Year in Review, 2015

As 2016 dawns upon us, here’s a quick look back at what I got up to in 2015.

It’s been a big year on a personal front — after an amazing journey with Gamesys, I started working at JUST EAT at the start of November. In the meantime, I also made a memorable trip to Tokyo, where I had wanted to visit for a long time

Continuous Learning and Sharing

I spoke at a lot of conferences this year, and learnt an awful lot along the way.

I prepared and delivered a couple of new talks:

• Tour of Language Landscape (recorded at NDC Oslo)
• 7 ineffective coding habits many F# programmers DON’T have (recorded at SkillsMatter)
• F# in the Real World

I took part in and completed all 25 Advent of Code challenges in F#.

I started a series of posts converting Crista Lopes’ “Exercises in Programming Style” to F#.

I did a series on L-Systems in Elm.

I had lots of fun learning APL.

I started work on MBrace.AWS, and am getting close to a workable demo.

Top posts

• Modelling Game Economy with Neo4j
• Fear and Loathing with APL
• Why I like Go’s interfaces
• Rust — memory safety without Garbage Collector
• CodeMotion 15 — takeaways from “Measuring Microservices”
• CraftConf 15 — takeaways from “Microservice Anti-Patterns”
• Learn to Learn
• Don’t learn a syntax, learn to change the way you THINK
• Smallest .Net ref type is 12 bytes (or why you should consider using value types)
• Beware of implicit boxing of value types
• A consistent approach to track correlation IDs through microservices
• Understanding homoiconicity through Clojure macros

See you in 2016

That’s it folks, happy new year, and wish you all a very productive 2016 ahead!