Month: October 2016
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Continuous Delivery
Is an excellent book by Jez Humble and Dave Farley. As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages… Software delivers no value until it is in the hands of its users. The pattern that is central to this book is the deployment pipeline. It sho…
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Continuous Delivery
Is an excellent book by Jez Humble and Dave Farley. As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages… Software delivers no value until it is in the hands of its users. The pattern that is central to this book is the deployment pipeline. It sho…
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Building Microservices
Is an excellent book by Sam Newman. As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages… Because microservices are primarily modeled around business domains, they avoid the problems of traditional tiered architectures. Microservices should cleanl…
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Building Microservices
Is an excellent book by Sam Newman. As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages… Because microservices are primarily modeled around business domains, they avoid the problems of traditional tiered architectures. Microservices should cleanl…
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How to write a programming language – Part 3, The Evaluator
Series: Lexer, Parser, Evaluator. Finally, we get onto the actual magic of the little language I wrote (Cell) – the evaluator, which takes in syntax trees and finds their real value, in the context of the “environment”: the symbols that are defined aro…
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Basic Haskell project setup (unit tests, code, formatting)
To start a programming project, we need to be able to build, format code, and run unit tests. Here’s what I have found makes a sensible starting point for a Haskell project. Full code: hunit-example. To build and run tests, just do:make setup make test…
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How to write a programming language – Part 2, The Parser
Series: Lexer, Parser, Evaluator My little programming language, Cell (Cell Elementary Learning Language) is designed to be simple. I want to use it to explain how to write a programming language. The parser is only 81 lines long, so hopefully it’s not…