls

I always forget these two: $Url.Link('label', "%{controller='controllerName',action='actionName'}") and this: To Create a form $Form.FormTag("%{id= 'for...

F#n and games

F#n and games

Interesting learning resources - March 2024

In this post we look at dealing with ambiguity, a high level of what does OODA loops mean, getting better at debugging , and more.

Directory Truncator

Recently I needed some code to truncate a directory of files or folders, for example I wanted to remove files or directories given a max number of files or d...

XNA PSD ContentProcessor

I needed a psd content processor and found one here it is based on the EndoEngine. The one available depended on XNA 3.1,  I did some clean up on the project...

Open Source and you - Resources

I was invited to give a talk on Open Source in DIT to a group of students. Link to slides http://www.slideshare.net/roundcrisis/open-source-and-you-5456161.

TIL in Purescript

I am learning a little bit of [Purescript] and today I learned:

Interesting learning resources - January 2024

This idea, of writing a weekly(ish) post with interesting reads started of after reading Please, Own Your RSS Links. This is a post which could be summed up ...

SSIS Pain

hi This post is basically a rant, a rant about SSIS, whoever designed this UI please take a good look at your career and either retire or consider a career c...

SSIS Pain

hi This post is basically a rant, a rant about SSIS, whoever designed this UI please take a good look at your career and either retire or consider a career c...

F#n and games

F#n and games

More Mono for android (Xamarin.Android) little tips.

Mono for android or Xamarin.Android little tips:

Clarifying CQRS[Udi Dahan] Spanish Translation

Hi :

Super easy image replacement with jQuery

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/demo/jquery/img-replacement.html look at the source code for this, is it clean or what? took me little time to get something u...

IOTC Conference

Last Thursday and Friday I was at the IOTC, an Open Source Conference. I went to a few talks 1) Saw Geoffrey Grosenbach talking about Phusion Passenger. The...

IOTC Conference

Last Thursday and Friday I was at the IOTC, an Open Source Conference. I went to a few talks 1) Saw Geoffrey Grosenbach talking about Phusion Passenger. The...

F#n and games

F#n and games

Speed is all

PDF Readers I’m thinking about a serious of “meaty” post for this weekend or at least the one decent one, but meanwhile I though I should post about the inc...

Scrumy

Quick post about this little board app. Say you are doing agile and you have the board with cards, why do you need the physical board? head to scrumyhttp://s...

The Art of Unit Testing - Chapter 1

We are meeting for the first time for the Book club and just to get the ball rolling on this I though I’d write up a mini summary of chapter 1 on The Art of ...

Meet ups Conferences Visitors

Very excited by a very very busy few months ahead:

June Meetup Alt Net Ireland Review

The past 18th of June we had a meetup.

Dublin Alt Net Meetup - 12th of Feb 7pm

Hi there: 

A Talk about Castle on the way

Hi This should be pretty exciting, I’m hoping to do a talk in OSSBarcamp ( well not really a talk but  you know) and depending on votes, I might be talking i...

Alt.net Ireland

hi

From Code Monkey to Code Crafter ftw

This idea has been in my head for a while now, I’m sure all developers get here at some point where you want to move forward but not terribly sure how to get...

Interesting learning resources - March 2024

In this post we look at dealing with ambiguity, a high level of what does OODA loops mean, getting better at debugging , and more.

Porting an engine to Android 1

As you might or might not know to make Onikira: Demon Killer we use an engine called Duality and a few weeks ago we started to port it to android.

Mono for Android - Beyond getting started

A few weeks ago I bit the bullet and bought Mono for Android. I also decided to update to all devices to Ice Cream Sandwich as the UI is just so much better....

Decisions KP Map What happens during decision making

This is a post about understanding what is happening during architectural decision making. Following up from the talk I did at ADA Conf I started working on...

Interesting learning resources - February 2024 - part 2

So here are some interesting links with some commentary about programming languages for distributed systems, cellular architecture, and advisory process for ...

CAN Bus

CAN bus: High level introduction

Umbrella

Today Ayende blogged about this and i found it really interesting here: http://www.codeplex.com/umbrella# you can get the code and tests http://ayende.com/...

What is CQRS and other related terms - Modelling and testing - Part 3

This post belongs to a series of posts on CQRS/ES

StoryQ Review

We are evaluating BDD frameworks at the moment and I’m going through StoryQ.

F# Autocomplete plugin for Sublime

I am learning functional programming and the one I am playing with the most is F#. So I was on the look out for something small to do with the language, the ...

2013 in review and moving on

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Iron Ruby and talking too fast

So today i was reading an article by Ben Hall on Getting Started With IronRuby And RSpec, Part 1 after I read a few paragraphs I twitted that there were “..s...

How to use Google webmaster tools with wordpress

I found this post on how to verify google webmaster tools.

Reading Diary: Real World Functional Programming - Day 2

A reading diary is my way to discuss with myself what I think about the book as I read it. It probably has errors of different kinds.

Reading Diary: Real World Functional Programming - Day 1

I‘ve been feeling that I’m missing out by not knowing much about functional programming and this book was recommended to my many times, so I started reading ...

The importance of win times

As most developers I have really good and really bad days, it comes with the nature of the job. Lately I have been thinking that I had a lot of bad days, I n...

Some Cool Things

Today’s interesting find is Browser Plus I heard about this first a few months ago but there was not much real info about it. I have to say i was really impr...

Answering questions about Bytesize Architecture sessions - On the team attitude to collaboration

During October I spoke about Bytesize Architecure Sessions at the Global Software Architecture Summit. I got some interesting questions in the Q&A. We di...

GSAS presentation video and twenty plus questions about Bytesize Architecture Sessions - The plan

I am just back from the Global Software Architecture Summit were I spoke recently about Bytesize Architecure Sessions. I got some interesting questions in th...

GSAS presentation and twenty plus questions about Bytesize Architecture sessions - The plan

Other posts on the series How this series started Questions about number of participants Questions about team’s attitude to collaboration

Answering questions about Bytesize Architecture sessions - On the goal of the sessions

I recently spoke about Bytesize Architecure Sessions at the Global Software Architecture Summit. I got some interesting questions in the Q&A. We didn’t ...

New Crafts Paris May 2023

I am going to be talking at New Crafts this Friday. I’m planning to update this post with more info about how was the conference here, so I figured I will st...

Knowledge sharing is systems building

It is not uncommon to hear the parable about the blind people and the elephant when learning about systems. It’s a story about a group of blind people who ha...

Bytesize architecture sessions - Why start with C4 Diagrams

In my previous post about Bytesize Architecture sessions I described briefly that one of the key aspects of the session is to have time “Alone together” whe...

