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My presentations on Speaker Deck

I've just created a Speaker Deck account to host slides from presentations I've given.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on April 24, 2015. Tagged with: presentations, events.

Testing multiple GHC versions on Travis CI

We're currently in a transition period between GHC releases so it's important to be able to test packages with multiple versions of GHC. Here's the standard approach and what I learned doing it to a package of mine.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on April 4, 2015. Tagged with: haskell, functional programming, software, work, testing.

Released some Haskell packages

I finished and released a couple of packages written in Haskell today. Here are a few details about them.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on April 3, 2015. Tagged with: haskell, functional programming, algorithms, software, work.

Reading from processes safely in Haskell

The naive approach to invoking a process and reading it's output is not safe. Here's a snippet of code which does this safely.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on March 4, 2015. Tagged with: haskell, functional programming, work, process, pipes, deadlock.

Multiple JSON encodings in Haskell

Here's a nice pattern to work with multiple JSON encodings of the same set of types in a Haskell program.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on February 12, 2015. Tagged with: haskell, functional programming, work, patterns.

Haskell at Work

I've recently (in blog years) started a new job at a company which uses Haskell quite extensively. Here are some things we do with it.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on January 28, 2015. Tagged with: haskell, functional programming, work.

Drupal, Search API and Apache Solr with Homebrew on OS X

This is a short, no-frills guide to installing Apache Solr with homebrew on OS X, then using it with the Search API Drupal modules.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on May 13, 2014. Tagged with: howto, drupal, search, solr, homebrew.

Puppet Camp Sydney 2014

I attended Puppet Camp Sydney 2014 last Monday. This is a quick round-up of the sessions.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on February 11, 2014. Tagged with: event, puppet camp, puppet, operations, devops, cloud.

Restricted SFTP-only access to a single directory using OpenSSH

This is a short guide to providing users with restricted SFTP access to a single directory using built-in OpenSSH functionality.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on January 15, 2014. Tagged with: howto, ssh, sftp, chroot, linux.

Inaugural Sydney Elasticsearch Meetup

The inaugural Sydney Elasticsearch Meetup had talks on monitoring Elasticsearch clusters and on the impending 1.0 release.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on November 18, 2013. Tagged with: elasticsearch, search, meetup, event, golang, monitoring.