Generating the wonderful Mandelbrot set in Ruby and Haskell – it’s amazing how simple math can give birth to such a sophisticated shape. It’s elegance fits Ruby and Haskell well. Come closer and see the wonders! (more…)  

Everyone wants to be good in what he’s doing – that’s human nature, that’s how we’re raised. The key is constant improvement without being disappointed by small failures and bumps on the way. In the last 10 years I’ve been working as a developer and I feel I’ve learnt a lot of valuable lessons – many of which can be applied to other areas of life and work. Let me share my lessons with you,...

Today I’d like to present the implementation of the quicksort algorithm, starting from a naive imperative solution and improving it for elegance and clarity. (more…)  

What is the first term in the Fibonacci sequence to contain 1000 digits? This is the quesion I’m answering, comparing the Ruby and the Haskell solutions. (more…)  

* Top 5 trends and technologies in software development In this ever-changing world of software development it’s extremely important to keep up with current technologies, methodologies and trends. * Top 5 mac tools for web development See my recommendations for web development tools on macs * Ruby blocks and closures 101 Let’s go on with diving into the beauties of ruby – this time check out how elegant blocks and...

In this ever-changing world of software development it’s extremely important to keep up with current technologies, methodologies and trends. It can easily get out of hand though – simply there’s not enough time for anyone to learn all new stuff, work and live a normal life simultaneously. Selection is thus the key, being smartly selective about new things to learn so we won’t miss important stuff but also keep ...

Facebook announced its brand new code transformer, boosting php’s performance by a factor of 2 and also reducing memory consumption (their measurements). This new beast is called HipHop. According to the announcement: “Overall, HipHop allows us to keep the best aspects of PHP while taking advantage of the performance benefits of C++. In total, we have written over 300,000 lines of code and more than 5000 unit tests. All of...