From the window at the office I’ve seen a series of futuristic buildings erected, first the Gherkin, then the Shard and now the Walkie Talkie:   The last one being recently been re-dubbed the Walkie Scorchie as it produces a supercharged solar ‘death ra[...]

There are a lot of interesting programming languages out there, but downloading and setting up the environment can be very time consuming when you just want to try one out. The good news is that you can try out many languages in your browser straight away[...]

In the last week or so I've seen a popular article and a presentation which didn’t paint the rosiest of pictures for the next generation of coders: Marc Scott’s Kids Can't Use Computers... And This Is Why It Should Worry You Brett Victor’s The Fut[...]

Last night I ran a free hands on Generative Art session to a full class room at Skills Matter for the F#unctional Londoners meetup group. We host a hands on programming sessions every month, next month we’ll return to the Machine Learning theme with Matt [...]

A little while back I stumbled upon a fun generative art project by Maxime Chevalier called Turing drawings that produces 2D procedural art based on randomly generated Turing machines. The project’s code is in JavaScript using a HTML canvas which you can [...]

The slides and code for my first presentation at cf.Objective() 2013 are now online - Polyglot Lessons to Improve Your CFML: Learn You a What for Great Good slides (PDF) Learn You a What for Great Good code (Github) The other presentations will be poste[...]

Other than noting back in January that all three(!) of my talk proposals were accepted, I haven't blogged about them since, so the only information about them is on the cf.Objective() web site. The session overviews give a fair sense of what you should ge[...]

JavaScript is good, so JavaScript the good parts must be really good, so it follows that as part of JavaScript the Good Parts, prototypal inheritance must be really, really good. Some time ago while I was working on a supply chain management system for a[...]

On Tuesday I did a lightning talk at the MVP Summit in Bellevue on connecting to all things, from statistics to statistical programming languages with Intellisense and LINQ using F# Type Providers, a feature shipped with Visual Studio 2012:   Connect[...]

Welcome to 2013 and at World Singles we are expanding our development team! We're looking for three self-motivated engineers in three very different roles, working remotely from their home office. We want an experienced designer / front end developer who[...]