For my next pet project I decided to learn Elm. Elm is a functional language similar to Haskell, that compiles to JavaScript. These are my first impressions so take them with a grain of salt. Syntax Elm’s syntax is similar to Haskell’s. I had tried to learn Haskell a long time ago but failed miserably because […]
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First impressions of Elixir + Phoenix
I had been curious about Elixir for some time. After all, the promise of having the best of Erlang with a more palatable syntax was very attractive indeed. A couple of days ago I finally finished a small project in Elixir using the Phoenix web framework, which is a sort of “Elixir on Rails”. These are my first […]
Functional Programming Is Not Weird
Recently I read a blog post titled “Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird“. I strongly disagree with the assessment and Twitter was too short for an answer, hence this blog post :-) The blog post says that “Writing functional code is often backwards and can feel more like solving puzzles than like […]
Music Explorer
Lately I’ve worked on several small projects, mostly to learn new technologies. The newest one is music-related: a piano that shows scales and chords “in context”, to learn and explore music theory. The idea came about because my first instrument was the guitar, and music theory is pretty hard to make sense of when you’re […]
Book review: Clojure Cookbook
I just finished “Clojure Cookbook“, a book full of recipes for all kinds of things you can do with the Clojure programming language. I got the book through O’Reilly’s Reader Review Program. Obviously the book is not for you if you don’t know any Clojure, but I think it’s great if you know some Clojure […]
Learning Clojure
I have always had a thing for functional programming. Not so much for functional languages maybe, but definitely for functional programming principles. I had learned a tiny bit of Lisp at the uni and have fond memories of reading “On Lisp” by Paul Graham, but I never really tried to learn any Lisp for real. […]
Javascript for n00bs
Recently a friend asked me for an easy way to learn JavaScript. I can’t remember how I learned myself, but I do remember some things that were surprising coming from other languages, or that I had guessed wrong or took me a while to understand for whatever reason, despite not really being complicated at all. As […]
Exceptions in Node
Whoa, boy. It seems I haven’t written for a good while now. Let’s fix that. One of the things I had in my list of possible posts was my experiments (and frustrations) with Javascript exception classes under Node, so here we go: I needed to have several exception classes in Javascript (concretely, for RoboHydra, which […]
Pragmatic Thinking & Learning, Wikis and Javascript
After so much “slacking” (just posting book summaries) I’m trying to go back to regular blogging. Remember my summary of Pragmatic Thinking & Learning? There are many exercises and pieces of advice in that book that I have been trying to practice. One of the things I decided to go for was having a personal […]
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