Joy of coding, property-based testing

Afgelopen vrijdag heb ik Joy of Coding bezocht, een conferentie voor programmeurs. Ik wilde met name John Hughes horen, onder meer bekend van de paper ‘Why functional programming matters‘ (uit 1984 !).…

Online diary on the fly

For quite a while I just to have digital personal diary. First as a text file stored in my computer, occasionally backed up on cd. Then I switched to ohlife.com.…

Functional programming in Scala

I’ve completed the Coursera course Functional Programming Principles in Scala, with a Verified certificate! Going through the course was a nice experience. It felt a-lot like the university years, including even…

Going to do functional programming

I’ve learned about functional programming during my university years, with Haskell as primary language. I considered functional programming as quite elegant, but also impractical. I felt I could get practical…

SQL Performance

If you have to access persisted data, of course, you do not have to necessarely use SQL. But in case you do, knowing something about SQL-performance helps. I just did…

Friend of Eclipse

I just became friend of Eclipse. The new version Kepler is available for friends of Eclipse, which is a good reason to do something I planned to do before.