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Dual bitbucket/github citizenship
One of the particularly nice things about working with a distributed revision control tool these days is that I can sidestep the choice of winning tool. Thanks to Scott Chacon and Augie Fackler’s excellent hg-git extension, I can use Mercurial…
Posted in open source, scm
Why I don’t use darcs any more (much)
Over the past couple of years, since David Roundy handed over control of the darcs revision control system to a talented team of developers, it has come a long way in stability and performance.I began using darcs essentially out of…
Posted in open source
A tiny example of clean Unicode handling in Haskell
Ersin Er wrote a brief blog post about handling the Turkish language in Haskell. Because Turkish uses a character set that mostly looks familiar to Westerners, it is notorious for its ability to trip up the unwary programmer (see examples…
Posted in haskell, open source
Dealing with fragile C libraries (e.g. MySQL) from Haskell
I spent some time today trying to talk to a MySQL database server from a piece of middleware I'm writing in Haskell. You might think that talking to a database server would be easy, but it turned out to be…
Sightings of the GHC event manager in the wild
After a few months of blissfully doing precious little hacking in our spare time, Johan and I have returned to work on the new event manager for GHC. I spent the past few days writing a paper about the motivation,…
Posted in haskell, open source