Bytesize architecture sessions -The power of Alone Together

In my previous post about Bytesize Architecture sessions I described briefly that one of the key aspects of the session is to have “Alone together” time wher...

Talk-The best Lifehack but for your software

I did at talk about tools of software architecture 🎉.

CodeMesh presentation slides

Possibly what blew my mind the most last year was attending and presenting at CodeMesh, the conference line-up was impeccable, and of course, the interesting...

Mono for Android - Beyond getting started

A few weeks ago I bit the bullet and bought Mono for Android. I also decided to update to all devices to Ice Cream Sandwich as the UI is just so much better....

A build system for games

As you might or might not know, I am one of the founders of BatCat Games, the important word about that sentence is **games. **The fact that we make games pu...

Mono for android

I’ve been playing with mono for android the last few days. I have also tried it about 2 years ago. It was a good tool then, and it got much much better.

Game AI pro review

TL;DR: It is not everyday that I definitely need to learn from a book. When I got “Game AI pro” I needed to learn as much as possible about practical usage o...

Talk-The best Lifehack but for your software

I did at talk about tools of software architecture 🎉.

A Talk about Castle on the way

Hi This should be pretty exciting, I’m hoping to do a talk in OSSBarcamp ( well not really a talk but  you know) and depending on votes, I might be talking i...

Component View Caching with Castle

Using caching on ViewComponent

Case study: The digital transformation of Santa’s logistical nightmare - Part 2

Note: This is a cross post from Functional Feline Society, a collaboration between Elias Court and Myself.

Case study: The digital transformation of Santa’s logistical nightmare

Note: This is a cross post from Functional Feline Society, a collaboration between Elias Court and Myself.

Timer with Cats Effects

Not so long ago, I had to add a feature that should run periodically as part of a web-server. I thought, no problem, I will use cats effects that will run wh...

The first Functional Katas meetup

The first Functional Katas happened last Wednesday, out of 29 people who signed up, about 15 turned up. Which is great given that it’s January and cold, and ...

Things I wish some told me when I started my computing degree

It has been a long time since I posted anything here.

Code Retreat Dublin - 17th September

What an awesome experience to organize and participate in this event.

Irish Open Spaces Coding Day III Retrospective

Yesterday we had the 3rd IOSCD. It was great fun, the code is all available here.

CodeMesh presentation slides

Possibly what blew my mind the most last year was attending and presenting at CodeMesh, the conference line-up was impeccable, and of course, the interesting...

Tips for your first technical conference (Non-academic) 2023

I am going to be giving an in person talk after a long time (at New Crafts, more info ), and I was feeling a bit anxious. If I am feeling like that, how do p...

Knowledge sharing is systems building

It is not uncommon to hear the parable about the blind people and the elephant when learning about systems. It’s a story about a group of blind people who ha...

Bytesize architecture sessions - Why start with C4 Diagrams

In my previous post about Bytesize Architecture sessions I described briefly that one of the key aspects of the session is to have time “Alone together” whe...

Bytesize architecture sessions -The power of Alone Together

In my previous post about Bytesize Architecture sessions I described briefly that one of the key aspects of the session is to have “Alone together” time wher...

Computation expressions at NDC

New Crafts Paris May 2023

I am going to be talking at New Crafts this Friday. I’m planning to update this post with more info about how was the conference here, so I figured I will st...

Tips for your first technical conference (Non-academic) 2023

I am going to be giving an in person talk after a long time (at New Crafts, more info ), and I was feeling a bit anxious. If I am feeling like that, how do p...

Raven DB: Day to day at #DDDSW

So I was at DDD South west last saturday presenting Raven DB: day to day.

IOTC Conference

Last Thursday and Friday I was at the IOTC, an Open Source Conference. I went to a few talks 1) Saw Geoffrey Grosenbach talking about Phusion Passenger. The...

GSAS presentation video and twenty plus questions about Bytesize Architecture Sessions - The plan

I am just back from the Global Software Architecture Summit were I spoke recently about Bytesize Architecure Sessions. I got some interesting questions in th...

Computation expressions at NDC

Porting an engine to Android 1

As you might or might not know to make Onikira: Demon Killer we use an engine called Duality and a few weeks ago we started to port it to android.

Lambda Days and dev At Lodz

I spent part of the past week in Poland, I landed in Łódź (if you are not a Polish speaker, look up the pronunciation). Totally extreme friendliness. I felt ...

Interesting learning resources - October 2024

Hartman Proficiency Taxonomy by Maria Hartman - This is about understanding learning, better. The bottom of the taxonomy being called Thought Leader which...

Interesting learning resources - March 2024

In this post we look at dealing with ambiguity, a high level of what does OODA loops mean, getting better at debugging , and more.

Ruby Ireland Meetup

I was in ruby Ireland last night ( good turn up btw) and it was great to see Paul Campbell talking about Couch Db, a non relational DB in their own words

Clarifying CQRS[Udi Dahan] Spanish Translation

Hi :

Why Setters and Getters are considered a code smell in your Aggregate Roots

Say we are not concerned with the query side of things (because we have an autonomous query service that need not know about your aggregate roots). With that...

What is CQRS and other related terms - Modelling and testing - Part 3

This post belongs to a series of posts on CQRS/ES

What is CQRS and other related terms - Part 2

CQRS with Event Sourcing

What is Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS ) and other related terms - part 1

I’m preparing for a talk on CQRS and I though I’d support it with a series of posts on the subject. I’d love to get some feedback on this and all the followi...

Chasing a trail or chasing our tail History of .net from a PL perspective

Using .net as an example we’ll go over the technical decisions that influenced how todays languages look like. We will look at some key technologies that en...

No long term damage. Day 7

Day 7, last day of a week trying to generate the least amount of long lived rubbish by not buying non renewable things. My rules are:

No long term damage. Day 6

Day 6 of a week trying to generate the least amount of long lived rubbish by not buying non renewable things. My rules are:

Clarifying CQRS[Udi Dahan] Spanish Translation

Hi :

Why Setters and Getters are considered a code smell in your Aggregate Roots

Say we are not concerned with the query side of things (because we have an autonomous query service that need not know about your aggregate roots). With that...

What is CQRS and other related terms - Modelling and testing - Part 3

This post belongs to a series of posts on CQRS/ES

What is CQRS and other related terms - Part 2

CQRS with Event Sourcing

What is Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS ) and other related terms - part 1

I’m preparing for a talk on CQRS and I though I’d support it with a series of posts on the subject. I’d love to get some feedback on this and all the followi...

Interesting learning resources - March 2024

In this post we look at dealing with ambiguity, a high level of what does OODA loops mean, getting better at debugging , and more.

