Monthly Archives: December 2012

So many architectures, so little time

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Clive Tong

I’ve been reading a large amount of compiler related papers lately. First, a slide show on the optimisation of Haskell programs, where the author highlights the use of strictness analysis to detect the parts of the program which can be … Continue reading →

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I came to find out about the barrier, and found RCU

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Clive Tong

I read my way through the appendix of Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, if so, what can you do about it? which covered modern CPU architecture memory barriers, in my quest to understand them better. That appendix alone, Appendix C, … Continue reading →

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Bind it tight

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Clive Tong

Data-binding has become one of the central ideas amongst modern GUI frameworks. It has enabled the use of view models, a set of objects representing the GUI state which can be linked to the actual GUI elements in a very … Continue reading →

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Single page apps gone mad

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Clive Tong

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript by Kraig Brockschmidt Microsoft have done a lot of work to make it feasible to write full Windows 8 Store applications in JavaScript. The WinJS library contains many UI elements together … Continue reading →

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That’s the right script for the play

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Clive Tong

I’ve just finished reading ClojureScript: Up and running by Stuart Sierra and Luke Vanderhart I’ve been wanting to try ClojureScript for quite some time. Every language seems to be trans-compiling to JavaScript these days – languages like F#, C#, Java … Continue reading →

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