Archive for December, 2008
Vodafone’s customer service elves have not been very very good.
I have now been without my Nokia N95 8Gb for over two weeks and am increasingly
irritable about Vodafone’s rather shoddy customer service…
Crossword puzzles in Haskell
Every year or so I come back to the problem of writing a crossword puzzle compiler/player. I think Javascript would be the most promising for a web-based player, though I’ve given it a go in Java and Perl too. Modeling the problem is interesting in an Object Oriented language – I would find myself getting […]
Pocket Perl (introduction in Italian): short review
First of all, a disclaimer: I know “larsen” (Stefano Rodighiero) not just as an ex-colleague (he is one of the most respected senior programmers at DADA in Italy), or through the Italian Perl community, but also as a good friend. But of course, those were excellent reasons to look forward to his book: an introduction […]
Functional Pe(a)rls v2 (now with Monads!) at the London Perl Workshop 2008
On Saturday I gave an updated version of my Functional Pe(a)rls talk. This time around I cut the whistlestop tour of builtin FP techniques in Perl (map/grep/join) and added a section on Monads – what they are and how to implement them. I’d originally worried that the slides might have been over-academic and hard to […]