Catching Up

It's been a long and productive summer! I wanted to take a minute to catch you up on what I've been doing since Scala Days. I went on a major job search and interviewed with a variety of companies. I landed a new job, which I feel good about, but I'll get into that later. I had the honor of writing three guest posts for the Safari Books Online Blog. And I finally put out the third monads post. In the meantime I was still at the old job, and spending a lot of quality time with my family.

Monads in Scala Part Three: Lisst[A]

We continue our Monads in Scala series by reviewing and translating the third page of the chapter on monads from the Haskell wikibook. This page takes quite an interesting view on lists, as it does not treat lists as things that you cons onto or even look things up in. It manages to treat lists nearly entirely as monadic structures. It even manages to come up with a couple of examples of using lists that only use the basic monadic operations. To view lists as things that we cons onto, we have to wait for a later page on additive monads.