Issue 134 (August, 2010) of Linux Format magazine contains an interview by Jono Bacon in which I discuss Unity and other related topics. Below are the questions Jono asked me and my responses.
How did you get started in Open Source?
I had to build a UNIX shell and UNIX-like kernel for a university course on operating [...]
After working on paper cuts for a year, I realized how disorganized many open source projects affecting Ubuntu are when it comes to improving user experience. I would often go to upstream projects with a list of paper cuts to discuss and have a very difficult time finding someone to discuss them with. Either the [...]
In ScalaMono.scala:
Then,
Edit: Weak Mono/JVM comparison removed.
Update: wks asked me to try calculating some larger Fibonaccis to normalize runtime startup cost when comparing Mono to JVM performance:
Mono: 0.42s total
JVM (IcedTea6 1.8): 84.45s total
Go, Mono, go!
I finally had some time to port Matt Zimmerman’s “Jonometer” to Haskell, and have finished version 1! The following bit of code compiles natively, is statically typed, and requires no type declarations due to Haskell’s amazing type inference.
You’ll need hs-twitter, and you can run this as a script like ./jonometer.hs
Now I need to bone up [...]