Posted in 2014
Type Safe Routing - Baby Steps
- 13 December 2014
Type safe routing means different things to different people. So let’s start by clarifying the intended meaning in this post. There are 2 widely used definitions:
Abandoning Async
- 11 December 2014
There is an old and great schism in the OCaml community. The schism is between two concurrency libraries - Async and Lwt. As usual for these things, the two are very similar, and outsiders would wonder what the big deal is about. The fundamental problem of course is that they’re mutually incompatible. The result of this is a split OCaml world with almost no interoperability, and duplication of efforts.
Introducing Humane-re
- 23 May 2014
OCaml is my favorite language, but one area where it (its tools rather) often falls short in practice is common string handling tasks where regular expressions are often involved. The kind of stuff that Awk and and scripting languages often get praised for. In other words, not getting in the way and allowing to get the job done with minimal boilerplate.
Middleware in Opium
- 11 April 2014
In my previous post I’ve introduced opium in a beginner friendly way, while in this post I’ll try to show something that’s a little more interesting to experienced OCaml programmers or those are well versed with protocols such as Rack, WSGI, Ring, from Ruby, Python, Clojure respectively.
Introducing Opium
- 04 April 2014
One itch that I usually need to scratch is setting up quick and dirty REST API’s - preferably in OCaml. OCaml does have a few options for web development but I found them to be not so great fits for my needs. To summarize:
Omegle clone in Flask + Gevent + WebSockets
- 10 February 2014
Python ranks fairly high when it comes getting things done without too much ceremony in the programming community. I briefly had some doubts of this assertion of until I finally found Flask-Sockets. This small library makes it very natural to serve WebSockets in Flask/gevent. You can consider this blog post as an advertisement for this small but extremely useful library.
Benchmarking OCaml Json Libraries
- 05 February 2014
According to opam OCaml has 2 popular libraries for parsing json: