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Brian Beckman: The Zen of Stateless State – The State Monad

There’s a new wonderful interview with Brian Beckman on Channel 9. This time he’s explaining more details about functional programming and the theoretical basics to avoiding obscured state. Part One Part Two

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Bill Hill, framerate.de and updated posts

Finally the second part of the interview with Bill Hill is available on Channel 9. (Bill Hill: The Future of Reading on the Web, Part 2, Part 1). Also new interviews with Erik Meijer are online. framerate.de (german) is 3 years old. James D. Rolfe is nearly finished with his Gozillathon. http://www.cinemassacre.com Anyway, there he [...]

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Bill Hill, Richard Dawkins and other stuff

There a new interview with Bill Hill on Channel 9. Currently only part 1 is available, but part 2 will follow soon. A nice talk with Richard Dawkins about evolution, science and religion (Youtube-playlist). I think his criticism is eligible. In my opinion especially Creationism is a really stupid, wrong theory. I’m scared if people [...]

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Spec#

Spec# is a extension to C# which add contracts to the language. Contracts are nothing new, it has been around for decades, but aren’t present in most popular languages. In my opinion this is really sad, because it prevents lots of unnecessary and simply bugs in programs. According to the video, Microsoft uses contracts for [...]

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…But the question is, do you want it get done or do you want it get right!

A quote from the talk on channel 9 with Erik Meijer, Bertrand Meyer and Yuri Gurevich. Charles Torre (the interviewer) is asking, why the majority of the programmers using languages like C++, PHP, C#, Java etc and not “better” ones) Charles: “…theres also this notion of productivity. I’m a developer, there’s an algorithm I’ve to [...]

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Another Erik Meijer Talk

His talking about functional programming, honest und dishonest programming languages, side-effects etc. It’s not a praxis oriented talk, it’s really academic but still interesting. Talk on Channel9 (Windows Media Player or Silverlight)

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Presentations

Because I’m currently to busy to dig into stuff myself I’m lazy an just post a list of exiting talks about all kind of geeky topics: Java-Related-Talks: The new Java Memory Model: A talk about how the memory-model works and what is needed to guarantee that a change in memory is visible. If you have [...]

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