Recent Articles

Why the world needs Haskell — July 9, 2013
Software developers that care about writing quality software that is free of silly programmer mistakes need to learn about Haskell and functional programming.
Parsing with Haskell and Attoparsec — June 26, 2013
Writing a parser in Haskell is fun and simple and this video tutorial walks you through using the Attoparsec library to parse internet playlist files.
Learn to read and write Scheme expressions — April 29, 2013
Expressions are the building blocks of programs. This article will teach you how to read and write expressions in the Scheme programming language and prepare you for the next big feature, functions.
Picking your first programming language — March 24, 2013
When starting your journey into the world of programming pick a language that will help you be successful.
JavaScript as a virtual machine? — January 3, 2013
Some consider JavaScript to be verbose bytecode
Unix cheat sheets — September 17, 2012
Cheat sheets to help you become comfortable at the command line
Being explicit with your code — April 17, 2012
Omitting optional syntax can obfuscate code
RubyGem Version Specifiers — April 3, 2012
In depth look at how you should specify gem versions
Ruby/Rails Compatibility Matrix — March 14, 2012
Which versions of Ruby are supported by which versions of Rails
Ruby's catch/throw, goto's little brother — March 9, 2012
Ruby provides a safer way to jump around than goto