Interesting learning resources - April 2025

A lot of these links are related to learning and collaboration, I blame excellent resources shared by Donna Benjamin, Cat Hicks

Yow Australia - Talk Slides and bonus links

Some resources that came up either during the workshop or the talk :

The making of a decision @ ADA Conf Melbourne

These are the slides for the talk I did yesterday at ADA Conf in Melbourne

The making of a decision - reading materials

This is a shortlist of what I read to create the talk: The Making of a decision.

Running scala steward on private repos

Motivation

Reading about primes, type providers and more

Some stuff I have been looking at today that you might find interesting

FSharp Gotham - Experience report

Quietness

Lately I have been working on the port for our game Onikira: Demon Killer (very very close to release by the way)… it is a lot of work but hopefully good stu...

Computation expressions at NDC

Porting an engine to Android 1

As you might or might not know to make Onikira: Demon Killer we use an engine called Duality and a few weeks ago we started to port it to android.

Lambda Days and dev At Lodz

I spent part of the past week in Poland, I landed in Łódź (if you are not a Polish speaker, look up the pronunciation). Totally extreme friendliness. I felt ...

Creating a vm for Haskell development

It has been a while since I used any flavour of Linux as a development environment (so, apologies if I am showing something really obvious). Haskell developm...

What is a type system

Curiosity killed the cat, good thing cats have 9 lives…

FSharp and games in celebration times

The title of this post was a bit obscure as I didn’t really know what I was going to do for this entry on the #FsAdvent Calendar Make sure you check out the ...

FAKE, What is it and Why you should check it out

I have mentioned FAKE (aka F# Make) in pretty much all the talks I have done lately, however I never explained in detail some of the key aspects of this amaz...

NDC London slides

You can find my slides and Video for NDC London.

CodeMesh braindump, notes

I took some notes during CodeMesh a few weeks ago, and here they are. There are a few good talks that I couldn’t attend that are totally worth it, check them...

Converting a small game from C# to F# part 2

This post could also be called:One step forward, two steps backwards.

Converting a small game from C# to F# part 1

As part of the workshop I am preparing to run on a bunch of places in North America, I created a small clone of Breakout and just ported it to F#. I am going...

Writing Duality Components in FSharp

Duality is a 2D game engine with an extensible editor (If you follow my blog you’ll see it mention it a few times), I added F# Scripting support a good while...

F#n and games

F#n and games

Build tools FTW

At the moment, and for the last while, I have been working on an awesome game OniKira: Demon Killer (yes we renamed it recently) from the start we wanted to ...

NuGet install tricks

Recently I was finishing off the great work Carsten started (well pretty much completed, I was just adding the nuget package and change the build so it would...

Devsum14-Like a rabbit in headlights presentation slides

Went to #devSum14 in Stockholm and had a great time. Talked to amazing people and gave my second presentation on F#, people seemed happy about it and had loa...

Why F sharp and functional programming in general.

Why I have been learning F# (and functional programming in general) lately:

Behaviour trees first attempt at implementing in F sharp

Recently I saw a post about a simple FSM implementation in F# (link), and that got me thinking about our Behaviour Trees and how simple or complex it would b...

F# scripting for a component based game engine

Recently Andrew added C# scripting capabilities to Duality, the engine we are using to build Honourbound. Once we had something working, we started thinking ...

Interesting learning resources - February 2024 - part 2

So here are some interesting links with some commentary about programming languages for distributed systems, cellular architecture, and advisory process for ...

IronRuby - Some Resources

I found some interesting IronRuby Resources that I thought some people might find useful:

Talk-The best Lifehack but for your software

I did at talk about tools of software architecture 🎉.

No long term damage. Day 7

Day 7, last day of a week trying to generate the least amount of long lived rubbish by not buying non renewable things. My rules are:

No long term damage. Day 6

Day 6 of a week trying to generate the least amount of long lived rubbish by not buying non renewable things. My rules are:

No long term damage. Day 5

Day 5 of a week trying to generate the least amount of long lived rubbish by not buying non renewable things. My rules are:

No long term damage. Aim and progress

A week trying to generate the least amount of long lived rubbish by not buying non renewable things. My rules are:

No long term damage. Day 4

Day 4 of a week trying to generate the least amount of long lived rubbish by not buying non renewable things. My rules are:

No long term damage. Day 3

Day 3 of a week trying to generate the least amount of long lived rubbish by buying renewable or compostable things. My rules are:

No long term damage. Day 2

Day 2 of a week trying to generate the least amount of long lived rubbish by not buying non renewable things. My rules are:

No long term damage. Day 1

Something rather different here. I am doing a little experiment.

What s happening

Since my last post I ve been trying to avoid writting about trivial small things however meaty post take time and I just dont have it right now.

Yeppp!… for numbers

On the interwebz today I found an interesting library that somehow I haven’t heard of before, and it is a few years old, I wonder if the low popularity leve...

MEF and AppDomains II

Continuing from yesterday, I was testing how hard it is to work with two domains, I found this and it seemed like a good starting place. I started moving thi...

Using Type providers

I wrote a little bit about type providers here but I haven’t in a while and the time has come to check them out again.

Devsum14-Like a rabbit in headlights presentation slides

Went to #devSum14 in Stockholm and had a great time. Talked to amazing people and gave my second presentation on F#, people seemed happy about it and had loa...

Why F sharp and functional programming in general.

Why I have been learning F# (and functional programming in general) lately:

Behaviour trees first attempt at implementing in F sharp

Recently I saw a post about a simple FSM implementation in F# (link), and that got me thinking about our Behaviour Trees and how simple or complex it would b...

F# scripting for a component based game engine

Recently Andrew added C# scripting capabilities to Duality, the engine we are using to build Honourbound. Once we had something working, we started thinking ...

Learning F# with Katas

For a while, I’ve been trying to learn functional programming and after a lot of prodding I chose to learn F# this year, the reasons:

The first Functional Katas meetup

The first Functional Katas happened last Wednesday, out of 29 people who signed up, about 15 turned up. Which is great given that it’s January and cold, and ...

F# Autocomplete plugin for Sublime

I am learning functional programming and the one I am playing with the most is F#. So I was on the look out for something small to do with the language, the ...

Speed is all

PDF Readers I’m thinking about a serious of “meaty” post for this weekend or at least the one decent one, but meanwhile I though I should post about the inc...

Many shapes and the same function

I was playing around with a small function in Scala and found it kind of interesting that you can express the same thing in different ways. We are writting a...

Speed is all

PDF Readers I’m thinking about a serious of “meaty” post for this weekend or at least the one decent one, but meanwhile I though I should post about the inc...

