Learning functional Javascript through Koans
Given how Javascript interpreters are improving in leaps and bounds; and that it seems to be the only language that will be supported by all web devices; its time to for me to revive my Javascript...
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A Defect Exception
Occasionally one comes across a idea that is just brilliant. How often have you been writing a bit of code, and got to a point where you think “gee, if the program ever gets into this state, then...
View ArticleEveryday functional programming – part 1 of ??
This is the first of a series of blog posts where I will be exploring how functional programming techniques are useful in the daily life of a working “enterprise software” developer. If you, like me,...
View ArticleHigher order functions – simplifying loops – part 2 of ??
This is the 2nd part of my series on everyday functional programming. Filtering Suppose you have a collection of items and need to grab just a subset that match a certain criteria. Programming C# in an...
View ArticleImplementing the strategy pattern without an explosion of classes – part 3 of ??
I feel uncomfortable when I see large switch statements. I appreciate how they break the Open Closed Principle. I have enough experience to know that they seem to attract extra conditions &...
View ArticleFunctional programming in Javascript and F#
During June 2011 I presented a session at the SPA2011 conference in London, UK. My session was a hands on introduction to functional programming techniques with code samples in Javascript and F#. The...
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AMEE in Excel
The AMEEConnect API gives access to a vast amount of climate related data. It also exposes standardise methodologies and to perform calculations based on that data. As part of the London Green...
View ArticleHOWTO – configure Netbeans PHP debugging for a remote server, over a SSH tunnel
Having tripped myself up on multiple occasions setting this up, I’m recording these config steps here for future-me. Scenario: You have a PHP site running on a remote [Ubuntu 12.04] server, and want...
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Customise your .gitattributes to become a Git Ninja
One of the things I love about Git is that your .gitignore file travels with the repo, so ignore rules remain consistent no matter which machine you are working on. In the same vein, adding a...
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WordPress Development Workflow using Stackato, HipHop, and Jenkins
A recent project of mine to host WordPress using HipHop-PHP on the Stackato/CloudFoundry PAAS recently got profiled by Stackato Developing like this enables: Consistent environments for development and...
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How to debug the CF/PAAS deploy process
The new breed of PAAS systems are all converging on a common deployment model. A CLI tool uploads your code / executables to the PAAS. The PAAS launches a clean “LXC based” staging container VM and...
View ArticleLogsearch for Cloud Foundry presentation
Logsearch is the opensource project I lead as part of my day job at City Index Ltd. Based on the Elasticsearch ELK stack; and packaged as a BOSH release, it builds you a log processing cluster...
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