Apple touch inconsistency by hitesh on 2009-12-30 Apple is really known for their user interface design. I'd say they generally have a lot more hits than misses, but one miss recently came as a...

Error installing Haskell X11 libs by hitesh on 2008-11-05 I recently bought a new Macbook Pro and with the recent announcment of GHC 6.10.1, I thought it was time to install the latest GHC...

Emacs Erlang snippets by hitesh on 2008-8-19 Continuing with my previous yasnippet for Ruby, here are some snippets for Erlang mode. Installation Create an erlang-mode directory under...

Error installing Haskell SDL-image by hitesh on 2008-10-10 I really like OSX, except when I have to jump through extra hoops to install things on it versus Linux. The latest challenge...

Error installing Haskell X11 package by hitesh on 2008-9-25 Recently I was having trouble installing the Haskell X11 package on OSX Leopard. Running configure generated an error. bash-3.2$...

textmate ruby snippet to yasnippet by hitesh on 2008-8-11 Dr. Nic recently put together a screencast of adding a Ruby snippet to TextMate. This particular snippet makes a class definition using...

I recently bought a new Macbook Pro and with the recent announcment of GHC 6.10.1, I thought it was time to install the latest GHC and libs. Previously I had some trouble installing the Haskell X11...

I really like OSX, except when I have to jump through extra hoops to install things on it versus Linux. The latest challenge was installing the Haskell SDL-image bindings on Leopard. Configure...

Recently I was having trouble installing the Haskell X11 package on OSX Leopard. Running configure generated an error. bash-3.2$ runhaskell Setup.hs configure Warning: defaultUserHooks in Setup...

Continuing with my previous yasnippet for Ruby, here are some snippets for Erlang mode. Installation Create an erlang-mode directory under text-mode Save the following code in a file named...

Dr. Nic recently put together a screencast of adding a Ruby snippet to TextMate. This particular snippet makes a class definition using the filename as the default classname. I always enjoy...

I'm hacking some ELisp functions recently and I realize that ELisp doesn't have a filter function or support closures. That's disappointing. One sort of takes it for granted nowadays that a decent...

Not too long ago I found my emacs customizations were out of control. Over some time I had kept adding imports and configuration of various libraries and I was having trouble keeping track of it all....

I'm thinking of dropping Haskell because it's just too lazy. People claim that normal order evaluation optimizes cpu cycles since you don't evaluate code that isn't used. Maybe, but to me I just...

I've put the first release of hsparklines up on Hackage. It's a sparklines library implemented in Haskell. I know there are a number of web service based solutions that one could use for this, but...

I was working with using Haskell on the command line recently and it occurred to me that it might be interesting to demo it and walk through some error handling scenarios at the same time. Like...

In the last article I talked a bit about rotating arguments in Haskell. How come we can do that with Haskell and not with most other languages? Well one reader sort of jumped the gun and tried to...

I was writing some Haskell code and came across a function whose arguments weren't in the order I wanted. With most languages you're stuck, the library writer made a choice and now you have to live...

I've just released version 0.2.0 of nano-hmac. It's the Haskell bindings to openssl HMAC and can be found

I just put out an early access release of nano-hmac up on hackage. It provides Haskell bindings to openssl's