Archive

• Error-handling with classy optics in Scala May 12, 2020
• Van's Aircraft Factory visit 2019-06-10 June 13, 2019
• Circumventing Australia's Internet Filtering February 11, 2016
• 24 May 2015 Thulimbah Ride Report May 24, 2015
• 09 May 2015 Mount Mee Ride Report May 24, 2015
• 19 April 2015 Brisbane/Thulimbah return Ride Report May 24, 2015
• 2014 KTM 690 Enduro to Supermoto January 7, 2015
• Brisbane Ride Spots October 13, 2014
• What kind of things are easy in Haskell and hard in Scala, and vice-versa? June 4, 2014
• Haskell Functions Take One Argument March 4, 2014
• Ride Report, Conondale NP. "Mubbip woo!" December 24, 2013
• Improving Applicative do-notation October 18, 2013
• Monad Transformers at BFPG September 3, 2013
• Sticks, stones, but names are not useful to me July 18, 2013
• Scala Type-class Hierarchy June 22, 2013
• Refactoring Puzzle June 5, 2013
• Obturator Entrapment Neuropathy (update) April 24, 2013
• List Folds at BFPG April 24, 2013
• Obturator Entrapment Neuropathy April 11, 2013
• Teaching a Man to Fish …and all that April 10, 2013
• Lane-Splitting in Australia. March 10, 2013
• Functors and things using Scala March 1, 2013
• Memoisation with State using Scala February 22, 2013
• Refactoring filter January 12, 2013
• How to Find Thinking People September 19, 2012
• SIP-18 is just another bad idea serving nobody May 11, 2012
• CAT (3D enhanced) Lumbosacral 2011-11-02 (24 hours post-op) November 11, 2011
• I cannot use language X October 27, 2011
• Data Parallelism in Haskell September 3, 2011
• Lifting (Haskell addendum) August 19, 2011
• Java 7 August 18, 2011
• Lifting July 17, 2011
• Three and a half friggin years later April 30, 2011
• A brief point on static typing March 26, 2011
• Anti-intellectual Euphemisms March 13, 2011
• Configuration Without the Bugs and Gymnastics March 6, 2011
• Understanding Practical API Design, Static Typing and Functional Programming March 5, 2011
• Monads do not compose February 24, 2011
• List with O(1) cons and snoc in Scala February 20, 2011
• A fine example... February 6, 2011
• Critique of Odersky's Scala levels January 17, 2011
• Today's ride following natural disaster January 14, 2011
• Java is pass by value January 13, 2011
• Scala exercise with types and abstraction January 9, 2011
• Configuration versus Code January 9, 2011
• Nothing returns anything, ever! December 28, 2010
• Bye Reddit December 28, 2010
• The Writer Monad using Scala (example) December 12, 2010
• Medileaks December 8, 2010
• Dear Java library guy November 24, 2010
• Safari Fuel Tanks -- Husqvarna TE510 October 26, 2010
• Brad's original post October 19, 2010
• reverse.jar September 29, 2010
• Even Further Understanding scala.Option (part 2) September 1, 2010
• Can an entrapment neuropathy of the superficial peroneal nerve cause foot drop? August 29, 2010
• Further understanding scala.Option August 23, 2010
• Java and Practicality July 23, 2010
• Functional Java 3.0 June 25, 2010
• Understanding Monads using Scala (Part 1) June 22, 2010
• Optional a -> a (negative proof) June 20, 2010
• Java Trivia May 31, 2010
• Beginner Java Exercise with Data Types May 12, 2010
• Haskell Beginner Exercises with Tests April 25, 2010
• Monad Exercises in Scala and Haskell April 5, 2010
• Monad Exercises in Scala (addendum) April 3, 2010
• Type-classes are nothing like interfaces April 2, 2010
• What Does Functional Programming Mean? March 31, 2010
• Scalaz IRC March 27, 2010
• Monad exercises in Scala March 25, 2010
• Why are there no big applications written using functional languages? March 24, 2010
