Alexey Zakhlestins blog

Alligator Eggs!
This is the funniest introduction to lambda-calculus ever. (saw it at #d channel at freenode)

I really-really want to see a programming language, which allows using proper unicode symbols for operators.
I mean:

× instead of *
→ instead of ->
← instead if <-
≠ instrad of !=
≤ and ≥ instead of <= and >=

This list can be continued more and more…
I perfectly understand the roots of current situation and I don’t ask to [...]

People often debate on reasons of PHP’s success and “not so big success” of it’s more powerful competitors. My belief is, that one of the major parts of PHP’s win was it’s manual. All of the competitors had basic API documentation, but they didn’t have:

syntax-highlighted examples for the majority of functions
user-contributed comments

It’s actually getting better [...]

Trac is one of the best things which happened to open-source software. But that is not news, really.
The good news is, that haskell software community started to adopt Trac for their needs too. One of the examples is MissingH library. The reason of “tracification” is simple: there is a stable darcs plugin available for trac

Understanding of monads is an iterative process.. At one moment you think you understand them good enough, and the very next moment you know that everything you know is wrong.
So, one more good article for the next iteration

Everyone wants “hello world” application for being convinced, that the thing can work. Here is one written in Haskell and web-related. It’s quite straight-forward:

import Network.FastCGI
import Text.XHtml

htmlPage
= header
<< thetitle
<< “Hello World!”
+++ body ! [ bgcolor "white"] << “Hi”

main = runFastCGIorCGI (output (renderHtml [...]

I am sorry for not blogging anything, lately. Basically I was too busy coding different stuff for money.
Now, that I finally finished all the important stuff I will continue writing here. My main points of interest, for now, are:

PHP 5.2 (looking forward to speed optimizations, json and filter)
Pake
Symfony (I am currently involved in [...]