Like many beginning Clojure programmers, I started off following Stuart Sierra’s “Reloaded” workflow guide. While it was a great starting point, there were a number of things that I wanted to change. If the project doesn’t compile then the REPL doesn’t even start (the “reloaded” guide mentions this toward the end of the post). There isn’tRead more
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Nancy is my web framework of choice for .NET. It is free, lightweight, easy to use, and comes without all the bloat of the more common .NET frameworks. Nancy makes routing in C# simple. If you need to handle a form post, you simply set up the POST endpoint, and access the form variables viaRead more
Atlassian’s Elastic Bamboo service is a useful and flexible tool for automating the compilation and testing of source code checkins. It runs builds on pre-configured Amazon EC2 machine images, automatically spinning up and spinning down EC2 virtual machines as necessary to keep costs low. We’ve been using this tool extensively for an ongoing project and it hasRead more
In my previous post, I showed an example of where the lack of higher-kinded types in .NET (both C# and F#) induces the need for code repetition. In this post I’ll show you how higher-kinded type support in Haskell allows for the elimination of this repetition. LINQ First, let’s take our LINQ query and translateRead more
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time in Visual Studio cranking away at C# code. You follow the updates to the language with each release, learn the new things that are possible and how it can make your life easier. But you also investigate other languages in your free time and seeRead more
In my first blog post on communicating with the Altera Cyclone II FPGA, I demonstrated how to create a serial echo by simply connecting the Tx wire and the Rx wire together. Then in my second post I demonstrated how to use third-party libraries and a clock to allow that serial line to be translated into a byteRead more