While my experience programming is by my own admission limited, I’ve somehow never questioned the use of static state. Room 101: Cutting out Static made me for the first time question the use of static state. I’d never considered the implications of having static state scattered around my programs.  Of course, I haven’t worked on [...]

At the tail end of last year I wrote a piece in which I waxed about a possible maybe operator. I haven’t looked into implementing anything like it because my time is limited and I don’t feel I (yet) have the technical expertise to do so. However, I was reminded of the concept again when [...]

You learn something new everyday. While working my way through the Crosswalk and learning Erlang, I came across a comment about an infix operator. I had no idea what that was, so I looked it up. Turns out it’s just the notation of writing the operator between the operands, as opposed to writing it before [...]