Tag Archives: functional programming

MongoDB Replication is Easy

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Geoff Lane

Database replication with MongoDB is easy to setup. Replication duplicates all of the data from a master to one or more slave instances and allows for safety and quick recovery in case of a problem with your master database. Here … Continue reading →

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Scala and Adding New Syntax

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Geoff Lane

One interesting thing about some languages is their support for adding new syntax. While all languages have the ability to add new functions or types some have specific properties that make it easy to add what looks like new built-in … Continue reading →

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Scheme/HtDP Unit Testing Functions

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Geoff Lane

How to Design Programs (HtDP) provides a series of unit testing functions that allow you to test the output of any kind of function. The current version talks about testing your code, but doesn’t offer a lot of guidance into … Continue reading →

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Studying HtDP

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Geoff Lane

I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve recently been studying How to Design Programs (HtDP). It’s really a book about teaching beginners how to program by following a series of recipes that tell you how to identify and solve … Continue reading →

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Erlang First Post

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Geoff Lane

Some linguists and philosophers posit the idea that you can not have a thought for which you do not have language. “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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