Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

Skills Matter are having a 1-day Haskell conference in London on October 10th: Haskell Exchange 2012 The conference is dedicated to pra...

I'll be at ICFP 2012 in a few weeks, talking about Shake . One thing I'd like to include on the slides are some information about h...

Standard Chartered , the bank where I work, is hiring – there are two vacancies for functional programmers in either London or Singapore. We...

Derive is a tool for generating code from Haskell data types - you specify the data type, and it automatically derives code, often instance...

My ICFP 2012 Shake paper is now online: Shake Before Building - Replacing Make with Haskell . From the abstract: Most complex software pro...

Summary: Shake maintains metadata as the build progresses. This metadata must remain up to date and consistent even if the process is killed...

Update: These functions have been cleaned up, improved with respect to error conditions and async exceptions, and put in the extra package...

Summary: I just updated the Hoogle website. It looks nicer on the iPhone and the source is on GitHub. The Website The Hoogle website is ...

Summary: Over the past few weeks I found two bugs in unordered-containers. I strongly recommend everyone upgrades to unordered-containers-0....

Summary: I've just released the NSIS library on Hackage. It's useful for building Windows installers, but is also a call-by-name emb...

Summary: This post describes four interesting build systems, namely Redo, Ninja, Tup and Fabricate. While developing Shake I investigated m...

Summary: I have just released Shake, a library that allows you to write build systems in Haskell (think Make, but much better). At the Haske...

Summary: I'm continually amazed how concise and powerful Haskell is, compared to mainstream languages. This post describes how to write ...

Summary: This post describes how to hide windows on the Windows operating system, by using the Win32 API from Haskell. Imagine that whenever...

I previously described how to enable Reply To All in Outlook . Since then I've modified the VBA script so it works on both Office 2003 a...

Summary: The new version of Uniplate has several wrappers for working with abstract data types, such as Map from the containers package. The...

The videos from the Haskell Implementors Workshop 2011 are now online at YouTube . I'm currently uploading them to Vimeo , but that wil...

Summary: This post describes how to write a function in Haskell, and then call it from R. R is a very popular language for statistics, pa...

I've just uploaded the slides for all the talks given at the Haskell Implementors Workshop 2011 - just click on "Slides" next...

Summary: The InfixE construction in Template Haskell fits poorly with generic programming, because its type does not capture all its restric...