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Archive for September, 2007

What the heck is a Wide Finder, anyway?

Posted in haskell on September 25th, 2007 9 Comments »

Tim Bray has recently been writing about a simple log file processing task, giving his efforts the (decidedly peculiar) name of Wide Finder. The task at hand is to count popular links in an Apache log file. Here’s my two minutes’ worth of hat in the ring, in Haskell. > main = do > args <- getArgs > [...]

Pure Haskell MySQL bindings in the works

Posted in haskell, open source on September 5th, 2007 1 Comment »

I’ve spent a few spare hours here and there working on a pure Haskell interface to MySQL recently. On the principle that perhaps someone else might want to join in the fun, I’ve published a darcs repository already (see the link above for more details):

darcs get http://darcs.serpentine.com/mysql

There are a few reasons I’m doing this. One [...]