Fabulous adventures in coding

That took much longer than I’d hoped it would; a number of family crises had to be managed in the last year but they’re all sorted and the book is at the printer now!

Scott Hanselman, the Microsoft VP for developer community outreach and general all around good guy was kind enough to ask me to be on his podcast, HanselMinutes, to talk about my upcoming book.

Hey everyone, I first want to say a heartfelt thank you so much for the warm comments and supportive feedback I’ve gotten since I announced that I’m in process of writing Fabulous Adventures In Data Structures And Algorithms.

Hey everyone, I’ve finally turned this blog into a book!

I wanted to implement concise “pattern matching” in Python, a language which unlike C#, F#, Scala, and so on, does not have any pattern matching built in.

Before getting into the details of how my combinator-inspired source code transformation system works, I should say first, what is a general overview of the system?

How do we write a compiler in a typical general-purpose line-of-business OO programming language such as Python, C#, Java, and so on?

The European starling is a lovely looking bird, though territorial, noisy and aggressive up close.

In the autumn of last year my friend Joan and I went on a little trip up to the Skagit valley north of Seattle to photograph birds of prey; I managed to get a blurry but recognizable shot of this charming little kestrel looking for field mice.

Reader “Joel” had an insightful comment on the first part of this series which I thought deserved a short episode of its own.