Pun Intended Consequences

The phantom of the type opera HEIKO Seeberger over at the Codecentric blog published an interesting post about using Scala's typeleve...

HANDLING state in a monadic way is one of the techniques Haskellers come to learn about. But how does it work, roughly? The following is a...

I LIKE creating my GUIs programmatically. I suppose I'm a traditionalist (some would say a masochist). But I feel that it gives me more ...

In Python, statements and expressions are separate and unequal citizens. For example, statements can contain expressions but expressions can...

THIS movie should really be called Exodus: Moses’ Struggle with God . Early on in the movie, Moses (at the time an Egyptian general), trav...

SOMETIMES when you’re working with git repositories, the remote doesn’t support pushing and pulling over SSH. It only supports HTTPS. Or you...

LIKE many others, I’ve come to rely on Stack Overflow (SO) as an amazing repository of technical knowledge. How did it become so comprehensi...

IT TOOK me a while to write about Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (MoS) because I was trying to articulate what it meant to me. And I think I’ve...

‘MANUSCRIPTS don’t burn’.–Woland, The Master and Margarita Recently I re-read this classic, long my favourite book, and I re-discovered wh...

TODAY I learned (the hard way) about a subtle bug in Microsoft Excel. It seems that to the VLOOKUP function looking for a matching value in ...

ABOUT a year ago roughly I started using a new transit fare payment card called Presto . Presto is a top-up card–you pay as you spend–and it...

This will work on Firefox and should also work on Chrome with a little adjustment. You can start posting a tweet straight from the browser a...

Warning: Minor spoilers. I do references specific scenes from the movie, but nothing major. HARK, True Believers, and let me tell you a st...

I RECENTLY moved to Windows and started using Adobe Reader. The latest version is Adobe Reader X (that is, 10) and I started to keenly feel ...

SOME time ago I complained that there wasn’t any good, free blogging software on the Mac. Well, since then I’ve pruned my list of demands ...

I UPGRADED to Mac OS X Lion, the latest and greatest version of Mac OS X, tonight. While the update was cheap ($30) and easy (click and run...

THE KOBO Vox  (from Latin, vox populi, ‘voice of the people’) is Kobo’s latest and greatest ebook reader. It’s basically a touch-screen Andr...

I’VE read a couple of other Mordecai Richler books by now, but this one was probably the most passionate, the most powerful. A man caught be...

The way the sphere appeared Up in the sky, I stood in the shower. I felt no fear. I knew It loved me. The master returns To dote on i...

GOOGLE has recently rolled out their very own instant search, branded Google Instant , for most signed-in users. The cool thing about it is ...