Monthly Archives: July 2012

Monads: Easy or Hard?

Posted on July 19, 2012 by

Executive summary: they are actually both (or neither). It is easy to learn their definition but hard to grasp the consequences. Or we might say they are easy to know and hard to understand (grok). It is vitally important for … Continue reading →

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Diagrams mentoring at Hac Phi

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

Hac Phi is coming up in less than a month, August 3-5 here in Philadelphia: three days of hanging out with awesome people, eating good food, and hacking on Haskell projects. Judging by past instances, I promise you it will … Continue reading →

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BlogLiterately 0.5 release

Posted on July 7, 2012 by

I have now released version 0.5 of BlogLiterately. (You can read about the 0.4 release here.) This version does uploading of images! Here is proof: d’awww. (My previous post explains the problem and solution with image uploads.) It also allows … Continue reading →

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New haxr release

Posted on July 7, 2012 by

I have just uploaded a new version of the haxr package (for writing XML-RPC clients and servers), having become the new maintainer. Here is how it happened. In a previous post I announced the release of BlogLiterately 0.4, a tool … Continue reading →

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BlogLiterately 0.4 release

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

I have just released version 0.4 of BlogLiterately, a tool for authoring and uploading blog posts (especially Haskelly ones). Rob Greayer authored the first few versions of this useful tool, for which I’m very thankful. However, he doesn’t have the … Continue reading →

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