Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

Summary: This post describes how to change the gradient colors of the titlebar of a single window on Windows XP, using C#. On Windows XP the...

Summary: The Safe library has lots of small functions, none of which have INLINE pragmas on them. The lack of INLINE pragmas probably has no...

Last week I went to TFP 2011 , and gave a talk on Hoogle entitled "Finding Functions from Types". The slides are now available on...

Summary: CmdArgs can be used purely, and even if you choose to use it in an impure manner, you don't need to worry. As a result of my bl...

Summary: Everyone using GHC 7 should upgrade to CmdArgs 0.7. GHC's optimiser got better, so CmdArgs optimiser avoidance code had to get ...

Summary: Hoogle can now search the GHC source code. There are also lots of small improvements in the latest version. A few weeks ago Ranjit ...

Summary: Using the version control system Darcs is simple. This document describes the commands I use in my workflow. Darcs is my favourite...

My wife has just completed a draft of the experience report she's intending to submit to ICFP 2011 . It's called Functional Programm...

Summary: If you offer to help, I'll make Hoogle search your statically typed functional language. Hoogle is a search engine for Haskell...

Summary: Zero is a perfectly good number and functions should deal with it sensibly. In WinForms, both the Bitmap object and the DrawToBitma...

Summary: Hoogle Embed lets you include a small interactive Hoogle search box on your web page. I have just released Hoogle 4.2, which adds t...

Summary: I detail some of the changes in today's Hoogle release; I outline future plans for Hoogle; I plot some statistics, noting that ...

I've just released a new version of Hoogle to both Hackage and to haskell.org/hoogle . Hoogle is a Haskell search engine that allows yo...

Summary: This post describes how to install the Haskell network library on Windows. Update 2016: My current approach is here . The netw...

Summary : I wrote a little script on top of cabal sdist that checks for common mistakes. Cabal is the standard way to distribute Haskell pa...

Summary : I want three changes to the Haskell standard libraries. System.Info.isWindows should be added, Control.Monad.concatMapM should b...

Summary: A simple CmdArgs parser is incredibly simple (just a data type). A more advanced CmdArgs parser is still pretty simple (a few annot...

I've just released CmdArgs 0.2 to Hackage . CmdArgs is a library for defining and parsing command lines. The focus of CmdArgs is allow...

I have written a paper building on my Supero work that has been accepted to ICFP 2010 . Various people have asked for copies of the paper, ...

The Uniplate library contains many traversal operations, some based on functions in SYB (Scrap Your Boilerplate) . SYB provides everywhere ...