Based on my recent Haskell experience, I highlight some cases where I think static type checks provide a better testing mechanism than unit tests or other automated tests.

I finally finished a non-trivial Haskell project!

The title is ironic...

In short: don't touch my data with alpha-quality software like Akonadi, and start working on things people actually want instead of grandiose schemes that have failed.

This is my suggestion about what needs to go into the Haskell Platform...

A lot of discussion recently has missed the point: the big question is whether the terms of any software licence are really relevant to dynamic languages...

There is a lot of debate over the translation and meaning of 1 Corinthians 7:36-38 – this is the result of my studies on this, mainly for my own future use.

Is this a bizarre GHC bug? Or a bug in me?

Amarok 2 is not my favourite application at the moment...

I've blogged before about using trac as a personal wiki, now I've found I can use Emacs as my editor and trac browser it's even better...

A review of "Django 1.0 Template Development" by Scott Newman, from Packt Publishing.

An article from Django 1.0 Template Development by Scott Newman, about how to output a document in multiple formats/styles using Django templates.

I need some help! I did someone a good deed on a blog the other day, so I'm swallowing my pride and asking for a random kind deed from someone who knows something...

Beginnings of a Django-inspired Haskell web framework, Ella.

Do Christians meet together to worship God in the NT, or only to encourage each other?

Haskell API documentation is very lacking for newbies. For instance, I want to understand how to do create and use regexes...

A simple way to use Mercurial Queues in a Subversion working directory to manage patches before committing to Subversion.

Haskell Regex replace, anyone?

I am really stubborn, so I never completely gave up on my little pet project of re-writing my blog as a Haskell CGI app. I also didn't give up on using my budget host. (Partly because I have even less money than before). So, the saga continues...

After reading that in Python 2.5 some big memory leaks are fixed, I just switched a Django site from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5. I wasn't disappointed -- the combined memory usage of my Apache processes (which are using mod_python) went from 100Mb to 60Mb. So, for anyone else wanted to conserve memory, this is the first thing I'd suggest!