Whilst the official rebar documentation only covers usages on Unix, turns out it was really easy to get going on Windows too, even without resorting to installing and using cygwin.

Some time ago, Microsoft announced Orleans, an implementation of the actor model in .Net which is designed for the cloud environment where instances are ephemeral.

This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2014 project. Check out all the other great posts there!

Special thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing this.

Whilst Dart doesn’t have support for enum types but it turns out you can do a pretty good job of emulating it using Dart’s constant constructors (which allows you to create compile-time constants with your class, which in .Net you’re restricted…

In our MMORPG title Here Be Monsters, we offer the players a virtual world to explore where they can visit towns and spots; forage fruits and gather insects and flowers; tend to farms and animals in their homesteads; make in-game…

Just under three weeks ago, Amazon announced the public availability of their new Kinesis service, a service which is designed to allow real-time processing of streaming big data.

One of the often under-appreciated features of Erlang is its Bit Syntax for parsing and pattern matching binary data at a bit level. For…