Dojo fractal forest in F# (with pictures)

A week or so ago I was lucky to be in San Francisco for “the” Game Developer Conference, while I was there I was able to meet Mathias Brandewinder, we got to...

Case study: The digital transformation of Santa’s logistical nightmare - Part 2

Note: This is a cross post from Functional Feline Society, a collaboration between Elias Court and Myself.

Case study: The digital transformation of Santa’s logistical nightmare

Note: This is a cross post from Functional Feline Society, a collaboration between Elias Court and Myself.

Chasing a trail or chasing our tail History of .net from a PL perspective

Using .net as an example we’ll go over the technical decisions that influenced how todays languages look like. We will look at some key technologies that en...

VS Code + Ionide-FSharp

For the first post of the year, a short post on something I keep forgetting, hopefully it will help someone else.

More Computation expressions

I guess I am one of those people that really enjoy this time of the year, so I had to add another post. This is a sneaky(?) second post for #FsAdvent. Read...

Computation expressions and microphones

It is that time of the year, and #FsAdvent is now an event we all look forward during the happy season :D. My contribution to it is this write up about compu...

Reading about primes, type providers and more

Some stuff I have been looking at today that you might find interesting

Computation expressions at NDC

Type providers

The awesome Rachel and myself were on Mostly Erlang podcast the other day (it’s not live yet), check it out they have some very cool episodes.

Dojo fractal forest in F# (with pictures)

A week or so ago I was lucky to be in San Francisco for “the” Game Developer Conference, while I was there I was able to meet Mathias Brandewinder, we got to...

Learning F# with Katas

For a while, I’ve been trying to learn functional programming and after a lot of prodding I chose to learn F# this year, the reasons:

The first Functional Katas meetup

The first Functional Katas happened last Wednesday, out of 29 people who signed up, about 15 turned up. Which is great given that it’s January and cold, and ...

Reading Diary: Real World Functional Programming - Day 2

A reading diary is my way to discuss with myself what I think about the book as I read it. It probably has errors of different kinds.

Reading Diary: Real World Functional Programming - Day 1

I‘ve been feeling that I’m missing out by not knowing much about functional programming and this book was recommended to my many times, so I started reading ...

Game AI pro review

TL;DR: It is not everyday that I definitely need to learn from a book. When I got “Game AI pro” I needed to learn as much as possible about practical usage o...

A build system for games

As you might or might not know, I am one of the founders of BatCat Games, the important word about that sentence is **games. **The fact that we make games pu...

XNA PSD ContentProcessor

I needed a psd content processor and found one here it is based on the EndoEngine. The one available depended on XNA 3.1,  I did some clean up on the project...

Fail to add a sprite to XNA content project

This is not a big one but it’s good to know.

Using Mercury Particle Engine with Windows Phone 7

This a very simple walk through to use Mercury on a Windows Phone 7 project.

XNA - A Simple 2D Camera

What is a camera? Intuitively we know what a camera is:  simply a way to show the action.

Windows Phone 7 - Game Development Experience

I got a Windows Phone 7 to play with for a while and these are some notes about the experiment.  I just did a tick-tac-toe based on this blog post changed a ...

Interesting learning resources - March 2024

In this post we look at dealing with ambiguity, a high level of what does OODA loops mean, getting better at debugging , and more.

Answering questions about Bytesize Architecture sessions - On the team attitude to collaboration

During October I spoke about Bytesize Architecure Sessions at the Global Software Architecture Summit. I got some interesting questions in the Q&A. We di...

Answering questions about Bytesize Architecture sessions - On the goal of the sessions

I recently spoke about Bytesize Architecure Sessions at the Global Software Architecture Summit. I got some interesting questions in the Q&A. We didn’t ...

Format(ing) in GWT-Ext

Just a quick post :

Valid xtypes in GWT-Ext

Say you have a panel, that contains a form and you want to get the values for the fields of that form, one way to go on about it is to use findByType():

Quietness

Lately I have been working on the port for our game Onikira: Demon Killer (very very close to release by the way)… it is a lot of work but hopefully good stu...

Recommended history of computing books

These are some great history of computing books, in this list I chose books that tend to focus on software and programming languages. These are books I like ...

Chasing a trail or chasing our tail History of .net from a PL perspective

Using .net as an example we’ll go over the technical decisions that influenced how todays languages look like. We will look at some key technologies that en...

The importance of win times

As most developers I have really good and really bad days, it comes with the nature of the job. Lately I have been thinking that I had a lot of bad days, I n...

Speed is all

PDF Readers I’m thinking about a serious of “meaty” post for this weekend or at least the one decent one, but meanwhile I though I should post about the inc...

Another Debugger for IE

We all know how painful it is to debug websites in ie, (particularly 6 what a terrible browser that…. i ll rant properly about it another day) today i stumbl...

Another Debugger for IE

We all know how painful it is to debug websites in ie, (particularly 6 what a terrible browser that…. i ll rant properly about it another day) today i stumbl...

Interesting learning resources - January 2024

This idea, of writing a weekly(ish) post with interesting reads started of after reading Please, Own Your RSS Links. This is a post which could be summed up ...

IronRuby - Some Resources

I found some interesting IronRuby Resources that I thought some people might find useful:

Ruby Ireland Meetup

I was in ruby Ireland last night ( good turn up btw) and it was great to see Paul Campbell talking about Couch Db, a non relational DB in their own words

jQuery ExtJS talk

I’m doing a lighting talk about jQuery and ExtJs (maybe mention GWT) in the next Ruby Ireland on the 9th of September link

Super easy image replacement with jQuery

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/demo/jquery/img-replacement.html look at the source code for this, is it clean or what? took me little time to get something u...

Theme Roller and UI.jQuery

I really like this UI.jQuery.com Will post more later…

No Non-sense jQuery

John Resig just posted some talks he gave and they are so easy to understand that it hurts. I really like the jQuery syntax, ok is a different approach to a ...

IntelliJ IDEA keymap for Eclipse

I’m seriously used to the Resharper key map in visual studio, so when doing Java development I felt a bit handicapped, unfortunately I cant use IntelliJ IDEA...

Time picker / PNG Transparency fix

Hi. at some point we all need a click time picker, found this one (in ajaxian) Also in Ajaxian, I found a PNG fix I used the sample and it works, however I ...

Jiffy

This is a firebug extension for measuring accurately the JS performance I have installed and tested it in this site sounds like a good idea and to see it run...

Js Frameworks usage amongst top sites

http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=305 First Prototype, closely followed by jQuery :D then moo

Theme Roller and UI.jQuery

I really like this UI.jQuery.com Will post more later…

No Non-sense jQuery

John Resig just posted some talks he gave and they are so easy to understand that it hurts. I really like the jQuery syntax, ok is a different approach to a ...

