Writings

Here are some things I have written.

On this site

• A Coder's Guide To Coffee. Learn how easy and inexpensive it is to prepare and enjoy truly great coffee.

On Perl Monks:

• A mini-language for sequences. Starting with a simple definition for a sequence, we build a small combinator library that forms a surprisingly powerful mini-language for working with collections. Along the way, we use the library to solve a number of problems posed by other users of Perl Monks.
• Near-free function currying in Perl. Languages like Haskell offer currying function-call semantics that let us specialize functions for free. Can we invent something similar for Perl?
• Two handy tools as nested arrays: mapat and transpose. In Perl, multidimensional data is commonly represented via nested arrays. Two simple functions – mapat and transpose – give us new, intuitive ways of manipulating such data at a higher level.
• A tutorial on testing. This tutorial shows how to use two tools from Perl's diverse testing toolbox to test your code. It starts out using Test::More and then moves into LectroTest.