• A poke at the essence of functional programming March 24, 2010
• I have found that... March 23, 2010
• Automated Validation with Applicatives and Semigroups (Part 2 - Java) March 21, 2010
• Automated Validation with Applicatives and Semigroups (for Sanjiv) March 21, 2010
• Linq has nothing to do with SQL or enumerable lists February 19, 2010
• SKI combinator calculus in Java February 8, 2010
• Scala exercise February 6, 2010
• Functional Java 2.21 February 5, 2010
• Higher-order Polymorphism for pseudo-Java January 28, 2010
• MSN/Yahoo! web spiders blocked January 24, 2010
• What is Haskell's primary feature? January 22, 2010
• Dear Java guy, State is a monad January 19, 2010
• What Does Monad Mean? January 14, 2010
• Parsing map data using a lazy language January 10, 2010
• Debut with a Catamorphism December 2, 2009
• 22 of 99 March 31, 2009
• Assessing and being held responsible for the cost of bad decisions March 30, 2009
• SBS English Failure March 29, 2009
• Mount Mee State Forest March 24, 2009
• Functional Java 2.19 March 23, 2009
• Dear Agile/Lean/Scrum/XP Person February 19, 2009
• IntelliJ IDEA leaps ahead for Scala development February 17, 2009
• Funky Scala Bifunctor February 14, 2009
• Third World Medicine February 14, 2009
• No True Australian January 27, 2009
• Playing with Scala and Arrows January 25, 2009
• Continuation monad in Scala December 28, 2008
• Controlling effects with flatMap/>>= December 26, 2008
• Scalaz moved to Google Code December 25, 2008
• = ≠ ⇒ December 13, 2008
• A fine motto December 9, 2008
• scala.Function1 lacking December 3, 2008
• Do Air Conditioning geeks exist? December 1, 2008
• ObserveFunctorMonad November 30, 2008
• Why Functional Programming Matters in short prose November 30, 2008
• Mount Mee State Forest Campgrounds November 29, 2008
• Clean-up resource with Scala November 17, 2008
• Agile is falling, like religions do November 16, 2008
• IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 + Scala turns the tide November 7, 2008
• The State Monad for Scala users November 3, 2008
• One of your best Pat November 1, 2008
• Intellij + Scala; it is with great regret... October 30, 2008
• Java/Ruby does not generalise to static/dynamic October 16, 2008
• Does Scala have Java's ternary operator? October 13, 2008
• Project Euler Problem 2 Functional Java October 3, 2008
• Project Euler Problem 1 Functional Java October 3, 2008
• Scala: Gotchya! October 1, 2008
• IntelliJ IDEA whinge September 26, 2008
• IntelliJ IDEA + Scala utterly unusable September 24, 2008
• Did you to have be so blunt? September 23, 2008
• Partially Applying Scala type variables September 22, 2008
• 20 Intermediate Haskell Exercises September 18, 2008
• Amuse yourself September 11, 2008
• 20 Intermediate Scala Exercises September 10, 2008
• Proving the existence of curry September 5, 2008
• Flippin' Scala August 22, 2008
• Introductory C-H and Static Typing August 15, 2008
• Java interop errata August 13, 2008
• Functional Java 2.9 August 5, 2008
• Posterior Tibial Tendon Impingement August 3, 2008
• Revised Scala Exercises July 29, 2008
• Tony’s Wager July 29, 2008
• Actor concurrency for Java July 25, 2008
• Haskell exercises for beginners July 17, 2008
• Scala exercises for beginners July 15, 2008
• Just an observation July 7, 2008
• Implicits for the Fearless July 5, 2008
• Applicative Functor laws using Reductio (Scala) July 3, 2008
• Just what the funk is a Functor anyway? June 28, 2008
• Monad Laws using Reductio (Scala) June 26, 2008
• Functor Laws using Reductio (Scala) June 25, 2008
• You’d naturally write flatMap yourself if asked the question June 25, 2008