Hidden Doc Gem - ExtJS

hi again OK i just found this out last Monday and it was there all along i just never paid attention to it and found it extremely handy. This http://extjs.c...

Some Cool Things

Today’s interesting find is Browser Plus I heard about this first a few months ago but there was not much real info about it. I have to say i was really impr...

Moved to Jekyll!

I have moved my blog from wordpress to Jekyll. It was a process a little bit longer than I expected and I am not done with it, but I’m glad to have started t...

Initialization Error on JVM based tests

If you are working with intellij and gradle you might at some point hit the

Case study: The digital transformation of Santa’s logistical nightmare - Part 2

Note: This is a cross post from Functional Feline Society, a collaboration between Elias Court and Myself.

Case study: The digital transformation of Santa’s logistical nightmare

Note: This is a cross post from Functional Feline Society, a collaboration between Elias Court and Myself.

Decisions KP Map What happens during decision making

This is a post about understanding what is happening during architectural decision making. Following up from the talk I did at ADA Conf I started working on...

Interesting learning resources - April 2025

A lot of these links are related to learning and collaboration, I blame excellent resources shared by Donna Benjamin, Cat Hicks

Tech Waka Podcast & Leadership Collective in Auckland - Learn about your systems for Tech Leaders

I ran a workshop with Tech Waka Podcast & Leadership Collective in Auckland on the 26th March. It was great to get hands on with my new local community!

Yow Australia - Talk Slides and bonus links

Some resources that came up either during the workshop or the talk :

The making of a decision @ ADA Conf Melbourne

These are the slides for the talk I did yesterday at ADA Conf in Melbourne

The making of a decision - reading materials

This is a shortlist of what I read to create the talk: The Making of a decision.

Interesting learning resources - October 2024

Hartman Proficiency Taxonomy by Maria Hartman - This is about understanding learning, better. The bottom of the taxonomy being called Thought Leader which...

Interesting learning resources - February 2024

So here are some interesting links with some commentary about programming languages, strategy, etc. Since a lot of the links are not short reads, I’m going t...

The first Functional Katas meetup

The first Functional Katas happened last Wednesday, out of 29 people who signed up, about 15 turned up. Which is great given that it’s January and cold, and ...

Chasing a trail or chasing our tail History of .net from a PL perspective

Using .net as an example we’ll go over the technical decisions that influenced how todays languages look like. We will look at some key technologies that en...

More Mono for android (Xamarin.Android) little tips.

Mono for android or Xamarin.Android little tips:

More Mono for android (Xamarin.Android) little tips.

Mono for android or Xamarin.Android little tips:

Mono for Android - Beyond getting started

A few weeks ago I bit the bullet and bought Mono for Android. I also decided to update to all devices to Ice Cream Sandwich as the UI is just so much better....

Mono for android

I’ve been playing with mono for android the last few days. I have also tried it about 2 years ago. It was a good tool then, and it got much much better.

More Computation expressions

I guess I am one of those people that really enjoy this time of the year, so I had to add another post. This is a sneaky(?) second post for #FsAdvent. Read...

Computation expressions and microphones

It is that time of the year, and #FsAdvent is now an event we all look forward during the happy season :D. My contribution to it is this write up about compu...

Interesting learning resources - October 2024

Hartman Proficiency Taxonomy by Maria Hartman - This is about understanding learning, better. The bottom of the taxonomy being called Thought Leader which...

Monorail in IIS 7.5 (windows 7)

So I made the leap the other day and installed RC for Windows 7 and it all seems pretty ok.

Monorail Sample code - NetTwitt

Hi all:

Monorail Presentation Slides Updated

Hi all

Monorail Presentation

Hi there:

A Talk about Castle on the way

Hi This should be pretty exciting, I’m hoping to do a talk in OSSBarcamp ( well not really a talk but  you know) and depending on votes, I might be talking i...

Component View Caching with Castle

Using caching on ViewComponent

Linking images in Monorail

A quick one

DDDScotland next weekend 7th Of May

DDD Scotland is happening next weekend, I’m really looking forward to it. I’m also very happy my talk got selected, thanks everyone that voted for it.  The a...

Reflection - Create an instance of a class through a protected method

I had a bit of trouble getting to this, so for self reference more than anything, I thought I d post about it.

New Crafts Paris May 2023

I am going to be talking at New Crafts this Friday. I’m planning to update this post with more info about how was the conference here, so I figured I will st...

Interesting learning resources - August 2024

Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) By Charity Majors

Alt.net Ireland

hi

From Code Monkey to Code Crafter II

Hi again Well hopefully that meeting will go ahead on the saturday the 13th of september http://www.opencoffeedublin.com/september-saturday-opencoffee-dubl...

Porting an engine to Android 1

As you might or might not know to make Onikira: Demon Killer we use an engine called Duality and a few weeks ago we started to port it to android.

Porting an engine to Android 1

As you might or might not know to make Onikira: Demon Killer we use an engine called Duality and a few weeks ago we started to port it to android.

GSAS presentation and twenty plus questions about Bytesize Architecture sessions - The plan

Other posts on the series How this series started Questions about number of participants Questions about team’s attitude to collaboration

MS Word save to PDF

hi there I don’t think this is ultra necessary or anything like that but I know I’ll need it at some point, Microsoft has a plug in to save a document as a p...

Interesting learning resources - January 2024

This idea, of writing a weekly(ish) post with interesting reads started of after reading Please, Own Your RSS Links. This is a post which could be summed up ...

IOTC Conference

Last Thursday and Friday I was at the IOTC, an Open Source Conference. I went to a few talks 1) Saw Geoffrey Grosenbach talking about Phusion Passenger. The...

IOTC Conference

Last Thursday and Friday I was at the IOTC, an Open Source Conference. I went to a few talks 1) Saw Geoffrey Grosenbach talking about Phusion Passenger. The...

Time picker / PNG Transparency fix

Hi. at some point we all need a click time picker, found this one (in ajaxian) Also in Ajaxian, I found a PNG fix I used the sample and it works, however I ...

Ruby Ireland Meetup - 9th of December 7.30 Fitzwilliams Place

It looks like Ruby Ireland is getting a bit more attention from people, and that is great to see I had my own reservations about if I should continue going t...

Many shapes and the same function

I was playing around with a small function in Scala and found it kind of interesting that you can express the same thing in different ways. We are writting a...

Interesting learning resources - January 2024

This idea, of writing a weekly(ish) post with interesting reads started of after reading Please, Own Your RSS Links. This is a post which could be summed up ...

