Yearly Archives: 2009

Dealing with encoding errors in Data.Text

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I put a pidgit in your widget so you can fidget while you calculate pi

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Streaming Unicode support for Haskell: text 0.2

I just released version 0.2 of the Haskell text library that I announced back in February. This version fixes a number of bugs, but much more significantly, it adds a streaming mode: you can process a huge amount of text
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Mercurial book is now in production, and a little gift

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Slides from my Erlang Factory talk this morning

I had a wonderful time at the Bay Area Erlang Factory this morning, speaking to an Erlang audience about the different perspective that Haskell brings to functional programming. It was a relaxed and friendly crowd, and speaking to a receptive
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DEFUN 2009 call for talks and tutorials

ACM SIGPLAN 2009 Developer Tracks on Functional Programming http://www.defun2009.info/ Edinburgh, Scotland, September 3 and 5, 2009 The workshop will be held in conjunction with ICFP 2009 http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/icfp09.html Important dates Proposal Deadline: June 5, 2009, 0:00 UTC Notification: June 19, 2009
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Mercurial: The Definitive Guide

If you’ve looked at the Mercurial book site in the past 24 hours, you’ll have noticed that both its look and the name of the book have changed. First, the cosmetic news. The change in appearance is due to my
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Scintillation

I think that this video is remarkably beautiful. SCINTILLATION, by Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.
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Finally! Fast Unicode support for Haskell

On behalf of the Data.Text team, I am delighted to announce the release of preview versions of two new packages: text 0.1 Fast, packed Unicode text support, using a modern stream fusion framework. text-icu 0.1 Augments the text package with
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Speaking at Bay Area Erlang Factory in April

My friends at Erlang Training and Consulting are running an organising an event in Palo Alto at the end of April: Erlang Factory. If you’re interested in the ferment of ideas and activity around functional programming, this promises to be
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