Yiorgos Michokostas gmichokostas

Videos

Introduction to Functional Programming Johannes Weiß - https://vimeo.com/100786088
ReactiveCocoa at MobiDevDay Andrew Sardone - https://vimeo.com/65637501
The Future Of ReactiveCocoa Justin Spahr-Summers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICNjRS2X8WM
Enemy of the State Justin Spahr-Summers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AqXBuJOJkY
WWDC 2014 Session 229 - Advanced iOS Application Architecture and Patterns Andy Matuschak - https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2014/229/
Functioning as a Functionalist Andy Matuschak - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJosPrqBqrA
Controlling Complexity in Swift Andy Matuschak - https://realm.io/news/andy-matuschak-controlling-complexity/

Prereqs

These are for the combined vim-sexp (https://github.com/guns/vim-sexp) and vim-sexp-mappings-for-regular-people (https://github.com/tpope/vim-sexp-mappings-for-regular-people) plugins. vim-sexp is neat on its own but Tim Pope makes common stuff much easier.

Note that some vim-sexp functionality depends on <LocalLeader> mappings. This is a different leader key than the global leader, and is the variable maplocalleader (instead of mapleader). To see if you have this set, use :echo maplocalleader; if it errors out you'll need to set it, otherwise it will echo the key. If you want to set your LocalLeader to <Space>, you'll need two commands in your .vimrc, since by default <Space> is bound to <Right> in normal mode:

nnoremap <Space> <Nop>
let maplocalleader=" "

How to make a Minecraft mod

Minecraft mods, especially mods which change the client, are by and large written with Forge. If you visit their website, you'll be greeted abruptly by a mysterious message at the top of an SMF forum, with no clear path towards actually... making a mod. I'm documenting here the steps I went through to get started, in the hopes of helping the next person have an easier time of it.

I'll be using Scala for this guide, but it should be fairly easy to adapt these instructions to any JVM language (e.g. clojure or if you're feeling masochistic, Java). I'm also developing on OS X, so some of the commands will be a little different if you're on Linux or Windows. I'm assuming you have some proficiency with your operating system, so I won't go into details about how to adapt those commands to your system.

Background

Minecraft doesn't have an official mod API (despite early [promises](http://notch.t

Creating a redis Module in 15 lines of code!

A quick guide to write a very very simple "ECHO" style module to redis and load it. It's not really useful of course, but the idea is to illustrate how little boilerplate it takes.

Step 1: open your favorite editor and write/paste the following code in a file called module.c

#include "redismodule.h"
/* ECHO <string> - Echo back a string sent from the client */
int EchoCommand(RedisModuleCtx *ctx, RedisModuleString **argv, int argc) {

101> h().
81: bitstring_to_list(D)

Applied Functional Programming with Scala - Notes

1. Mastering Functions

A function is a mapping from one set, called a domain, to another set, called the codomain. A function associates every element in the domain with exactly one element in the codomain. In Scala, both domain and codomain are types.

val square : Int => Int = x => x * x

Getting Started in Scala

This is my attempt to give Scala newcomers a quick-and-easy rundown to the prerequisite steps they need to a) try Scala, and b) get a standard project up and running on their machine. I'm not going to talk about the language at all; there are plenty of better resources a google search away. This is just focused on the prerequisite tooling and machine setup. I will not be assuming you have any background in JVM languages. So if you're coming from Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Haskell, or anywhere… I hope to present the information you need without assuming anything.

Disclaimer It has been over a decade since I was new to Scala, and when I was new to Scala, I was coming from a Java and Ruby background. This has probably caused me to unknowingly make some assumptions. Please feel free to call me out in comments/tweets!

One assumption I'm knowingly making is that you're on a Unix-like platform. Sorry, Windows users.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'selenium-webdriver'

	wd = Selenium::WebDriver.for :remote, url: 'http://10.3.1.7:4444/wd/hub', desired_capabilities: :chrome
	wd.navigate.to 'https://snipt.net/restrada/python-selenium-workaround-for-full-page-screenshot-using-chromedriver-2x/'

	# Get the actual page dimensions using javascript
	#
	width = wd.execute_script("return Math.max(document.body.scrollWidth, document.body.offsetWidth, document.documentElement.clientWidth, document.documentElement.scrollWidth, document.documentElement.offsetWidth);")

	The question was asked why I (as a programmer who prefers dynamic languages) don't consider static types "worth it". Here
	is a short list of what I would need from a type system for it to be truely useful to me:

	1) Full type inference. I would really prefer to be able to write:

	(defn concat-names [person]
	(assoc person :full-name (str (:first-name person)
	(:second-name person))))

	And have the compiler know that whatever type required and produced from this function was acceptible as long as the