Interesting learning resources - May 2025

These are some readings associated with work associated with Decision KP Maps

Interesting learning resources - October 2024

Hartman Proficiency Taxonomy by Maria Hartman - This is about understanding learning, better. The bottom of the taxonomy being called Thought Leader which...

Talk-The best Lifehack but for your software

I did at talk about tools of software architecture 🎉.

Bytesize architecture Sessions

Update: see Bytesize Architecure Sessions website bytesizearchitecturesessions.com 🎉

Reading about primes, type providers and more

Some stuff I have been looking at today that you might find interesting

Ada Lovelace Day:Barbara Liskov

Hi. 

Scrumy

Quick post about this little board app. Say you are doing agile and you have the board with cards, why do you need the physical board? head to scrumyhttp://s...

Tool set for .net development

Now Updated to add Rhino Commons

Many shapes and the same function

I was playing around with a small function in Scala and found it kind of interesting that you can express the same thing in different ways. We are writting a...

VS Code + Ionide-FSharp

For the first post of the year, a short post on something I keep forgetting, hopefully it will help someone else.

Michael Feathers on Types

Using Type providers

I wrote a little bit about type providers here but I haven’t in a while and the time has come to check them out again.

Database of programming languages II

I mentioned in a post yesterday that I was looking for a programming languages database with this minimum info:

Database of programming languages?

As I try to understand the history of programming languages I am building a time-line with paradigms and families of the programming languages I learn about....

Past and future

This post is a (not so short) summary of the wonderful 1972 paper entitled: “Programming Languages: History and Future” by Jean Sammet[1]. She is not only on...

More Computation expressions

I guess I am one of those people that really enjoy this time of the year, so I had to add another post. This is a sneaky(?) second post for #FsAdvent. Read...

Computation expressions and microphones

It is that time of the year, and #FsAdvent is now an event we all look forward during the happy season :D. My contribution to it is this write up about compu...

Reading about primes, type providers and more

Some stuff I have been looking at today that you might find interesting

FSharp Gotham - Experience report

Quietness

Lately I have been working on the port for our game Onikira: Demon Killer (very very close to release by the way)… it is a lot of work but hopefully good stu...

Computation expressions at NDC

Porting an engine to Android 1

As you might or might not know to make Onikira: Demon Killer we use an engine called Duality and a few weeks ago we started to port it to android.

Lambda Days and dev At Lodz

I spent part of the past week in Poland, I landed in Łódź (if you are not a Polish speaker, look up the pronunciation). Totally extreme friendliness. I felt ...

Creating a vm for Haskell development

It has been a while since I used any flavour of Linux as a development environment (so, apologies if I am showing something really obvious). Haskell developm...

What is a type system

Curiosity killed the cat, good thing cats have 9 lives…

FSharp and games in celebration times

The title of this post was a bit obscure as I didn’t really know what I was going to do for this entry on the #FsAdvent Calendar Make sure you check out the ...

FAKE, What is it and Why you should check it out

I have mentioned FAKE (aka F# Make) in pretty much all the talks I have done lately, however I never explained in detail some of the key aspects of this amaz...

NDC London slides

You can find my slides and Video for NDC London.

CodeMesh braindump, notes

I took some notes during CodeMesh a few weeks ago, and here they are. There are a few good talks that I couldn’t attend that are totally worth it, check them...

Converting a small game from C# to F# part 2

This post could also be called:One step forward, two steps backwards.

Converting a small game from C# to F# part 1

As part of the workshop I am preparing to run on a bunch of places in North America, I created a small clone of Breakout and just ported it to F#. I am going...

Writing Duality Components in FSharp

Duality is a 2D game engine with an extensible editor (If you follow my blog you’ll see it mention it a few times), I added F# Scripting support a good while...

F#n and games

F#n and games

Build tools FTW

At the moment, and for the last while, I have been working on an awesome game OniKira: Demon Killer (yes we renamed it recently) from the start we wanted to ...

NuGet install tricks

Recently I was finishing off the great work Carsten started (well pretty much completed, I was just adding the nuget package and change the build so it would...

Devsum14-Like a rabbit in headlights presentation slides

Went to #devSum14 in Stockholm and had a great time. Talked to amazing people and gave my second presentation on F#, people seemed happy about it and had loa...

Why F sharp and functional programming in general.

Why I have been learning F# (and functional programming in general) lately:

Behaviour trees first attempt at implementing in F sharp

Recently I saw a post about a simple FSM implementation in F# (link), and that got me thinking about our Behaviour Trees and how simple or complex it would b...

F# scripting for a component based game engine

Recently Andrew added C# scripting capabilities to Duality, the engine we are using to build Honourbound. Once we had something working, we started thinking ...

Dojo fractal forest in F# (with pictures)

A week or so ago I was lucky to be in San Francisco for “the” Game Developer Conference, while I was there I was able to meet Mathias Brandewinder, we got to...

The importance of win times

As most developers I have really good and really bad days, it comes with the nature of the job. Lately I have been thinking that I had a lot of bad days, I n...

Rust, array type not generic over the size of an array type.

Rust

Interesting learning resources - February 2024

So here are some interesting links with some commentary about programming languages, strategy, etc. Since a lot of the links are not short reads, I’m going t...

Interesting learning resources - February 2024 - part 2

So here are some interesting links with some commentary about programming languages for distributed systems, cellular architecture, and advisory process for ...

F# Autocomplete plugin for Sublime

I am learning functional programming and the one I am playing with the most is F#. So I was on the look out for something small to do with the language, the ...

Raven DB: Day to day at #DDDSW

So I was at DDD South west last saturday presenting Raven DB: day to day.

Busy May with RavenDB

Just a small post to let you know. I’ll be speaking in two conferences this month.

Testing a new modelling retro format - Gaps Growth Great Grind

I’ve been running collaborative modelling sessions lately and noticed that some of the retrospective formats I tend to lean on don’t work as well as it could...

Iron Ruby and talking too fast

So today i was reading an article by Ben Hall on Getting Started With IronRuby And RSpec, Part 1 after I read a few paragraphs I twitted that there were “..s...

Ruby Jobs live!

Hi all just though I’ d advertise the fact that rubyjobs.ie is live.

IOTC Conference

Last Thursday and Friday I was at the IOTC, an Open Source Conference. I went to a few talks 1) Saw Geoffrey Grosenbach talking about Phusion Passenger. The...

Interesting learning resources - February 2024

So here are some interesting links with some commentary about programming languages, strategy, etc. Since a lot of the links are not short reads, I’m going t...

Rust, array type not generic over the size of an array type.

