Year in Review, 2013

As 2014 dawns upon us, here’s a quick look back at what I got up to in 2013.

I went to some conferences and gave some talks.

• F# in Social Gaming at CodeMesh 13
• F# in the Cloud and at Scale at F# in Finance 13
• BigQuery in Social Gaming at Google Cloud Platform Roadshow London

I went on .Net Rocks to talk about building games in F#.

• Episode 846

I went on Mostly Erlang with Bryan Hunter and Phil Trelford.

• Episode 13

I did a show with Community for F#.

• Building a MMORPG

I co-authored a white paper for InfoQ.

• Design Pattern Automation

I worked on some projects.

• S3 type provider for F#
• stream_ext, port of some Rx combinators to Dart
• v0.3.0 announcement
• v0.2.0 announcement
• v0.1.0 announcement
• FSharp.Markdown.Pdf, formats markdown to PDF
• DynamoDB.SQL, SQL-like DSL for performing query and scan operations in Amazon DynamoDB
• v1.2.1 announcement
• v1.1.0 announcement
• Amazon.SimpleWorkflow.Extensions, DSL to simplify usage patterns of Amazon SimpleWorkflow service
• intro part 1
• intro part 2
• intro part 3

I learnt Dart and made some mini-games with Dart and StageXL.

• Run Taotie Run
• Whack A Meng
• Agent of P.R.I.S.M (winning entry at London Global GameCraft)
• Dart — implementing the singleton pattern with factory constructors

I also spent some time learning Clojure.

• Clojure — multi-arity and variadic functions

I briefly rekindled my interest in Project Euler.

• Problem 60

And finally, here are my top 10 posts in 2013.

• Here Be Monsters — hello, Neo4j
• F# — XmlSerializer, Record types and [CLIMutable]
• stream_ext — bringing more Rx API to Dart
• F# — PDF fun with Markdown and FSharp.Formatting
• Clojure — multi-arity and variadic functions
• Making Amazon SimpleWorkflow simple to work with
• Amazon ELB — some caveats around health check pings
• AOP — string interning with PostSharp
• LINQ OrderBy — using Comparer<T>.Create and F#’s object expression
• Be lazy, but beware of initialization exception