The RemoteData pattern can simplify your code and make it more robust.

Explore why the Maybe Monad is useful, but perhaps not in Ruby.

Leverage immutability and functional programming for the front end with Elm!

Leverage immutability and functional programming for the front end with Elm!

In part two, we move on into the Haskell realm where we can build up true domain logic.

<p>Clojure has been growing in popularity since its first major release in 2008. If you or your company is interested in understanding the value of Clojure at a high level, read on.</p> <p>Clojure might be the answer if:</p> <h3 id="your-existing-application-is-written-in-java">Your existing application is written...</h3>

<p>There’s a cool article by Steve Losh called <a href="http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/03/list-out-of-lambda/">List out of Lambda</a> that reminded me, in a really good way, of a section in SICP. If you want to read the boiled-down scheme version that’s in SICP, here it is: <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-14.html#%_sec_2.1.3">SICP section 2.1.3</a>. What follows is my paraphrasing...</p>

<p>It has been a while since I last wrote one of these posts and I didn’t want to leave people sitting by their computer desks forever, waiting with bated breath for the next one to pop up in your Google Reader feed (…whispers from the Internet…), okay...</p>