Huffman Trees/Codes - Why are they different?
2024-11-19 Software-Craftmanship Augmented-by-AI Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala
Right now I am solving the 99-scala-problems. Again!!! This time around I am using them to learn more about what it means to be an Augmented Software ... Read More
Effective Programming with Scala(3)
2021-06-02 Software-Craftmanship Functional-Programming Scala
Just finished the brand new Effective Programming with Scala course on Coursera. It is a beginners course and it is excellent for beginners. Good ... Read More
Some more fun with Scala3
2021-05-15 Software-Craftmanship Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala
Scala3 is here. In my earlier post I saw some weird performance differences between Scala2 and Scala3 (RC3) and felt (obviously) compelled to run the ... Read More
More fun with Scala3
2021-05-01 Software-Craftmanship Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala
Note: Look here for 3.0 benchmark numbers The release of Scala3 is imminent. In April I ported/migrated nmesos from Scala2 to Scala3 and I just did a ... Read More
Scala 3 is ... gluten-free!!!
2021-02-21 Software-Craftmanship Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala
A couple of month ago I started to have stomach cramps. First it was only once week, but then it was more or less constant. Funny enough I had to find ... Read More
Code Elixir LDN 2019 - 3 languages in 3 minutes
2019-08-01 Software-Craftmanship Conferences Community Elixir Functional-Programming Haskell Nerdy Scala
Last week I was in London attending Code Elixir LDN 2019 delivering a lightening talk on 3 languages in 3 minutes … This was my first Elixir ... Read More
Advent of Code ... Final cut (... and First cut :))
2018-11-30 Software-Engineering Haskell Eta Scala Kotlin Advent-of-Code
Today Advent of Code 2018 started again (at 05:00am (GMT))!!! And … … just in time … … today I am also wrapping up Advent ... Read More
Advent of Code 2017 ... Revolutions!!!
2018-08-11 Software-Engineering Functional-Programming Advent-of-Code Scala Kotlin
Let’s talk about the Advent of Code … again!!! Last time we talked about a/the Scala implementation. This time around I figured that I ... Read More
Advent of Code 2017 ... Reloaded!!!
2018-05-24 Software-Engineering Advent-of-Code Scala Functional-Programming
OK … it took me a while, but … hopefully it was worth it!!! Last year at christmas I did the Advent of Code and … really liked ... Read More
Tenable new hire training ... and integrating sbt-release with sbt-github-release
2018-05-04 Software-Engineering Scala
The other day I was flying to the Tenable new hire training in Columbia/MD and that means … 8 hours of uninterrupted coding time!!! At the same ... Read More