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You can tell a book is really good if you have that feeling that you wish you’d written it yourself.

TL;DR There’s a very interesting PhD thesis about Chinese players of Mahjong and Roulette in Manchester casinos.

This article first appeared in PragPub back in 2016.

In recent months, I’ve fallen to a particular addiction – to the game of Mahjong.

I’m full of flu and feeling quite grumpy, so what better time to unload on something that often annoys me?

I’m slightly pleased to announce that Programming: A PragPub Anthology has now been printed!

UPDATE: the original links no longer work, but some of the PragPub content from a range of authors is being added to Medium, see https://medium.com/@pragpub.

I’m pleased to announce that some of my earlier articles for the PragPub magazine will be published in a new anthology, which is available in Beta (e-Book) now and due to be released in dead-tree format around October.

I was recently at a FP-ish meetup group in Newcastle, and one topic of discussion is how to TDD the Roman Numerals kata.

You might have noticed, still no book.