Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

This week I was going to tackle type searching, but then realised I'm going to spend 6 hours on Friday on a train (hence the weekly upda...

This week I've stayed in one place, and had lots of opportunity to get on with Hoogle. I've done a number of different things this w...

I'm still developing Hoogle 4, and there are many things that don't work (such as searching for types and the web version). However,...

I'm currently unable to access SSH, and suspect this situation will persist for most of the Summer. Most of my darcs repo's are behi...

This week I've travelled a further 600 miles by train, but am now starting to get settled for the Summer, and down to work on Hoogle. My...

This week I submitted my PhD thesis, emptied my entire rented house of furniture, spent £96 on petrol, drove (or was driven) 400 miles, trav...

I started my Google Summer of Code project on Hoogle at the beginning of this week. In my initial application I promised to make my weekly...

I've written quite a few programs using the tagsoup library , but have never really used the library interactively. Today I was wonderin...

There has been lots of discussion on the Haskell mailing lists about the speed of Haskell. There are many conflicting opinions, and lots of ...

Haskell has one primitive construct for enforcing strictness, seq :: a -> b -> b . The idea is that the first argument is evaluated to...

This year I am going to be participating in the Google Summer of Code as a student, for the haskell.org organisation , on the Haskell API S...

I previously requested a feature for darcs. I always pull from an http repo, and push over SSH. I have to push using --no-set-default and ...

I've just read issue 10 of The Monad.Reader . It's a great issue, including a tutorial on using the new GHCi debugger, and how to w...

I use optional parameters in my TagSoup library , but it seems not to be a commonly known trick, as someone recently asked if the relevant l...

I've been spending the last few months writing papers, which requires lots and lots of proof reading. Yesterday Tom shared one trick he...

I just read a blog article entitled Kid's play with HTML in Haskell , where the author extracts some information from an HTML document, ...

I have been demonstrating on the York University "Algorithms and Data Structures" course for 4 years now. As part of the course, f...

Sorting is currently a hot topic within the the Haskell community. Christopher brought it up in a recent thread on the mailing list, and t...

For the last few days I have been thinking about how to write a low-level program optimiser, based on the ideas from Supero . Supero works a...

I recently released Hoogle 3.1 , in response to a security bug spotted by Tillmann Rendel. Checking back through my records, I found that Bo...