Rust

Case study: The digital transformation of Santa’s logistical nightmare - Part 2

Note: This is a cross post from Functional Feline Society, a collaboration between Elias Court and Myself.

Case study: The digital transformation of Santa’s logistical nightmare

Note: This is a cross post from Functional Feline Society, a collaboration between Elias Court and Myself.

Timer with Cats Effects

Not so long ago, I had to add a feature that should run periodically as part of a web-server. I thought, no problem, I will use cats effects that will run wh...

Running scala steward on private repos

Motivation

Many shapes and the same function

I was playing around with a small function in Scala and found it kind of interesting that you can express the same thing in different ways. We are writting a...

Case study: The digital transformation of Santa’s logistical nightmare - Part 2

Note: This is a cross post from Functional Feline Society, a collaboration between Elias Court and Myself.

Case study: The digital transformation of Santa’s logistical nightmare

Note: This is a cross post from Functional Feline Society, a collaboration between Elias Court and Myself.

Running scala steward on private repos

Motivation

Initialization Error on JVM based tests

If you are working with intellij and gradle you might at some point hit the

Learning F# with Katas

For a while, I’ve been trying to learn functional programming and after a lot of prodding I chose to learn F# this year, the reasons:

The first Functional Katas meetup

The first Functional Katas happened last Wednesday, out of 29 people who signed up, about 15 turned up. Which is great given that it’s January and cold, and ...

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Installation

I saw Scott Gu’s post about Silverlight and I decided OK I’ll try it. Well, the install took 10 minutes and I had to close everything (Visual Studio ,IE Fire...

Impact Mapping solo

Discovering Clarity Through Personal Practice. I’ve been meaning to do some improvements to the Bytesize Architecture Sessions’ website and I found a lot of ...

Interesting learning resources - May 2025

These are some readings associated with work associated with Decision KP Maps

Decisions KP Map What happens during decision making

This is a post about understanding what is happening during architectural decision making. Following up from the talk I did at ADA Conf I started working on...

Testing a new modelling retro format - Gaps Growth Great Grind

I’ve been running collaborative modelling sessions lately and noticed that some of the retrospective formats I tend to lean on don’t work as well as it could...

Interesting learning resources - April 2025

A lot of these links are related to learning and collaboration, I blame excellent resources shared by Donna Benjamin, Cat Hicks

Tech Waka Podcast & Leadership Collective in Auckland - Learn about your systems for Tech Leaders

I ran a workshop with Tech Waka Podcast & Leadership Collective in Auckland on the 26th March. It was great to get hands on with my new local community!

Yow Australia - Talk Slides and bonus links

Some resources that came up either during the workshop or the talk :

Interesting learning resources - October 2024

Hartman Proficiency Taxonomy by Maria Hartman - This is about understanding learning, better. The bottom of the taxonomy being called Thought Leader which...

The making of a decision @ ADA Conf Melbourne

These are the slides for the talk I did yesterday at ADA Conf in Melbourne

The making of a decision - reading materials

This is a shortlist of what I read to create the talk: The Making of a decision.

Interesting learning resources - August 2024

Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) By Charity Majors

Interesting learning resources - January 2024

This idea, of writing a weekly(ish) post with interesting reads started of after reading Please, Own Your RSS Links. This is a post which could be summed up ...

Answering questions about Bytesize Architecture sessions - On the team attitude to collaboration

During October I spoke about Bytesize Architecure Sessions at the Global Software Architecture Summit. I got some interesting questions in the Q&A. We di...

GSAS presentation video and twenty plus questions about Bytesize Architecture Sessions - The plan

I am just back from the Global Software Architecture Summit were I spoke recently about Bytesize Architecure Sessions. I got some interesting questions in th...

GSAS presentation and twenty plus questions about Bytesize Architecture sessions - The plan

Other posts on the series How this series started Questions about number of participants Questions about team’s attitude to collaboration

Answering questions about Bytesize Architecture sessions - On the goal of the sessions

I recently spoke about Bytesize Architecure Sessions at the Global Software Architecture Summit. I got some interesting questions in the Q&A. We didn’t ...

New Crafts Paris May 2023

I am going to be talking at New Crafts this Friday. I’m planning to update this post with more info about how was the conference here, so I figured I will st...

Knowledge sharing is systems building

It is not uncommon to hear the parable about the blind people and the elephant when learning about systems. It’s a story about a group of blind people who ha...

Bytesize architecture sessions - Why start with C4 Diagrams

In my previous post about Bytesize Architecture sessions I described briefly that one of the key aspects of the session is to have time “Alone together” whe...

Bytesize architecture sessions -The power of Alone Together

In my previous post about Bytesize Architecture sessions I described briefly that one of the key aspects of the session is to have “Alone together” time wher...

Talk-The best Lifehack but for your software

I did at talk about tools of software architecture 🎉.

Bytesize architecture Sessions

Update: see Bytesize Architecure Sessions website bytesizearchitecturesessions.com 🎉

Impact Mapping solo

Discovering Clarity Through Personal Practice. I’ve been meaning to do some improvements to the Bytesize Architecture Sessions’ website and I found a lot of ...

Speed is all

PDF Readers I’m thinking about a serious of “meaty” post for this weekend or at least the one decent one, but meanwhile I though I should post about the inc...

Type providers

The awesome Rachel and myself were on Mostly Erlang podcast the other day (it’s not live yet), check it out they have some very cool episodes.

Standing desk day to day

I decided to keep a mini journal with updates about having a standing desk, I figure a lot of people are thinking about it (like I was) and it might be handy...

Interesting learning resources - May 2025

These are some readings associated with work associated with Decision KP Maps

Decisions KP Map What happens during decision making

This is a post about understanding what is happening during architectural decision making. Following up from the talk I did at ADA Conf I started working on...

Testing a new modelling retro format - Gaps Growth Great Grind

I’ve been running collaborative modelling sessions lately and noticed that some of the retrospective formats I tend to lean on don’t work as well as it could...

Interesting learning resources - August 2024

Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) By Charity Majors

Knowledge sharing is systems building

It is not uncommon to hear the parable about the blind people and the elephant when learning about systems. It’s a story about a group of blind people who ha...

Bytesize architecture sessions -The power of Alone Together

In my previous post about Bytesize Architecture sessions I described briefly that one of the key aspects of the session is to have “Alone together” time wher...

GSAS presentation and twenty plus questions about Bytesize Architecture sessions - The plan

Other posts on the series How this series started Questions about number of participants Questions about team’s attitude to collaboration

Monogame presentation at #gig2013 and #gamesFleadh

I did a few presentations about Monogame in Gaming Reimagined (at what used to be the Landsdowne Road Stadium) and in Games Fleadh, if you were there I would...

