Last week I started work at Sony London, as a senior programmer, working on… well I’m not sure if I am allowed to say, so I’d better not risk it.
So far I’m enjoying every minute of it, although getting into the office at 9am every morning is a bit of a shock to my system!
I’ve just finished a spell of contracting back at Sports Interactive, and I’d just like to say cheers to everyone there for making me very welcome once again.
It was scary how easily I fitted back in (and even scarier that I’m sure there were things in the fridge that have been there since I left last year).
The place is still completely bonkers in many ways, and I could feel myself getting dragged back into the arguments about coding that caused me to resign in the first place, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it - hard not to with such a nice bunch of people.
Football Manager 2006 is looking good too…
Next week I start The New Job(TM). Call me superstitious, but after the Dublin experience I think I’ll wait until I’m actually there before saying anything more…
According to Ars, Haskell and Dylan dominate ICFP programming competition
Hurrah for Dylan…
Just read an interesting post from Gilad Bracha about adding more support to the JVM for dynamically typed languages.
I’ve been wondering for ages why the guys in the Dylan community haven’t attempted to target the JVM instead of the current approach which involves generating and then compiling C code.
Possibly invokedynamic may help… although it depends a bit on whether it supports generic method dispatch based on the type of any and all arguments. I don’t know enough about the guts of the Dylan implementation to be sure that this will help, but I hope so…