Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Palm OS 5.5 emulator!

Rare! Illegal?!? No one knows!

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Curious about Windows Installer?

Read the documentation! I had never looked at it before, but having to author a WiX package or two sort of forced the issue.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

15 years of concurrency

An excellent overview of concurrency and Midori. Not the radioactive alien pee.

Friday, December 2, 2016

An overview of settlement

There was much comment about how expensive or difficult this would have been in the regular banking system – and this could well be true. But it also highlighted another point: in my expecience, almost nobody actually understands how payment systems work. That is: if you “wire” funds to a supplier or “make a payment” to a friend, how does the money get from your account to theirs?

Monday, October 24, 2016

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

A gentle introduction to Perl 6

A fine slide deck. I think in 10-20 years, Perl 6 will still be going strong. Or Perl 7 at any rate.

C# 6 features

So many, so good.