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Motherhood and apple pie

I'm full of flu and feeling quite grumpy, so what better time to unload on something that often annoys me? Today's target is that aura of "righteousness" that leads some people…

The FP Anthology book has just been printed!

I'm slightly pleased to announce that Programming: A PragPub Anthology has now been printed! My box of free copies arrived last week, fortunately coinciding with a parental visit (and gave me…

My older articles in PragPub

For convenience (mostly mine), here's a list of the articles I wrote a few years ago. http://pragprog.com/magazines/2012-08/thinking-functionally-with-haskell http://pragprog.com/magazines/2012-09/thinking-functionally-with-haskell http://pragprog.com/magazines/2012-10/thinking-functionally-with-haskell http://pragprog.com/magazines/2012-11/thinking-functionally-with-haskell http://pragprog.com/magazines/2012-12/web-programming-in-haskell http://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-01/web-programming-in-haskell-part-ii http://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-03/uncle-bob-and-functional-programming http://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-04/dependent-types http://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-05/dependent-types-part-ii http://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-06/unification http://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-07/dependent-types-iii Three of these…

I’ve written part of a book!

I'm pleased to announce that some of my earlier articles for the PragPub magazine will be published in a new anthology, which is available in Beta (e-Book) now and due to be…

I’m writing a book!

I'm rather delighted to confirm that I'm now writing a book! You might have seen my articles in the Pragmatic Programmers' in-house magazine. (If not, start with this one from August 2012. There's eleven…

Mind the gap please

Or, how all programming language evolution charts are incomplete. Or even, how so many of you are looking the wrong way! Just a quick moan this time. No doubt you've all…

My PhD thesis is 15 years old

Since I left the organised education industry, my PhD thesis has not been readily available on the web. It's about time I gave it a proper home. So: my thesis can…

I’ve been distracted…

I've not posted for a while, at least not here, but I have kept up the habit elsewhere. If you didn't know, I've been writing a few articles on Haskell…

Open source at its best? A review of Spreeconf Europe 2012

The conference I could not miss Last time I was in Dublin, I swore I'd never go back to the Guinness Storehouse. (I'll explain why later, for those who are…

I remember the time before monads

I've been fortunate enough to get some of my 'essays' into PragPub magazine, starting with an overview of how functional programmers think and how they use their languages. See Issue 38 for…