writing a book

The good news is that Jeremy Gibbons is writing a book on Patterns in Functional Programming. Even better news is that he is blogging about it as he goes along!

Those unfamiliar with the topic may want to begin at the beginning, though I personally just rummaged around.

Some may enjoy going to the papers rather than the blog, or even better to the LtU discussions about many of them.

In a quick new post to his blog Richard Thomas talks about a change in one of the two things there's the most complaints about when it comes to the Solar framework - documentation.

Free Software Magazine: "Sakai is a respected online platform for collaborative learning. Millions of students around the world, especially in higher education learn using this platform.

Sakai is highly flexible and allows you to quickly make project and course sites."

Following up on a previous post looking at characteristics of crappy software, PHPFreaks.com has posted ten more tips - this time, though, they're recommendations about how you can avoid writing crappy code of your own.

Here's their list:

On the symfony blog today there's a new post that points out some of the excellent books you can get covering the framework in general and a bit more specific topics inside.