• ABC Learning Centres required for adults June 23, 2008
• Applicative Functors in Scala June 20, 2008
• Tests as Documentation June 17, 2008
• A Case for Automated Testing June 6, 2008
• What you call integration testing, I call sloppy programming June 3, 2008
• JAOO Brisbane 2008 May 31, 2008
• Reductio: Testing equals/hashCode May 27, 2008
• Reductio: Testing for the Top Java Programmers May 24, 2008
• ScalaCheck 1.3 yippee! May 12, 2008
• How to Share? May 8, 2008
• QOTD (I found it amusing anyway) April 24, 2008
• Finding the Levenshtein Distance in Scala April 24, 2008
• Another Call to Genocide April 12, 2008
• Automated Unit Testing your Java using ScalaCheck April 6, 2008
• Yes you are in a cult, no I don’t recognise its legitimacy April 5, 2008
• Pseudo-Science March 24, 2008
• Which Scala Version? March 22, 2008
• NEVER. EVER. AGAIN. March 17, 2008
• Religiosity is a neurological disorder. March 16, 2008
• Why is a web page suddenly taken off Google search results? March 12, 2008
• Raf’s Problem March 11, 2008
• Scalaz 2.4 Released February 29, 2008
• Christopher Hitchens: The Moral Necessity of Atheism February 27, 2008
• That’s what Monads are for February 25, 2008
• So I don’t lose it February 18, 2008
• The argument from oranges February 17, 2008
• Great Quote Slava February 7, 2008
• It’s just logic February 1, 2008
• Scala operator names January 22, 2008
• scala.Option Cheat Sheet January 16, 2008
• scala.List.foldLeft for Java programmers January 15, 2008
• Offending Religiosity January 1, 2008
• Doomsday in Scala January 1, 2008
• Scala 2.6.2 getting support for Java generics December 29, 2007
• Scalaz December 18, 2007
• No no, I said ‘critical examination’ December 6, 2007
• Does Java cause self-delusion? December 5, 2007
• Discipline in Thought December 5, 2007
• God in the Brain? October 13, 2007
• Yeah but speed kills! September 17, 2007
• Type-safe Scala sequence comprehensions September 13, 2007
• Negative Zero to Hero September 12, 2007
• A Fling with Lazy Evaluation September 4, 2007
• Sam Harris at 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival August 12, 2007
• Imperative programming is a special type of functional programming August 7, 2007
• Saturday night laugh August 4, 2007
• Algebraic Data Types again August 4, 2007
• Religious-Oriented Programming July 27, 2007
• High Level Languages July 24, 2007
• Perhaps not? July 22, 2007
• Inheritance dunrite July 21, 2007
• Most people prefer… July 18, 2007
• Idempotence versus Referential Transparency July 5, 2007
• Dear PM John Howard June 26, 2007
• abort: ‘http://foo/bar’ does not appear to be an hg repository! June 12, 2007
• The Power of Type-classes with Scala implicit defs May 23, 2007
• You Lazy Thunk! May 16, 2007
• Obstruction April 4, 2007
• Glue? February 24, 2007
• Statefulness and the Abstract Universe February 22, 2007
• Refunctoring February 15, 2007
• Ignorance is mostly bliss, but not always February 9, 2007
• Free Thinking January 30, 2007
• Folds for Imperative Programmers January 5, 2007
• Strong Type Systems January 1, 2007
• The Dawkins Delusion December 30, 2006
• The most ironic logical proposition on the internet December 20, 2006
• Fix it Sun! December 19, 2006
• Maybe Monad in Java December 18, 2006
• Software requirements do not change December 10, 2006
• defmacro[1] = defmacro[0] + 1 December 6, 2006
• Is There Anybody Out There? November 28, 2006
• Australians in sport November 22, 2006
• Revisiting Maybe in Java November 16, 2006
• Maybe in Java November 13, 2006
• APLAS ‘06 November 9, 2006
• Have you ever wanted to do this? November 7, 2006