Busy May with RavenDB

Just a small post to let you know. I’ll be speaking in two conferences this month.

DDDScotland next weekend 7th Of May

DDD Scotland is happening next weekend, I’m really looking forward to it. I’m also very happy my talk got selected, thanks everyone that voted for it.  The a...

Open Source and you - Resources

I was invited to give a talk on Open Source in DIT to a group of students. Link to slides http://www.slideshare.net/roundcrisis/open-source-and-you-5456161.

Barcamp Derry Presentation

Had a brilliant weekend up North in @barcampderry Met some interesting folks and had a chance to discover a fantastic city and the surrounding area.

Monorail Presentation Slides Updated

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Developer Developer Developer Belfast -This saturday 4th of April

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Monorail Presentation

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OssBarcamp tomorrow 28/03/2009 at DIT Kevin Street

Hi there just a friendly reminder about OssBarcamp

Happy Holidays post and welcome 2009

Ramblings about 2009

Ruby Ireland Meetup

I was in ruby Ireland last night ( good turn up btw) and it was great to see Paul Campbell talking about Couch Db, a non relational DB in their own words

jQuery ExtJS talk

I’m doing a lighting talk about jQuery and ExtJs (maybe mention GWT) in the next Ruby Ireland on the 9th of September link

Interesting learning resources - January 2024

This idea, of writing a weekly(ish) post with interesting reads started of after reading Please, Own Your RSS Links. This is a post which could be summed up ...

Quietness

Lately I have been working on the port for our game Onikira: Demon Killer (very very close to release by the way)… it is a lot of work but hopefully good stu...

Techdebt register

There is really no hard and fast rule for recording technical debt, some people do it on their bug trackers, others in their agile/kanban boards, storing it ...

Interesting learning resources - February 2024

So here are some interesting links with some commentary about programming languages, strategy, etc. Since a lot of the links are not short reads, I’m going t...

Barcamp Derry Presentation

Had a brilliant weekend up North in @barcampderry Met some interesting folks and had a chance to discover a fantastic city and the surrounding area.

Meet ups Conferences Visitors

Very excited by a very very busy few months ahead:

June Meetup Alt Net Ireland Review

The past 18th of June we had a meetup.

Technical Speaker Training Event (free)

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Time picker / PNG Transparency fix

Hi. at some point we all need a click time picker, found this one (in ajaxian) Also in Ajaxian, I found a PNG fix I used the sample and it works, however I ...

VS Code + Ionide-FSharp

For the first post of the year, a short post on something I keep forgetting, hopefully it will help someone else.

Using Type providers

I wrote a little bit about type providers here but I haven’t in a while and the time has come to check them out again.

Type providers

The awesome Rachel and myself were on Mostly Erlang podcast the other day (it’s not live yet), check it out they have some very cool episodes.

Reading about primes, type providers and more

Some stuff I have been looking at today that you might find interesting

Michael Feathers on Types

Creating a vm for Haskell development

It has been a while since I used any flavour of Linux as a development environment (so, apologies if I am showing something really obvious). Haskell developm...

Umbrella

Today Ayende blogged about this and i found it really interesting here: http://www.codeplex.com/umbrella# you can get the code and tests http://ayende.com/...

Interesting learning resources - February 2024 - part 2

So here are some interesting links with some commentary about programming languages for distributed systems, cellular architecture, and advisory process for ...

A build system for games

As you might or might not know, I am one of the founders of BatCat Games, the important word about that sentence is **games. **The fact that we make games pu...

StoryQ Review

We are evaluating BDD frameworks at the moment and I’m going through StoryQ.

Manos de Mono - Quick overview

I heard about this new web framework the other day, the code its available on github/jacksonh/manos the main interesting thing I heard about it were:

Thoughs on 1st Book Club meetup

The Art of Unit Testing (by Roy Osherove) First Meetup

The Art of Unit Testing - Chapter 1

We are meeting for the first time for the Book club and just to get the ball rolling on this I though I’d write up a mini summary of chapter 1 on The Art of ...

Linking images in Monorail

A quick one

The first Functional Katas meetup

The first Functional Katas happened last Wednesday, out of 29 people who signed up, about 15 turned up. Which is great given that it’s January and cold, and ...

Chasing a trail or chasing our tail History of .net from a PL perspective

Using .net as an example we’ll go over the technical decisions that influenced how todays languages look like. We will look at some key technologies that en...

Talk-The best Lifehack but for your software

I did at talk about tools of software architecture 🎉.

Manos de Mono - Quick overview

I heard about this new web framework the other day, the code its available on github/jacksonh/manos the main interesting thing I heard about it were:

Webby - simple websites made simple

My dad asked me to help him do a website, so I started looking at the options, I definitely do not want to maintain this at all I thought.

Two New tools

In web development, you come across tools all the time, some are incredible and I was lucky enough to find two today.

Monorail in IIS 7.5 (windows 7)

So I made the leap the other day and installed RC for Windows 7 and it all seems pretty ok.

No long term damage. Day 5

Day 5 of a week trying to generate the least amount of long lived rubbish by not buying non renewable things. My rules are:

No long term damage. Day 4

Day 4 of a week trying to generate the least amount of long lived rubbish by not buying non renewable things. My rules are:

Monorail Sample code - NetTwitt

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Monorail Presentation Slides Updated

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Tech Waka Podcast & Leadership Collective in Auckland - Learn about your systems for Tech Leaders

I ran a workshop with Tech Waka Podcast & Leadership Collective in Auckland on the 26th March. It was great to get hands on with my new local community!

Interesting learning resources - October 2024

Hartman Proficiency Taxonomy by Maria Hartman - This is about understanding learning, better. The bottom of the taxonomy being called Thought Leader which...

Interesting learning resources - March 2024

In this post we look at dealing with ambiguity, a high level of what does OODA loops mean, getting better at debugging , and more.

Quietness

Lately I have been working on the port for our game Onikira: Demon Killer (very very close to release by the way)… it is a lot of work but hopefully good stu...

A build system for games

As you might or might not know, I am one of the founders of BatCat Games, the important word about that sentence is **games. **The fact that we make games pu...

Fail to add a sprite to XNA content project

This is not a big one but it’s good to know.

Using Mercury Particle Engine with Windows Phone 7

This a very simple walk through to use Mercury on a Windows Phone 7 project.

XNA - A Simple 2D Camera

What is a camera? Intuitively we know what a camera is:  simply a way to show the action.

Windows Phone 7 - Game Development Experience

I got a Windows Phone 7 to play with for a while and these are some notes about the experiment.  I just did a tick-tac-toe based on this blog post changed a ...