Using Git introduced me to the wonderful services of GitHub. One of the many great features of GitHub is something known as GitHub Pages. To quote the GitHub Pages intro: The GitHub Pages feature allows you to publish content to the web by simply pushing content to one of your GitHub hosted repositories. You can use GitHub Pages for the website of your project or as a ‘User Page’. GitHub uses Git’s post-commit hooks, to invoke Jekyll a Ruby based static site generator.…

Last Friday I attended the Nederlandse Functioneel Programmeren dag. The program showed a wide variety of short (20 min.) talks. This appeared to be a nice low barrier of entry opportunity to see what’s currently hot in the field of functional programming. With the added benefit of being able to talk to people who get to use languages like Haskell, F# on a daily bases instead of in their spare time ☺.…