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A little adventure with Haskell and Go
I recently decided to brush up on my functional programming skills. My day job increasingly involves building and operating large-scale distributed systems and I became interested in the intersection between this and...
Software sucks - put simply
Be very worried. Software is eating the world, and it sucks. This is a quote from a great article called Why the Great Glitch of July 8th Should Scare You by Zeynep Tufekci . You should go and read it (but finish this...
Endocode proud to sponsor Free Software Foundation Europe
Endocode proud to sponsor Free Software Foundation Europe 4 March 2015 News Endocode , Free Software Foundation Europe karl Endocode has recently become a sponsor of the Free Software Foundation Europe . We proudly do...
Distributed Java Programming - A new training topic
Distributed Java Programming – A new training topic 23 February 2015 Training , Uncategorized concurrency , CORBA , distributed systems , Hadoop , Java , Java Persistence API, memcached , networking , RMI ,...
Brown Dogs and Barbers - Could not have come at a better time, nor be better pitched
Brown Dogs and Barbers – “Could not have come at a better time, nor be better pitched” 21 January 2015 Brown Dogs and Barbers Amazon , British Computer Society , Smashwords karl The British Computer Society (BCS), the...
Why choose Python for teaching?
I recently read a tweet by a computer science educator claiming the superiority of a particular programming language for teaching purposes (Pascal, if you must know). Now, I don’t really go for religious wars — each to...