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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…

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…

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…

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…

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'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…

Intro May's rubynortheast covered design issues. Pootsbook delivered an excellent talk, covering just about the right amount of detail and being very clear throughout. His topic was DCI, or Data,…

Intro Stuck for a topic at Newcastle's Ruby group, I attempted an off the cuff talk on what Haskell is about, and what Ruby programmers could learn from it. I…

Today, I share with you a great insight. Do you like coffee? do you get fed up with the paraphernalia needed to make it, and washing everything up? I do.…

Someone asked. Well, I wanted something just a little bit geeky, but the delightful strictly positive has already gone, and terms like 'iota reduction' just don't have the same ring.…