Category Archives: Ocaml

Learning a New Language

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Gaius

Generally, every program I write, regardless of what useful thing it actually does, and regardless of what programming language it is written in, has to do certain things, which usually includes Importing a library and calling functions contained within that … Continue reading →

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Not-learning is a skill too

Posted on July 29, 2018 by Gaius

To be successful in tech, it’s well known that you must keep your skills up to date. The onus is on each individual to do this, no-one will do it for you, and companies that provide ongoing personal development are … Continue reading →

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2014

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Gaius

So, how was 2014 for me, in tech at least? Pretty good. It has been quite an interesting experience adapting to an all-proprietary tech stack (database, language, IDE, job scheduler) but I feel I am finally getting a grip on … Continue reading →

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Real World OCaml

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Gaius

In the course of my work with OCaml I have traditionally resisted using anything other than “pure” OCaml, and the facilities of the underlying OS. So rather than OMake or OASIS I just used plain, old-fashioned Makefiles. For package management, … Continue reading →

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Strange Datetime Problem

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Gaius

While working on my unit tests, I came across a sporadic failure in inserting and selecting Datetimes to the database, so I wrote a quick test harness to see what’s going on: This fails about 3% of the time, for … Continue reading →

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OCI*ML: Make Test

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Gaius

Before resuming feature implementation in OCI*ML I thought I ought to tighten up the test suite a bit, so I have started on a make test target, including some utilities for generating large test datasets, which should be useful elsewhere. … Continue reading →

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August

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Gaius

As of today I am on gardening leave, and I intend to spend the time productively (after taking a long-planned and well-deserved holiday next week!). In no particular order: Update this blog more regularly, I have some posts that I … Continue reading →

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Quick histograms

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Gaius

Having come back to actively working on OCI*ML recently, it’s time I cracked on with some more features (I have been promising LOBs for a long time, sorry to anyone who’s still waiting). Just to get warmed up, inspired by … Continue reading →

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OCaml 4 beta

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Gaius

OCaml 4 beta 2 has been released, and so I quickly tested OCI*ML with it. Only a couple of minor tweaks were necessary, due to the following changes: Some .cmi for toplevel internals that used to be installed in`ocamlc -where` … Continue reading →

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Segmentation Faults, TAP and Eclipse

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Gaius

This is quite a neat trick. Consider: Referencing that NULL pointer obviously crashes straight away with a terse segmentation fault: By simply linking it with libSegFault, which seems to be documented only very informally, but comes with glibc: Of course … Continue reading →

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