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Ketil Malde and I submitted this paper to PADL 09.

I’ve posted my slides from tomorrow morning’s Haskell tutorial on Slideshare.

Don Stewart, Duncan Coutts and Simon Marlow ended the Haskell Symposium yesterday with a wonderful session about the future of Haskell.

I’m in Victoria, BC this week, at ICFP.

In April last year, I visited Yahoo HQ to take a look at what was then their in-progress redesign of del.icio.us.

I’ve had a Lenovo X60 for about 18 months.

Marc Ambinder comments on the peculiar cadence of the jacket blurbs for Douglas Feith’s new book, to which some wag responds with a suggestion for a similar endorsement.

Snipped from a small mailing list.

I’ve been following Ian Lance Taylor’s updates on the status of gold, the new binutils linker, for a while, so when he announced that he’d added it to the binutils tree, I decided to make a little time to try it out.

For a little while, I’ve been curious about which of the packages people in the vast wasteland of CPAN actually use and care about.

Here’s a simple program I wrote on a whim tonight, to take a very basic look at GHC’s low-level threading performance. module Main where import Control.Applicative import Control.Concurrent.MVar import Control.Concurrent import Data.Time import System.Env…

Applicative functors are gorgeous and versatile creatures, but as is common in Haskell, they lack a little in documentation.

I’ve just packaged up LLVM 2.1 for Fedora.

Tired of imperative programmers kicking sand in your face?

This is, I must say, very clever.

POPL 08 takes place next week, so San Francisco will be flooded with an army of burly and menacing programming language researchers and type theorists.

A while ago, I had a need to monitor filesystem modifications, and I looked around for Python bindings for the Linux kernel’s inotify subsystem.

I’ve spent a bit of time over the past few days putting together some LLVM bindings for Haskell, based on Gordon Henriksen’s C bindings.

Every language’s standard library has its weak spots.

Here is an absolute treat: a long, lively interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, conducted on one of my favourite blogs, BLDGBLOG.

If you use Fedora 8, GHC 6.8.1 will be in the stable repository within 24 hours or so.

Upgrading my laptop from F-7 to F-8 yesterday was painless, so I’ve been able to verify that the latest version of GHC works smoothly.

Maintenance status: I no longer actively maintain this software.

This evening, I’ll be speaking at the peculiar but fun Ignite SF.

When debugging or profiling Haskell code, it’s common practice to pepper it with cost centre annotations, often called SCC (for strongly connected component set cost centre) annotations.

Tim Bray has recently been writing about a simple log file processing task, giving his efforts the (decidedly peculiar) name of Wide Finder.

I’ve spent a few spare hours here and there working on a pure Haskell interface to MySQL recently.

Maintenance status: I no longer actively maintain this software.

Some months ago, I wrote a Python implementation of Daniel Lemire’s Weighted Slope One collaborative filtering algorithm.

Maintenance status: I no longer actively maintain this software.

A few days ago, I wrote a Haskell library for building and working with suffix trees.

Maintenance status: I no longer actively maintain this software.

Maintenance status: I no longer actively maintain this software.

Maintenance status: I no longer actively maintain this software.

I’ve had an account on del.icio.us for several years, but I only started using it heavily perhaps a year ago.

Irish television hasn’t changed much since I left the country twelve years ago.

Here’s a great quote from Yaron Minsky about the use of types in functional programs. […] most of the advantage of types in a language like ML comes from completely vanilla uses of the type system.

Here’s a fabulous way to start a research paper.

I’ve been running test releases of Fedora 7, and lately the final release, for a number of months on my fairly new Lenovo Thinkpad X60.

I’ve been sitting on this for a while, so I’m very excited to announce that Don Stewart, John Goerzen and I are collaborating on an upcoming book for O’Reilly, the working title of which is “Real-World Haskell”.

With Jens Petersen’s blessing, I’ve packaged GHC 6.6.1 for Fedora Extras.

A few weeks ago, I spent a little time porting Peter Norvig’s Python code from his article How to Write a Spelling Corrector to Haskell.

I just released version 0.1 of FileManip, a Haskell library I put together to make it easier to futz about with files in the filesystem.

I don’t intend for this blog to become a dumping ground for code snippets, but sometimes the temptation is too strong.

Simon Peyton Jones will be giving two Haskell-related talks at OSCON in July!

This year, the Haskell.org community has had nine projects funded by Google, out of 64 student applications.

I recently bought a Thinkpad X60 that came with Windows preinstalled.

From diffbavis on #haskell: sum (map ord “al gore”) 666

Someone showed up on #haskell yesterday, asking how to use regular expressions.

I spent a while this evening reading through the documentation for the beta release of NVIDIA’s CUDA GPGPU system.