Willowbend

This is in response to the recent State of  Haskell survey. They asked what Haskell’s main weakness or blind spot was and I couldn’t stop typing. Instead of leaving a comment on the survey, I thought I’d write it down here. First of all, I like Haskell a lot. I’m the Thompson in “Thompson-Wheeler Logo.” [...]

Tim Ottinger, a guy I’m proud to say was a co-worker of mine in an ancient past life, wrote a nice piece about a common mis-practice in measuring the velocity of a software project. I won’t re-explain velocity here. His article defines it very well and the way he explains how you can do it [...]

Could someone replicate this educational game for Emacs? Is it inevitable? Has it already been done? I hope so. Maybe someone could do it for org-mode too.

I was glad to see some Haskell folks using qc.js. I’m most excited by this quote: In the future, we will probably also start testing DOM and user interface related code; hopefully, that will work just as well. I share that hope. That’s exactly where I’m hoping this line of development leads. Given that they [...]

We’re trying something new this year for our Indianapolis Film Forum. So far the group has already done two films, Avatar and Book of Eli. This year’s twist is posting video of the discussions online. We’ll see how it goes. So far I like what I see. If you’re in Indianapolis perhaps you’d care to [...]

I’m really excited to release this to the world. QuickCheck is a fairly new testing concept that came out of the Haskell community. The goal of QuickCheck is to save time when writing unit tests. I wanted to try QuickCheck in JavaScript, and I was really surprised to find no one had done a port. [...]

I wrote about TJ Ford’s call to my house for Indy Cornrows. How fun was that?

I have acquired a distaste for motivation and the culture around it. That goes extra for managers who think a speech containing Tiger Woods accomplishments is going to get sales up. With that said, I was impressed with a bit from a Basketball coach on keeping players accountable for off season workouts. As in, actually [...]

There just aren’t enough products out there that work like this: First I’m going to unplug it from the USB port on my computer. Now I’m going to smoke it. This electronic cigarette is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. From what I can tell it’s a nicotine delivery system that doesn’t involve the [...]