Algebraic Data Type An algebraic data type is a basically a composite type that is formed by combining other types, sometimes also referred to as “sums-and-products” data structures (don’t worries if this is too abstract for you, examples are coming). A simple example would be a composite type that represents a binary tree that has: …
Dart – Emulating F#’s Discriminated Union (i.e. an algebraic data type) Read More »
Cory House gave a good talk titled “Becoming an Outlier: Career Reboot for the Developer Mind“ at this year’s NDC Oslo conference (there’s really so many to choose from!) and it’s one that has really resonated with me as it aligns with many of my personal goals and experiences. To help me better remember these …
NDC Oslo 2014 – Takeaways from “Career reboot for the developer mind” Read More »
So NDC Oslo 2014’s finished, it was the first time I’ve attended the conference and I must say it has been a fantastic experience for me. No only was I given the privilege to see so many smart people talking about interesting topics happening in our field, I was also able to meet quite a …
NDC Oslo 2014 – Takeaways from keynote “It’s a write/read web” Read More »
In Here Be Monsters*, we have a story-driven, episodic MMORPG that has over 3500 items and 1500 quests, and with more text than the first three Harry Potter books combined – so it represented a fairly sizable challenge when we made the decision to localize the whole game! The Challenge From a technical point …
AOP – A story of how we localized a MMORPG with minimal effort Read More »
Hello! Just to quick shout to say that the slides for my Neo4j talk tonight on modelling and balancing an in-game economy using Neo4j is now available on Slideshare: Modelling Game Economy with Neo4j from Yan Cui You can also watch the recording of the talk on SkillsMatter here. Oh, and did I …
Why does the dog wag its tail? Because the dog is smarter than the tail. If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog. The phrase wag the dog refers to times when something of a secondary importance improperly takes on the role of something of primary importance. As I watched the recording of …
Suppose you want to merge an assembly A (AssemblyA.dll) with another assembly B (AssemblyB.dll) with ILMerge into a merged assembly (Merged.dll), and everything works fine until the user of your merged assembly also references that AssemblyB.dll, at which point that user will get Ambiguous reference errors for any reference to types defined in assembly B, …
I gave a talk about our use of F# at last year’s CodeMesh event, and the recording is now up on Vimeo. Yan Cui – F# in Social Gaming from Erlang Solutions on Vimeo. You can also find the slides for the talk up on SlideShare: F# in social gaming from Yan Cui
One of the pitfalls with LINQ which I have fallen into on multiple occasions is around the use of the OfType<T> extension method with dictionaries. Either through carelessness or changes to the underlying variable (a class property being changed from list to dictionary for instance) I have ended up using OfType<…> on a dictionary which …
Resharper – Using custom patterns to catch subtle bugs with OfType<T> Read More »
Kevin Montrose’s Jil JSON serializer has now been added to the JSON benchmark tests and the results are really impressive. Kevin has also listed the tricks that he has employed to make Jil fast on the project page, which is well worth a read.
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